SBOHVM PGR Internal Seminars 2023-24
Our PostGrad/PostDoc/P.I. Lecture series restarts on Friday 6th October at 4pm, occuring every Friday thereafter in the Graham Kerr Lecture Theatre or via Zoom, as per the schedule below.
Please note that from the 5th of April these seminars will be hosted in Graham Kerr Lecture Theatre 2, aside from the 31st of May when it will be hosted at Garscube.
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 | Study year | Title |
| October | |||
| 06/10/2023 | Martin Llewellyn | PI | Longitudinal molecular and morphological tracking of planktonic threats to salmon aquaculture |
| Oskar Brattstrom | PI | The Nigeria Butterfly Network – Establishing a nationwide butterfly monitoring programme | |
| 13/10/2023 | Rowan Durrant | 3 | Contemporary evolution of the rabies virus |
| Leonidas Spathis | 3 | Infection with parasitic filarial nematodes causes chronic and debilitating disease in humans, and in dogs infected with the heartworm Dirofilaria immitis. | |
| 20/10/2023 | Nadia Rimi | 2 | Live Bird Markets and Avian Influenza in Bangladesh |
| Anna Formstone | 2 | Investigating rabies surveillance and control in different contexts using systems mapping approaches. | |
| 27/10/2023 | Rachel Lennon | 2 | Assessing the use of stranding data as a tool for monitoring marine animal health. |
| Irem Denizli | 2 | The genomic basis of seasonal biology in Siberian hamsters | |
| Laura Bisset | 1 | Mosquito interventions and environmental impacts on Anopheles population dynamics | |
| November | |||
| 03/11/2023 | Mariel Ten Doeschate | 3 | Assessment of harbour porpoise ovaries: Insights into the fecundity of an elusive marine species |
| Paul Campbell | 3 | Anthelmintic resistance in gastrointestinal nematodes of first grazing calves | |
| 10/11/2023 | Mimi Cox | 3 | The interaction between mosquito and parasite in the transmission of malaria |
| Jenny Keeping | 3 | Stingray feeding ecology and threats in Southern Mozambique | |
| 17/11/2023 | Julius Nziza | 3 | Viral metagenomics in non-human primates of Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda |
| Raheema Chunara | 3 | Using community preferences to aid non-drinking water infrastructure design in a schistosomiasis endemic area. | |
| 24/11/2023 | Evanthia Kolovou | 2nd year combined masters with residency | Investigation of respiratory diseases in working equids of Morocco |
| Rheinallt Jones | 2 | Histological characterisation of the caecal mucosa of cattle fed diets with differing cereal inclusions. | |
| Meshach Lee | 2 | The effect of the urban-rural gradient on Dipteran vector-borne Disease Risk in Scotland | |
| December | |||
| 01/12/2023 | Graeme Cullen | 2 | Seascape Ecology of Juvenile Gadoids |
| Izzy Tiddy | 2 | Changes in social behaviour of fish in response to climate-related stressors | |
| Ellie MacLennan | 2 | Understanding the scale, impact and potential mitigation of large marine animal entanglement in the Scottish creel fishery | |
| January | |||
| 12/01/2024 | John Cooke | 2 | Transition cow management |
| Ivan Casas | 2 | Effects of temperature on malaria transmission dyanmics | |
| Xinjue Jia | 2 | Causes and consequences of variation in vaccine-elicited adaptive immunity against parasitic helminths | |
| 19/01/2024 | Giuseppe Orlando | 2 | Effect of anthropogenic features on Tawny Owl nest-box occupancy and breeding success |
| Tasmin Alexander | 2 | If you don't vaccinate the dog, the dog will be culled | |
| 26/01/2024 | Pia Formisano | 3 | Establishing recombinant protein ELISAs to aid diagnosis and prevalence studies of human babesiosis, an emerging disease in Scotland |
| Raheema Chunara | 3 | Using community preferences to aid non-drinking water infrastructure design in a schistosomiasis endemic area | |
| February | |||
| 02/02/2024 | Wendy Liu | 3 | Finding treatment for amoebic gill disease in Atlantic Salmon |
| Emma Plant | 2 | Investigating plant-pollinator networks in urban gardens. | |
| 09/02/2024 | Adam Liddle | 3 | The transcriptomic architecture of avian photoperiodism |
| Aimee Walker | 3 | Precision Livestock farming technologies -BLE sheep | |
| 16/02/2024 | Stefan Yerby | 2 | Exogenous Enzymes as a means to improve feed efficiency and sustainability in dairy cattle |
| Mirava Coree Yuson | 2 | Rabies Re-emergence in Romblon, Philippines: How’s, Why’s and When’s | |
