Recent News & Events

• Drs Louise Matthews & Richard Reeve, with Prof. Dan Haydon were involved in the team - Vaccinating cattle against E.coli O157 could cut human cases by 85% - covered by the BBC
• Dr Alison Mather with Prof. Dan Haydon & Dom Mellor - Animals "not the source of drug-resistant salmonella"
• Prof. Malcolm Kennedy (Associate Academic)- The milk of human kindness: providing baby pandas with the bare necessities
• Prof. Colin Adams - Prehistoric giant fish could grow more than 16 metres long
• Dr Katie Hampson - Agenda: the eradication of infectious disease (Herald, newspaper) which follows on from a special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society entitled 'Towards the endgame and beyond: complexities and challenges for the elimination of infectious diseases'
• Katie Hampson - has been awarded a L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Fellowship
  Story covered on the University news feed
• Several of our Institute researchers are closed involved with the Global Alliance for Rabies Control who has recently won the UK Charity Award 2013 for Healthcare and Medical Research
• Dr Michelle Belligham  - Mothers-to-be should be aware of unintentional chemical exposures
• Dr Barbara Helm - City clocks tick faster: Urban blackbirds’ biological rhythms altered by setting
• Out of Africa: Livingstone's Legacy - Dr Heather Ferguson & Prof. Sarah Cleaveland
• Tanzania's National Heritage: Biodiversity Conservation and Development
• Dr Kathryn Elmer - Salamanders are evidence of older land connection between Central and South America
• Dr Dominic McCafferty's paper on the Emperor penguin - Biology Letters: BBC Nature: Science
• David Livingstone & The Scottish Encounter with Tropical Disease Symposium 2013
• IBAHCM becomes a member of the International Association for Ecology and Health
• Prof. Neil Metcalfe has been awarded an European Research Council Advanced Investigator Award, for work on 'The Ecology of Metabolic Phenotypes'. This is the second ERC Advanced Grant to be awarded to the Institute.
• Prof. Neil Metcalfe - The slower you grow, the longer you live: growth rate influences lifespan
• Prof. Rowland Kao - Study finds first direct evidence of tuberculosis transmission between cattle and badgers
• Dr Tim Burton - Bigger fish to fry: egg position affects size and behaviour of young trout
• Dr Annette MacLeod - University of Glasgow plays leading role in award of £2.7m grant for sleeping sickness research (and on the BBC newspages)
• Sarah Cleaveland & Katie Hampson - WHO - Human dog-mediated-rabies: strengthening capacity and raising awareness
• New approach needed to tackle emerging zoonotic diseases
• New appointments - Congratulations to Professor Pat Monaghan who has been appointed the next Regius Chair of Zoology, and welcome to Professor Jason Matthiopoulos who has been appointed Professor in Ecology.  Further details in the MVLS College Newsletter
• NERC, Planet Earth Podcast - Early African dairy farming, seabird migrations - James Grecian
• Chemicals in environment 'damaging male fertility'
• Predicting life span with telomeres
• Prof. Sarah Cleaveland amongst the four Glasgow academics honoured by Royal Society of Edinburgh
• New rabies virus discovered in Tanzania
• Announcing the appointed members of the Strategic Management Board for Veterinary Surveillance
• Project delivers 266 new homes in Pakistan's flood-hit Swat Valley
• Inferring the ancestry of African wild dogs that returned to the Serengeti-Mara - Planet Earth Online
• Images of Science - Glasgow Science Centre
• Professor Neil Metcalfe and Professor Pat Monaghan have been elected members of the Academia Europaea, in recognition of their international standing in the area of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. The Academia Europaea is the European Academy of  Humanities, Letters and Science. Membership of the Academy is by invitation, following nomination and a rigorous peer review process.
• Getting Rabies under Control - Prof. Sarah Cleaveland
• Shaun Killen's paper in Nature - "Animal behaviour: Fitter fish lead the pack"
• Prestigious ERC award for Professor Pat Monaghan
• Graham Law's paper cited in The Art and Science of Captive Animal Enrichment - National Geographic Newsletter