RIEL seminar series
A potpourri of parasites: tales from a wandering parasitologist
| Presenter | Dr. Diane Barton (Charles Sturt University) | |
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| Contact person | E: riel.outreach@cdu.edu.au | |
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Casuarina campus Yellow 1.1.39 If you wish to attend via Zoom, please email riel.outreach@cdu.edu.au for the zoom link |
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Parasites make up more than 50% of the biodiversity on Earth but are one of the most understudied groups of organisms. Parasites infect all the animal groups (even each other) and can have significant potential impacts on host biology, ecology, migration/movement patterns and productivity. As a parasitologist, I have spent a number of years finding and describing parasites from many different host groups across a range of ecosystems, from the tropical waters of Asia through to the cool forests of Tasmania. In this talk I will present brief summaries of three parasite projects to highlight the amazing diversity of parasites: a parasite that lives up the nose of dogs and foxes, ectosymbionts found on freshwater crustaceans, and the use of parasites as biological tags for fisheries management.
I have been studying parasites for over 30 years. My interests are in wild animals, and especially introduced/feral animals. I am a parasite taxonomist, describing and naming species of parasites from a wide range of hosts. But I also have an interest in the ecology of parasites and how they interact with their hosts and the entire ecosystem. Over the years I have worked across Australia and in a few locations overseas (including Venezuela, Brazil, Indonesia and Hawaii). After 4 years in Darwin, working at NT Fisheries I moved to Wagga in rural NSW where I have been working on a range of projects, mainly based around the freshwater ecosystems of the Murray Darling Basin.
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