Join our “What’s eating you?” podcast hosts Dr Sarah Preston, from Federation University Australia, Lisa Jones, from the ASP and visiting comedian, Alexandra Hudson as they question, quiz, and grill our expert parasitologists from the ASP. Is it headlice that’s making your head itch? Or Cryptosporidium giving you a dodgy tummy? And was that a…
Download the latest newsletter ASP newsletter Vol 35.2 October 2024 (https://www.parasite.org.au/publications/newsletters/) for all the latest news in parasitology. In this newsletter: Report and photos from the Parasites in the Pacific 2024 Conference, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 26 – 29 August 2024 Australian Society for Parasitology AGM and the results of the ASP Council election,…
Join our online ASP Seminar Series Friday 15th November 2024, 4pm AEDT, featuring Elise Ringwaldt, University of Tasmania presenting “The epidemiology of rumpwear in common brushtail possums: insights from visual clinical signs, camera trapping, and machine-learning” and Long Huynh, The University of Melbourne presenting “Cytostome formation in artemisinin resistant Plasmodium parasites” with co-chairs Jill Chmielewski,…
Join our online ASP Seminar Series Friday 18th October 2024, 1pm AEDT, featuring Arkasha Sadhewa, Menzies School of Health Research and Charles Darwin University presenting “Performance of Quantitative Point-of-Care Tests to measure G6PD activity: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis” with co-chairs Jill Chmielewski, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and Emma McHugh, University of Melbourne. Please…
Congratulations to our 2024 ASP Student Prize winners at the Parasites in the Pacific Conference in Auckland! Winners from left to right: Xavier Barton (Murdoch Uni) Best 15-min presentation, Ashleigh Peck (Murdoch University) Best 5-min presentation, Jessica Home (University of Melbourne) Best overall conference presentation, Ashton Kelly (University of Queensland) Runner-up for Best 15-min presentation,…
Congratulations to the following ASP Council representatives were elected at the ASP AGM on Wednesday 28 August 445pm NZST. President-Elect, 2024 Aaron Jex has been elected into the position of President-Elect, 2024. He was nominated by ASP members Clare Anstead and Robin Gasser. Treasurer, 2023 Hayley Rugarabamu (nee Bullen) has been elected into the position of Treasurer,…
Congratulations to 2024 Fellow of the Australian Society for Parasitology, Robert Poulin! Robert has been a member since 1993 and has made a major contribution to the Society primarily through his long term role as a specialist editor for the International Journal for Parasitology 2001-2003, 2007-2016, one of the longest specialist editors for the Journal and…
Congratulations to recently graduated PhD student Melanie Ridgway for winning the 2023 John Frederick Adrian Sprent Prize for her PhD thesis “Sex specific biology of Plasmodium falciparum”. Melanie studied Life Sciences as an Excellence-Major Scholar at Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. For her Honours research project supervised by Dr. Adele Lehane and Prof.…