Information about the Russian Journal of Parasitology can be found at the link given below. The journal and website is undergoing a makeover currently and is in the process of being listed on the Web of Knowledge/Web of Science. If you are interested in reading archived editions or submitting then please follow the associated links…
Contributed by Eric P. Hoberg1 and Anna J. Phillips2 1 US National Parasite Collection, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA 2 Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560, USA Over the past 120 years since its founding in 1892, the United States National Parasite Collection (NPC), a…
Today we are saddened to learn of the passing of Professor Emeritus Dr. Michael (Mick) David Brunskill Burt (1938-2014). His obituary notice is attached and highlights his exemplary career. Mick developed a lifelong passion for the field of parasitology and remained a mentor for students in the field even up until this year. May his…
Sejal Gohil, Lev Kats, Torsten Seemann, Kate Fernandez, Ghizal Siddiqui and Brian Cooke (Monash University) recently published their International Journal for Parasitology article “Bioinformatic prediction of the exportome of Babesia bovis and identification of novel proteins in parasite-infected red blood cells”. Sejal and Brian talk to Lisa Jones about their Babesia bovis research. Click here to read the interview in PDF
Hong You graduated in 2010 with a PhD from her research on Schistosoma japonicum vaccine (IJP, August 2012*) and has recently won an NHMRC Fellowship and ASP Network for Parasitology Researcher Exchange Travel Award. Hong You talks to Lisa Jones about her research. Click here to read the interview in PDF
Dr Cinzia Cantacessi is a postdoctoral researcher at the Queensland Tropical Health Alliance Research Laboratory, James Cook University (Cairns). It has been a big year for Cinzia, being awarded The University of Melbourne Chancellor’s Prize for Excellenece in a PhD Thesis and and an NHMRC Peter Doherty – Australian Biomedical Fellowship for her research on “Hookworm proteins as novel antiinflammatory therapeutics”. Cinzia speaks to Lisa Jones about her career, her research and…
discontools.eu This site gives an overview over certain diseases (not all parasitic though) and identifies knowledge gaps and current diagnostic tools. Click here for more information
The second WHO report builds on the growing sense of optimism generated by the 2012 publication of the WHO Roadmap. Commitments on the part of ministries of health in endemic countries, global health initiatives, funding agencies and philanthropists have escalated since 2010, as have donations of medicines from pharmaceutical companies and the engagement of the…
The World Federation for Parasitologists, as of last week, now has a presence on social media. The facebook page, created last week by Christopher Weir in Melbourne, has been established as a place to discuss all things parasitology. Any meetings, notices, courses, questions, job listings and interesting journal papers from research labs can now be…
Ministers and delegates at the Malaria2012: Saving Lives in the Pacific conference held in Sydney Australia have set the ambitious but realistic goal of reducing malaria deaths in the Asia-Pacific region by 75 per cent within three years. The communique commits to the following actions: To strengthen political and technical leadership in the region and establish the…