Professional Activities
Steve reviews regularly for journals and grant bodies. He has sat on grant panels for NERC, BBSRC, Wellcome and Science Foundation Ireland and the awards committee for the Zoological Society of London. He has served on advisory panels for UK government programmes of PathSafe and the National Biosurveillance Network.
Conference Roles
- Antagonistic coevolution accelerates molecular evolution, by Invitation (Jacques Monod Conference, France, 2011)
- Cytokine polymorphism, immunity and pathogen resistance in wild populations, by Invitation (Wild Immunology Symposium, University of Edinburgh, 2011)
- Antagonistic coevolution accelerates molecular evolution, by Invitation (Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2010)
- Chair: 'Post-genomic approaches to host-parasite evolution', by Invitation (European Society for Evolutionary Biology, 2009)
- Microarray analysis of nematode-vertebrate interactions, by Invitation (British Society for Parasitology, 2008)
- Consequences of genetic diversity for evolution and epidemiology in a parasitic nematode, Strongylo, by Invitation (11th International Congress of Parasitology, 2006)
- The consequences of genetic diversity in parasitic nematodes for host-parasite evolution, by Invitation (European Society for Evolutionary Biology, 2005)
Editorships
- Molecular Ecology (Guest Editor, 2009 - present)
- J. of Evolutionary Biology (Editorial Board Member, 2009 - present)
Organisations I have been associated with
- Director of Applied Biology programme. (2005 - present)
Professional Body Memberships
- Royal Society of Biology, London (RSB) (Fellow, 2024 - present)
- British Society for Parasitology (Member)
- Genetics Society UK (Member, 2000 - present)
Other Administrative or Committee Roles
- Director C110 'Biology with a year in research/industry'
- Co-Director Centre for Genomic Research