Warm wishes for a happy holiday and a joyful New Year! Penguins are featured on our e-card and you can find out about parasites in penguins and other wildlife in our ASP journal IJP Parasites and Wildlife, one of a suite of Elsevier Parasitology Journals, International Journal for Parasitology; IJP Drugs and Drug Resistance and…
Episode 2 of ASP Parasite Podcast: What’s eating you? is all about Feral Pig parasites 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 Narelle Dybing, our expert parasitologist from the…
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 our expert parasitologists from the ASP. Is it headlice that’s making your head itch? Or Cryptosporidium giving you a dodgy tummy? And was that a…
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,…
Join our online ASP Seminar Series Friday 15th November 2024, 4pm AEDT, featuring Elise Ringwaldt, University of Tasmania presenting “The epidemiology of rumpwear in common brushtail possums: insights from visual clinical signs, camera trapping, and machine-learning” and Long Huynh, The University of Melbourne presenting “Cytostome formation in artemisinin resistant Plasmodium parasites” with co-chairs Jill Chmielewski,…
Join our online ASP Seminar Series Friday 18th October 2024, 1pm AEDT, featuring Arkasha Sadhewa, Menzies School of Health Research and Charles Darwin University presenting “Performance of Quantitative Point-of-Care Tests to measure G6PD activity: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis” with co-chairs Jill Chmielewski, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and Emma McHugh, University of Melbourne. Please…
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…