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	2009 ICES symposium, 27-30 Apr, Azores, Portugal

Dr Alex Rogers

Dr Alex Rogers is Prinicipal Investigator in Biodiversity Research at the British Antarctic Survey.

Dr. Rogers studied for his first degree in Marine Biology at the University of Liverpool and completed a Ph.D. in the taxonomy and genetics of marine worms in 1992. He then moved to the Marine Biological Association (MBA) of the UK in Plymouth to undertake a fellowship in the systematics and population genetics of marine animals. It was while he was at the MBA that Alex became interested in deep-sea biology and undertook his first work on the genetics of deep-sea animals.

In 1997 Dr. Rogers moved to the University of Southampton on an advanced fellowship to continue his studies on the genetics and ecology of deep-sea animals, in particular cold-water coral reefs. During this period he acted as an expert witness in a judicial review on the application of the EU Habitats Directive to deep-sea ecosystems, especially those associated with the coral Lophelia pertusa and he demonstrated that these corals are, like their shallow-water relatives, reef-forming.

More Information

• Dr. Rogers is speaking as part of the scientists' tour on 19 April at a lunch time briefing at the European Parliament, Brussels.
Contact: Mirella von Lindenfels
Tel: +44 20 88825041

• More about BIOFLAME, British Antarctic Survey website.

• Listen to Dr. Rogers' presentation to the London press conference on the launch of the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, 5 October 2005.

Dr. Rogers is now the Principal Investigator of the biodiversity and evolution programme at British Antarctic Survey (BIOFLAME). He has published over 40 papers on marine ecology, population genetics and phylogenetics, including a book on the marine animals and plants of Britain.

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