Vince Smith

Current

• Cybertaxonomist at Natural History Museum, London

Past

• Assistant Research Scientist at Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois
• Wellcome Trust Junior Research Fellow at The University of Glasgow

Education

• The University of Glasgow
• University of Bristol

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Vince Smith’s Summary

I am a research scientist based in the entomology department of the Natural History Museum, London and have worked on various aspects of parasitic louse biology for the past ten years. Formally I was based at Illinois Natural History Survey at the University of Illinois, and prior to that I was a Wellcome Trust junior research fellow at the University of Glasgow. My research focus has been the evolution and phylogeny of Phthiraptera, which I use with my colleagues as a model to address a range of questions in the fields of evolutionary biology and ecology. To date I have published 23 peer-reviewed papers on Phthiraptera in a range of journals including Science, Public Library of Science and Systematic Biology. I have also given more that 20 presentations (11 invited) about my research at various conferences, universities and research institutes in four continents.

Vince Smith’s Specialties:

cybertaxonomy, systematics, phylogeny reconstruction, taxonomy

Vince Smith’s Experience

• Cybertaxonomist

  Natural History Museum, London

  (Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)

  June 2006 — Present (2 years)

  Strategic and practical assistance generating a digital framework for the provision of research information at the NHM, with an emphasis on entomological data.

• Assistant Research Scientist

  Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

  June 2004 — May 2006 (2 years)

  Co-developed the Biodiversity Inventory Tracking System “BioCorder” (www.biocorder.org/) with collaborators at the University of Florida, Louisiana State University and University of Glasgow. This is a Lab Management System to facilitate the tracking of specimens and associated molecular data by collaborators at these institutions. This work was conducted as part of my research program on the phylogeny and systematics of parasitic lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera).

• Wellcome Trust Junior Research Fellow

  The University of Glasgow

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

  June 2001 — June 2004 (3 years 1 month)

  Studied the constraints on pathogen exchange using parasitic lice as a simplified system to model disease transmission. These data were used to improve models reconstructing host-parasite relationships and help understand host evolutionary history.

Vince Smith’s Education

• The University of Glasgow

  PhD, Systematics, 1996 — 2000

• University of Bristol

  BSc, Biology, 1993 — 1996

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Vince Smith’s Interests:

taxonomy, systematics, evolution, cybertaxonomy, biodiversity informatics, photography

Vince Smith’s Groups:

Society of Systematic Biologists, Willi Hennig Society

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