SBOHVM PGR Internal Seminars 2025-26
Our PostGrad/PostDoc/P.I. Lecture series restarts on Friday 10th October at 4pm, occuring every Friday thereafter in Davidson Building 208 Lecture Theatre or via Zoom, as per the schedule below.
We'll be hosting in person and virtual talks by many of our own PostGrads and SBOHVM Researchers. It's a great way to round off the week, so please come along if you are interested.
For the most up to date info, please also visit our School Calendar.
PGR Seminar Series
| Date | Name | Talk Title | Location |
| 10/10/2025 | Joris Philip | Parallel Multivariate Phenotypic Plasticity in the Resource Polymorphisms of Salmonids | Graham Kerr LT2 |
| Leran Zhang | The thermal ecology of avian eggs | ||
| 17/10/2025 | NO TALK SCHEDULED | ||
| 24/10/2025 | RESEARCH THEME SESSION - NO TALKS SCHEDULED FOR THIS DATE | |
| 31/10/2025 | John Cook | Assessing the influence of management factors on transition cow health and production | Davidson 208 LT |
| Ansley Li | Intergenerational effects of gestational exposure to low-level chemical mixtures on skeletal muscle metabolic health in offspring |
| 07/11/2025 | Jemma Guthrie | Moth pollination networks in a temperate rainforest | Davidson 208 LT |
| Lilly Atkins | High resolution molecular approaches to tracing Cryptosporidium transmission and virulence in cattle | ||
| 14/11/2025 | Bastián Fernández | From Carriers to Cases: Understanding antimicrobial resistance dynamics of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Tanzanian hospitals and communities | Davidson 208 LT |
| Luisa Paez | Evaluating the proposed mechanisms impacting pathogen dynamics during restoration of Scottish woodlands | ||
| 28/11/2025 | Natalia Apostolopoulou | Green is the colour: Why do microalgae grow so well under green light? | Davidson 208 LT |
| Hanting Chen | IAV and Dog: the story of virus spillover |
| 5/12/2025 | Shennice Knight | Modelling Mosquito Distribution in Scotland: Integrating Citizen Science and Surveillance Data | James Watt South 375 LT |
| Helena Norman | Is all sleep disruption created equal? Evaluating how methodology may affect behavioural and physiological outcomes of sleep experiments in fish |
| 12/12/2025 | CHRISTMAS LECTURE - NO TALKS SCHEDULED FOR THIS DATE | |
| 09/01/2026 | Avery Holmes | Host as environment: Linking life history and ecological traits with virus diversity | Davidson 208 LT |
| Abigail Carruthers | Emergence and transmission of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense and the Serum Resistance Associated gene | ||
| Farah Hamdan | Improving recommendations for schistosomiasis control interventions using interdisciplinary techniques | ||
| 16/01/2026 | Sam Bainbridge | Vegetation Resistance and Recovery in the Serengeti–Mara: Trends, Drivers, and Management Implications from Remote Sensing | Davidson 208 LT |
| Stephen Addison |
Vegetation Resistance and Recovery in the Serengeti–Mara: Trends, Drivers, and Management Implications from Remote Sensing |
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| 23/01/2026 | Melissa Ardila | Tuning into the city soundscape: Exploring optimal structures of convolutional neural networks for avian identification in the neotropics | Davidson 208 LT |
| Daniel Gomado | Deploying integrated control and new advances in diagnostic tools to combat the emergence of resistance to livestock treatments for trypanosomiasis | ||
| 30/01/2026 | Judy Kuo | Investigating Long-Term Physiological and Behavioural Impacts of Early Life Social Environment in Dogs | Davidson 208 LT |
| Lazaaro Mujumbusi | What does a good quality of life mean to people living in areas endemic with schistosomiasis in Uganda and Cameroon |
| 06/02/2026 | Praise Adeyemo | What does the literature tell us about policy for neglected tropical diseases in sub-Saharan Africa? Findings from a Scoping Review | Davidson 208 LT |
| Leran Zhang | The thermal ecology of avian eggs | ||
| 13/02/2026 | Rachel Lumbis | Caregivers’ Knowledge, Perceptions and Behaviours of Feeding Pets and Children | Davidson 208 LT |
