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This project develops a range of advanced laboratory-based systems to investigate how production- and welfare-limiting diseases of Scottish livestock establish infections in their hosts. Our work is underpining the development of novel vaccines and diagnostic tests by identifying the animal's response to disease and it’s initiation of protection as well as providing new methods for pathogen isolation and identification.
The project is mitigating threats posed to key crops by new, emerging and endemic pests and pathogens, to protect Scotland’s industries and delivering integrated and sustainable crop protection strategies for Scottish growers.
This research aims to examine how resilience in rural communities can be enhanced through processes of local empowerment and the role of wider networks and partnerships in facilitating the enhancement of resilience. It will also consider how stakeholders’ (including academics, policymakers, practitioners and communities) understandings of rural community resilience can be developed to create collaborative initiatives in the future.
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. This work involves studying mucosal responses at multiple levels from cell culture, through organoids, tissue
I am a microbiologist at the Rowett Institute. My research investigates how the diet that we eat influences the microbes that live in our intestines, and in turn what impacts these diet-microbe interactions might have on our health. Work carried out at The Rowett has identified many of the key gut bacteria that respond to specific components of our diet, and we are now working to better understand the roles that these diet-responsive gut bacteria might play in the human body, for example by protecting us from invading pathogens that can cause disease. Ultimately, knowledge gained should feed