SBOHVM External Seminars 2025-26

Our weekly External Lecture series restarts on Wednesday 8th October in Graham Kerr Lecture Theatre 1 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 (Graham Kerr LT1 until December, Boyd Orr LT 412 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 Graham Kerr LT1 Mariel ten Doeschate Dr Rosie Williams Impacts of chemical pollution on marine mammals
15/10/2025 1-2pm Gilmorehill Graham Kerr LT1 Barbara Mable  Prof. Rob Ogden Wildlife forensics/Conservation 
22/10/2025 5-6pm Gilmorehill Graham Kerr LT1   Prof. Grant Hopcraft  
29/10/2025 1-2pm Garscube McCall LT   Roz Laing Dr. John Gilleard  Helminths and anthelmintic resistance
05/11/2025 1-2pm Gilmorehill Graham Kerr LT1 Kathryn Elmer Dr. Evelyn Jensen  Conservation Genomics
12/11/2025 1-2pm Garscube McCall LT     Prof. Tyler Stevenson / Prof. Annette MacLeod  
19/11/2025 1-2pm Gilmorehill Graham Kerr LT1 Heather Ferguson Sylvia Valentine History of anti-vaccination in Scotland (small pox)
26/11/2025 1-2pm Garscube McCall LT   Taya Forde Nat Ring Rapid sequencing-based diagnostics and AMR detection
03/12/2025 1-2pm Gilmorehill Graham Kerr LT1      
10/12/2025 1-2pm Garscube McCall LT   Lydia Trippler  Dr. Joseph Timothy  Geospatial analyses for schistosomiasis 
Christmas Break
07/01/2026 1-2pm Gilmorehill Boyd Orr 412      
14/01/2026 1-2pm Garscube McCall LT   James Cotton Dr Anostasios Tsauosis Cryptosporidium
21/01/2026 5-6pm Gilmorehill Graham Kerr LT1   Prof. Sarah Cleveland  
28/01/2026 1-2pm Garscube McCall LT   Collette Britton  Prof. Geoffrey Gobert  Fasciola eDNA and schistsome snail microbiome 
04/02/2026 1-2pm Gilmorehill Boyd Orr 412 Davide Dominoni  Prof. Richard Holland  Animal navigation 
11/02/2026 4-5pm Gilmorehill Boyd Orr 412      
18/02/2026 1-2pm Gilmorehill McIntyre 201 Kim Hamer Prof Crawford Revie LLM in diagnosis
25/02/2026 1-2pm Garscube McCall LT   Anna McGregor Dr. Juliet Wong Marine invertebrates 
04/03/2026 1-2pm Gilmorehill Boyd Orr 412      
11/03/2026 1-2pm Garscube McCall LT   Tony Page  Roy Neilson Soil ecology/nematodes 
18/03/2026 1-2pm Gilmorehill Boyd Orr 412      
25/03/2026 1-2pm Garscube McCall LT     Dr. Katarina Oravcova