8th International Giardia & Cryptosporidium Conference (IGCC)

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 Country: Australia

Type: Conference

Registration Deadline: November 30, 2024

Event Date: February 23-26, 2025

Details: https://www.igcc2025.au/

 

We are delighted to announce the 8th International Giardia & Cryptosporidium Conference (IGCC)  from 23rd February to 26th February 2025 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Since 2014, the International Giardia and Cryptosporidium Conferences (IGCC) have provided an international platform for researchers and practitioners involved in the study of these parasites. IGCC has become an established barometer of the advances made in confronting and controlling Giardia and Cryptosporidium infections throughout the world and covers a breadth of disciplines including:

• Molecular and cellular biology
• Genomics and systems biology
• Taxonomy and phylogenetics
• Population genetics, diagnostics and epidemiology
• Host-parasite interactions and immunology
• Pathogenesis of disease
• New treatment development
• Improved control strategies and public health policies

Major research program themes

• Diagnostics and detection from environment to farm to clinic
• Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental transmission and control
• Infection management in humans and animals
• Advances in drug and vaccine discovery and alternative treatments
• Indigenous and Global Health
• Mechanisms of disease and host-pathogen interactions
• Virulence and Immunology
• Infection and in vitro growth models
• Molecular and Cellular Biology
• Evolutionary Biology
• Advanced methods development

Equity and Diversity:

IGCC2025 is committed to broad representative and diversity amongst its delegates and conference speakers. We are committed to gender parity among our invited speakers and session chairs and to provide a welcoming and engaging conference experience to delegates across our international research community. We are also a family friendly conference and will provide a parents room for delegates during the event.

A primary focus of the conference is to provide delegates with outstanding value, an enriched program and a number of memorable experiences within and alongside the conference itself. This will include social events that provide delegates with an exceptional opportunity to engage in uniquely Australian cultural activities and world-class scientists. We will be hosting the event in the newly built Melbourne Connect conference facility within the University of Melbourne campus and on the northern edge of Melbourne’s central business district. All of this will be available at an affordable cost and, we hope to welcome all of you to Melbourne and look forward to seeing you all once again.