Julia N. Hernández was contracted as postdoctoral researcher for 38 months in the PARAGONE project by the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. She has worked -and she is still working- on samples and data analysis, writing papers and…
My experience as a member of the PARAGON proyect has been fantastic. I was greated with a Postgraduate Scholarship for Research Staff Training (FPU grant) from the Ministry of Education and Science, Government of Spain, to carry out my PhD…
Earlier this year I helped Moredun Research Institute communication team deliver 6 workshops for 120 S2 pupils (aged 12 – 14 years) at Peebles High School in collaboration with the Royal Highland Education Trust (RHET). Lab sessions gave pupils hands…
Earlier this year I was approached to film a video for job farm Scotland to showcase a ‘day in the life’ of a PhD research student. Job farm is an initiative set up by the Royal Highland Agricultural Society of…
Amalia is a PhD student based at University College Dublin. Her project focuses on the effects of Fasciola hepatica co-infection on other important livestock diseases, one of the subtasks of the PARAGONE project. In her research she uses in vitro…
Dr. Karen Fairlie-Clarke joined Project Coordinator, Jacqui Matthews, and rest of the PARAGONE team at Moredun Research Institute in May this year to work on nematode vaccine development. Her research background is in immune-mediated host-parasite interactions, in particular co-infections. Since…
Shift of rumen fluke spatial clusters due to flukicide restrictions Between March 2010 and October 2012 only two medications (Albendazole or Oxyclozanide) were licensed for use against liver fluke in Irish dairy herds. Oxyclozanide is also active against rumen flukes,…
A predictive model of fasciolosis indicates differential risk at high and low altitude. The liver fluke has always represented a threat to Irish livestock. The life cycle of the parasite relies on the presence of an intermediate host (mud snail)…
A new study led by PARAGONE coordinator, Jacqui Matthews of Moredun Research Institute (Edinburgh), has shown that when UK livestock farmers procure anthelmintics, there are some important gaps in advice provision relating to reducing the spread of drug resistance. Helminths…
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