Ms Emma Sherlock

Acting Senior Curator in Charge for the Freeliving and Parasitic worm Collections. My main area for responsibility are the Annelid collections at the Museum. They are the segmented worms incorporating Polychaetes, Oligochaetes and leeches. However I also manage some of the 'worm like' Minor Phyla such as the Nematodes (free-living), Nemerteans, Kinorhynchs and Priapulids.

These collections span hundreds of years of collecting and exploration with specimens from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane and the Challenger expedition through to some of the most recent deep sea explorations.

My taxonomic research focuses on earthworms. I am the Chair of the Earthworm Society of Britain and publish papers on earthworm taxonomy primarily. I also carry out research into Collections best practise across the board from wet collections, slides, risk management and the historical aspects of the collections in my care.

I work closely with Internal colleagues in particular the Polychaeta research group http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/our-work/biodiversity/deep-sea-systematics-ecology-group.html and Soil biodiversity group and a number of external colleagues globally.