Christopher Wade (researcher)

Wade undertook his undergraduate studies at the University of Wales and joined the University of Edinburgh for his graduate studies, earning his PhD in 1997 for his research on the evolution of HIV.[3]

Wade began his career as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Nottingham in 1996, and subsequently was a research fellow at The Natural History Museum, London in 1999. In 2001, Wade joined the University of Nottingham as a lecturer in Genetics. As of 2022, Wade is based at the University of Nottingham, where he lectures and researches snail evolution and parasitology.[2]

Wade studies the evolution, population genetics and taxonomy of aquatic and terrestrial snails and slugs. As of 2023, Wade has over 85 scientific publications (including an article in published in Nature),[3] with an average of 54 citations per publication (>4300 citations; h-index: 35; i-10 index = 53).[4] Wade has published research articles on several different topics such as determining the evolutionary relationships and taxonomy in terrestrial and aquatic snails and slugs; studying the intermediate gastropod hosts capable of transmitting gastropod-born helminthic diseases to humans and animals and examining the spread of benthic foraminiferal species around the UK and the seasonal variation in benthic populations.[5]

Wade currently has active collaborations with researchers in the United Kingdom (LSTM and the Natural History Museum), India (Kerala Forest Research Institute), the Philippines (University of the Philippines), Vietnam (Vietnam National Museum of Nature), Thailand (Chulalongkorn University) and the Gambia (National Public Health Laboratories and the Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory).[1]