Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine

Rob Critchlow

Contact details:

Room 303, Graham Kerr Building
Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine
College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
G12 8QQ

Tel.: 0141 330 2430
Fax: 0141 330 5971
E-mail: r.critchlow.1@research.gla.ac.uk


Academic History

  • 2009 - present: PhD  - Disease and genetic introgression from domestic species as global risk factors in mammalian conservation
  • 2002 - 2006: B.Sc Hons University of Glasgow - Zoology


Scholarships & Awards

  • NERC 2009-2012

Employment History

  • 2008-2009: Research Assistant  - RSPB Conservation Science.
  • 2008: Volunteer and Farmer Alliance Project Officer - RSPB S&WSRO.
  • 2007: Countryside Ranger  - The National Trust for Scotland.

Previous research projects

  • Honours project: "Use of vaccination to control rabies in its reservoir host in rural Tanzania" - Supervisor - Professor D. Haydon
  • "Effect of habitat alteration on Ethiopian endemic birds"


Research Interests

Infectious diseases are of fundamental importance with regards to the threat towards wild and domestic animal health, a risk to wild mammal population viability and a source of human-wildlife conflict.  Cross-species pathogen transmission is becoming an increasingly recognised as a significant threat to both wild and domestic mammal species, yet the factors that determine parasite host range are poorly understood.

I am broadly interested in the patterns of parasite and disease occurrence among hosts and the factors that determine such patterns. This project attempts to quantify the degree of pathogen sharing between domestic and wild mammals and identify the ecological and evolutionary drivers of cross-species transmission on a global scale.


Publications

  • R. J. Mellanby, C. Broadhurst, M. Wondafrash, M. Ewnetu, S. Watt, R. Critchlow, A. Dadesa, T. Deas, C. Enawgaw, B. Gebremedhin, E. Graham, S. Maclean, B. Ross.  (2009). Perceptions of habitat changes in the Yabelo Sanctuary and surrounding areas.  African Journal of Ecology 48:272-274.
  • Mellanby, R.J., Broadhurst, C., Wondafrash, M., Ewnetu, M., Watt, A., Critchlow, R., Dadesa, A., Deas, T., Enawgaw, C., Gebremedhin, B., Graham, E., MacLean, S., Ross, B. (2009).  A perceived local extinction of Red-billed Oxpeckers in the Yabelo region, southern Ethiopia.  Ostrich 80(3): 197-199.
  • B. Ross, M. Wondafrash, M.Ewnetu, S. Watt, C.Broadhurst, R. Critchlow, A. Dadesa, T. Deas, C. Enawgaw, B. Gebremedhin, E. Graham, S. Maclean and R.J. Mellanby (2009). Notes on the Ecology of Ethiopian Bush-crow Zavattariornis stresemanni. Scopus 29:1-6.
  • Mellanby, R.J., Ross, B., Watt, A., Wondafrash, M., Ewnetu, M., Broadhurst, C., Critchlow, R., Dadesa, A., Deas, T., Enawgaw, C., Gebremedhin, B., Graham, E., MacLean, S., McKean, M., Collar, N.J. and Spottiswoode, C.N. (2008). Distribution, abundance and habitat preferences of White-tailed Swallow Hirundo megaensis and the Ethiopian Bush-crow Zavattariornis stresemanni, two southern Ethiopian endemics.  Bird Conservation International 18:395-412.