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Professor Alan Archibald: Understanding the genetic control of complex traits, including responses to infectious disease, in farmed animals, primarily pigs and cattle.
Professor David Argyle: Mechanistic studies into canine disease; isolation of canine stem cells.
Dr Sally Argyle
Professor Cheryl Ashworth: Impact of early life experiences on fundamental patterns of organ development and function in the foetus and neonate.
Dr Rona Barron: Abnormal protein accumulation in neurotoxicity and infection in TSEs and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Dr Pip Beard: Mechanisms employed by poxviruses to modulate host antiviral defence and the role of viral proteins in disease pathogenesis.
Professor Stephen Bishop: Dissecting genetic resistance to infectious disease in livestock and exploring interactions between host animal genetics and disease epidemiology.
Dr Mark Bronsvoort: Quantitative epidemiological and economic approaches to understand disease in livestock and wildlife populations to inform decisions in livestock production, human health and animal welfare.
Dr Tom Burdon: Regulation of growth and differentiation of embryo derived stem cells.
Professor Dave Burt: Use comparative genomics and bioinformatics to understand biological systems in birds and mammals, in particular genes in development, physiology and disease.
Dr Dylan Clements: Molecular pathogenesis of canine and feline osteoarthritis and the development of longitudinal canine cohort studies.
Dr Michael Clinton: Developmental biology of sexual differentiation: understanding the molecular regulation of gonadal development and the acquisition of sexual phenotype.
Dr David Collie: Pathophysiologic mechanisms underlying complex lung disease with an emphasis on the potential utility of lung-directed gene therapy using the sheep as a model system.
Professor Brendan Corcoran: Cell and molecular mechanisms in canine cardiac and respiratory disease, with particular emphasis on myxomatous mitral valve disease and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Mr Geoff Culshaw
Dr Bob Dalziel: Host-pathogen interactions in herpesvirus and influenza virus iinfections of man and animals.
Dr Megan Davey: Hedgehog signalling and the role of cilia in development, with a focus on limb and neural tube patterning.
Dr Dirk-Jan de Koning: Development and application of methodology for quantitative trait dissection using genome-wide mapping approaches and functional studies.
Professor Padraic Dixon: Aetiopathogenesis of equine dental and upper airway disorders. Investigation of asinine pulmonary fibrosis.
Dr Andrea Doeschl-Wilson: Mathematical modelling of complex biological systems, primarily host-pathogen interactions and disease transmission in genetically heterogeneous populations, to enhance the understanding of underlying key mechanisms and their role in the system dynamics.
Dr Xavier Donadeu: Molecular control of follicle development in farm species and pluripotency/cell reprogramming in horse.
Dr Ian Dunn: Using the genetics and physiology of avian reproduction allows us to develop strategies utilising traditional or marker assisted selection to tackle problems as diverse as osteoporosis in laying hens, polyfollicular ovaries in broiler breeders and antimicrobial activity of egg white and shell quality in laying hens.
Dr Bernadette Dutia: Molecular pathogenesis of herpesvirus and influenza virus infections.
Professor Colin Farquharson: Genes and signalling pathways that regulate cartilage and bone development.
Dr Geoff Faulkner: Next generation sequencing of human and animal transcriptomes, with an emphasis on functional characterisation of retrotransposon RNAs.
Professor John Fazakerley: Pathogenesis of infections with RNA viruses, focusing on arboviruses and virus infections of the central nervous system.
Dr Ross Fitzgerald: Use of genomic and molecular tools to examine the evolution and pathogenesis of clinically important species of Staphylococci.
Dr Tom Freeman: Network modelling and experimental manipulation of clinically relevant immune pathways.
Dr Anne French
Professor David Gally: Co-ordination of bacterial surface factor expression during infection and the development of vaccines to limit bacterial zoonotic diseases.
Dr Andrew Gill: PrP structure and interactions in TSE disease and the application of mass spectrometric and proteomic technology to animal pathogens.
Professor Liz Glass: Immunogenetics and functional genomics of disease resistance and immune responsiveness traits in livestock species.
Dr Wilfred Goldmann: Genetics and molecular biology of prion family genes in health and TSE disease.
Dr Finn Grey
Dr Caroline Hahn
Professor Chris Haley: Investigating the genetic control of variation in complex and quantitative traits in humans, livestock and other species.
Dr Denis Headon: Development, maintenance and repair of the skin and its appendages.
