Congratulations to ASP members, Professor Barbara Nowak, The Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) and Deputy Associate Dean of Research at University of Tasmania, Burnet Institute Director and CEO Professor Brendan Crabb AC, and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Robin Gasser, Parasitologist at the University of Melbourne, who are among 22 scientists acknowledged for their…
Join our online ASP Seminar Series with Cecilia Power from RMIT, Melbourne, speaking about “Bloody flukes – a look at aporocotylids from cultured Southern bluefin tuna” and Emily Crisafulli from The University of Melbourne speaking about “Drug interactions in malaria parasites: Australia’s leading malaria prophylactic behaves antagonistically with a front-line antimalarial” with our co-chairs Stuart…
The 2021 Annual General Meeting for the Australian Society for Parasitology Inc. will take place as an on online Zoom meeting on Thursday 29th July, 2 – 5pm AEST. Please register in advance for this meeting, check your Membership email for the registration link or email the Secretary (secretary@parasite.org.au). The agenda and reports for this…
Parasitravaganza 2021 – Join us for the 2021 ASP online conference, our second Parasite Fest! Wednesday 23rd – Friday 25th June 2021 online via Zoom Join us to discuss the latest research and state-of-the-art technologies in parasitology. Student and Early Career Researchers are invited to an Early Career Researcher event so please add this event…
#Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. It is preventable and curable. According to the latest World malaria report, released on 30 November 2020, there were 229 million cases of malaria in 2019 compared to 228 million cases in 2018. The…
Please download the latest ASP newsletter to read at your leisure over the Easter holiday period (www.parasite.org.au/publications/newsletters/ ), Vol 32.1 Issue 1 March 2021, it’s packed with news about our conference and AGM and some fabulous news updates from our researchers and Journals with some truly stunning images. In this newsletter: 2021 ASP Annual General…
Join our online ASP Seminar Series with Siobhon Egan from Murdoch University, speaking speaking on “What’s in the wildlife? Surveillance of ticks and their associated microbes in Australian wildlife.” and Bonnie Derne, from Flinders University, speaking on “Of parasites and pygmy bluetongues: An investigation of parasite and gut microbiota dynamics following a wildlife translocation.” with…
Happy International Women’s Day 2021. This week we celebrate #WomenInSTEM and our awesome #womeninparasitology their achievements and how they are changing the world one parasite at a time! #IWD2021 Dr Mabel Josephine Mackerras (1896-1971) was was an Australian parasitologist, zoologist and entomologist. She made contributions to the study of the blood parasites of Australian marine…