Happy International Women’s Day 2026. From the UN Women Australia website: “Balance the Scales is a promise that every woman and girl – regardless of background or identity – should be safe, heard, and free to shape their own lives. Yet in 2026, too many across Australia and the world are still denied that fair…
Download the latest newsletter ASPnewsletterVol36.1(https://www.parasite.org.au/publications/newsletters/) for all the latest news in parasitology. In this newsletter: 2025 Australian Society for Parasitology AGM and the results of the ASP Council election, meet the new ASP Executive and our new State Representatives from Vic, SA, QLD and ACT Congratulations to our ASP prize winners: 2025 BOM winner, winners…
Congratulations to 2025 Fellow of the Australian Society for Parasitology, Haylee Weaver! Haylee Weaver is a parasite taxonomist, with research interests in the taxonomy of parasites, and parasite-host ecology. Haylee has woven parasitology into her entire working career which has spanned her work at The Australian National University, the University of the Sunshine Coast and…
Congratulations to 2025 Fellow of the Australian Society for Parasitology, Nathan Bott! Associate Professor Nathan Bott is internationally renowned for his research on fish parasitology. He obtained his PhD in 2006 from the University of Queensland and is currently Associate Professor and Deputy Head of Department, Biology, School of Science, STEM College, RMIT University. Associate…
Download the latest newsletter ASP newsletter Vol 35.2 October 2024 (https://www.parasite.org.au/publications/newsletters/) for all the latest news in parasitology. In this newsletter: Report and photos from the Parasites in the Pacific 2024 Conference, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 26 – 29 August 2024 Australian Society for Parasitology AGM and the results of the ASP Council election,…
Congratulations to 2024 Fellow of the Australian Society for Parasitology, Robert Poulin! Robert has been a member since 1993 and has made a major contribution to the Society primarily through his long term role as a specialist editor for the International Journal for Parasitology 2001-2003, 2007-2016, one of the longest specialist editors for the Journal and…
Congratulations to 2024 Fellow of the Australian Society for Parasitology, Peter Rolfe! Peter Rolfe is one those “busy bees” of parasitological experience and contribution, utilising expertise learned and gained from a variety of “parasitological pursuits and postings” and flitting from project to project, fertilising R, D & E operations with incisive research contributions and managerial…
Congratulations to 2024 Fellow of the Australian Society for Parasitology, Shokoofeh Shamsi! Professor Shokoofeh Shamsi has been a member of the Society for over 20 years. After completing a Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Iran she moved to Australia and was awarded a PhD for research in fish parasitology from the University of Melbourne in…
Congratulations to Professor Alex Maier who was awarded the 2024 Bridget Ogilvie Medal from the Australian Society for Parasitology. Alex Maier is Professor at the Research School of Biology at the Australian National University in Canberra. Through functional genomic, cell biological and biochemical approaches he is trying to untangle the molecular machinery underlying key survival…
Congratulations to Professor Jake Baum who was awarded the 2024 Bancroft-Mackerras Medal for Excellence from the Australian Society for Parasitology. Professor Jake Baum is a leading figure in parasitology, known for his groundbreaking work on malaria parasite biology, vaccine design, drug discovery, and diagnostic innovation. He began his career with significant contributions to host-pathogen coevolution…