| Paula Ledesma | 1 | Transcriptomics in canine dorsal root ganglia | |
| 23/02/2024 | Zhe (Julie) Wang | 3 | TBA |
| Rhiannon Heslop | 3 | Host-parasite responses in Trypanasoma brucei infections | |
| March | |||
| 01/03/2024 | Miki Matsuoka | 2 | Evaluation of the non-host components of the faecal proteome of grain-fed cattle |
| I-Ting Tu | 2 | Investigating pathogen overlap and exchange at the marine-terrestrial interface | |
| 08/03/2024 | Mar Pineda | 3 | Finding tetra: exploring the potential for selection in the Amazonian ornamental fishing industry |
| Connor Sullivan | 1 | Only skin deep: expanding amphibian disease ecology and parasitology from Scotland to Ecuador | |
| 15/03/2024 | Martha Luka | 2 | Modelling to inform a robust human rabies vaccine supply chain management |
| Kim Hamer | 1 | Diagnostic support tools for low resource settings | |
| Erin Johnstone | 2 | Mosquitoes and lasers and wallabies, oh my!: Xenosurveillance of Japanese Encephalitis virus in the Philippines and Australia | |
| 22/03/2023 | Ruaidhri Forrester | 1 | Surveying rare fishes in UK lakes |
| Anna Kebke | 2 | Tales from the tides: Illuminating a pilot whale whodunnit using fatty acid and stable isotope analysis | |
| Mark Pitt | 1 | The consequences of breeding later in life: inter-generational effects of parental age in Field crickets (Gryllus bimaculatus) | |
| April | |||
| 05/04/2024 | Ireen Asad | 2 | Ecological impacts of microplastic (MP) and heavy metal pollution in the Sundarbans mangrove forest (SMF) aquatic ecosystem, Bangladesh |
| Albert Smith | 2 | Seascape ecology of the Sundarbans-Drivers of juvenile fish distribution and growth in the worlds largest mangrove systems | |
| Molly Uzzell | 1 | Partitioning the roles of genetics and life history in reproductive biology | |
| 12/04/2024 | Marina Kugler | 3 | Understanding Human-Animal-Tick Interaction and Risk factors which lead to the exposure to Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever Virus in Uganda: A Multidisciplinary Study |
| Corin Stansfield | 1 | The genetic architecture of thermal plasticity in the threespine stickleback | |
| 19/04/2024 | Tsion Afework Habte | 2 | Gendered mental health in One Health context of Afar pastoralists in Ethiopia |
| Irem Denizli | 2 | Decoding Seasonal Polyphenism in Siberian Hamsters: A Transcriptomic Perspective | |
| Alya Almula | 1 | Determinants of lifetime reproductive success in an invasive population of the Edible dormouse (Glis glis) | |
| May | |||
| 03/05/2024 | Krystin Damask | 1 | Habitat Selection & Adaptability of Pine Martens in Western Scotland |
| Christabel Emaeyak James | 1 | Mathematical modeling of covid-19 dynamics and possible interventions in a West African context | |
| Jessica Young | 1 | How do urban landscapes influence animal dispersal and ecological connectivity? | |
| 10/05/2024 | Maria Jose Lopez Jara | 1 | Viral communities and transmission dynamics in rodents across restored woodlands in Scotland. |
| Mercedes Burgueno | 2 | Spatial and movement ecology | |
| Victoria Githu | 1 | Improving the design of vector control trials | |
| 17/05/2024 | Edgar Manrique | 1 | Infectious diseases and remote sensing |
| David Stone | 1 | Does climate change directly impact breeding seabirds? | |
| Holly Niven | Disturbances in metapopulations: applications to seabirds and renewables | ||
| 24/05/2024 | Benedict Karani | 1 | Measuring the impact of treatment regimens on the evolution of anthelmintic resistance |
| Brendan Robertson | 1 | Amoebic Gill Disease, Molecular epidemiology | |
| Flo Blackbourn | 1 | Niche tracking in lesser black-backed gulls | |
| 31/05/2024 | Kasia Maslowska | 1 | Exploration of risk posed by ruminant associated Coxiella burnetii to Great Britain livestock and human health. |
| Rachel Lumbis | 1 | An exploration of knowledge, attitudes, behaviour and practice of small animal veterinary nutrition | |
| Danni Anderson | 1 | Assessing the impact of animal vaccination programmes | |
| June | |||
| 07/06/2024 | Daisy Taylor | 3 | Refinement of an in vitro system to estimate total tract digestibility in horses |
| Najat Feruzi Kahamba | 4 | TBA | |
| 14/06/2024 | Lau Eugene Yuk Ching | 1 | TBA |
| Doreen Siria | 2 | Investigating the survival and change of age-structure of malaria vectors in an area with high insecticide bednet coverage in Tanzania | |
| Mecklina Mbundi | 2 | TBA | |