Professor Tom McNeilly
- Honorary Senior Lecturer (School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine)
email:
Tom.McNeilly@glasgow.ac.uk
The Moredun Research Institute, Pentlands Science Park, Bush Loan, EH26 0PZ
Publications
2025
Campillo Poveda, M. et al. (2025) Metabolomic and functional analyses of small molecules secreted by intestinal nematodes in the activation of epithelial tuft cells. Metabolomics, 21(3), 55. (doi: 10.1007/s11306-025-02248-w) (PMID:40257648) (PMCID:PMC12011944)
Perez, Matias G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8413-1662, Gillan, Victoria
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5728-1275, Anderson, William M., Gerbe, Francois, Herbert, Fabien, McNeilly, Tom N., Maizels, Rick M.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3216-1944, Jay, Philippe, Devaney, Eileen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1935-834X and Britton, Collette
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5165-312X
(2025)
A secreted helminth microRNA suppresses gastrointestinal cell differentiation required for innate immunity.
Frontiers in Immunology, 16,
1558132.
(doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1558132)
(PMID:40213548)
(PMCID:PMC11983496)
2024
Perez, Matias ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8413-1662, Laing, Roz
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6191-0759, Hildersley, Katie, McNeilly, Tom, Maizels, Rick
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3216-1944, Devaney, Eileen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1935-834X and Britton, Collette
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5165-312X
(2024)
A MicroRNA in the Excretory-secretory Products of Helminth Parasites Induces De-differentiation in Epithelial Cells Within Gastrointestinal Organoids.
British Society for Parasitology (BSP) Spring Meeting, Liverpool, UK, 2-4 April 2024.
(Unpublished)
2023
Campillo Poveda, Marta ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2561-5429, Britton, Collette
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5165-312X, Devaney, Eileen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1935-834X, McNeilly, Tom N., Gerbe, François, Jay, Philippe and Maizels, Rick M.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3216-1944
(2023)
Tuft cells: detectors, amplifiers, effectors and targets in parasite infection.
Cells, 12(20),
2477.
(doi: 10.3390/cells12202477)
(PMID:37887321)
(PMCID:PMC10605326)
Britton, Collette ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5165-312X, Laing, Roz
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6191-0759, McNeilly, Tom N., Perez, Matias G.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8413-1662, Otto, Thomas D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1246-7404, Hildersley, Katie A., Maizels, Rick M.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3216-1944, Devaney, Eileen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1935-834X and Gillan, Victoria
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5728-1275
(2023)
New technologies to study helminth development and host-parasite interactions.
International Journal for Parasitology, 53(8),
pp. 393-403.
(doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2022.11.012)
(PMID:36931423)
2022
Liu, Wei, McNeilly, Tom M., Mitchell, Mairi, Burgess, Stewart T.G., Nisbet, Alasdair J., Matthews, Jaqueline B. and Babayan, Simon A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4949-1117
(2022)
Vaccine-induced time- and age-dependent mucosal immunity to gastrointestinal parasite infection.
npj Vaccines, 7,
78.
(doi: 10.1038/s41541-022-00501-0)
(PMID:35798788)
(PMCID:PMC9262902)
Jonsson, N.N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3245-9783, MacLeod, M., Hayward, A., McNeilly, T., Ferguson, K.D. and Skuce, P.J.
(2022)
Liver fluke in beef cattle – impact on production efficiency and associated greenhouse gas emissions estimated using causal inference methods.
Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 200,
105579.
(doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2022.105579)
(PMID:35066320)
2021
Hildersley, Katie A., Mcneilly, Tom N., Gillan, Victoria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5728-1275, Otto, Thomas D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1246-7404, Löser, Stephan, Gerbe, Francois, Jay, Philippe, Maizels, Rick M.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3216-1944, Devaney, Eileen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1935-834X and Britton, Collette
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5165-312X
(2021)
Tuft cells increase following ovine intestinal parasite infections and define evolutionarily conserved and divergent responses.
Frontiers in Immunology, 12,
781108.
(doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.781108)
(PMID:34880874)
(PMCID:PMC8646091)
2020
Silva, Nuno, Phythian, Clare J., Currie, Carol, Tassi, Riccardo, Ballingall, Keith T., Magro, Giada, McNeilly, Tom N. and Zadoks, Ruth N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1164-8000
(2020)
Antimicrobial resistance in ovine bacteria: a sheep in wolf’s clothing?
