Dr RE Pugh (also known as RE Boreham) has made a stunning collection of parasite and other pictures available for research and teaching on the ASP website. This database contains a selection pictures collected by Dr RE Pugh and her late first husband Professor PFL Boreham. Peter had a distinguished career as a research scientist…
Download the latest ASPnewsletterV22.3 to find out about: the next deadline for applications for ASP Network Travel Awards (Friday 27 January 2012) and for ASP Network and OzEMalaR Travel Awards in 2012, 2012 ASP Annual Conference news, ASP researcher and state news, photos from the 2011 ASP Annual Conference and First International Chromera workshop, and more….…
To be presented at the 2012 ASBMB Annual Meeting – San Diego, CA Deadline for Receipt of Nominations is DECEMBER 1, 2011 NOMINATION REQUIREMENTS Click here to go directly to the ASBMB Website Awards page, to nominate your candidate. See the ASBMB website for more information www.asbmb.org
Congratulations to Prof Alan Cowman, Dr Julie Healer, Mr Sash Lopaticki, Dr Wai-Hong Tham, Ms Jennifer Thompson and Mr Tony Triglia from WEHI – winners of the 2011 Australian Museum’s Eureka Prize for Infectious Diseases Research.
Find out about ASP, ASPÂ Network, OzEMalaR, State news, jobs and events in the July 2011 edition of the Australian Society for Parasitology newsletter.
Australia has long been thought to be free of Leishmania but the recent discovery of a new species infecting kangaroos, and other macropods, has prompted a re-think. In work, recently published in the International Journal for Parasitology, Annette Dougall and colleagues from the Menzies School of Health in Darwin set out to answer how this…
Dear ASP members, We are writing to brief you on an exciting new development for our Society and the field of parasitology. During the ASP’s strategic planning process, we determined there may be an opportunity for the ASP to sponsor a new Journal focussing on antiparasitic drugs and the mechanisms of drug resistance. Such a…
Australia and frogs have a long and successful history. Over 200 species of frog currently call Australia home and the fossil records show that the association has persisted through 45 million years of extreme climatic change and environmental stress. In the 1980s, however, it was noticed that frog numbers were undergoing a severe decline, some…
Join our Workshop “Bioinformatics†This workshop is aimed at biologist with basic bioinformatics expertise and will be comprised of four half-day sessions covering the following topics: 1. Analysis and interpretation of mass spectrometry data. In this session several different algorithms for searching tandem mass spectrometry data will be examined (including Mascot, X! Tandem and OMSSA),…
To apply for a 2011 ASP Student Conference Travel Grant download the guidelines. Once you have read the guidelines to apply for the grant, please register for the conference https://www.conftool.net/parasitology2011 and complete all the fields in the ASP Students Conference Travel Grants section. If you have already registered for the conference please log in to…