The Master’s programme recommends this seminar to its students because of the close relationship between arthropods and the transmission of tropical parasitic diseases.
On June 12 of this year there will be an free online seminar of particular interest to the students of the Master's Degree in Tropical Parasitic Diseases. The webinar is titled “Citizen science: an efficient tool for surveillance and control of arthropods of public health concern” and is led by the work group on Dipteral vectors of diseases of veterinary-medical importance (DIVER) belonging to the Spanish Society of Parasitology (SOCEPA).
The seminar, starting at 4:00pm and running for about ninety minutes, will hear the presentations of different citizen science initiative. Three research and scientific dissemination projects will be presented that centred on promoting citizen collaboration in awareness-raising efforts and control of arthropods responsible for the transmission of disease.
Rosa Gálvez Esteban will open the webinar with the FleboCollect project for citizen science and building DIY traps for phlebotomine sandflies. The project is dedicated to scientific dissemination and the encouragement of citizen participation in the fight against sandflies, which transmit leishmaniasis. Gálvez, in addition to her work with Flebocollect, is an assistant professor in the Department of Experimental Sciences Didactics at the Autonomous University of Madrid.
Next, Roger Eritja Mathieu, researcher at the Blanes Centre for Advanced Studes – The Spanish National Research Council (CEAB-CSIC) of Girona, will speak about Mosquito Alert, a universal and scalable source of citizen data for the study and surveillance of mosquitos. This project is focused on joining efforts to detect and control the expansion of the tiger mosquito, the yellow fever mosquito and other invasive species in Spain.
The last presentation will be given by Marcos López de Felipe Escudero, who will talk about the NESCOTIGER project for new strategies for the control of the tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, in residential areas within the framework of citizen science. Apart from his work at NESCOTIGER, López de Felipe is a pre-doctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Medical Entomology of the National centre of Microbiology at the Carlos III Health Institute in Madrid.
The webinar will be moderated by Daniel Bravo Barriga,, researcher at the Department of Animal Health and member of the Animal Health and Zoonosis research group (GISAZ) of the University of Cordoba.
Attendance of the online seminar is free. Register through the following link:
Once registered, you will receive an email confirmation with the information to join the “ParaWebinar”. SOCEPA members can download their accreditation diploma free of charge. This diploma is also available to non-members for a €20 fee.
Students may become members of SOCEPA for only €21 a year and will receive all “ParaWebinar” diplomas free of charge.
