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

• 1. Measuring the Effect of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections on Cognitive Function in Children: Systematic Review and Critical Appraisal of EvidenceKei Owada, Mark Nielsen, Colleen L. Lau, Archie C.A. Clements, Laith Yakob and Ricardo J. Soares Magalhãe2. Hook, Line and Infection: A Guide to Culturing Parasites, Establishing Infections and Assessing Immune Responses in the Three-Spined SticklebackAlexander Stewart, Joseph Jackson, Iain Barber, Christophe Eizaguirre, Rachel Paterson, Pieter van West, Chris Williams and Joanne Cable3. Advances in Spermatological Characters in the Digenea: Review and Proposal of Spermatozoa Models and Their Phylogenetic ImportanceAbdoulaye J.S. Bakhoum, Jordi Miquel, Papa I. Ndiaye, Jean-Lou Justine, Alessandra Falchi, Cheikh T. Bâ, Bernard Marchand and Yann Quilichini4. Life History, Systematics and Evolution of the Diplostomoidea Poirier, 1886: Progress, Promises and Challenges Emerging From Molecular StudiesIsabel Blasco-Costa and Sean A. Locke5. The Battle Against Flystrike –– Past Research and New Prospects Through GenomicsClare A. Anstead, Trent Perry, Stephen Richards, Pasi K. Korhonen, Neil D. Young, Vernon M. Bowles, Philip Batterham and Robin B. Gasser6. Trypanosoma congolense: Molecular Toolkit and Resources for Studying a Major Livestock Pathogen and Model TrypanosomeWendy Gibson, Christopher Kay and Lori Peacock