Advances in Parasitology

Professor David Rollinson is a Merit Research Scientist at the Natural History Museum in London, where he leads a research team in the Wolfson Wellcome Biomedical Laboratories and directs the WHO Collaborating Centre for schistosomiasis. He has had a long fascination with parasites and the diseases that they cause, this has involved him in many overseas projects especially in Africa. He is on the WHO Expert Advisory Panel of parasitic diseases, the editor of Advances in Parasitology and a former President of the World Federation of Parasitologists. His research group uses a multidisciplinary approach, which combines detailed molecular studies in the laboratory with ongoing collaborative studies in endemic areas of disease, to explore the intriguing world of parasites in order to help control and eliminate parasitic diseases. Prof. Russell Stothard is Chair in Medical Parasitology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK

• Recent Developments in Malaria VaccinologyBenedict R. Halbroth and Simon J. DraperPfEMP1 – A Parasite Protein Family of Key Importance in Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Immunity and PathogenesisLars Hviid and Anja T.R. JensenProspects for Vector-Based Gene Silencing to Explore Immunobiological Features of Schistosoma mansoniJana Hagen, Jean-Pierre Y. Scheerlinck, Neil D. Young, Robin B. Gasser and Bernd H. KalinnaChronobiology of Trematode Cercarial Emergence: from Data Recovery to Epidemiological, Ecological and Evolutionary ImplicationsAndré ThéronStrongyloidiasis With Emphasis on Human Infections and its Different Clinical FormsRafael Toledo, Carla Muñoz-Antoli, and José-Guillermo EstebanA Perspective on Cryptosporidium and Giardia, with an Emphasis on Bovines and Recent Epidemiological FindingsHarshanie Abeywardena, Aaron R. Jex and Robin B. Gasser