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…
Episode 7 of ASP Parasite Podcast: What’s eating you? Liver Flukes has dropped! Join our “What’s eating you?” podcast hosts Dr Sarah Preston, from Federation University Australia, Lisa Jones, from the ASP and visiting comedian, Alexandra Hudson as they question, quiz, and grill Dr Michael Smout, our expert parasitologist from the ASP. Dr Michael Smout…
Join our online ASP Seminar Series Friday 21 November 2025 @1pm AEDT, featuring Ashleigh Peck, Murdoch University presenting “Mapping Diversity and Vector Associations of Mosquito-Borne Parasites in Western Australia.” and Maria Saeed, University of Melbourne presenting “Antibody-dependent neutrophil phagocytosis of Plasmodium falciparum infected erythrocytes is mediated by FcγRIIa” with co-chairs Ben Liffner, University of Adelaide…
Congratulations to Mary-Louise Wilde, winner of The Don McManus Tropical Health Research Centre & QIMR Berghofer Early Career Researcher Award for the highest rated abstract submitted by an Early Career Researcher at the 2025 Australian Society for Parasitology Annual Conference in Melbourne, 30th June – 3rd July 2025 for your abstract “Building gene drives to…
Congratulations to our 2025 ASP Conference Prize Winners! Joshua Levendis, University of Melbourne, best 5min presentation by a student at the 2025 ASP Annual Conference for his presentation “Detecting and characterising base modifications in Plasmodium falciparum with Nanopore direct RNA sequencing” Patsy A. Zendejas-Heredia, University of Melbourne for best 15min presentation by a student at…
Send your nominations in to help celebrate the excellence of our Members through ASP Awards and Prizes. Nominations for the following three Awards will close next Tuesday 30th September 2025. BMM The Bancroft-Mackerras Medal for Excellence allows the Australian Society for Parasitology to recognise outstanding contributions of its members to the Science of Parasitology. Applications close…
Interested in joining the Australian Society for Parasitology? Come for an evening of parasite-themed trivia and get to know your local parasitologists! When? November 13, 2025 What time? 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm (Trivia from 6:30 pm) Where? The Shakespeare Hotel, 200 Devonshire St, Surry Hills, NSW Enjoy a complimentary drink and be in the…
Join our online ASP Seminar Series Friday 19 September 2025 @1pm AEST, featuring Anjana Rai, Menzies School of Health Research presenting “Genetic evidence of cross-border P. vivax spread in pre-elimination regions of South Asia” and Shamit Singla, University of Adelaide presenting “Form follows function. How the spatial arrangement of protein molecules can help us understand…
Join our online ASP Seminar Series Friday 15 August 2025 @1pm AEST, featuring Jessica Home presenting “Unravelling clindamycin resistance in Plasmodium.” and Jem Murdoch, University of New South Wales presenting “Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Looking beyond the immunodominance of the malaria parasite surface protein CSP” with co-chairs Jill Chmielewski, Walter and Eliza Hall…