Congratulations to Aileen Elliot from Murdoch University for her Thorny-headed worm image making it to the finals of the New Scientist Eureka Prize for Science Photography Seeing amazing life forms, such as this thorny-headed worm (phylum Acanthocephala), has the power to turn a mundane day in the lab into one of sheer brilliance. While dissecting…
The XIX International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria 2016 Management Committee are very excited to announce the ICTMM 2016 – Early Career Scholar Grant Program, which will award up to 25 young scholars an AUD$1,000.00 grant to attend and present at the Congress. In order to be eligible for the program, applicants must: Be…
Centenary public talks at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Wednesday 10 June 2015, 6-7pm Register online: www.wehi.edu.au/publictalks What does the future hold for infectious diseases? Find out about the latest research from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and ask your questions of Melbourne’s leading experts in an extended Q&A session. Malaria: Dr Julie Healer HIV and hepatitis: Dr Marc Pellegrini Vaccines: Professor Gabrielle…
Malaria in Melbourne conference 2015 will take place on the 1st and 2nd of October at Monash University, Caulfield campus on Dandenong Road. Registrations are now open and you can visit our website for further information. http://www.malariainmelbourne.org.au
ASP Advanced Course Concepts in Parasitology offers students a unique opportunity to work with prominent Australian parasitologists and learn state-of-the-art cell-biology, immunological, imaging, biochemical, bioinformatic and genetic techniques for parasitology research. In 2015 Concepts in Parasitology will take place Sunday 29th November – Saturday 12th December. Deadline for applications Saturday 1st August 2015.
Our first newsletter for 2014 celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Australian Society for Parasitology. Download the ASP March 2014 newsletter This issue has a gorgeous new-look front cover courtesy of ASP Fellow Marshall Lightowlers with accompanying research story inside and also included are 2014 ASP 50th Anniversary Annual Conference news Georgina Sweet article by…
The December 2013 number of the ASP Newsletter is available for download here. The December number is packed with images from events in Perth, including ASP-Inspiring Australia Events with Perth Zoo, Murdoch University and Scitech. Other articles include: Recent appointments and awards for Karen Day, Alan Cowman and Franziska Bieri Researcher Exchanges: Leslie Vega in…
Please take our post-event survey for the 2013 ASP Annual Conference, WAAVP2013 held in Perth 25-29 August, Inspiring Australia and ASP public events and the post-graduate workshops held at Murdoch University on the 25th September. This survey should not take more than 15 minutes and will be most helpful for our future planning purposes. If…
Professor Robin B. Gasser BVetMed (Bern), Dr med vet (Zurich), PhD & DVSc (Melb), Dip EVPC, FASM, FASP. Robin is from the University of Melbourne, where his research team has been investigating socio-economically important parasites (including protozoa, trematodes, cestodes and nematodes) using genetic, genomic and bioinformatic approaches to understand the biology and molecular biology of…