SBOHVM External Seminars 2025-26
Our weekly External Lecture series restarts on Wednesday 8th October in Boyd Orr Lecture Theatre 507 from 1-2pm.
This event will alternate between Gilmorehill and Garscube every week. When the seminar is at Garscube, it will be streamed via zoom in the Boyd Orr Building (LT 507 until December, LT 611 from January).
Most seminars will be from 1-2pm, however this is subject to change so please check the table below for the correct time.
We'll be hosting in person and virtual talks by many visitors from across the world. It's guaranteed to be a fun, informative and enlightening regular event.
For the most up to date info, please also visit our School Calendar.
External Seminar Series
| Date | Time | Campus | Location | Host | Speaker | General topic |
| 08/10/2025 | 1-2pm | Gilmorehill | Boyd Orr 507 | Mariel ten Doeschate | Dr Rosie Williams | Impacts of chemical pollution on marine mammals |
| 15/10/2025 | 1-2pm | Garscube | ||||
| 22/10/2025 | 5-6pm | Gilmorehill | Boyd Orr 507 | Prof. Grant Hopcraft | ||
| 29/10/2025 | 1-2pm | Garscube | Roz Laing | Helminths | ||
| 05/11/2025 | 1-2pm | Gilmorehill | Boyd Orr 507 | Kathryn Elmer | Dr. Evelyn Jensen | Conservation Genomics |
| 12/11/2025 | 1-2pm | Garscube | Prof. Tyler Stevenson / Prof. Annette MacLeod | |||
| 19/11/2025 | 1-2pm | Gilmorehill | Boyd Orr 507 | Heather Ferguson | Sylvia Valentine | History of anti-vaccination in Scotland (small pox) |
| 26/11/2025 | 1-2pm | Garscube | Taya Forde | Nat Ring | Rapid sequencing-based diagnostics and AMR detection | |
| 03/12/2025 | 1-2pm | Gilmorehill | Boyd Orr 507 | |||
| 10/12/2025 | 1-2pm | Garscube | Lydia Trippler | Dr. Joseph Timothy | ||
| Christmas Break | ||||||
| 07/01/2026 | 1-2pm | Gilmorehill | Boyd Orr 611 | |||
| 14/01/2026 | 1-2pm | Garscube | James Cotton | Dr Anostasios Tsauosis | Cryptosporidium molecular something | |
| 21/01/2026 | 5-6pm | Gilmorehill | Boyd Orr 611 | Prof. Sarah Cleveland | ||
| 28/01/2026 | 1-2pm | Garscube | ||||
| 04/02/2026 | 1-2pm | Gilmorehill | Boyd Orr 611 | |||
| 11/02/2026 | 4-5pm | Gilmorehill | Boyd Orr 611 | |||
| 18/02/2026 | 1-2pm | Gilmorehill | Boyd Orr 611 | Kim Hamer | Prof Crawford Revie | LLM in diagnosis |
| 25/02/2026 | 1-2pm | Garscube | ||||
| 04/03/2026 | 1-2pm | Gilmorehill | Boyd Orr 611 | |||
| 11/03/2026 | 1-2pm | Garscube | Roy Neilson | Soil ecology/nematodes | ||
| 18/03/2026 | 1-2pm | Gilmorehill | Boyd Orr 611 | |||
| 25/03/2026 | 1-2pm | Garscube |