Dr Paul Hocking: Application of cutting edge genetic techniques to solving problems such as poor reproduction in adult poultry and the control of sight using animal models.
Professor John Hopkins: The molecular pathology of infectious diseases of livestock caused by pathogens that interact with follicular dendritic cells (FDC) and macrophages, with a current focus on scrapie and paratuberculosis.
Dr Ross Houston: Understanding the host genetic regulation of disease resistance in aquacultured species through the application of genomics.
Professor David Hume
Professor Nora Hunter: The role of sheep genetics in transmission of and susceptibility to scrapie.
Professor Pete Kaiser
Dr Alain Kohl: Innate immune responses to arbovirus infection in invertebrate and vertebrate hosts.
Dr Andy Law: The development of simple-to-use systems for handling and reformatting data for genetic analyses.
Dr Andreas Lengeling: The biology of macrophages in host defence, and genetic control of host resistance to infection.
Dr Neil Mabbott: Identification of critical cells and molecules involved in the delivery of TSE agents from the site of infection to the brain.
Dr Vicky MacRae: Characterising novel mediators of vascular calcification.
Dr Alastair Macrae: Monitoring of farm animal health including the links between nutrition, health and productivity in cattle and sheep.
Dr Arvind Mahajan: Molecular interactions involved in colonisation of intestinal epithelia by enteropathic bacteria and their role in persistence of infection and development of disease.
Professor Jean Manson: Understanding mechanisms of neurodegeneration and neuroprotection associated with protein misfolding diseases.
Dr Barry McColl: Inflammatory and immune-mediated mechanisms of acute brain injury and chronic neurodegeneration.
Professor Bruce McGorum: Aetiopathogenesis and clinical diagnosis and management of equine grass sickness (dysautonomia). Aetiopathogenesis of equine pulmonary disorders including asinine idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, equine exercise induced pulmonary haemorrhage and equine inflammatory airway diseases.
Dr Mike McGrew: Characterisation and manipulation of avian germ cells during development.
Dr Gerry McLachlan: Development of respiratory gene transfer with a focus on non-viral gene transfer agents. Understanding the lung response to physical injury and the potential contribution of resident or non-resident stem/progenitor cells in repair.
Dr Simone Meddle: Adaptations of the neuroendocrine system: hormonal and neural regulation of reproduction and behaviour.
Professor Elspeth Milne: Clinical pathology, equine dysautonomia and mechanisms of disease.
Professor Ivan Morrison: The mechanisms of T cell-mediated immunity against intracellular pathogens of ruminants and how dysregulation of such responses can result in enhanced pathology.
Professor Tony Nash: Pathogenesis of and immunity to influenza virus and herpesvirus infections.
Dr Chris Palgrave
Dr Kirstie Pickles
Dr Scott Pirie: Aetiopathogenesis of equine airway disease and characterising the equine pulmonary innate immune response. Equine dysautonomia, primarily in relation to the investigation of aetiologic pathways.
Ms Alison Ridyard
Professor Helen Sang: Applications of transgenesis in the chick, particularly in study of the development of the chick embryo.
Professor Peter Sharp: Neuroendocrine control of avian reproduction, particularly mechanisms underlying seasonal changes in photoperiodic responsiveness and parental, or territorial behaviours.
Dr Darren Shaw: Quantitative epidemiology of zoonotic / purely veterinary diseases as well as the clinical epidemiology associated with animal health that is of veterinary importance.
Dr Sionagh Smith: Studies into the mechanisms of cellular proliferation in porcine proliferative enteropathy.
Professor Kim Summers: Function and regulation of fibrillin genes and related mesenchymal genes in mammalian species.
Professor Keith Thoday: Canine atopic dermatitis and its interactions with secondary microbial infections.
Professor Adri Van-Den-Broek
Dr Maura Wallace: Study on the role of ubiquitin signalling pathways in cancer.
Mr Mick Watson
Professor Bruce Whitelaw: Development and application of transgenic animals to enhance our understanding of cellular and tissue differentiation in vivo.
Professor John Woolliams: Genetics research across several livestock species, including sheep, pigs, cattle and salmon, all of which combine elements of genomics and genetics; interests include deterministic predictions of accuracy from genome wide evaluations, designer footprints and the genetics of bovine Tb and the associated genetic epidemiology.
Dr Donald Yool: Identifying novel therapeutic targets in veterinary oncology.
Professor Ruth Zadoks: Molecular epidemiology of zoonotic and infectious diseases of animals.

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