Professor Wolfgang Wüster

Professor in Zoology (Molecular Ecology)

Contact info

3rd floor, Environment Centre Wales, School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor LL57 2UW, UK

Email: w.wuster@bangor.ac.uk

Telephone: +44 (0)1248 382301

WebResearchGate; GoogleScholar 

Personal webpage

Contact Info

3rd floor, Environment Centre Wales, School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor LL57 2UW, UK

Email: w.wuster@bangor.ac.uk

Telephone: +44 (0)1248 382301

WebResearchGate; GoogleScholar 

Personal webpage

Teaching and Supervision

Programme Organiser:

  • BSc and MZool in Zoology with Herpetology

Module Organiser:

  • BSX-2031 - Arizona Fieldcourse
  • BSX-2028 - Introduction to Herpetology
  • BSX-3158 - Advances in Herpetology

Module Contributor

  • BNS-1002 - Organismal Diversity
  • DNS-1003 - Ecology & Evolution
  • BSX-1028 - Tutorials Yr. 1
  • BSX-2107 - Invertebrates
  • BSX-2021 - BioScience Skills
  • BSX-2022 - Vertebrate Biology
  • BSX-3070 - Dissertation in Biological Sciences
  • BSM-4000 - Masters Research Project

Research

My research interests span a wide range of topics in evolution, systematics and ecology, using primarily snakes as a model system. Current and recent topics have included the evolution of venom composition and its selective drivers, the origin of snake venom systems, species delimitation in snake species complexes, the evolution of warning signals and mimicry systems, biogeography, phylogeography and ecology.

Postgraduate Project Opportunities

I am interested in supervising postgraduate students in a range of topics in herpetology and toxinology, in particular:

  • Conservation genomics of European vipers
  • Evolution and ecology of venoms
  • Snake systematics, taxonomy and phylogeny
  • Snake ecology

Please drop me a line if you are interested and want to explore possibilities. 

Education / academic qualifications

  • 1990 - PhD , Systematics of Asian cobras
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