It is a sad duty for us to announce that Professor Jaroslav Kulda, an internationally respected parasitologist, one of the pioneers in hydrogenosome research, highly regarded teacher at the Charles University, Prague, recipient of the WFP Distinguished Achievement Award in 2010, former long-time president of the Czech Society for Parasitology, scientific and moral authority, and…
On behalf of WFP President, Professor Jong-Yil Chai & WFP Past President, Jorgen Kurtzhals Dear Society Presidents and WFP members, The leadership of WFP’s esteemed journal, Parasite Epidemiology and Control (PAREPI), has been passed forward from the Founding Editor Prof. Marcel Tanner to four new Editors: Margaret Gyapong, Ghana Pikka Jokelainen, Finland Juan David Ramírez…
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.…
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,…
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…