Seasons Greetings from the WFP!
Seasons Greetings from the World Federation of Parasitologists Executive Board, we wish you all a very Happy New Year!
55th Annual Scientific Conference of the Malaysian Society of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine (MSPTM)
55th Annual Scientific Conference of the Malaysian Society of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine (MSPTM) Date: 13-14 March 2019 (Wednesday & Thursday) Time: 8.30 am – 6.00 pm Venue: InterContinental Hotel Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Theme: Scaling Up Efforts in Tropical Disease and Vector Control through Evidence-Based Research Important Notes: Dateline for abstract submission: 10 February 2019…
Sad passing of Prof. RNDr. Jiří Vávra, DrSc.
Dear colleagues, it is a sad duty for me to announce that Prof. RNDr. Jiří Vávra, DrSc., recipient of the WFP Distinguished Achievement Award in 2018, passed away on 1 October 2018. Prof. RNDr. Jiří Vávra, DrSc. was a biologist by soul, parasitologist by profession, protistologist and microscopist by heart and will be dearly missed.…
WCAIR Conference 2019
The Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research (WCAIR) invites you to join us in Dundee from 12-15 May 2019. The aim of the conference is to harness cross-disciplinary and cross-disease learning to accelerate drug discovery and reduce drug candidate attrition rates for infectious diseases affecting low and middle income countries. Conference attendees will take home new ideas and technologies…
2019 Michelson Prizes call for applications
The Michelson Prizes are scientific awards of $150,000 given annually to young investigators who are applying disruptive research concepts and inventive processes to advance vaccine and immunotherapy research for major global diseases. The 2019 Michelson Prizes have been expanded to include three focus areas: Human Immunology, Computational Biology and Protein Engineering, and Neglected Parasitic Diseases. All focus areas…
XV. International Congress of Acarology 2-8 September 2018 in Turkey
The XV. International Congress of Acarology will take place in Antalya, Turkey on September 2-8, 2018 (http://www.acarology.org/ica/ica2018/index.html). The main topics of the congress include: Taxonomy and systematics, Evolution and phylogeny, Ecology and behavior of mites, Ecology and behavior of ticks, Invasive species and biosecurity, Chemical control and resistance, Alternative pesticides, Biological control, Integrated pest management,…