Stephen Attwood
City:
Chengdu
State/Province:
Sichuan
Country:
China
Current Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy (West China Medical School), Chengdu.
Current Position:
Professor of Phylogenetic Epidemiology
Career Highlights:
1995-2006 Biomedical Research Fellow, Natural History Museum, London, UK
Field of Research:
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES - Evolutionary Biology - Animal Systematics and Taxonomy
Professional Memberships:
FLS
Notable Grants/Projects:
2000-2006 PI for Wellcome Trust funded (,300,000 US) projects on molecular systematics of intermediate hosts of schistosomiasis in Asia
Current: 2010-2013 China NSF grant (Research tool development for phylogenetic epidemiology in China)
Current: 2010-2013 China NSF grant (Research tool development for phylogenetic epidemiology in China)
Research Interests:
Population genetics, demographic studies and taxonomy of pathogenic organisms and their vectors- especially helmiths. Phylogeographic and dispersal studies.
Key words: phylogenetics, epidemiology, Trematoda, Digenea, Schistosoma, molecular ecology, phylogeography, biogeography, malacology, Pomatiopsidae, Tricula, Oncomelania.
Publication History:
1995-2009 35 papers in international journals.
Last publication:
Attwood, S.W. 2009. Mekong schistosomiasis. Where did it come from and where is it going? In: The Mekong: Biophysical Environment of an International River Basin. Elsevier, New York.
Last publication:
Attwood, S.W. 2009. Mekong schistosomiasis. Where did it come from and where is it going? In: The Mekong: Biophysical Environment of an International River Basin. Elsevier, New York.
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