University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

<p>The Stephen J. Taft Parasitology Collection in the UWSP Museum of Natural History (UWSP &amp;ndash; PARA) was established in 2004 when Dr. Stephen (Steve) J. Taft retired after 33 years of teaching and research at UWSP. The collection was largely acquired and amassed through the work of Steve Taft and the numerous students he mentored over the decades of his tenure at UWSP. The collection is impressive in its magnitude and faunistic scope, with over 20,000 slide mounted specimens and additional hundreds of wet preserved specimens in vials and jars. Strengths of the collection include avian ectoparasites (lice and mites) as well as endoparasites (helminths and blood protists). The collection contains many invaluable specimens, such as those from hosts that no longer occur in Wisconsin, or others from hosts for which lethal sampling is no longer permissible. The Parasitology Collection maintains facilities for preparing new permanent slide-mounts and remounting slides. A small but growing frozen tissue collection and associated molecular laboratory support future research. The mission of the Parasitology Collection is to serve as a foundation for research and training, primarily of undergraduates, in parasitology and related scientific and applied disciplines.</p>

斯蒂芬·J·塔夫特寄生虫学收藏（UWSP博物馆自然历史馆内，简称UWSP &ndash; PARA）于2004年成立，彼时斯蒂芬（史蒂夫）·J·塔夫特博士在威斯康星大学斯特灵分校（UWSP）从事33年的教学与科研生涯后退休。该收藏的建立主要得益于史蒂夫·塔夫特博士及其在UWSP执教数十年间指导的众多学生的共同努力。收藏规模宏大，物种多样，包含超过20,000个装片的寄生虫标本，以及数百个瓶装或罐装的湿保存标本。本收藏的优势在于鸟类外寄生虫（如虱和蜱）以及内寄生虫（如蠕虫和血液原生生物）。其中包含许多极具价值的标本，例如来自现已不在威斯康星州存在的宿主的标本，或因采样禁忌而无法采集的宿主的标本。寄生虫学收藏馆维护了制作新永久装片和重装装片的设施。此外，一个小型但不断增长的冷冻组织收藏库以及相关的分子实验室为未来的研究提供了支持。寄生虫学收藏馆的使命是为寄生虫学及其相关科学和应用学科的研究与培训，尤其是本科生培训，奠定坚实的基础。