Congratulations to our 2024 ASP Student Prize winners at the Parasites in the Pacific Conference in Auckland! Winners from left to right: Xavier Barton (Murdoch Uni) Best 15-min presentation, Ashleigh Peck (Murdoch University) Best 5-min presentation, Jessica Home (University of Melbourne) Best overall conference presentation, Ashton Kelly (University of Queensland) Runner-up for Best 15-min presentation,…
Congratulations to recently graduated PhD student Melanie Ridgway for winning the 2023 John Frederick Adrian Sprent Prize for her PhD thesis “Sex specific biology of Plasmodium falciparum”. Melanie studied Life Sciences as an Excellence-Major Scholar at Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. For her Honours research project supervised by Dr. Adele Lehane and Prof.…
Join our online ASP Seminar Series Friday 19th July 2024, 1pm AEST, featuring Capella Maguire, Australian National University presenting “Exploring redundancies in central carbon metabolism in Toxoplasma parasites” and Lizenn Delisle, Cawthron Institute, New Zealand presenting “Health Challenges in Aquaculture: A Perkinsus olseni in Green-lipped Mussel case study”, with co-chairs Jill Chmielewski, Walter and Eliza…
Join our online ASP Seminar Series Friday 14th June 2024, 1pm AEST, featuring Maxine Smith, James Cook University presenting “A potential helminth-derived therapeutic for early life inflammatory bowel disease” and Lucas Huggins, The University of Melbourne presenting “Advanced diagnostic tools for the detection of vector-borne pathogens – from development to deployment “, with co-chairs Jill…
International Symposium on Fish Parasites in Mexico 20-24 January 2025 Fish Health, Parasites and Biodiversity Conservation. https://isfpxi.com/ The event will also include the Acanthocephala workshop, and the Horizon Scanning workshop, and a mini-symposium on Parasite Conservation. Invited Speakers: Isabel Blasco-Costa, Natural History Museum of Geneva, Switzerland. Topic: Parasite biodiversity and eco-evolution in aquatic systems Gabriela…
Join our online ASP Seminar Series Friday 17th May 2024, 1pm AEST, featuring Connor McHugh, James Cook University presenting “Necator americanus recombinant proteins as novel therapeutics for inflammatory disease” and Tanapan Sukee, The University of Melbourne presenting “Cloacinid nematode parasites of Australian marsupials; from molecules and morphology to ecology”, with co-chairs Jill Chmielewski, Walter and…
Applications close next Monday 22 April 2024 for The Bridget Ogilvie Medal. The Bridget Ogilvie Medal of the Australian Society for Parasitology is an award for an Ordinary member or Fellow of the ASP who, in the opinion of the selection committee appointed by Council, has made an outstanding contribution to parasitology education. The applicant…
Join our online ASP Seminar Series Friday 19th April 2024, 1pm AEST, featuring Sophie Collier, The University of Melbourne presenting “Locked Out and Left Behind: A Study of Organellar Inheritance in P. berghei” and Lee Yeoh, Burnet Institute, presenting “Monoclonal antibodies and targeted vaccine design against malaria” with co-chairs Jill Chmielewski, Walter and Eliza Hall…
Download the latest newsletter ASP newsletter Vol 35.1 April 2024 (https://www.parasite.org.au/publications/newsletters/) for all the latest news in parasitology. In this newsletter: Register and submit your abstract for Parasites in the Pacific 2024 Conference, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 26 – 29 August before the early-bird deadline 26 May 2024 (NZST) 2024 Australian Society for Parasitology…
Happy International Women’s Day 2024. UN Women state that “Women’s economic empowerment is central to a gender equal world. When women are given equal opportunities to earn, learn and lead – entire communities thrive.” The ASP celebrate all #WomenInSTEM and want to highlight three of our awesome #womeninparasitology #ASPFellows their achievements and how they are…