Research
PhD supervision with IGH - mites/ticks/hydatid disease
PhD students working on
(a) The diversity of chigger mites (Acari: Trombiculidae) and their microbiomes across stratified
habitats in Thailand. PI Dr Ben Makepeace
(b) Hydatid disease in dogs and cattle (BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership studentship). (PIs Jones/McGarry)
(c) Chigger mites of Saudi Arabia and their associated microbes. PI Dr Ben Makepeace
(d) Anaplasma infections in ticks.PI Dr Ben Makepeace
Research grants
Diagnosis of the lungworm, Aelurostrongylus abstrusus in cats
BAYER UK LTD (UK)
June 2016 - December 2017
National distribution and genotyping of Echinococcus granulosus in its definitive host, the dog
BAYER ANIMAL HEALTH GMBH (GERMANY), BAYER UK LTD (UK)
September 2015 - July 2019
Bench fees for SAMIA QASEM OUDAH ALGHAMDI
ROYAL EMBASSY OF SAUDI ARABIA
November 2015 - December 2018
Research collaborations
Dr Al Darby
Parasite Genomics
Centre for Genomic Research
Dr Ben Makepeace
PhD students in Dept infection Biology, IGH
Supervision
Professor Richard Wall
The University of Bristol
Working on the epidemiology of disease vector ticks ticks
Dr Eric Morgan
University of Bristol
Studies on dog lungworms
Dr James La Course and others
Diagnosis of human fasciolosis
Dr Julian Chantrey
Investigation into red squirrel pox and intensity of parasite burdens. Diagnostic wildlife and exotic (zoo) animal parasitology
Prof Anja Kipar, Dr Udo Hetzel
Applying knowledge of excessive internal and external parasite burdens as indicators of pet aniaml neglect, and using insect devbelopmental stages to estimnate post mortem intervals
Dr Ian Fairweather and others
University of Belfast
EU project
Prof Grace Mulcahy and others
University College Dublin
EU project
Dr McCall, and other academic members of vector biology grp
Knowledge exchange on ticks and other vectors of animal and human diseases, especially related to travel