Brian Jones (medic)

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John Brian Jones (* 1950 ), often spelled Brian Jones or sometimes J. Brian Jones , is a New Zealand pathologist , parasitologist and bacteriologist .

Life

From 1969 Jones studied zoology and animal biology at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in 1971 and a Bachelor of Science with honors (BSc (hons)) in 1972. After a PhD at the same university from 1973 he was in 1975 with the dissertation Studies on animals closely associated with some New Zealand marine molluscs under the direction of Thomas C. Cheng for Ph.D. PhD.

From November 1975 to January 1995 he was a fisheries scientist at the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries in New Zealand, where he was involved in diagnosing fish and mussel diseases and assessing pelagic fish stocks , including tuna . From January 1995 to January 2013 he was a senior fish pathologist in the Fisheries Department of the Government of Western Australia in South Perth . He was responsible for managing the fish health diagnostic laboratory, translocation testing and certification of hatcheries for fish and mussels in Western Australia, investigating fish mortality, and managing the biosecurity and biodiversity department within the Fisheries Research Group. From 2013 to 2018 he was acting head of the Diagnostic Laboratory for Bacteriology and Aquatic Animal Health at the Ministry for Primary Industries in Wallaceville , Upper Hutt , Wellington .

Jones' research projects also include the classical taxonomy of parasitic copepods and histopathology in aquatic animals, especially molluscs . In 1983 he was a fellow at Hokkai Gakuen University in Sapporo , Japan, and then returned to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries to work on pelagic fish and tuna. He has served on numerous aquatic animal health committees in the state of Western Australia, is a mussel disease expert listed with the Network of Aquaculture Centers in Asia-Pacific (NACA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and has been a mussel disease expert since October 2009 Lecturer at Murdoch University .

Brian Jones has published over 180 fonts, among which are the first descriptions for Troughton Forest Bat ( Vespadelus trough toni ) for Baverstock Forest Bat ( Vespadelus baverstocki ) to Finlayson's Cave Bat ( Vespadelus finlaysoni ), the Western false pipistrelle ( Falsistrellus mackenziei ) to Watts pipistrelle ( Pipistrellus wattsi ) and Cape York pipistrelle (Pipistrellus adamsi ), which were created in collaboration with Nick Caputi and Darrell J. Kitchener . He also described the Ruderfußkrebsarten Caligus kahawai , Cocculinika myzorama , Doropygus globose , Doropygus louisae , Doropygus platythorax , Doropygus spinous , Ergasilus rotundicorpus , Hatschekia atagonel , Hatschekia becuni , Hatschekia girelli , Hatschekia japonica , Hatschekia manea , Hatschekia Napoleoni , Hatschekia squamata , Lichomolgidium tupuhiae , Lonchidiopsis setosus , Mugilicola smithae and Ophioseides schellenbergi .

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SURNAME Jones, Brian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jones, John Brian (full name); Jones, J. Brian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand pathologist, parasitologist and bacteriologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1950