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| Observational Exercises on Parasites: A. Local and domestic hosts as sources of parasites | |
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| Parasites of the earthworm: Monocystis (Protozoa) and Rhabditis (Nematoda) | |
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| Parasites of marine molluscs (Littorina) | |
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| Parasites of fish | |
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| Whiting and Diclidophora merlangi (Monogenea) | |
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| Parasites of fish | |
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| Plaice/flounder and Lepeophtheirus pectoralis (Copepoda) | |
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| Parasites of domestic livestock | |
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| Pig and Ascaris suum (Nematoda) | |
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| Parasites of domestic livestock | |
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| Sheep and Fasciola hepatica (Trematoda) | |
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| Parasites of crops: Potato Cyst Nematode (PCN) - Globodera pallida (Nematoda) | |
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| Laboratory maintained species | |
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| Protozoan parasites of the intestinal tract of the cockroach, Periplaneta Americana | |
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| Protozoan parasites of the mouse intestinal tract | |
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| Rodent malaria | |
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| Malaria: an example of a vector transmitted parasite | |
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| Larval and adult Echinostoma spp. (Trematoda) | |
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| Schistosoma mansoni (Trematoda) | |
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| Hymenolepsis diminuta (Cestoda) | |
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| Heligmosomoides polygyrus (Nematoda) | |
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| Ecology | |
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| Pinworms (Nematoda, Oxyuroidea) in the American cockroach, Periplaneta Americana | |
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| Distribution and microhabitat of a monogenean on the gills of mackerel | |
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| Population dynamics of Gyrodactylus on stickleback | |
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| Intraspecific competition in the cestode, Hymenolepsis diminuta in rats | |
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| Transmission dynamics and the pattern of dispersion of the cestode, Hymenolepsis diminuta, in the intermediate host population | |
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| Physiology and Biochemistry | |
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| Hatching in vitro of oncospheres/hexacanth larvae of Hymenolepsis diminuta | |
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| Activation of the cysticercoids of Hymenolepsis spp. in vitro | |
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| Membrane transport in the cestode, Hymenolepsis diminuta, in vitro | |
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| Glycogen utilization and deposition in flatworm parasites | |
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| Effects of classical transmitters on the motility of parasite roundworms and flatworms | |
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| Electrophysiology of Ascaris suum body muscle | |
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| Immunocytochemical demontration of neuroactive substances in helminth parasites | |
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| Pathology and Immunology | |
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| Encapsulation of foreign matter (not self) by earthworms | |
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| Opsonisation of trypanosomes | |
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| Production and screening of monoclonal antibodies against Leishmania promastigotes | |
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| Pathological effects of Mesocestoides corti and Schistosoma mansoni | |
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| Quantification of lymphocyte populations in the spleen and thymus | |
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| Use of basic indirect ELISA for the detection of antibodies produced by experimental immunisation | |
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| SDS PAGE and Western blotting for the detection of antibodies produced by experimental immunisation | |
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| Chemotherapy | |
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| Sensitivity of a coccidial parasite, Eimeria, to an ionophore, monensin | |
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| Egg hatch assay for determination of resistance of nematodes to benzimidazole anthelmintics | |
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| Larval migration inhibition assay for determination of susceptibility of nematodes to levamisole | |
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| Effect of anthelmintics on nematodes | |
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| Molecular Parasitology | |
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| Purification of DNA | |
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| DNA digestion and gel electrophoresis | |
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| Restriction enzyme mapping | |
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| Construction of a genomic library | |
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| Detection and differentiation of Entamoeba histolytica and E. dispar by PCR | |
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| Differentiation between parasite species by agglutination and detection of parasite surface cardohydrate, using non-conjugated lectins | |
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| Tentative identification of parasite and tissue surface carbohydrates by conjugated lectins | |
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| Behaviour | |
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| Behaviour of the miracidia of Fasciola hepatica and demonstration of other larval stages | |
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| Effects of age and environmental factors on the swimming behaviour of the cercariae of Cryptocotyle lingua (Trematoda) | |
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| Changes in host behaviour as a consequence of parasite infection | |
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| Behaviour of the amphipod, Gammarus pulex, infected with cystacanths of acanthocephalans | |
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| Effects of Schistocephalus solidus (Cestoda) on stickleback feeding behaviour | |