Biography:
Chawan Matey is Ph.D. student in Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, India. She is working in Monogenean parasites (Platyhelminthes) of the ornamental fish trade in India. She joined the research as a Junior Research Fellow in a project under Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India, in 2019 under the supervision of Dr. Amit Tripathi. She did her M.Sc. in Zoology (Ecology & Wildlife Biology) from Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh, India; also, she has pursued her Bachelor of Education from the same University. Her work focuses on the exotic and native ornamental fish and how the monogeneans present on the exotic ornamental fish can be a thread to the native fish.
Title : Characterisation of the monogenean parasites (Platyhelminthes) of invasive common carp Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758 (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) in India