PLoS ONE, 15(9),
e0238708.
(doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0238708)
(PMID:32881949)
(PMCID:PMC7470381)
Britton, Collette ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5165-312X, Emery, David L., Mcneilly, Tom, Nisbet, Alasdair and Stear, Michael J.
(2020)
The potential for vaccines against scour worms of small ruminants.
International Journal for Parasitology, 50(8),
pp. 533-553.
(doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2020.04.003)
(PMID:32569640)
Hanks, Eve, Todd, Helen, Palarea-Albaladejo, Javier, Mcneilly, Tom N., Britton, Collette ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5165-312X and Ballingall, Keith T.
(2020)
A novel technique for retrospective genetic analysis of the response to vaccination or infection using cell-free DNA from archived sheep serum and plasma.
Veterinary Research, 51(1),
9.
(doi: 10.1186/s13567-020-0737-9)
(PMID:32024546)
(PMCID:PMC7003321)
2019
Albuquerque, Ana Cláudia A., Bassetto, Cesar Cristiano, Almeida, Fabiana A., Hildersley, Katie A., McNeilly, Tom N., Britton, Collette ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5165-312X and Amarante, Alessandro F.T.
(2019)
Differences in immune responses to Haemonchus contortus infection in the susceptible Ile de France and the resistant Santa Ines sheep under different anthelmintic treatments regimens.
Veterinary Research, 50,
104.
(doi: 10.1186/s13567-019-0722-3)
(PMID:31783921)
(PMCID:PMC6884896)
2017
Prentice, Jamie C., Marion, Glenn, Hutchings, Michael R., MCneilly, Tom N. and Matthews, Louise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4420-8367
(2017)
Complex responses to movement-based disease control: when livestock trading helps.
Journal of the Royal Society: Interface, 14(126),
20160531.
(doi: 10.1098/rsif.2016.0531)
(PMID:28077759)
(PMCID:PMC5310727)
Gu, Henry Y., Marks, Neil D., Winter, Alan D., Weir, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8648-666X, Tzelos, Thomas, McNeilly, Tom N., Britton, Collette
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5165-312X and Devaney, Eileen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1935-834X
(2017)
Conservation of a microRNA cluster in parasitic nematodes and profiling of miRNAs in excretory-secretory products and microvesicles of Haemonchus contortus.
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 11(11),
e0006056.
(doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006056)
(PMID:29145392)
(PMCID:PMC5709059)
2016
Mudaliar, M. et al. (2016) Mastitomics, the integrated omics of bovine milk in an experimental model of Streptococcus uberis mastitis: 2. Label-free relative quantitative proteomics. Molecular BioSystems, 12(9), pp. 2748-2761. (doi: 10.1039/C6MB00290K) (PMID:27412694) (PMCID:PMC5048399)
Thomas, Funmilola, Mudaliar, Manikhandan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1482-840X, Tassi, Riccardo, Mcneilly, Tom, Burchmore, Richard
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1663-9004, Burgess, Karl, Herzyk, Pawel
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7439-292X, Zadoks, Ruth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1164-8000 and Eckersall, Peter
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5254-5502
(2016)
Mastitomics, the integrated omics of bovine milk in an experimental model of Streptococcus uberis mastitis: 3. Untargeted metabolomics.
Molecular BioSystems, 12(9),
pp. 2762-2769.
(doi: 10.1039/C6MB00289G)
(PMID:27412568)
Thomas, Funmilola, Mullen, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5685-1563, Tassi, Riccardo, Ramírez-Torres, Adela, Mudaliar, Manikhandan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1482-840X, Mcneilly, Tom, Zadoks, Ruth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1164-8000, Burchmore, Richard
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1663-9004 and Eckersall, Peter
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5254-5502
(2016)
Mastitomics, the integrated omics of bovine milk in an experimental model of Streptococcus uberis mastitis: 1. High abundance proteins, acute phase proteins and peptidomics.
Molecular BioSystems, 12(9),
pp. 2735-2747.
(doi: 10.1039/C6MB00239K)
(PMID:27412456)
(PMCID:PMC5048397)
2013
Roberts, B., Antonopoulos, A., Haslam, S.M., Dicker, A.J., Mcneilly, T.N., Johnston, S.L., Dell, A., Knox, D.P. and Britton, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5165-312X
(2013)
Novel expression of Haemonchus contortus vaccine candidate aminopeptidase H11 using the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
Veterinary Research, 44,
111.
