Prof Hilary Hurd

Title	Professor of Parasitology
Phone	+44 (0)1782 733034	Internal 33034
Fax	+44 (0)1782 733516
Email	h.hurd@biol.keele.ac.uk
Room	Huxley Building : 028
Roles
Contact	Try my office or fix an appointment by email

I was originally trained in Zoology, obtaining a degree from the University of Wales, Swansea in 1968. After studying for a Post Graduate Certificate in Education I spent 5 years teaching Biology in the UK and in Uganda. I took a career gap whilst my son and daughter were pre-school age and then returned to higher education, obtaining a PhD in Parasitology in 1985 under the supervision of Prof. Chris Arme, Keele University. The focus of my thesis was on interaction between the rat tapeworm and its beetle intermediate host. I was one of the first recipients of a Daphne Jackson Fellowship for Women Returners to Science in 1988 and was appointed to a lectureship at Keele University in 1990. After promotions to Senior Lecture and Reader I was appointed to a chair in Parasitology in 2002. I acted as Director of the Centre of Applied Entomology and Parasitology, Keele University from 1996 to 2007 and was President of the British Society for Parasitology 2004-2006. I also served on the Membership Committee of the American Society of Parasitologists and was a past Council member of the Royal Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Research and Scholarship

Teaching

My teaching duties currently include management and teaching the majority of a second year module on Symbiotic Relationships and a final year module on Parasitology. I also contribution to a first year module on Diversity of Organisms and the MSc course in Vector Biology and Molecular Parasitology.

Publications

Tripet, F, Aboagye-Antwi, F, and Hurd, H. (2008).  Ecological immunology of mosquito–malaria interactions. Trends in Parasitology, 24, 219-228.

Carter, V., Nacer, A,M.L., Underhill, A, Sinden, R and Hurd, H. (2007). Minimum requirements for ookinete to oocyst transformation in Plasmodium. International Journal of Parasitology, 37, 1221-1232 

Hurd, H., Grant, K.M. and Arambage, S.C. (2006). Apoptosis-like death as a feature of malaria infection in mosquitoes. Parasitology 132, S33-47.

Ahmed, A, M, and Hurd, H. (2006). Immune stimulation and malaria infection impose reproductive costs in Anopheles gambiae via follicle apoptosis. Immunity and Infection 8, 308-315.

Hurd, H., Taylor, P., Adams, D, Underhill, and Eggleston, P. (2005). Measuring the costs of mosquito resistance to malaria infection. Evolution 59, (12) 2560-2572.

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