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,…
XXV Brazilian Congress of Parasitology
The SBP (Brazilian Society of Parasitology) is pleased to announce that XXV Congress of SBP, will be held in Buzios-Rio de Janeiro,from September 03-06th, 2017. Further information can be found in the link below. We look forward to seeing you! Click here for more information
WFP Newsletter – December 2015
The December 2015 WFP Newsletter is available for download in PDF format.
WFP Newsletter – January 2015
The January 2015 WFP Newsletter is available for download in PDF format.
Obituary. Associate Professor Ian Whittington
It is with great sadness that I pass on the news that Associate Professor Ian Whittington passed away last Sunday (27 October 2014) after a long illness. Ian was 54 years old. Throughout his career, Ian has been an enthusiastic researcher and a champion of studies of the biology of monogenean parasites of fishes. After…