(doi: 10.1186/1297-9716-44-111)
(PMID:24289031)
(PMCID:PMC4176091)
Articles
Campillo Poveda, M. et al. (2025) Metabolomic and functional analyses of small molecules secreted by intestinal nematodes in the activation of epithelial tuft cells. Metabolomics, 21(3), 55. (doi: 10.1007/s11306-025-02248-w) (PMID:40257648) (PMCID:PMC12011944)
Perez, Matias G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8413-1662, Gillan, Victoria
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5728-1275, Anderson, William M., Gerbe, Francois, Herbert, Fabien, McNeilly, Tom N., Maizels, Rick M.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3216-1944, Jay, Philippe, Devaney, Eileen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1935-834X and Britton, Collette
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5165-312X
(2025)
A secreted helminth microRNA suppresses gastrointestinal cell differentiation required for innate immunity.
Frontiers in Immunology, 16,
1558132.
(doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1558132)
(PMID:40213548)
(PMCID:PMC11983496)
Campillo Poveda, Marta ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2561-5429, Britton, Collette
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5165-312X, Devaney, Eileen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1935-834X, McNeilly, Tom N., Gerbe, François, Jay, Philippe and Maizels, Rick M.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3216-1944
(2023)
Tuft cells: detectors, amplifiers, effectors and targets in parasite infection.
Cells, 12(20),
2477.
(doi: 10.3390/cells12202477)
(PMID:37887321)
(PMCID:PMC10605326)
Britton, Collette ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5165-312X, Laing, Roz
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6191-0759, McNeilly, Tom N., Perez, Matias G.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8413-1662, Otto, Thomas D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1246-7404, Hildersley, Katie A., Maizels, Rick M.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3216-1944, Devaney, Eileen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1935-834X and Gillan, Victoria
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5728-1275
(2023)
New technologies to study helminth development and host-parasite interactions.
International Journal for Parasitology, 53(8),
pp. 393-403.
(doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2022.11.012)
(PMID:36931423)
Liu, Wei, McNeilly, Tom M., Mitchell, Mairi, Burgess, Stewart T.G., Nisbet, Alasdair J., Matthews, Jaqueline B. and Babayan, Simon A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4949-1117
(2022)
Vaccine-induced time- and age-dependent mucosal immunity to gastrointestinal parasite infection.
npj Vaccines, 7,
78.
(doi: 10.1038/s41541-022-00501-0)
(PMID:35798788)
(PMCID:PMC9262902)
Jonsson, N.N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3245-9783, MacLeod, M., Hayward, A., McNeilly, T., Ferguson, K.D. and Skuce, P.J.
(2022)
Liver fluke in beef cattle – impact on production efficiency and associated greenhouse gas emissions estimated using causal inference methods.
Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 200,
105579.
(doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2022.105579)
(PMID:35066320)
Hildersley, Katie A., Mcneilly, Tom N., Gillan, Victoria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5728-1275, Otto, Thomas D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1246-7404, Löser, Stephan, Gerbe, Francois, Jay, Philippe, Maizels, Rick M.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3216-1944, Devaney, Eileen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1935-834X and Britton, Collette
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5165-312X
(2021)
Tuft cells increase following ovine intestinal parasite infections and define evolutionarily conserved and divergent responses.
Frontiers in Immunology, 12,
781108.
(doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.781108)
(PMID:34880874)
(PMCID:PMC8646091)
Silva, Nuno, Phythian, Clare J., Currie, Carol, Tassi, Riccardo, Ballingall, Keith T., Magro, Giada, McNeilly, Tom N. and Zadoks, Ruth N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1164-8000
(2020)
Antimicrobial resistance in ovine bacteria: a sheep in wolf’s clothing?
PLoS ONE, 15(9),
e0238708.
(doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0238708)
(PMID:32881949)
(PMCID:PMC7470381)
Britton, Collette ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5165-312X, Emery, David L., Mcneilly, Tom, Nisbet, Alasdair and Stear, Michael J.
(2020)
The potential for vaccines against scour worms of small ruminants.
International Journal for Parasitology, 50(8),
pp. 533-553.
(doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2020.04.003)
(PMID:32569640)
Hanks, Eve, Todd, Helen, Palarea-Albaladejo, Javier, Mcneilly, Tom N., Britton, Collette ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5165-312X and Ballingall, Keith T.