| Bunnada Siriporn | SOD1 mutation and Therapeutic targets for Canine Degenerative Myelopathy | ||
| 20/02/2026 | Kayleigh Devine |
Impact of regenerative pasture management and grazing strategies on pasture and parasite control of sheep |
Davidson 208 LT |
| Will Anderson |
Dish to Gut: Using in vitro Models to Advance Mucosal Vaccine Development in Sheep |
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| 27/02/2026 | Fuyun Qin | Linking Air Pollution and Willingness to Pay for Urban Green Infrastructure: A Discrete Choice Experiment | Davidson 208 LT |
| Phoebe Kaiser-Wilks | Long term population trends of Atlantic salmon across different spatial scales | ||
| 06/03/2025 | Moses Arinaitwe | Stakeholder preferences for interventions to control human to snail transmission of schistosomes in hotspot communities in Uganda | Davidson 208 LT |
| Ryan Carmichael | Ecology and distribution of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Northern Irish wetlands | ||
| 13/03/2026 | Calum Young | TBC | Davidson 208 LT |
| Melissa Wright | The Effects of Pigmentation Patterns on Dairy Cattle Welfare | ||
| 20/03/2026 | NO TALKS SCHEDULED FOR THIS DATE | ||
| 27/03/2026 | Mark McInnes | TBC | Davidson 208 LT |
| Will McGhee | TBC | ||
| Md Sakhawat Hossain | TBC | ||
| 03/04/2026 | NO TALKS SCHEDULED FOR THIS DATE | ||
| 10/04/2026 | Ansley Li | Intergenerational effects of gestational exposure to low-level chemical mixtures on skeletal muscle metabolic health in offspring | Graham Kerr LT1 |
| Penny Jack | Investigating the role of feral pigs on the transmission and control of African Swine Fever in Scotland | ||
| Jing Liang | Novel insights into tick-borne disease ecology through host blood meal identification | ||
| 17/04/2026 | Claire Walden | TBC | Graham Kerr LT1 |
| Jay Haywood | A shape-shifting silent assassin - how does genome instability underpin Trypanosoma cruzi drug resistance and survival in vectors and host? | ||
| Anders Erlandson | TBC | ||
| 24/04/2026 | Noelle Nunes | Evaluating the health risks of zoonotic diseases in agricultural run-off: implications for human and animal well-being in the context of climate change | Graham Kerr LT1 |
| Franka Hemme | TBC | ||
| Molly Davison | Community-based interventions to address antimicrobial resistance in low-resource agricultural communities | ||
| 01/05/2026 | Emma Longden | The tactics of rheotaxis: movements of higher vertebrate predators in relation to Southern Ocean currents | Graham Kerr LT1 |
| Jonny Magnay | TBC | ||
| Erwin Sioson | TBC | ||
| 08/05/2026 | Naomi Urio | Investigating the conditions under which dominant malaria vectors can be significantly suppressed or eliminated from specific locations | Graham Kerr LT1 |
| Alex Witchell | Investigating the presence and function of BAT in Harbour Porpoise | ||
| Letus Muyaga | Measuring declining malaria vector populations | ||
| 15/05/2026 | Pornpiroon Chawsuanngam | TBC | Graham Kerr LT1 |
| Milly Spence-Fraser | TBC | ||
| Viktor Wu | TBC | ||
| 22/05/2026 | Eugenio Carlon | Nocturnal predators in landscapes of the Anthropocene: how light and sound pollution affect movement ecology and diet of Tawny owls (Strix aluco) | Graham Kerr LT1 |
| Jos Bongers | TBC | ||
| Valerio Lhamine | TBC | ||
| 29/05/2026 | Chris Duffield | Spatiotemporal modelling of cetaceans in Scotland | Graham Kerr LT1 |
| Rose Kitoyi | TBC | ||
| 05/06/2026 | Victoria Wilde | Hunting a silent killer - next generation precision diagnostics for Chagas disease | Graham Kerr LT1 |
| Hulda Hermannsdottir | TBC | ||
| Haoyue Zhang | TBC | ||
| 12/06/2026 | Paul Mrosso | TBC | Graham Kerr LT1 |
| Sei Ming Lee | TBC | ||
| Samanta Norbury-Webster | Foraging Ecology of Giant Petrels | ||
| 19/06/2026 | Karla Shorrock | TBC | Graham Kerr LT1 |
| Tianjiao Fang | TBC | ||
| Terese Orum | TBC | ||
| 26/06/2026 | Kelvin Munisi | TBC | Graham Kerr LT1 |
| Kennedy Zembere | TBC | ||
| Rod Page | PI Talk | ||
| 03/07/2026 | Alexandra Nicole Midkiff | TBC | Graham Kerr LT1 |
| David Kiragu Mwaura | TBC | ||