Robert Raven

Robert John Raven is an Australian arachnologist,[1] being the Head of Terrestrial Biodiversity and the Senior Curator (Arachnida) at the Queensland Museum. Dr Raven has described many species of spider in Australia and elsewhere, and is spider bite consultant to the Royal Brisbane Hospital,[2] leading to much work on spider toxins.[3][4][5]

Robert Raven
NationalityAustralian
Alma materUniversity of Queensland[1]
Scientific career
FieldsArachnology
InstitutionsQueensland Museum

References
  1. The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre. "Raven, Robert R. - Biographical entry - Encyclopedia of Australian Science". www.eoas.info. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  2. Queensland Museum, Queensland Government. "Dr Robert Raven". www.qm.qld.gov.au. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  3. Renan C Santana; David Perez; James Dobson; et al. (25 March 2017). "Venom Profiling of a Population of the Theraphosid Spider Phlogius crassipes Reveals Continuous Ontogenetic Changes from Juveniles through Adulthood". Toxins. 9 (4). doi:10.3390/TOXINS9040116. ISSN 2072-6651. PMC 5408190. PMID 28346332. Wikidata Q33611996.
  4. David L A Wood; Tomas Miljenović; Shuzhi Cai; et al. (13 August 2009). "ArachnoServer: a database of protein toxins from spiders". BMC Genomics. 10: 375. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-375. ISSN 1471-2164. PMC 2907703. PMID 19674480. Wikidata Q34010298.
  5. Geoffrey K Isbister; Michael R Gray; Corrine R Balit; et al. (1 April 2005). "Funnel-web spider bite: a systematic review of recorded clinical cases". Medical Journal of Australia. 182 (8): 407–411. doi:10.5694/J.1326-5377.2005.TB06760.X. ISSN 0025-729X. PMID 15850438. Wikidata Q28246719.


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