Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies Inaugural Showcase

Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

Inaugural Lecture Showcase

College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh

Thursday 4 September, 5:00pm

The College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine welcomes you to an inaugural lecture showcase event celebrating ten years of science at the Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health (CTLGH). Join four professors from CTLGH and the Roslin Institute as they share their career and research journey so far.

Mizeck Chagunda – Professor in Tropical Livestock Genetics

Liam Morrison – Professor of Veterinary Parasitology

James Prendergast – Professor of Bioinformatics

Gregor Gorjanc – Professor in Selective Breeding

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Professor Mizeck Chagunda is Professor in Tropical Livestock Genetics and Director of the Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health. He is a quantitative genetics and animal breeding expert who has pioneered research on developing innovative techniques for quantifying, measuring, and defining phenotypes for difficult-to-measure traits related to disease resistance, adaptation, resilience and enteric methane emissions, and explored the role of these phenotypes and dynamic phenomics in genetic improvement of livestock. He also has experience in areas such as mathematical modelling for predicting individual animal health, and reproduction status, and genomics in livestock improvement.

Professor Liam Morrison is Professor of Veterinary Parasitology at the Roslin Institute. His research interests are in the infection biology of protozoan parasites of livestock. He is particularly attracted to integrated approaches where we can learn about both host and parasite processes that are key to infection/disease progression – especially in the clinically relevant host, the cow. His work aims to identify key host-parasite interactions that determine disease outcome, further our understanding of bovine immunobiology, and identify targets for interventions (e.g. drug & vaccine development).

Professor James Prendergast is a Professor of Bioinformatics at the Roslin Institute and the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies. He has spent his career developing computational approaches that help link DNA variation to human and livestock phenotypes. James now leads a research group working on graph genomes, machine-learning methods and high-throughput functional screens.

Professor Gregor Gorjanc is a Professor in Selective Breeding at the Roslin Institute. He leads the HighlanderLab which focuses on managing and improving populations using data science, genetics, and breeding. The lab focuses on populations used for food, feed, and fibre production with some spillover into other populations. We are particularly interested in: (i) methods for genetics and breeding, (ii) design and optimisation of breeding programmes, and (iii) analysis of data to unravel biology and to find new ways of improving populations. 

5.00pm - 6.45pm - Inaugural lectures

6.45pm - 7.45pm - Drinks reception

This event is free and open to all.

Please indicate any dietary or access requirements when you register to attend.

Lectures are in-person only and will not be live-streamed. Recordings of the lectures will be available after the event.

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