Dr. Bakhadir Atakuziev

Dr Bakhadir AtakuzievSpider Venom ResearcherUniversity of Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Dr Bakhadir Atakuziev, a spider researcher from Tashkent, arrived in Melbourne in late October 1999.He collaborated with the Australian Venom Research Unit for several months over the summer of 1999/2000 working on Australian spider venoms.Dr Atakuziev is particularly interested in the venom of the redback spider, related to the European widow spiders on which he has been working in his native Uzbekistan.

Dr Atakuziev at AVRU