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Location: Montpellier, France
Work: The following technical areas of research, especially as they impact parasitic and vector-borne diseases: genomics and gene expression studies; molecular diagnostics; phylogenetics; vaccine development.
Biographical: My working language, and mother tongue, is English, and I have extensive scientific writing and editing experience. I am fluent in French and willing to translate technical material from French into English, but not vice-versa. My preferred contact method is by E-mail at basil.allsopp@orange.fr I was educated at Imperial College, London, where I obtained a PhD in Biochemistry in 1967. I subsequently worked for the British Department for International Development, spending 5 years in Uganda and then 13 years Kenya, doing research into molecular and biochemical aspects of trypanosomosis and theileriosis. In 1985 I moved to the Biochemistry Department of the University of Cambridge to develop new molecular diagnostic tests for theileriosis. I was recruited by the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (OVI) in South Africa in 1991, where I inaugurated a research and vaccine development programme for heartwater (Ehrlichia ruminantium infection). In 2003 I was appointed as Professor of Molecular Parasitology at the Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases of the University of Pretoria, where I continued to work on heartwater in collaboration with the OVI. A major achievement of this collaboration was the publication in 2005 of the complete genome of the heartwater organism, the first species of Ehrlichia to be completely sequenced and the first complete genome to be sequenced in Africa. I retired from full time work at the end of 2008 and now live near Montpellier in the south of France. I retain student mentoring responsibilities at the University of Pretoria and an ongoing interest in tropical disease research, especially work relating to vector-borne diseases.
Favourite Publications: Veterinary Parasitology Veterinary Microbiology Infection, Genetics and Evolution Molecular biology and evolution Molecular phylogenetics and evolution
Work: The following technical areas of research, especially as they impact parasitic and vector-borne diseases: genomics and gene expression studies; molecular diagnostics; phylogenetics; vaccine development.
Biographical: My working language, and mother tongue, is English, and I have extensive scientific writing and editing experience. I am fluent in French and willing to translate technical material from French into English, but not vice-versa. My preferred contact method is by E-mail at basil.allsopp@orange.fr I was educated at Imperial College, London, where I obtained a PhD in Biochemistry in 1967. I subsequently worked for the British Department for International Development, spending 5 years in Uganda and then 13 years Kenya, doing research into molecular and biochemical aspects of trypanosomosis and theileriosis. In 1985 I moved to the Biochemistry Department of the University of Cambridge to develop new molecular diagnostic tests for theileriosis. I was recruited by the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (OVI) in South Africa in 1991, where I inaugurated a research and vaccine development programme for heartwater (Ehrlichia ruminantium infection). In 2003 I was appointed as Professor of Molecular Parasitology at the Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases of the University of Pretoria, where I continued to work on heartwater in collaboration with the OVI. A major achievement of this collaboration was the publication in 2005 of the complete genome of the heartwater organism, the first species of Ehrlichia to be completely sequenced and the first complete genome to be sequenced in Africa. I retired from full time work at the end of 2008 and now live near Montpellier in the south of France. I retain student mentoring responsibilities at the University of Pretoria and an ongoing interest in tropical disease research, especially work relating to vector-borne diseases.
Favourite Publications: Veterinary Parasitology Veterinary Microbiology Infection, Genetics and Evolution Molecular biology and evolution Molecular phylogenetics and evolution