Christopher M. Wade
FLS is an evolutionary biologist and parasitologist at the
University of Nottingham.
Wade is an elected Fellow of the
Linnean Society and is currently a
visiting professor at
Chulalongkorn University (2010–Present).
Education
Wade undertook his undergraduate studies at the
University of Wales and joined the
University of Edinburgh for his graduate studies, earning his PhD in 1997 for his research on the evolution of
HIV
The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of '' Lentivirus'' (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which progressive failure of the immu ...
.
Career and research
Wade began his career as a postdoctoral research fellow at the
University of Nottingham in 1996, and subsequently was a research fellow at
The Natural History Museum, London in 1999. In 2001, Wade joined the
University of Nottingham as a lecturer in
Genetics. As of 2022, Wade is based at the
University of Nottingham, where he lectures and researches snail evolution and parasitology.
Wade studies the
evolution,
population genetics and
taxonomy of aquatic and terrestrial
snails and
slug
Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word ''slug'' is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a smal ...
s. As of 2023, Wade has over 85 scientific publications (including an article in published in
Nature),
with an average of 54 citations per publication (>4300 citations;
h-index: 35;
i-10 index = 53). Wade has published research articles on several different topics such as determining the evolutionary relationships and taxonomy in terrestrial and aquatic snails and slugs; studying the intermediate gastropod hosts capable of transmitting
gastropod-born helminthic diseases to humans and animals and examining the spread of benthic foraminiferal species around the UK and the seasonal variation in benthic populations.
Present and past collaborations
Wade currently has active collaborations with researchers in the United Kingdom (
LSTM and the
Natural History Museum),
India (
Kerala Forest Research Institute), the
Philippines (
University of the Philippines),
Vietnam (Vietnam National Museum of Nature),
Thailand (
Chulalongkorn University) and
the Gambia (National Public Health Laboratories and the Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory).
References
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Living people
British parasitologists
Year of birth missing (living people)