Dr Robert Adlard - Queensland Museum Staff
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BSc (Hons), PhD |
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Rob specialises in parasitology with a focus on the protozoan parasites of aquatic animals. Living on Heron Island, on the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland for 3 years during study for his doctorate, he developed a fascination for the reef. Since then, his research interests on the interactions of parasites and their hosts have continued with collaborative research on protozoan, digenean and monogenean parasites of reef fish. He has worked with the aquaculture industry on protozoan pathogens of shellfish, and more recently on those parasites that cause 'QX disease' and 'winter mortality' in commercial rock oysters in Australia. Rob joined the Queensland Museum in 1996 to curate the collections of protozoa which include the International Reference Centre for Avian Haematozoa (IRCAH), a collection of over 60,000 specimens of blood-borne parasites of birds, donated to the Queensland Museum from Memorial University in Canada. Rob has since broadened his research interests to include blood-borne parasites of birds and now leads a research project to determine the taxonomy and biology of haematozoan parasites of birds in southeast Queensland in collaboration with the Currumbin Sanctuary, Gold Coast. |
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