The Société Française de Parasitologie and the European Federation of Parasitology welcome you in Paris for the 10th European Multicolloquium of Parasitology (EMOP 10).

EMOP 10 will be organized in the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris. This campus was imagined in 1923 by Emile Deutsch de la Meurthe (owner of a petroleum company) and André Honnorat (Ministry of Instruction publique) to help students with limited incomes and from different social or geographic origins. They could be accommodated there, meet and tie between them solid bonds. The result was exceptional. Then, several countries built and managed in the same campus, their own houses according to their traditional rules. All this, in an astonishingly calm environment, a few steps from Paris downtown . It will be the ideal place for a congress which wants to be resolutely european.

Parasitology, as a science, took a significant step forward when investigation of the parasitic traits were added to the necessary description of parasites and their life cycles. This advance was made possible by conceptual developments and the use of new tools, particularly those of molecular biology and geographical information systems. Parasites and the analysis of parasitic systems are now central in the study of biodiversity and evolution.

Under the general topic "From the satellite to the microsatellite, EMOP 10 proposes a multidisciplinary forum to discuss the latest projections on the available tools in Parasitology, the diverse model systems and the most recent results.

Several issues are of central concern :

- the role of parasites and their vectors in sustainable interactions within ecosystems;

- the considerable load of parasitic diseases on human and animal populations;

- the most recent breakthroughs in prophylaxis, epidemiology, diagnosis and therapeutics;

- the impact of global changes on parasitic systems…

 We hope to bring together at EMOP 10, parasitologists, ecologists, pathologists, geneticists, physicians, vets and also colleagues of the social sciences in order to facilitate broad exchanges ...