Host-Parasite Interactions Program

Host-Parasite Interactions Program An international collaborative training program to prepare research trainees in tackling global issues such as parasite control, drug resistance, and more.

An innovative grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) has been awarded to the Host-Parasite Interactions (HPI) group at University of Calgary, providing $1.6 million over six years (2012-2018). The funding has been provided under NSERC’s new Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) Program. The premise behind CREATE is to provide science graduates en

hanced skills for careers in industry, government or academia. The NSERC CREATE HPI training program will develop an innovative, broad-based approach to provide leading-edge interdisciplinary and translational research training for graduate and post-doctoral trainees, as well as providing a foundation upon which to build transferable professional skills. Specific to parasitology, this international collaborative training program will prepare research trainees to tackle global issues such as parasite control, drug resistance, ecosystem impacts, food and water safety and innovation technologies. The NSERC CREATE HPI training program's goal is twofold:

1). To provide cutting-edge trainees with the ability and means to enter and be successful in the Canadian workforce in a range of capacities. 2). Consistent with Canada’s leadership in Parasitology, this program will train individuals who will become next generation leaders – bench research (academia or pharmaceutical-based), ecosystem management, education, advocacy, regulatory bodies – capable of recognizing and combating emerging Canadian and global problems and in so doing, keep Canada at the leading edge of innovation and agriculture management, the environment and public health well into the 21st century.

Come join us and "Party with Parasites" at the next TELUS Spark Adults only night in Calgary on January 14th from 6-10pm...
12/11/2015

Come join us and "Party with Parasites" at the next TELUS Spark Adults only night in Calgary on January 14th from 6-10pm! HPI is hosting an event-filled night full of fun and interesting parasite-related activities.

Congratulations to Umer on his latest publication in IJP!
06/26/2015

Congratulations to Umer on his latest publication in IJP!

E198A (GCA) benzimidazole resistance mutation present on a single haplotype in Haemonchus contortus across southern India.

06/18/2015

Brad van Paridon from Dr. John Gilleard’s lab will be giving a seminar on Tuesday June 23rd, 2015 at 9:00am in room 1405A. His talk is entitled “Using Landscape Genetics and Molecular Ecology to Study Infectious Disease and Parasites.”

06/18/2015

Congratulations to Steve Cornick for winning "Best Oral Presentation" at the 15th Annual Quebec Molecular Parasitology Symposium at McGill University; June 8-9, 2015.

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