Earlier this year I helped Moredun Research Institute communication team deliver 6 workshops for 120 S2 pupils (aged 12 – 14 years) at Peebles High School in collaboration with the Royal Highland Education Trust (RHET). Lab sessions gave pupils hands…
At the beginning of September Tom McNeilly and myself attended the 6th European Veterinary Immunology Workshop in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The conference was held in the National Railway Museum, a fantastic venue where veterinary immunologist from all over the world…
Ruth Clements (Benchmark), Work Package 4 Lead of PARAGONE, speaks at the London Vet Show in November 2018 on sustainable food systems, including the implementation of effective vaccines to control animal disease Global human birth rate is on the decline,…
Mar Siles-Lucas attended the 14th International Congress of Parasitology (ICOPA), held from the 19th to the 24th August 2018 in Daegu, Korea. Dr. Siles-Lucas presented the results obtained in the PARAGONE project on “Recognition pattern of the Fasciola hepatica vaccine…
In the first week of July 2018, Al Nisbet (Moredun Research Institute) attended the European Congress of Entomology, Naples, where he was invited to speak in the session, "Dermanyssus gallinae: an endless threat to the industry and human health". Al…
On May 3rd and 4th, 2018 the Palace of the Academies (Brussels, Belgium) hosted the joint meeting of the BSPP, ISP, BAVP and EVPC entitled ‘Advances in Parasitology - Looking Back to Move Forward’. Specifically in view of the BSPP…
PARAGONE colleagues Tatiana Küster, Damer Blake and Fiona Tomley (RVC), Alasdair Nisbet (Moredun) and Øivind Øines (NVI) met up at the National Institute for Agrarian and Veterinary Research in Oeiras, Portugal in September 2017 to attend the 3rd COST Conference…
From 24-26 May, we attended a Workshop on ‘Immunological Tools and Livestock Infection Models’ at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC). The workshop, led by experts in the area, aimed to introduce current methods to study immune…
The Third BBSRC UK Veterinary Vaccinology Network conference was held on 16th and 17th January 2017 in Riddel Hall, Queens University, Belfast, organised by our very own partners, Prof John Dalton and Dr Krystyna Kwyklinski who are based at Queens.…
The Veterinary Vaccinology Network will be hosting its third conference on 16th and 17th January 2017 in Riddel Hall, Queen’s University, Belfast. Vaccines represent one of the most cost effective interventions for prevention, control and eradication of diseases. Veterinary vaccines…