(2020)
A novel technique for retrospective genetic analysis of the response to vaccination or infection using cell-free DNA from archived sheep serum and plasma.
Veterinary Research, 51(1),
9.
(doi: 10.1186/s13567-020-0737-9)
(PMID:32024546)
(PMCID:PMC7003321)
Albuquerque, Ana Cláudia A., Bassetto, Cesar Cristiano, Almeida, Fabiana A., Hildersley, Katie A., McNeilly, Tom N., Britton, Collette ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5165-312X and Amarante, Alessandro F.T.
(2019)
Differences in immune responses to Haemonchus contortus infection in the susceptible Ile de France and the resistant Santa Ines sheep under different anthelmintic treatments regimens.
Veterinary Research, 50,
104.
(doi: 10.1186/s13567-019-0722-3)
(PMID:31783921)
(PMCID:PMC6884896)
Prentice, Jamie C., Marion, Glenn, Hutchings, Michael R., MCneilly, Tom N. and Matthews, Louise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4420-8367
(2017)
Complex responses to movement-based disease control: when livestock trading helps.
Journal of the Royal Society: Interface, 14(126),
20160531.
(doi: 10.1098/rsif.2016.0531)
(PMID:28077759)
(PMCID:PMC5310727)
Gu, Henry Y., Marks, Neil D., Winter, Alan D., Weir, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8648-666X, Tzelos, Thomas, McNeilly, Tom N., Britton, Collette
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5165-312X and Devaney, Eileen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1935-834X
(2017)
Conservation of a microRNA cluster in parasitic nematodes and profiling of miRNAs in excretory-secretory products and microvesicles of Haemonchus contortus.
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 11(11),
e0006056.
(doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006056)
(PMID:29145392)
(PMCID:PMC5709059)
Mudaliar, M. et al. (2016) Mastitomics, the integrated omics of bovine milk in an experimental model of Streptococcus uberis mastitis: 2. Label-free relative quantitative proteomics. Molecular BioSystems, 12(9), pp. 2748-2761. (doi: 10.1039/C6MB00290K) (PMID:27412694) (PMCID:PMC5048399)
Thomas, Funmilola, Mudaliar, Manikhandan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1482-840X, Tassi, Riccardo, Mcneilly, Tom, Burchmore, Richard
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1663-9004, Burgess, Karl, Herzyk, Pawel
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7439-292X, Zadoks, Ruth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1164-8000 and Eckersall, Peter
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5254-5502
(2016)
Mastitomics, the integrated omics of bovine milk in an experimental model of Streptococcus uberis mastitis: 3. Untargeted metabolomics.
Molecular BioSystems, 12(9),
pp. 2762-2769.
(doi: 10.1039/C6MB00289G)
(PMID:27412568)
Thomas, Funmilola, Mullen, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5685-1563, Tassi, Riccardo, Ramírez-Torres, Adela, Mudaliar, Manikhandan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1482-840X, Mcneilly, Tom, Zadoks, Ruth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1164-8000, Burchmore, Richard
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1663-9004 and Eckersall, Peter
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5254-5502
(2016)
Mastitomics, the integrated omics of bovine milk in an experimental model of Streptococcus uberis mastitis: 1. High abundance proteins, acute phase proteins and peptidomics.
Molecular BioSystems, 12(9),
pp. 2735-2747.
(doi: 10.1039/C6MB00239K)
(PMID:27412456)
(PMCID:PMC5048397)
Roberts, B., Antonopoulos, A., Haslam, S.M., Dicker, A.J., Mcneilly, T.N., Johnston, S.L., Dell, A., Knox, D.P. and Britton, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5165-312X
(2013)
Novel expression of Haemonchus contortus vaccine candidate aminopeptidase H11 using the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
Veterinary Research, 44,
111.
(doi: 10.1186/1297-9716-44-111)
(PMID:24289031)
(PMCID:PMC4176091)
Conference or Workshop Item
Perez, Matias ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8413-1662, Laing, Roz
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6191-0759, Hildersley, Katie, McNeilly, Tom, Maizels, Rick
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3216-1944, Devaney, Eileen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1935-834X and Britton, Collette
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5165-312X
(2024)
A MicroRNA in the Excretory-secretory Products of Helminth Parasites Induces De-differentiation in Epithelial Cells Within Gastrointestinal Organoids.
British Society for Parasitology (BSP) Spring Meeting, Liverpool, UK, 2-4 April 2024.
(Unpublished)