Dr Roger Humphry

My interest and expertise lies in quantitative agricultural and environmental science. The current areas of my work are:

  • BVD, its eradication and sample size calculation for screening for BVD
  • Antimicrobial resistance and its measurement
  • The consequence of empirically derived contact networks in cattle on the spread of disease

Roger Humphry

Future Farming Systems
Epidemiology Research Unit
Plot 10, An Lòchran
Inverness Campus
Inverness
IV2 5NA

Dr Tracey Pritchard

Tracey's research interests include:

  • Improving health of livestock (e.g. mastitis, lameness, Johne’s in cattle, scrapie in sheep)
  • Role of animal health, fitness and survival on greenhouse gas emission
  • Improving sustainability of farm enterprises
  • The development of sustainable breeding goals and improvements to national genetic evaluations
  • Merging and mining of national data to create and understand the biology of novel phenotypes so that the livestock industry can measure, monitor and manage their performance.

Tracey Pritchard

Animal & Veterinary Sciences,

SRUC, Roslin Institute Building,

Easter Bush, Midlothian

EH25 9RG

Dr Lucy Gilbert

With a background in behavioural and evolutionary ecology, Lucy is an animal ecologist with an interest in multi-trophic and multi-ecosystem interactions. She currently focuses on three contrasting systems to address questions about connectivity and cascading effects through ecosystems:

Lucy Gilbert

Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine
Graham Kerr Building
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ
 

Professor Tom McNeilly

Tom is the Scientific Director of the Moredun Research Institute and Chief Executive of the Moredun Foundation

He joined Moredun in 2006 following the completion of his PhD at R(D)SVS, University of Edinburgh. He is a qualified veterinary surgeon, and prior to his PhD spent four years in mixed practice.

His major interests are in mucosal immunology of ruminants, specifically host-pathogen interactions at mucosal surfaces, and how these may inform future disease control strategies.

Tom McNeilly

Moredun
Pentland Science Park
Bush Loan
Penicuik
Midlothian
EH26 0PZ

Dr Eleanor Watson

Eleanor is a researcher at the Moredun Research Institute. Her research focusses on Campylobacter species and other zoonotic pathogens.

Current interests:

  • Quantitative mass spectrometry to characterise bacterial adaptation. 
  • Identification of zoonotic pathogens using MALDI mass spectrometry.
  • Campylobacter jejuni metabolic versatility in relation to host colonisation and disease outcome.
  • Presence and transmission of zoonotic pathogens and AMR genes within wildlife populations.

Eleanor Watson

Moredun
Pentland Science Park
Bush Loan
Penicuik
Midlothian
EH26 0PZ

Professor Mike Coffey

Mike is a Professor of Livestock Informatics and Team Leader for Animal Breeding & Genomics at SRUC. His main research area of interest is dairy cattle breeding and identification of appropriate selection goals that meet as many stakeholders requirements as possible. The number of traits incorporated into the selection goal for all species is increasing which brings challenges when traits have unfavourable correlations. Of particular note is the mobilization of body energy by dairy cows - some is desirable since it adds to efficiency in both economic and environmental terms.

Mike Coffey

Scotland’s Rural College
Peter Wilson Building, The King's Buildings
West Mains Road
Edinburgh
EH9 3JG

Dr Fiona Kenyon

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.

Fiona Kenyon

Moredun
Pentland Science Park
Bush Loan
Penicuik
Midlothian
EH26 0PZ