Five most significant publications on lice

• Dalgleish, R. C., Palma, R. L., Price, R. D., Smith, V. S., 2006. Fossil lice reconsidered. Systematic Entomology. 31 (4): 648-651.

• Wappler, T.,  V.S. Smith, and R. C. Dalgleish. 2004. Scratching an ancient itch: an Eocene bird louse fossil. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B (Suppl.), Biology Letters. 03bl0387.S2.

• Smith, V. S., R. D. M. Page, and K. P. Johnson. 2004. Data incongruence and the problem of avian louse phylogeny. Zoologica Scripta. 33: 239-259.

• Johnson, K.P., Yoshizawa, K., Smith, V. S. 2004. Multiple origins of parasitism in lice. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 271: 1771 - 177

• Smith, V. S. 2001. Avian louse phylogeny (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera): a cladistic study based on morphology. Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society. 132: 81-144.

Five other significant publications

• Smith, V.S. 2005. DNA Barcoding: perspectives from a "Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy" (PEET) debate. Systematic Biology. 54 (5): 841-844.

• Koh, L.P., Dunn, R.D., Sodhi, N.S., Colwell, R.K., Proctor, H.C., and V. S. Smith. 2004.  Species co-extinctions and the biodiversity crisis. Science, 305, 5690: 1632-1634

• Reed, D.L., Smith, V.S., Rogers, A.R., Hammond, S.L., Clayton, D.H. 2004. Molecular genetic analysis of human lice supports direct contact between modern and archaic humans. Public Library of Science (PLoS) - Biology. 2 (11): e340.

• Smith, V.S. 2004. Lousy Lists. Systematic Biology 53 (4) 666-668.

• Johnson, K.P., Cruickshank, R.H., Adams, R.J., Smith, V.S., Page, R.D.M. Clayton, D.H. 2003. Dramatically elevated rate of mitochondrial substitution in lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 26:231-242.

Five selected presentations

• V. S. Smith. 2005. What is Cybertaxonomy? some case studies from a louse systematist. Invited speaker. The Natural History Museum, London, UK. 16th September, 2005.

• V. S. Smith & K. P. Johnson. 2005. The evolution of microhabitat specialization in parasitic lice: lineage assortment or character displacement? Joint meetings of the American Society of Naturalists (ASN), the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). June 10-14, 2005. University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA.

• V. S. Smith, T. Ford, K.P. Johnson, P. Johnson, R.D.M. Page. Did dinosaurs have lice? Joint meetings of the American Society of Naturalists (ASN), the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). 26-30 June 2004, Colorado State University, Colorado, USA.

• V. S. Smith. 2004. DNA Barcoding Debate. Invited. Debate chair and session organiser. PEET V Meeting. 21-25 Sept. 2004, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. USA.

• V. S. Smith. 2003. Ancient mariners and recent stowaways: the coevolution of seabirds and their lice. Joint meetings of the American Society of Naturalists (ASN),the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). June 20-24, 2003. California State University, Chico. California, USA.

• 2005-2008. BioCorder: a biodiversity inventory tracking system. Biological Databases and Informatics program, National Science Foundation. Co-written with David Reed (University of Florida). R.D.M. Page (University of Glasgow) and M.S. Hafner (Louisiana State University) are Co-PI's on this project. ($474,444 USD) [=£251,694 GBP]

• 2001-2004. Evolutionary constraints on pathogen exchange: a case study with sucking lice. Junior Research Training Fellowship in Biodiversity, Wellcome Trust. (£141,000 GBP) [=$266,965 USD].

• 2001. Second International Congress of Lice and Louse-Borne Pathogens. Held, July 8 - 12, 2002 in Brisbane Australia. Wellcome Trust, conference support fund. (£3,000 GBP) [=$5,680 USD].

• 1999. Winner of the first prize for the best student paper presented at the 1999 Systematics Association conference. Talk title "Reconstructing character state trees: an example based on louse head shape". Glasgow, Scotland. (£500 GBP book tokens) [=$946 USD].

• 1998. Rates of molecular evolution in avian lice. Systematics Association, UK. (£700 GBP) [=$1,325 USD]

• Conference organization: DNA Barcoding session organiser, (part of the PEET V meeting, Univ. of Illinois, USA, 2004); International Congress on Phthiraptera, (Brisbane, Australia, 2001, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2006).

• Consultant: Research Information Network (RIN) [2005-present], Life Sciences and Medicine group (see www.rin.ac.uk).

• Electronic resources: A full list is available on my website (vsmith.info). Projects I am associated with include EDIT - European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (www.e-taxonomy.eu), BioCorder (www.biocorder.org); Specimen Image Database - SID (sid.zoology.gla.ac.uk) amongst others. Contributor to ITIS (www.itis.usda.gov) and uBio (www.ubio.org).

• Invited lectures: Eleven, including presentations to the Royal Entomological Society, Natural History Museum London, Chicago Field Museum (by video link), Society meetings in Argentina, Australia & Germany, three US, one Australian, and one British University.

• Reviewing activities: Grant reviews for NSF PEET, and Systematic Biology programs. Manuscript reviews for Bioinformatics, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Journal of Medical Entomology, Journal of Parasitology, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Systematic Biology, Systematic Entomology and Zoologica Scripta, amongst others. Also four book chapters and two books concerning phylogenetics and taxonomy.

• Society: Editor Elect, International Society of Phthirapterists [March 16th 2007-present]. See www.phthiraptera.org and www.phthiraptera.org/forum/.

• Teaching: Biostatistics workshop (Univ. of Illinois, USA, May 2005); Undergrad. biology tutor, (Univ. of Glasgow, UK, 2001-2004); Phylogenetics workshop (Univ. of Glasgow, UK, Sept. 1999); Undergrad. demonstrator (Univ. of Glasgow, UK, 1997- 1999).