School of Biodiversity One Health and Veterinary Medicine

New PhD Alert! 📢 Uncovering environmental and artificial light impacts on domestic animals❗ Link for more information and to apply below: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

It's that time of year again when our @naturally-speaking.bsky.social bloggers and podcasters get together to discuss plans for the year ahead. Why not take this opportunity to catch up on what you might have missed? naturallyspeaking.blog #environmentalchange #science #ecology

Congratulations 🎉 to our PhD Student Ansley Li for winning the flash talk prize at the Recent Advances in Nutritional Physiology: A Muscle-centric Perspective conference. Good Job Ansley! @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk

Building on the successful foundation of the recent UKRI-funded Mosquito Scotland project, Heather Ferguson @drheatherferg.bsky.social and Emilie Pondeville have secured funding for a major new initiative focused on mosquito and midge-borne diseases in the UK #sbohvm www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...

Building on the successful foundation of the recent UKRI-funded Mosquito Scotland project, Heather Ferguson @drheatherferg.bsky.social and Emilie Pondeville have secured funding for a major new initiative focused on mosquito and midge-borne diseases in the UK #sbohvm www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...

A warm welcome to our new PhD and MSciR students who are joining us in @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk We look forward to our next few years together!

🦟New paper out! Mosquito age is a key determinant of malaria transmission, but measuring it remains challenging. We validated Polovodova ovary dissection method & provided benchmarks for its use in surveillance 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jme/... Congrats to #DoreenSiria on 2nd PhD paper! @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk

New PhD opportunity to study vectors, pathogens, birds and urbanisation with @dmdominoni.bsky.social and I @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk and #LuigiSedda @lancasteruni.bsky.social The impact of urbanisation on vector-borne transmission: avian malaria as a case study Deadlines: 🌍 1/10 to 30/11 🇬🇧 2/11 to 4/1

New PhD opportunity to study vector ecology in UK with @drheatherferg.bsky.social and I @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk & @martashocket.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social Insecticide Resistance in UK Culex pipiens mosquitoes 🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... Deadlines: 🌍 1/10 to 30/11 🇬🇧 2/11 to 4/1

It’s Scottish Climate Week! Learn how PhD student Penny Jack is tracking feral pigs in the Great Glen and how this could help plan for the future if #AfricanSwineFever were to enter the UK due to climate change. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #ASFV #feralpigs #ScottishClimateWeek

📢 New paper out by @erin-eco1.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk We show that mid-infrared spectroscopy can identify host species from dried mosquito blood meals collected on filter paper 🦟🩸 A scalable tool for vector-borne disease surveillance and host-feeding studies. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our paper by #DoreenSiria @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk #IfakaraHealthInstitute is out! We reviewed mosquito age-grading methods and surveyed vector control professionals across sub-Saharan Africa. Mosquito age is a key surveillance metric, but scalable tools are still needed. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This week marked #WorldRabiesDay. However, our researchers work every day in the fight against the disease. Learn more about how they are collaborating both here in Glasgow and Tanzania in the efforts against #rabies www.cabidigitallibrary.org/do/10.5555/b...

Analysing original Gaelic and Scots place-names has helped a team of UofG scientists, led by SBOHVM's Anna McGregor rediscover the locations of important oyster beds on the West Coast of Scotland. Read the full story - www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... #TeamUofG #ProjectEisirean #NativeOysters

Mosquitoes in Scotland: Friend and foe? Join @drheatherferg.bsky.social to learn about new research exploring their ecology, distribution and potential to transmit disease. Come along to view live mosquitoes and speak to our experts👉 rse.org.uk/event/mosqui... #curiousfestival #mosquitoes #onehealth

A new study, led by @khampson.bsky.social has found that expanding dog vaccination is the most effective and cost-effective way to eliminate rabies deaths in people in Kerala, India 👉https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1290403_en.html #OneHealth #Rabies #Vaccination

