Congratulations to Dr. Giel van Dooren who was awarded the 2021 Bancroft-Mackerras Medal for Excellence from the Australian Society for Parasitology. Giel van Dooren is a Senior Lecturer at the Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Australia. He is a parasitologist through and through. After graduating from the University of Melbourne with Bachelor of…
Science & Technology Australia and Professionals Australia invite you to participate in the annual Professional Scientist Employment and Remuneration Survey. Through this survey, you will contribute to the most comprehensive benchmark report of scientist remuneration and employment conditions in Australia. The survey will also provide important insights into the unprecedented impact that COVID-19 has had…
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…
#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…
We have opened the Researcher Exchange, Travel and Training Award including a JD Smyth Postgraduate Travel Award scheme and the deadline for applications is 31st March 2021. In light of the COVID-19 outbreak worldwide we have updated the Travel Award guidelines and the application form, so please ensure that you read the updated guidelines before…
Festive Greetings from the ASP! Please download the latest ASP newsletter to read at your leisure over the holiday period (www.parasite.org.au/publications/newsletters/ ), Vol 31 Issue 5 December 2020, it’s packed with fabulous stories from our researchers and Journals with some truly stunning images. In this newsletter: ASP Climate-Focus seminar series and our first event “Sustainability…
THE SEARCH BEGINS FOR AUSTRALIA’S NEXT CONSTELLATION OF #SuperstarsofSTEM A nationwide search begins today for the next 60 Superstars of STEM – brilliant women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics who want to step into the spotlight as media stars. Minister for Industry, Science and Technology Karen Andrews will launch the next round of applications…
The Australian Academy of Science has launched a national COVID-19 Expert Database. The database is championed by Australia’s Chief Scientist, Dr Alan Finkel AO. They are calling on experts from a broad range of fields who can contribute to the national and global effort to tackle and recover from COVID-19 to register on this database.…
The Australian Society for Microbiology (ASM) is putting together a database of qualified people who are willing to be called upon in case of a potential staff shortage to assist with COVID-19 testing (or any other requests required) at hospitals or any other diagnostics lab across Australia. This database will be shared with local public…