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…
On 20 & 21 October 2016 the first edition of Immunity for Health was organised by Flanders Vaccine in Ghent, Belgium. The theme of this edition, “Towards a strategic research agenda for PPPs on the development of vaccines and immunotherapeutics”,…
Many thanks for the highly enjoyable and stimulating consortium meeting in Ghent last week. Listening to the experiences of others groups tackling different aspects of the same problems gave us many ideas for our own research approach. The two guest…
Report on the Second Consortium Meeting of the Horizon 2020 PARAGONE Project PARAGONE is an EU Horizon 2020 funded research project comprising a partnership of academic and commercial organisations working to develop multicellular parasite vaccines for livestock across the globe.…
And we're off. PARAGONE second consortium meeting off to a great start in Ghent. In-depth discussions on all prototype vaccines today.