Agriculture

Fiona is a researcher at the Moredun Research Institute, who specialises in the sustainable control of roundworm parasites in livestock. She is focused on 4 main topics, such as the optimisation of wormer use by targeting wormer to only those animals who will benefit (targeted selective treatments, TST), the impact of regenerative grazing approaches on animal health and welfare, impacts of disease in young female lambs on their future productivity and the use of technology to act as an early warning system for welfare issues or disease.

Eileen is a livestock genetics and systems researcher within the Animal & Veterinary Sciences Groups at SRUC, with experience in animal breeding, genetics, modelling and biostatistics. For SEFARI, Eileen is the Work Package Cordinator for Agricultural systems and land management; working on improving livestock management and genetics.

Paul is a grassland researcher at SRUC in Future Farming Systems - Dairy Research and Innovation Centre, with research interests in soil structure and compaction, greenhouse gas emissions/atmospheric chemistry from grassland production, and agroecology.  

Mark is a plant scientist at the James Hutton Institute in ecological sciences and his current research interests include monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions as part of the Centre for Sustainable Cropping at Balruddery, Examination of machine learning and datamining techniques for data analyses and examination of nitrogen budgets within crop systems incorporating legumes.

Gemma is a post doctoral scientist at SRUC working on precision livestock farming research activities, as well as supporting the capacity in greenhouse gas emissions from livestock systems.

Dr Stew Burgess is the Head of the Vaccines and Diagnostics Department at the Moredun Research Institute, Edinburgh. He also leads the sheep scab research group, which focuses on developing novel tools for the control of sheep scab, caused by skin infestation with the sheep scab mite, Psoroptes ovis.

Bob is head of Carbon Management at SRUC, and a professor in Agriculture and Climate Change, with research that focuses on greenhouse gas emissions and nutrient cycling.  

David is a principal scientist at the Moredun Institute, and has a longstanding interest in retroviral pathogenesis and his current research focusses on understanding the pathogenesis of ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma and the development of diagnostic tests for controlling disease.