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Sam is a social scientist with an interest in the application of collaborative approaches to problem solving. Sam has worked with ADAS on the social science aspects of the electronic identification/electronic data transfer in a Sheep Pilot Trial in England, liaising with stakeholders collecting a wide range of data (qualitative and quantitative, including ergonomic) over the course of the trial.
Salvatore is a molecular microbiologist with expertise in gut microbiota and in particular chicken gut microbiota and its interactions with host health and performance, finding alternatives to antimicrobial therapies. His specific research interests include: Monogastric (e.g. chicken and pig) gut microbiota and its interactions with host health and performance Antimicrobial alternatives, with special interest in reducing antimicrobial usage in farm animals Modulation/detection of zoonotic pathogens such as Campylobacter Mathematical modelling of gut microbiota Bacteriology and molecular
I am an aquatic epidemiologist who uses statistical and mathematical models to get insight into the interactions between environment, host and pathogen in aquaculture systems, with the goal to deliver evidence based information that can improve health management, mitigate disease and mortality, and improve sustainability of the sector.
Caroline is an expert in veterinary parasitology and has international expertise in developing targeted and sustainable approaches to optimise parasite control in livestock.
I am a vet and a veterinary epidemiologist. I have extensive experience in general practice and in project leadership, management and delivery within both research and surveillance environments. I have a broad spectrum of experience from simple to complex epidemiological field projects, quantitative and qualitative analyses, risk assessments in a number of subject areas and have worked with a variety of inter-disciplinary teams and for a range of funders. I have also been involved with the provision of advice and recommendations to policy colleagues at the science-policy interface and the
Lucinda has over twelve years of laboratory experience with seven of these years at a commercial cereal breeding company, where she worked initially on pathology field trials and then molecular marker assisted selection of wheat varieties. Lucinda has mainly worked on microbiological community profiling, utilising various methods such as multiplex terminal restriction fragment polymorphism analysis (m-TRFLP), phospholipid fatty acid extract analysis (PLFA) MicroResp(TM) (substrate-induced respiration) and real-time quantitative PCR. Lucinda has also carried out soil sampling in the field to
Adam’s background is in evolutionary ecology. He carried out his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, investigating interactions between ageing and parasitic nematode infections in the wild population of Soay sheep living in the remote St Kilda archipelago. Sick of sheep and worms (or so he thought!), Adam then took a postdoctoral position at Sheffield where he worked largely on how environmental variation affected the health and fitness of pre-industrial Finns, but also found time to delve a little into the parasitology of Asian elephants in Myanmar. Refreshed, he returned to the Soay sheep
Craig graduated with a degree in Microbiology from Aberdeen University and worked at the James Hutton Institute in Dundee (formally SCRI) before attaining a DPhil at the University of Oxford. After a postdoctoral position on gene therapy at Leeds University, he joined the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies at the University of Edinburgh for the next 5 years, working on Orf virus vaccines and host (sheep) responses to Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP, the infectious agent responsible for Johne’s disease in ruminants). Craig joined the Moredun Research Institute as a
Dan started his MRI fellowship in April 2019. The aim is to develop novel control approaches for ectoparasites of veterinary importance. Throughout his research career to date, he has used functional genomic approaches to better understand mechanisms of host/parasite and host/symbiont interactions. Using these tools, Dan’s overall aim is to better understand parasite biology, in particular how parasites are able to exploit their host. With a better understanding host:parasite interactions, Dan hopes to develop interventions to protect livestock of veterinary importance against parasites
Veterinary Pathologist