Our new work led by #IvanCasas & @mauropazmino.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk: TAUS: Target-Age Unified Survival. Survival Analysis Without Assuming Proportional Hazards or Parameterising the Survival Function 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ece3... A new framework to estimate survival to a chosen target age

We have a ca 1.5 yr postdoc available in our team, asking, 'what is the shape of the fitness landscape between oviparity and viviparity?' and 'what drives viviparity to evolve'? 🧬 using 🦎 as a model. closes 16 Sept. Details on EvolDir evoldir.net/brian/evoldi... @glasgow.ac.uk @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk

Paper out today led by Hongxin Xie answering a question we have been asking for years! how did viviparity evolve in common lizards? 🦎 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our team @sceneuog.bsky.social has carried out work to repair the jetty at our specialist facility on the stunning, bonny bonny banks of Loch Lomond youtu.be/JB-8FMlBheQ

🆕Two New Technician Posts @UofGSBOHVM 🚨INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY 206133 – Technician www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/technici... 206033 - Technician www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/technici... 📅Closing date is 23:45 on Monday 24 August

🎉 #EmmanuelHape on his new publication! Great collaboration b/w #ifakarahealthinstitute #WitsUni @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk We established a new laboratory colony of Anopheles funestus, a key #malaria #vector, creating an important resource for malaria research in Africa 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New paper out! 🎉 Led by #IssiakaSaré and #IRSS team in Burkina Faso, we show that locally isolated Metarhizium pingshaense fungus has cross-stage and maternal effects that reduce #malaria #mosquito fitness. Great collaboration between #IRSS and @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

The Small Animal Hospital is the first in the UK to use groundbreaking bee and wasp venom immunotherapy for dogs suffering from extreme allergic reactions to stings. Read more👉https://www.gla.ac.uk/.../news/headline_1284067_en.html www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... #TeamUofG

A new study led by SBOHVM's Kevin Parsons & Matthew Brachmann and published in Nature Communications reveals that a genetic adaptation to living in warmer waters causes fish to be obese. 👉https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/bohvm/about/news/headline_1284829_en.html www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In a new study led by @shaunkillen.bsky.social, a virtual reality fish platform offers new insights into the impact of artificial light on aquatic life 👉 www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

new paper in @molecology.bsky.social from MVLS-DTP @uofgmvls.bsky.social research of @teamlizard.bsky.social 's J Smout 🧬 gene expression & alternative splicing in a viviparous lizard; new candidate genes + some known from other amniotes 👀🦎 @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

First paper from the project is now out - led by @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk PhD student @meshachlee.bsky.social this study evaluated of the efficiency of different trapping methods for sampling #mosquito populations in Scotland. Read here ⬇️ 🦟 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Just out! Spatial epidemiology of Avian flu in seabird populations. #HPAI, #Bayesian, #Conservation, #Panzootic, #Gannets, @jwejeglinski.bsky.social @heyjoode.bsky.social , @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @rspb.bsky.social @au.dk @heriotwattuni.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Are you attending this year's Royal Highland Show? Come and visit our stand in a new location on the 7th Avenue. Meet with our vets and find out what it's like to study veterinary medicine at our stunning Garscube campus in Glasgow. #WorldChangingGlasgow #TeamUofG #VeterinaryMedicine

Congrats Sayantan and colleagues on your publication! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... Check out the discovery of the impact prolactin and triiodothyronine have on hamster adipose tissue. @sayantansur.bsky.social @calumstewartphd.bsky.social @iremsenman.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk

New preprint: socioeconomics & Lyme disease Using data from Glasgow, we found that more advantaged neighbourhoods had higher Lyme disease incidence, partly explained by greater woodland cover. Heavily used park also had lower tick densities. @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

@drheatherferg.bsky.social of #MosquitoScotland & Ryan Carmichael of #MosquitoNI joined #AveryHolmes from @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk to speak to a sell out crowd at the wildlife disease ecology #PintofScience session on Mon. Great enthusiam & submissions for beer mat design context - new lab logo?

