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Nematodirus battus: Is it likely to spiral out of control?

Farming practices are evolving in response to intensification, diversification and climate change. As farm management has changed, pathogens of livestock have also adapted to optimise their reproduction and transmission opportunities. Our work, supported by Animal and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB), has focused on the control and biology of the economically important roundworm Nematodirus battus; a gut roundworm which annually threatens the health and welfare of young lambs across the UK. Our research has explored how Nematodirus behaves on commercial sheep farms.

Judith Evans

My background is in biomedical science in diagnostic and reference laboratories and my major areas of work are currently bacteria with zoonotic potential and the prevalence of bacteria with mechanisms to resist antibiotics.
I continue to develop my interest in E. coli, working on projects relating to prevalence and persistence of this organism in Scottish farm animals.
I manage our lab here and am able to provide results directly to the rest of the Epidemiology Team for further analysis.

Judith Evans

~~Future Farming Systems
Epidemiology Research Unit
An Lòchran
Inverness Campus
Inverness
IV2 5NA

Dr Nuno Silva

In 2016, Nuno Silva joined Moredun to set up a new research project to focus on Antimicrobial Resistance initially working on ovine mastitis and looking at the molecular mechanisms involved in conferring resistance in bacterial pathogens.

Current Research:
•Epidemiology of Antimicrobial Resistance in sheep
•Potential impact of AMR in wild life, environment and farm animals
•Antibiotic resistance from a food safety perspective

Nuno Silva

Moredun

Pentland Science Park

Bush Loan

Penicuik

Midlothian

EH26 0PZ

Dr Lesley Smith

Lesley Smith

Animal & Veterinary Sciences,

SRUC, Roslin Institute Building,

Easter Bush,

Midlothian EH25 9RG

Professor Rick D'Eath

My research uses animal behaviour as a way to measure animal welfare, or to understand and solve animal welfare problems which involve behaviour.

Rick D'Eath

Animal & Veterinary Sciences,

SRUC, Roslin Institute Building,

Easter Bush, Midlothian

EH25 9RG

Dr Roger Humphry

My interest and expertise lies in quantitative agricultural and environmental science. The current areas of my work are:

BVD, its eradication and sample size calculation for screening for BVD
Antimicrobial resistance and its measurement
The consequence of empirically derived contact networks in cattle on the spread of disease

Roger Humphry

Future Farming Systems
Epidemiology Research Unit
Plot 10, An Lòchran
Inverness Campus
Inverness
IV2 5NA

Dr Tracey Pritchard

Tracey's research interests include:

Improving health of livestock (e.g. mastitis, lameness, Johne’s in cattle, scrapie in sheep)
Role of animal health, fitness and survival on greenhouse gas emission
Improving sustainability of farm enterprises
The development of sustainable breeding goals and improvements to national genetic evaluations
Merging and mining of national data to create and understand the biology of novel phenotypes so that the livestock industry can measure, monitor and manage their performance.

Tracey Pritchard

Animal & Veterinary Sciences,

SRUC, Roslin Institute Building,

Easter Bush, Midlothian

EH25 9RG

Dr Emma Baxter

My research interests include:

Emma Baxter

Animal & Veterinary Sciences,

SRUC,

Roslin Institute Building,

Easter Bush, Midlothian

EH25 9RG

Dr Christina Cousens

Christina Cousens

Moredun

Pentland Science Park

Bush Loan

Penicuik

Midlothian

EH26 0PZ

Dr Lucy Gilbert

With a background in behavioural and evolutionary ecology, Lucy is an animal ecologist with an interest in multi-trophic and multi-ecosystem interactions. She currently focuses on three contrasting systems to address questions about connectivity and cascading effects through ecosystems:

Lucy Gilbert

Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine
Graham Kerr Building
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ

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