All Early Career Researchers (awarded a PhD within 5 years) and students attending WAAVP2013 in Perth are invited to register for the ECR Breakfast event, to kick-start your WAAVP experience. The ECR Breakfast will be held on Monday 26th August, kicking off bright and early at 6:45am UNTIL 8am (venue to be determined but it…
Join our ASP & Murdoch University Workshops for Early Career Researchers, Sunday August 25th at Murdoch University Cost: $50 ASP members, $150 non-members includes bus transfers between Perth Convention Centre and Murdoch University Time: This will be a full-day workshop time 830am-415pm with the coach collecting workshop attendees at 800am outside of the Perth Convention…
Read the latest ASP newsletter to find out about: ASP & WAAVP conference news, ASP workshops for Early Career Researchers, Outreach and Events “The Hidden Zoo”, Researcher news “New drug puts malaria under the pump” and “success with a cartoon DVD promoting hygiene across rural China”, Alexander Brazenor, PhD student from James Cook University, reports…
Malaria has plagued humans from before the time of the pharaohs…But can malaria be eradicated? For World Malaria Day, the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research is holding a public lecture and tour, with malaria experts speaking about their latest discoveries. When: Tuesday 30 April 2013 Where: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute,…
There is just over 2 weeks to go before we hit the deadline for submission of abstracts for the 2013 ASP Conference, which is being held in conjunction with the 24th International Conference of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology in Perth from August 25-29 (see http://www.waavp2013perth.com).  Submit Your Abstract We’d like to…
The Australian Society for Parasitology Inc. offers all bona fide student members the opportunity for part reimbursement of the costs of attending the Annual Meeting of the Society. The money available varies from year to year and depends on the costs of the Meeting and the numbers of students applying. All student members of at…
What’s in the latest newsletter? A report on the Science & Technology Australia 2012 AGM; A listing of recent funding successes, including ARC and NHMRC grants; ASP Network and OzEMalaR news; Researcher News, Views and Interviews:  Alan Cowman, Alex Loukas, Geoff McFadden, Cinzia Cantacessi, Hong You, Teresa Carvalho; State News; Jobs; and more…. download the ASP NewsletterV23.4
The International Congress of Tropical Medicine and Malaria 2016 will be held in Brisbane and is co-sponsored by ASP, Australasian Society of Infectious Diseases (ASID) and other societies and organisations. Congratulations to Malcolm Jones, Michael Good and their team on successfuly winning the bid. It is anticipated that the annual ASP meeting will be jointly…
Join our Master Class “Human Parasitology†3-7 June 2013, James Cook University, Cairns Campus, Queensland, Australia This five-day Master Class offers students a unique opportunity to work on human parasitic diseases with prominent parasitologists Professor Nick Smith, Professor Alex Loukas and Concord Hospital’s Dr Graham Robertson. Registration fee applies, email Lisa.Jones1@jcu.edu.au More information Parasitology Master…
WAAVP 2013 will bring together parasitologists from around the world to present and discuss the latest advances in their research as well as important relevant issues. Our discipline embraces a broad and growing field of applied parasitology and WAAVP 2013 will provide the opportunity to look to the future as well as build on the…