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| Whittington, Ian (Associate Professor) |
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| Area: Parasitology |
| Position: Principal Researcher |
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South Australian Museum
Science Centre
Morgan Thomas Lane (off Kintore Avenue)
Adelaide, South Australia 5000 |
| Phone: +61 8 8207 7463 |
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| Fax: +61 8 8207 7222 |
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| Email: ian.whittington@samuseum.sa.gov.au |
| Web: www.samuseum.sa.gov.au |
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| Biography: |
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Associate Professor Ian Whittington is also a Senior Research Fellow and Reader in Parasitology at the School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide.
Associate Professor Ian Whittington, a parasitologist specialising in flatworm parasites of marine fishes, has interests in all things parasitic. His career has spanned university departments/schools of biology, parasitology and environmental sciences.
Ian gained BSc and PhD degrees at The University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK). He arrived in Australia (January 1987) for a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Parasitology, The University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane. Two other fellowships including a Queen Elizabeth II award (1990-92), a 5-year lectureship (1993-1997), promotion to Senior Lecturer (1997) and secondment as Director of Heron Island Research Station (1996-1999) on the Great Barrier Reef, were career highlights of Ian’s 15-years at University of Queensland.
In 2001, Ian accepted a position as Senior Research Scientist in Parasitology at The South Australian Museum. With a joint appointment as Senior Research Fellow in the School of Earth & Environmental Sciences (SEES) at The University of Adelaide, Ian Whittington leads the Marine Parasitology Laboratory where he supervises Honours and PhD students studying different aspects of marine parasites in wild and farmed fish species. Ian also teaches into undergraduate courses offered by SEES and is involved broadly in marine sciences and marine parasitology in South Australia, nationally and internationally.
Associate Professor Whittington is responsible for the Australian Helminthological Collection at The South Australian Museum, the largest assembly of parasitic worms nationally. His broad role is to conduct research on marine parasites of wild and cultivated fish populations through the Monogenean Research Laboratory. Ian has:
- won >$3 million in competitive research funding;
- published >110 peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters;
- received 11 invitations to speak and contributed >80 other presentations at national and international parasitology conferences;
- supervised 15 Honours and 12 PhD students.
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| MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: (Top 5) |
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Whittington I.D. & Cribb B.W. 2001. Adhesive secretions in the Platyhelminthes. Advances in Parasitology 48: 101-224.
Whittington I.D. & Ernst I. 2002. Migration, site-specificity and development of Benedenia lutjani (Monogenea: Capsalidae) on the surface of its host, Lutjanus carponotatus (Pisces: Lutjanidae). Parasitology 124: 423-434.
Chisholm L.A. & Whittington I.D. 2003. Invasion of the shovelnose ray (Rhinobatos typus) by Neoheterocotyle rhinobatidis and Merizocotyle icopae (Monogenea: Monocotylidae). Parasitology 127: 561-570.
Whittington I.D. 2004. The Capsalidae (Monogenea: Monopisthocotylea): a review of diversity, classification and phylogeny with a note about species complexes. Folia Parasitologica 51: 109-122.
Kearn G.C. & Whittington I.D. 2005. Neoentobdella gen. nov. for species of Entobdella Blainville in Lamarck, 1818 (Monogenea, Capsalidae, Entobdellinae) from stingray hosts, with descriptions of two new species. Acta Parasitologica 50: 32-48.
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