Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine

Congratulations go to Dr Christina Faust who has received a 2022 L'Oreal-UNESCO Award Fellowship at the Women in Science UK and Ireland Rising Talents Awards

10 Years of Naturally Speaking Part 2 - A look back at some of our favourite blogs

10 years of Naturally Speaking

Part 1 - a look back at some of our favourite podcasts

DOG RABIES PERSISTS DESPITE LOW VIRUS PREVALENCE

An important study from Professor Katie Hampton demonstrates that dog rabies continues to persist despite low prevalence and attempts to combat the disease.

ScotPEN Wellcome grant to raise awareness of ticks & tick-borne disease across Scotland

A £67k Scottish Public Engagement Network (Wellcome) grant will help to empower people to make informed decisions about accessing the outdoors.

The Fight Against Malaria

IBAHCM and School of Chemistry scientists develop 'the holy grail' method to identify the ageing mosquitos which cause malaria

Biodiversity is facing the repayment of debts and credits

A new method suggests that past landscape changes can cast a shadow on future bird biodiversity.

Dog vaccination essential for preventing rabies spread to humans and animals

New research led by IBAHCM in collaboration with Ifakara Health Institute and Imperial College London, shows how vaccination in dogs reduces the spread of rabies in humans and animals.

UofG part of global program to understand zoonotic viral disease ‘spill over’

The University of Glasgow is joining a global five-year program to understand and address threats posed by zoonotic viral diseases that can “spill over” from animals to humans, such as SARS-CoV-2, in an effort to reduce risk of infection, amplification, and spread.

Looking for Zoonotic needles in a viral haystack

IBAHCM & CVR team develops and validates machine learning models that ranks viruses by their ability to infect humans ("zoonotic potential") using only their genome sequence.