About me
- johnjameswilson
- Liverpool, United Kingdom
- I am interested in how we can use DNA sequences to understand biodiversity – how do we recognise species, and how are species related at taxonomic, ecological and geographic levels? My passion for biodiversity research has led me from the world’s largest natural history collection - Natural History Museum, London, where I completed my MSc, to the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario - global centre for the international Barcode of Life, as a PhD student, and to the hyper-diverse tropics of Southeast Asia. The tropics will be the first regions to experience historically unprecedented climates and this will happen within the next decade. Consequently my recent research has focussed on understanding the effects of urbanisation and climate change on tropical and subtropical biodiversity - encompassing both species richness and ecological integrity across a diversity of taxonomic groups.
Jan 5, 2018
RESEARCH UPDATE - HOSTING VISITING SPEAKER
My colleague Dr. Amanda Naaum from the University of Guelph and TRU-ID Ltd. was in Beijing in November to attend the China International Food Safety and Quality Conference. While she was in the city I invited her to give a guest seminar at my Faculty at China Agricultural University.
