Thomas Cribb
Professor
Biological Sciences
The University of Queensland
Egypt
Biography
Thomas Cribb is Associate professor, Faculty of Science, at The university of Queensland Australia. He is presently completing one major study that examined a single trematode family, the Gyliauchenidae, across its geographical and host range in the Indo-Pacific. A new study examines all the parasites in butterflyfishes in the Indo-Pacific. Always I seek first to document the parasites present in the system and then to explain their presence through understanding of the interaction between host and parasite life-cycles, ecology, phylogeny and biogeography.
Research Interest
His research focuses on helminths parasitic in Australian animals. Within this large field I focus on one major group of parasites, the trematodes, and one major group of hosts, the teleost fishes.
