Aquatic Parasitology Workshop: Detection and Diagnosis SEEKING EXPRESSION OF INTEREST The First Australasian Scientific Conference on Aquatic Animal Health (5-8 July) and the Australian Society for Parasitology Conference (10-13 July) are both being held in Cairns this year. Consequently, a number of aquatic animal health experts will be in Cairns in July, enabling a tremendous…
To apply for a 2011 ASP Student Conference Travel Grant download the guidelines. Once you have read the guidelines to apply for the grant, please register for the conference https://www.conftool.net/parasitology2011 and complete all the fields in the ASP Students Conference Travel Grants section. If you have already registered for the conference please log in to…
In this quarter page ad to appear in the Australian tomorrow Professor Julio Licinio, Director of The John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU, comments on proposed funding cuts for medical research in Australia. Preview the advertisement here. Remember to voice your objections by doing the following: 1. Vote for the ‘protect funding for medical research in Australia‘ campaign idea…
The proposed $400 million cut to NHMRC funding, representing approximately 20% pa of the current NHMRC funding base, has been already drafted into the 2011 Federal budget. The Expenditure Review Committee (ERC) has not yet signed off on the proposal. Since active objection by members of the research community and the public may influence this…
The 2011 Australian Society for Parasitology Annual Conference will take place at the Pullman Reef Casino, Cairns, Queensland, Australia from 10-13 July. Registration and abstract submission are now open, visit the conference website for more information. The deadline for early-bird registration and abstract submission is 29 April 2011. Visit the conference website for more information …
Read all about the latest conference information, news, jobs and events in Parasitology in the January/February edition of the Australian Society for Parasitology newsletter.
Hello ASP members, Happy 2011! I am writing to members seeking your feedback on two significant matters. Member comments on the Draft Strategic Plan Please find attached the draft ASP Strategic Plan (with appendices) prepared by Council after careful consideration and discussion. I briefed the membership on this at the AGM in Melbourne in August.…
Announcement: SPRENT, John Frederick Adrian. Late of Moggill. 23.07.1915 – 01.11.2010 Loving Husband of Mary and Muriel (decd). Father of Jonathan, Anthony and Elizabeth (decd). Poppy to his Grandchildren and Great-grandchildren. Friends and Relatives are invited to Johns Funeral, to be held at Metropolitan Funeral Home Chapel, 224 Newnham Road, Mt Gravatt, Tuesday, 9th November,…
Download the latest ASP newsletter – October 2010 to find out about: stories and pictures from ICOPA XII, state news with all the juicy bits, good news from the just-released Australian Research Council’s Discovery and Linkage Grant Schemes, to commence in 2011, and ARC Fellowships, the latest news about the 2011 ASP Annual Conference, being…
Congratulations to Rowena Martin, Australian National University and University of Melbourne, who was awarded a L’Oreal Australia For Women in Science Fellowship on 26 August 2010, the inaugural Macquarie University Eureka Prize for Early Career Research at the 2010 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes for her “Mechanisms of Drug Resistance in the Malaria Parasite” research, and…