Tel +64 3 479 7983
Email robert.poulin@otago.ac.nz
Teaching
- BIOL 112 Animal Biology
- ECOL 111 Ecology and Conservation of Diversity
- ZOOL 315 Behavioural Evolutionary Ecology
- ZOOL 415 Parasitology
Research interests
Parasitic incursion on an ant.
Professor Poulin's research interests extend across parasitism, ecology, evolution and marine ecosystems:
- Evolutionary ecology of parasites
- Effect of parasites on communities and ecosystems
- Manipulation of host phenotype by parasites
Learn more about this research:
Evolutionary and Ecological Parasitology research group website
Robert is also a member of the Coastal People: Southern Skies collaboration that connects communities with world-leading, cross-discipline research to rebuild coastal ecosystems.
Coastal People: Southern Skies
Postgraduate projects
Thaumamermis zealandica in its amphipod host.
- Parasitism of molluscs and community structure in marine intertidal ecosystems
- Impact of parasitism on coastal crustacean species
- Evolution of abbreviated life cycles in parasitic trematodes
- Manipulation of invertebrate behaviour by parasites, including the physiological mechanisms involved
- Molecular genetics of helminth parasite