I have moved to:

Department of Pathobiological Sciences

School of Veterinary Medicine

University of Wisconsin-Madison

1656 Linden Drive

Madison, Wisconsin  53706

Ph: 608-890-3156 (office); 608-890-3255 (lab)

e-mail: tkanderson@wisc.edu

Tavis K. Anderson
Program in Ecology & Evolution
84 Lipman Drive, Bartlett Hall
Rutgers,The State University
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-8525
Phone: 732-932-3760; Fax: 732-932-6996
tanderson@aesop.rutgers.edu

Education:	2009	Ph.D.	Ecology & Evolution	Rutgers, The State University
	2001	B.Sc (Hons I)	Parasitology	The University of Queensland
	2000	B.Sc	Parasitology	The University of Queensland

Research:

I am interested in the mechanisms underlying patterns in parasite community structure and biological diversity.  Using estuarine food webs, I am developing a predictive framework to describe parasite establishment and persistence.  Specifically, I am interested in how food web structure (i.e. nestedness, connectivity) affects parasite community assembly and transmission dynamics. Raffel, T.R., & Anderson, T.K.  (in press).  A new species of Hysterothylacium (Nematoda: Anisakidae) from the stomach of the red-spotted newt, Notophthalmus viridescens, from Pennsylvania fishless ponds.  Journal of Parasitology. Anderson, T.K., & Sukhdeo, M.V.K. (in press).  Abiotic versus biotic hierarchies in the assembly of parasite communities.  Parasitology. Anderson, T.K., & Sukhdeo, M.V.K.  (in review).  Core/periphery structure in food web networks constrains parasite diversity.  Journal of Animal Ecology. Anderson, T.K., & Sukhdeo, M.V.K. (in review).  A community stability threshold in estuarine marshes informs parasite establishment and persistence.  Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Anderson, T.K. (in prep). Food web networks, eigenvectors and the evolution of complex parasite life strategies. Anderson, T.K.  2007.  Parasites: in sickness can be eco-health.  TrailWalker, December 2007.

Advisor:	Michael V.K. Sukhdeo	Lab mates:	Suzanne C. Sukhdeo - Research Associate
			Stacey E. Lettini - Ph.D. candidate
			Wayne D. Rossiter - Ph.D. candidate
			Christen McCoy - Ph.D. student

Professional history:	2003 - current	Rutgers, The State University, Program in Ecology & Evolution "Community assembly rules in an estuarine parasite community" (Advisor:  Michael V.K. Sukhdeo)
	2002	Department of Environmental Biology, The University of Adelaide "Ecology and biology of marine flatworm (platyhelminth) parasites from an elasmobranch: field data and laboratory experiments" - Research Assistant
		(Advisors: Ian D. Whittington and Leslie A. Chisholm)
	2001	Department of Microbiology & Parasitology, The University of Queensland "Ecology and community structure of monogenean gill parasites on the shovelnose ray, Rhinobatos typus" - Honours thesis
		(Advisors: Ian D. Whittington and Leslie A. Chisholm)

Links:	The American Society of Parasitologists
	The Ecological Society of America
	Australian Society for Parasitology
	National Science Foundation
	David Gibson's Parasitological URLs
	Rutgers University Ecology & Evolution Graduate Student Association
	International Ichthyoparasitology Newsletter

Last update  August 2007