By Kelly Weinersmith The Helminthological Society of Washington (HelmSoc) held its 721st meeting at Shenandoah University in Winchester,...

By Kelly Weinersmith, Christina Anaya, John Hawdon, and Bobbi Pritt ASP's Annual Conference will be held at The Double Tree by...

By Kelly Weinersmith & the ASP Public Relations Committee On March 4, 1999 (the anniversary of H.B. Ward’s Birthday), ASP’s Education...

By Dr. Susan Perkins In 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine launched a committee whose charge it was to...

Click here to download ASP's Spring 2019 Newsletter (Vol 41, No 1).

Interview by Susan Perkins For our newest Member Spotlight we feature ASP's student representative, Christina Anaya! 1. What made you...

By Sherman S. Hendrix, Immediate Past-President, Representative to the ASP I would like to report on several recent items at HelmSoc that...

At this year's annual conference we are offering a FREE Clinical Parasitology Wet Lab Workshop. See below for more information.

By Christina Anaya The 94th Annual ASP conference is around the corner and this year promises to be new and innovative for student...

By Jillian Detwiler Pardon the pun, but Graham Goodman’s research on the behavioral defenses of birds against ectoparasites is just “so...

*********TEACHER SIGN-UPS ARE CLOSED FOR THIS YEAR. YOU CAN FIND OUT ABOUT NEXT YEAR'S SIGN-UPS BY CHECKING THE BLOG, FOLLOWING US ON...

By Kelly Weinersmith On March 4, 1999 (the anniversary of H.B. Ward’s Birthday), ASP’s Education Committee kicked off the first “Parasite...

Written by John Janovy, Jr. Edited by Margaret Doolin In the spring of 1966, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) hired two...

By Dr. Mike Kinsella My friend and mentor, Al Canaris, has long been fascinated by what happens to helminth communities in shorebirds...

Attempting to Solve the Life Cycle of Distoichometra bufonis Dickey 1921, (Cestoda: Nematotaeniidae) while Teaching a Field Course! By...

The second annual six-day course on Biology of Vector-borne Diseases will be held June 23-28, 2019 at the University of Idaho in Moscow,...

The Nominating & Tellers Committee is charged with developing a slate of candidates to stand for election as officers and representatives...

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PARASITOLOGISTS 2019 CALL FOR AWARD NOMINATIONS Each year the ASP gives several awards at the Annual Meeting. It is...

By Kelly Weinersmith ASP held its 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Parasitologists at The Marriott Cancun Resort in Mexico...

Click here to download ASP's Fall 2018 Newsletter (Vol 40, No 1).