Symbulation is an agent-based model of endosymbionts that can evolve between parasitism and mutualism. It provides a web GUI so students can change environmental settings and watch evolution occur.

This is a link to and episode of the The Nature of Things featuring parasites that manipulate their hosts. This is a great resource for undergraduate parasitology AND intro bio courses. I have used it for both. I show the entire episode in my Animal Parasitology course along with questions for the students to answer in groups at different time intervals throughout. Then they submit their answers as a group. In General Biology I show a 10 minute clip when I introduce parasitism as a life history strategy in the Community Ecology Chapter. 

This is a link to and episode of the The Nature of Things featuring parasites that manipulate their hosts. This is a great resource for undergraduate parasitology AND intro bio courses. I have used it for both. I show the entire episode in my Animal Parasitology course along with questions for the students to answer in groups at different time intervals throughout. Then they submit their answers as a group. In General Biology I show a 10 minute clip when I introduce parasitism as a life history strategy in the Community Ecology Chapter. 

Website hosted by The University of Queensland developed by the Australian Society of Parasitology, Inc. 

This website has useful background information on parasitology and individual parasites, their life cycles, host use, mode of transmission and clinical consequences. 

This would be a great resource for a medical parasitology course, or medical part of a general parasitology survey course. I could even see the descriptive information being useful in a general bio course for a definition of parasitism. The website also includes a nice section on fields of study within parasitology showing where it can overlap with courses in other disciplines. 

This website includes images associated with parasite infection events submitted to the CDC. The images represent what would be available for diagnosis, but the website is organized by date of report rather than by parasite taxonomy. 

This homepage leads to other links for medically important parasitic infections as well as information on diagnostic  procedures. Under the case studies page you can find images and associated information with actual patient information from parasite infection reports. These have been useful in my teaching as mini-case studies on diagnosis. 

This is a laboratory activity focused on identifying first and second intermediate host infections by trematodes of pond snails. 

Darkfield image of M. oregonensis stained with Lugol's solution. Specimen from a snail sampled from a VA stream.