We hope that you enjoyed attending Parasitravaganza 2020, the inaugural ASP online conference which took place on Thursday 30th & Friday 31st July 2020, we certainly enjoyed seeing so many of you attend and participate in the Student and ECR Career Development Workshops on Thursday and the main Conference on Friday.
We want to thank all of our invited speakers and workshop presenters who gave their time to be part of Parasitravaganza 2020. Well done to all of our presenters and authors presenting posters who gave very professional and fascinating presentations and posters. Don’t forget to look at the 36 awesome scientific posters for this conference, they will be available online until the end of August 2020. https://www.parasite.org.au/conferences/parasitravaganza/posters-1-6/
The Conference Co-chairs are very pleased to announce the following prize winners and those who were the runner-up in each category:
People’s Choice: Sanduni Hapuarachchi, “Characterising putative transporter proteins in apicomplexan parasites identifies one that is critical for Toxoplasma gondii invasion”
Runner-up: Merryn Fraser, “Of Monocytes and Malaria: Membrane asymmetry in Plasmodium-infected RBCs and its effect on phagocytic recognition”
Best long talk: Samantha Nixon, “Discovery of a spider toxin with selective anthelmintic activity against human and veterinary parasites”
Runner-up: Samantha Emery-Corbin, “Eukaryote-conserved histone post-translational modification landscape in Giardia duodenalis revealed by mass spectrometry”
Best speed talk: Benjamin Liffner, “Identification of related Plasmodium falciparum merozoite proteins that are essential for rhoptry secretion”
Runner-up: Liana Theodoridis, “Novel 3D compounds to fight malaria in a time of drug resistance”
Best poster: Thorey Jonsdottir, “Identifying the key players of the Plasmodium falciparum exportome”
Runner-up: Mikha Gabriela, “How does malaria parasite control the trafficking of effector proteins outside its cell?”
Congratulations to all of the winners and runner-ups and to all of the presenters and participants!
