School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine

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

  
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

  
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 Investigating biofouling in seaweed farms using molecular methods 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 Ansley Li Intergenerational effects of gestational exposure to low-level chemical mixtures on skeletal muscle metabolic health in offspring Davidson 208 LT
  Mark McInnes Rethinking measurement of thermal preference in fishes: from apparatus design to ecological relevance  
  Md Sakhawat Hossain Ecosystem-based investigation of the effects of climate and humans on the Sundarbans tiger population  
03/04/2026 NO TALKS SCHEDULED FOR THIS DATE
10/04/2026 Will McGhee Restoring forest ecosystems for biodiversity and health 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 Study of tropism and emergence in companion animal viruses using AI-powered text mining 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 Quantifying the effects of praziquantel treatment on Schistosoma mansoni infection dynamics using imperfect diagnostics  
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 Unravelling the contribution of the genome and the microbiome to thermal adaptation in freshwater fish  
  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 Evaluating soundscape enrichment as a tool for European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis) restoration  
  Erwin Sioson The antimicrobial potential of Scottish seagrass microbiomes  
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 Pathological mechanisms and urinary biomarkers of canine Ehrlichia-induced glomerulonephritis Graham Kerr LT1
  Milly Spence-Fraser Monitoring sea lice infection risk and transmission dynamics using molecular and biochemical methods  
  Viktor Wu Building metrics for measuring marine rewilding  
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 Bridging the Gap: Toward a Unified Epilepsy Terminology and Classification in Humans and Dogs  
  Paul Mrosso Quantifying population-level responses of dominant malaria vectors to key interventions under different eco-climatic conditions  
29/05/2026 David Kiragu Mwaura Multi-Scale Drivers of Rodent–Virus Ecology: Linking Landscape Structure, Household Risk, and Virome Diversity in Uganda Graham Kerr LT1
  Rose Kitoyi From field to lab: Current practices and understanding of mosquito pooling  strategies  
05/06/2026 Victoria Wilde Hunting a silent killer - next generation precision diagnostics for Chagas disease Graham Kerr LT1
  Hulda Hermannsdottir Causal inference and machine learning for sustainable Salmonid and Seaweed aquaculture  
  Haoyue Zhang The movement of gulls in a human-impacted landscape  
12/06/2026 Valerio Lhamine Understanding the impact of Chytrid on amphibian movement and possible mitigation methods Graham Kerr LT1
  Sei Ming Lee From Clinical Observation to Genomic Characterisation: Evaluating the Pathogenic Potential of Providencia alcalifaciens in Canine AHDS   
  Samanta Norbury-Webster Foraging Ecology of Giant Petrels  
19/06/2026 Karla Shorrock Trends in the Frequency of remora Attachments on whale shark Hosts Graham Kerr LT1
  Tianjiao Fang Antimicrobial use and resistance associated with tilapia cage farming in Northeast Thailand  
  Terese Orum Investigating How Cultural Narratives Influence Rabies Prevention and Elimination in Rural Areas of Nigeria  
26/06/2026 Kelvin Munisi Assessing spatial and temporal genetic variation in cheetahs across the Kenya-Tanzania borderlands Graham Kerr LT1
  Kennedy Zembere Evaluating the effect of sugar feeding on immune gene expression and vector competence of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes against O’nyongnyong virus  
  Rod Page PI Talk  

 

Seminars