Shokoofeh Shamsi

Professor Shokoofeh Shamsi

Veterinary Parasitology

Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences

Biography

Professor Shokoofeh Shamsi, has qualifications in veterinary and medical sciences (parasitology), and skills in conventional morphological and molecular parasite identification methods. She is a taxonomist with a huge interest in identifying species, who goes beyond taxonomy to understand parasitism, ecology, evolution, ecosystems and how parasites population changes in response to anthropological and environmental factors. She is currently leading and collaborating on a variety of research projects focussing on health, welfare, behaviour, biosecurity and biology of both wild and farmed, as well as a range of terrestrial and aquatic animals. Recently her research focus has broadened to include the culture of indigenous Australians on the lessons in sustainability.

Examples of research achievements include:

  • Discovering 37 new parasite species;
  • Discovering, characterising and reporting, for the first time, invasive and introduced parasites in Australia;
  • Determining novel natural transmission patterns of parasites affecting critically endangered Australian species
Research
  • Parasitology
  • Transmissible parasites between animals and humans
  • Parasite taxonomy, systematics and diagnosis
  • Cophylogeny among parasites and their hosts
  • Transmission patterns and ecology of parasites
  • Food safety
  • Climate change and parasitism
  • Health of the Murray Darling Basin
  • One health
  • First nations, sustainability and health
Publications
Full publications list on CRO

Recent Publications

  • Shamsi, S., & Barton, D. P. (2026). Reconsidering the risks of Linguatula in Australia: A review of an overlooked introduced parasite. Parasitology Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-026-08705-2
  • Shamsi, S., & Farjalla, V. F. (2026). From Australia to the world: Advancing aquatic science through marine and freshwater research. Marine and Freshwater Research , 77(1), 1-3. Article MF25242. https://doi.org/10.1071/MF25242
  • Brown, K., Rendall, A. R., Barton, D. P., & Shamsi, S. (2026). Sarcocystis miescheriana. Trends in Parasitology, 42(2), 138-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2025.09.013
  • Tripathi, A., Prakash, S., Hahn, C., Singh, S., Shamsi, S., & Trivedi, A. K. (2025). Two new dactylogyrid species (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea) parasitising the gills of Garra gotyla (Cyprinidae) in India: morphological and molecular characterization. Journal of Helminthology, 99, e115, Article e115. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X25100813
  • Shamsi, S. (2025). Aquatic Foodborne Zoonoses. In N. J. Smit & B. Sures (Eds.), Aquatic Parasitology: Ecological and Environmental Concepts and Implications of Marine and Freshwater Parasites (pp. 493-507). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-83903-0_19