Dr Vaughan Southgate, DL's Biography

Dr Vaughan Southgate, DL's Professional Career

Career

Nat History Museum: jr res fell 1968, band 4 1971, band 3 1974, head Experimental Taxonomy Div 1983, head Biomedical Parasitology Div and band 2 1992-2004, currently res assoc Dept of Zoology; CBiol 1980; memb Cncl and chm Autumn Symposium Ctee Br Soc for Parasitology; Zoological Soc of London: memb Publications Ctee 1975-80 and 1981-85, memb and chm Zoological Record Advsy Ctee 1982-86, memb Zoological Record Editorial Bd 1983-87; RSTMH: memb Cncl 1979-82 (ex-officio memb 1982-86), memb Meetings Ctee 1980 (chm 1981-85), hon sec 1986-91, vice-pres 1993-95, chm Electronic Publishing Working Pty 1996-98; WHO: dir Collaborating Centre for the Identification and Characterisation of Schistosome Strains and their Snail Intermediate Hosts 1983-2004, memb Working Gp on Schistosomiasis 1986-91, memb Expert Panel on Parasitic Diseases 2003-; Linnean Soc of London: memb Cncl 1989-92 and 1997-, vice-pres 1997-, zoology sec 1997-, pres 2009-12; ed Jl of Natural History 1972-83; memb Editorial Bd: Parasitology 1985-95, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 1983-90 (chm 1990-91); author and co-author of 160 scientific papers and book chapters; external examiner for higher degrees in univs in UK, France, Belgium, Spain and the Netherlands; High Sheriff Beds 2007-08; chm of tstees Friends of Cople Church; tstee John Spedan Lewis Tst 2002-, tstee Bedford Hospitals Charity 2008-, patron Higgins ARt Gallery and Museum Bedford 2009-, pres London Soc of Old Aberystwythians 2012-; hon fell Dept of Biology UCL; C A Wright Meml Medal Br Soc of Parasitology 1990; FRSM 2003, FSB 2009 (MIBiol 1980, FIBiol 1988)

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