Atakuziev, Bakhadir

Dr Bakhadir Atakuziev is a spider venom researcher at the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences. 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.