The 14^th International Congress of Parasitology  will be held on 19-24 August 2018 at EXCO, Daegu, Korea.

This meeting is organized jointly by The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine (KSPTM) and World Federation of Parasitologists (WFP). The theme for this year’s meeting is “PARASITES: HARMS & BENEFITS to Animals and Humans”.

Key Topics

• Diagnosis of parasitic diseases
• Diversity of parasites in wild birds and animals
• Drugs and vaccines against parasites
• Ecology, evolution and biodiversity of parasites
• Education of parasitology
• Entomology and vector-borne diseases
• Food-borne parasitic diseases
• Forensic entomology
• Genetic engineering of parasites
• Health and parasites in climate change
• Immune therapy using parasites
• Malaria
• Neglected tropical diseases
• Omics and systems biology of parasites
• One health approaches to control of parasitic zoonoses
• Paleoparasitology
• Parasites and immunity
• Parasites of domestic animals
• Parasites of fish and marine animals
• Protozoan diseases
• Recent advances in parasitology
• Schistosomiasis
• Trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis
• Veterinary Parasitology

Important Dates

• Early Bird Registration: 31 May 2018 (Korean standard time)
• Abstract submission Deadline: 15 April 2018