Please join us for our annual Helminthological Society of Washington spring scientific meeting at the Potomac Science Center in Woodbridge, VA, on March 29th, 2025. This event will only be available to watch remotely, but remote participants will not be allowed to engage with speakers or present.
We will have a single session for research talks talks should be 12 minutes with 3 minutes for questions. We will also be offering an option for presenting posters. If you would like to submit an abstract to present a research talk or a poster, please follow the directions below. If at any time you have difficulty, please contact Katrina Lohan (lohank@si.edu).
Registration closes on Friday, March 24, 2025 at 11:59pm EDT
The meeting will feature talks from students and faculty and student awards (cash!)! We hope you'll join us on this beautiful campus next for parasite fun and fellowship!
Options for nearby hotels include:
Closest Hotel: Hampton Inn Potomac Mills/Woodbridge
Other recommended options:
Residence Inn Potomac Mills Woodbridge
Springhill Suites Potomac Mills Woodbridge
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Woodbridge
Student Travel Grants to HelmSoc & the American Society of Parasitologists (ASP) Meetings
HelmSoc offers Student Travel Awards. Any student member of HelmSoc can apply for a Travel Grant of up to $100 to present a talk or poster at the HelmSoc Spring Meeting. The Society will award up to 10 grants each spring. The amount awarded will depend on the distance traveled, but will minimally cover the cost of registration. Alternately, the student may choose to receive a grant to defray the registration costs for the annual American Society of Parasitology (ASP) meeting if attended in the same year. In this case, the student must present a talk at both the Spring HelmSoc meeting and the 2025 ASP meeting. Travel expenses to the HelmSoc meeting or ASP registration will be reimbursed upon submission of receipts after the meeting ends. Students and mentors must be members of HelmSoc, and proof of student status is required. A current HelmSoc member may sponsor students whose mentors are not members. More information is available here:
Also, please note that the presenter of the best oral presentation at the HelmSoc Spring Meeting will be eligible for additional travel support from the American Society of Parasitologists to help defray the costs of attending the 2025 ASP meeting. Our meeting happens after ASP's abstract submission deadline, but we have permission to submit late abstracts for students who presented at HelmSoc's Spring Meeting. If you are using the HelmSoc student travel grant to defray the cost of registration to ASP and want to submit a late abstract, please do so immediately after registering for the HelmSoc's Spring Meeting by emailing the ASP Scientific Program Officers (their contact info is jensen@ku.edu). Also, please be prepared to let us know at the meeting whether or not you will attend the ASP meeting if you win the student presentation award. The ASP student grant committee needs to know by the end of April if they are holding funding for a HelmSoc award winner or not. Note, to receive ASP funding you need to a) be a member of ASP (i.e., have paid your dues), b) present at the ASP meeting, and c) commit to staying at the meeting through to the end (i.e., be present at the Business Meeting).
For instructions about abstraction submission, click here.
Register and submit an abstract here.