Jilong Shen completed his PhD from Sun Yet-sen University School of Medicine of China in 1990 and studied as a visiting scholar at Teikyo University School of Medicine of Japan and at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine of USA successively. He is the director of the Key Laboratory of Zoonoses and the Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology of Anhui province. He has published more than 150 papers and currently works on the genotype-associated pathogenesis of Toxoplasma gondii.

Parasitology and parasitic diseases

Ingrid Papajova graduated in 1997 from the Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice, specialization in Biology and Chemistry. She received PhD. degree at the Institute of Parasitology of the SAS in 2001 and she defended her thesis „Ecological factors and their impact on the tenacity of the enteronematode eggs“ in 2014. Since 2000 she works as researcher – parasitologist at the Institute of Parasitology of the SAS (IP SAS). From 2002 she is the head of the Department of Environmental and Plant Parasitology and since 2011 acts as Deputy Director at the IP SAS.

Ingrid Papajova research interest is a) parasitological examination of the environment within selected ecosystems for the presence of sanitary important endoparasitic germs; b) sanitary aspects of parasitic soil contamination; c) sanitation methods of environment contaminated by endoparasitic developmental stages; d) physical and chemical analysis of wastes, biodegradation products and soil chemistry; e) recycling of agricultural and municipal wastes; f) waste treatments

Luiz Euribel Prestes-Carneiro was born in Paraná State, Brazil. He graduated with a degree in Pharmacy and Biochemistry by the State University of Ponta Grossa, and Medicine by the University of Oeste Paulista, Sao Paulo. In 1999 he obtained his Master’s degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Maringa State University, and in 2003 his PhD degree in Immunology at São Paulo University, São Paulo. He did his Residency course in Infectious Diseases at the Ipiranga Hospital, Sao Paulo. Since 1995 he has been a professor at the Immunology Department, an institutional researcher, and a professor of the Environment Master’s course at Oeste Paulista University, Presidente Prudente, Sao Paulo. He is part of the editorial board of 2 Brazilian Scientific Journals, 4 International Scientific Journals and reviews for many other journals. He has published 20 papers in peer reviewed journals. At present he works in infectious diseases and immunodeficiencies clinics of two public hospitals in Presidente Prudente, Sao Paulo.

Currently Dr. Prestes-Carneiro’s researches are focused on the epidemiological and immunological aspects of HIV, Viral Hepatitis, Visceral leishmaniasis and Immunodeficiencies.

Jiannong Xu is an Associate Professor at Biology Department, New Mexico State University. He obtained his PhD in Second Military Medical University in Shanghai, China. He did postdoc at New York University. He has been working on mosquito biology using functional genomics approaches.

Jiannong Xu is focusing on the metagenomic interactions in the mosquito gut ecosystem and the impact of microbe-mosquito relationship on mosquito life traits, such as fecundity and immunity.

Andrei Granovitch has defended his PhD in 1990 from Moscow State University and habilitated as ScD in 2000 in Zoology and Parasitology from St.Petersburg State University. He is the Head of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology of Biological Faculty in St.Petersburg State University. He has published more than 50 papers in international and Russian journals.

Dr.Andrei Granovitch research interest is Population biology – ecological and genetic structure of populations, dynamics of the populations of free living and parasitic animals and Parasitology. Host-parasite interactions: individual, population and community levels.

Hanem Khater is the Professor of Parasitology in Benha University, Egypt. She completed her doctoral degree at the department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, food and Natural resources, University of Missouri- Columbia, USA. Her research mainly focused on natural control of arthropods of medical and veterinary importance such as mosquitoes, house flies, lice, green bottle fly, camel nasal botfly, soft and hard ticks, and mite to avoid environmental pollution with pesticides as well as control of several parasites using safe and natural materials to avoid drug resistances and environmental contamination.

Hanem Khater research mainly focused on natural control of arthropods of medical and veterinary importance such as mosquitoes, house flies, lice, green bottle fly, camel nasal botfly, soft and hard ticks, and mite to avoid environmental pollution with pesticides as well as control of several parasites using safe and natural materials to avoid drug resistances and environmental contamination.

Geoff Hide educated at Edinburgh University gaining a BSc in Biological Sciences with Honours in Genetics and went on to study for a PhD in the Institute of Animal Genetics at Edinburgh with Professor Andy Tait. Here I became interested in molecular approaches to the epidemiology of parasites.Dr.Geoff Hide went on to do postdoctoral research at the Wellcome Unit (now Centre) of Molecular Parasitology at the University of Glasgow to work on both molecular epidemiology and cell signaling in parasites.Dr.Geoff Hide appointed Lecturer, University of Salford in 1998, Reader in 2001 and Professor in August 2004 where I have been able to develop an exciting research portfolio.

Geoff Hide research interests are in molecular epidemiology of parasites with major projects including a long term interest in trypanosomes . His current projects in this area based around developing a detailed understanding of mobile genetic elements as tools for epidemiology and on using molecular approaches to investigate host-parasite interactions in relation to the health of African cattle. He conduct this work in collaboration with scientists at the University of Edinburgh.

Vyacheslav Yurchenko is currently an Assistant Professor and the head of the laboratory of Molecular Protozoology at the Life Science Research Centre, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He received his Ph.D. degree in Molecular Biology from the Moscow State University (1999) and conducted postdoctoral research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Rockefeller University in NY. His laboratory is involved in research of monoxenous Trypanosomatidae and mechanisms governing virulence of Leishmania.

Parasitology and its infections