🆕 | A new research project led by @uofgsii.bsky.social's Dr @rebeccamchugh.bsky.social has been awarded £22k in funding from the Hannah Dairy Foundation. The project, a collaboration with Dr Rheinallt Jones from @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk, will address neonatal calf scour. 🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infe...

🎉Congratulations to @khampson.bsky.social recently awarded the 2026 Plowright Prize & £100,000 for her extraordinary research into dog-mediated rabies and how this has influenced efforts to eliminate human deaths from the infectious disease. www.rcvsknowledge.org/article/worl...

Registration is now open for the first UK Virome Forum meeting! 📍 Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow 🗓️ 5-6 Oct 2026 🦠 Animal, human and environmental viromics For more info, including speakers, check bit.ly/ukvf-2026 or @ukvf.bsky.social Register for free: tinyurl.com/yhnartn5

Last week, we dedicated our Friday Social in the Zoology Museum to David Attenborough. Happy 100th birthday, Sir David! 🎉 Sir David officially opened the refurbished Zoology Museum 40 years ago -pictured below with our then Head of Department, Keith Vickerman. #Attenborough100

Featuring Dr Andrew Brownlow and PhD researcher Anna Kebke: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

SBOHVM's Prof. Nick Hanley recently featured on the Marginal Babble (@marginalbabble.bsky.social) podcast discussing environmental economics. Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0Wv...

On Tuesday research staff and students came together for a full day of talks, discussion and networking. Around 170 colleagues attended enjoying a varied and engaging programme. An impressive snapshot of the breadth of research activity and the remarkable achievements across our community!

PhD Opportunity! Ecological impacts of anthelmintic usage on soil micro- and mesofaunal communities - jointly funded by the University of Glasgow and the James Hutton Institute. For full details and to apply: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Deadline: 21st May 2026.

New Naturally Speaking Podcast! Episode 102 – A Field Course on Tropical Marine Biology Listen here: naturallyspeaking.blog/2026/04/18/e...

🦟 New paper accepted! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Dr #RogerSanou led work using mid‑infrared spectroscopy + machine learning to identify species and age of male #mosquito Anopheles gambiae s.l. Proud collaboration led by #IRSS-BurkinaFaso with #IHI & @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk + @uofgchem.bsky.social

Our new paper in @cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social Adapting Africa’s vector surveillance systems to monitor gene-drive mosquitoes in malaria control: www.cell.com/trends/paras... Led by Prof #FredrosOkumu, Dr #LinaFinda, Dr #JoelOdero @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk #IfakaraHealthInstitute #OneHealth #GeneDrive

New paper out! 🦟 💧☀️ Seasonal variation in aquatic habitat availability and use by the malaria vector, Anopheles funestus 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... 👏 Dr #NajatKahamba for leading this work on this crucial #malaria vector 👏 to the whole team #IfakaraHealthInstitute & @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk

Congratulations to Andrew Brownlow and team @strandings.bsky.social on the renewal of the Marine Directorate contract. The funding will support this vital project for the next 5 years. Learn more - www.gla.ac.uk/schools/bohv... strandings.org #strandings #marinestrandings

Our project was proud to support the follow up investigation of these detections following identification by our collaborators at the Animal and Plant Health Agency UK and @srucnews.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....

Delighted to share our review in @natrevmicro.nature.com! Here, myself and @richard-quilliam.bsky.social synthesise current knowledge on the aquatic #plastisphere, and assess the evidence for #plastics being #pathogen and #AMR reservoirs @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @uofstirling-bes.bsky.social rdcu.be/fbm6N

🧬 New study! How do mitochondria change across life? We tracked mtDNAcn within Zebra finches and found early-life decline and links of mtDNAcn to late-life flight performance #Ornithology #Physiology #Mitochondria @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @ifv-whv.bsky.social 🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

This finding challenges previous assumption that conditions in Scotland are 'too cold' for transmission, and emphasises importance of rolling out #mosquito vector-borne disease surveillance across the whole UK. #climatechange @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @uofgnews.bsky.social @cvrinfo.bsky.social