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
The December 2015 WFP Newsletter is available for download in PDF format.
The January 2015 WFP Newsletter is available for download in PDF format.
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…
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…