I-Ting Tu

Wellcome Trust Integrative Infection Biology PhD

Room 306, School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine, Graham Kerr Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ

Email: i.tu.1@research.gla.ac.uk

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/itingtu/

 

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5947-3791

Research title: Investigating pathogen overlap and exchange at the marine-terrestrial interface

Research Summary

I am interested in understanding how human activities (e.g. land-use change, agricultural intensification) and climate change affect zoonotic disease transmissions at the human-livestock-wildlife interface, with a special focus on wildlife diseases.

For my PhD, I am investigating viral exchange at the marine-terrestrial interface. Blood-feeding vampire bats can potentially serve as vectors transmitting different viruses to their prey species, including fur seals, sea lions, and domestic pigs. 

Integrating broad-spectrum serology, metabarcoding, stable isotope data, and cortisol levels allows for the construction of transmission pathways for these zoonotic pathogens.

See the visual summary for my PhD project - 

And my research questions and plans - 

Supervisors

Conference

Ecology and evolution of infectious Diseases (EEID) 2023 - Poster presentation

 

 

Additional Information

Education

  • MSc Wild Animal Health Royal Veterinary College, University of London
  • Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine National Pingtung University of Science and Technology

 

Shared Interest Group

  • Co-Chair SBOHVM Disease Ecology & Veterinary Epidemiology Group
  • Landscape Disease Ecology Journal Club