Wildlife Malaria Con­fer­ence 2022

It is our great plea­sure to in­vite you to the 5th In­ter­na­tional Con­fer­ence on Malaria and re­lated Haemo­sporid­ian Par­a­sites of Wildlife

It is a great op­por­tu­nity to present re­search re­sults, ex­change ideas, and to share with each other con­cepts and knowl­edge in the field. The con­fer­ence will take place in Biele­feld, Ger­many, Sep­tem­ber 05-08, 2022.

Haemo­sporid­ian par­a­sites ex­hibit an amaz­ing but still un­der­ex­plored di­ver­sity of life his­to­ries and adap­ta­tions. With the in­creas­ing num­bers of new sys­tems stud­ied, new tools be­com­ing avail­able and new re­searchers get­ting hooked, there is an amaz­ing breadth of new sci­ence to be shared. The con­fer­ence will once again pro­mote in­ter­na­tional ex­change and en­hance col­lab­o­ra­tions within and be­yond the fields of host-​symbiont re­search, wildlife health and con­ser­va­tion.

The con­fer­ence will be hosted by the Host-​parasite in­ter­ac­tions group and the De­part­ment of An­i­mal Be­hav­iour of Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. The con­fer­ence will have a hy­brid for­mat with a mix of live talks and posters from the main lo­ca­tion in Biele­feld along with stream­ing and recorded on­line talks from sep­a­rate pre­sen­ters else­where.

Like pre­vi­ous con­fer­ences of the se­ries, the 5th is cen­tred on haemo­sporid­ian and sim­i­lar blood par­a­sites of wildlife, there­fore by­pass­ing re­search ex­clu­sively con­cen­trat­ing on human malaria par­a­sites.

As mostly non-Plas­mod­ium re­searchers, the local or­gan­is­ers, are par­tic­u­larly thrilled to host such an event, en­com­pass­ing di­ver­sity across the phy­lo­ge­nies of hosts, vec­tors, and par­a­sites, as well as their di­verse phys­i­olo­gies and evo­lu­tion­ary strate­gies.

By all known ac­counts, Biele­feld does exist! In fact, it is the heart of East­ern West­phalia, just around the cor­ner from Han­nover, Dort­mund, Cologne and the Nether­lands. While en­joy­ing life in the green, we feel very Euro-​central and well con­nected. As a cross­road of Eu­rope, Biele­feld is a good place to bring the Wildlife Malaria com­mu­nity closer to­gether.

The Local Or­gan­is­ing Com­mit­tee is de­lighted to host the event and looks for­ward to meet­ing you in Biele­feld in Sep­tem­ber 2022.

COVID19 fit: In order to min­imise risks by in­fec­tion and chang­ing state-​wide reg­u­la­tions, we ad­vise you to travel to Ger­many with a cer­tifi­cate of being fully vac­ci­nated or covid19-​recovered. With re­spect of po­ten­tial in­fec­tions, lock-​downs and de­fault­ing to on­line - we ad­vise you to have a travel in­sur­ance cov­er­ing po­ten­tial can­cel­la­tions of your flight/train and/or ac­co­mo­da­tion book­ing.