Moredun Research Institute has strong connections with stakeholders and recently hosted a visit from Elanco Ruminant Technical Consultant Matthew Colston and a group of elite farmers who were interested in finding out “What’s on the horizon for worm control?” As…
Krystyna Cwiklinski, funded by PARAGONE, is a senior post-doc John Dalton’s lab in Queen’s University Belfast. We discussed her specific work on the PARAGONE project and also wider issues surrounding Science and Society. Krystyna commenced her scientific career with a…
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…
Pacheco IL, Abril N, Zafra R, Molina-Hernández V, Morales-Prieto N, Bautista MJ, Ruiz-Campillo MT, Pérez-Caballero R, Martínez-Moreno A, Pérez Vet Res. 2018 Jul 3;49(1):56. doi: 10.1186/s13567--x https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6029414/ In this study we have evaluated the gene expression of T regulatory cells…
Results of a study carried out by partner 10 (University of Córdoba) revealed that peritoneal macrophages from sheep experimentally infected by F. hepatica showed a dramatic increase of CD206 (alternative macrophage activation marker) expression at 1, 3, 9 and 18…
The young scientists Verónica Molina Hernández and María T. Ruiz Campillo, enrolled in the Paragone project (partner 10-UCO), attended the European Society of Veterinary Pathologists and European College of Veterinary Pathologists Annual meeting held from 5th-8th September 2018 in Cluj-Napoca,…
Alejandro Escamilla Sánchez, Isabel L. Pacheco Luque and María T. Ruiz Campillo, who have been contracted by Paragone Project, have recently finished their Thesis. The Thesis entitled: STUDY OF THE MECHANISMS OF IMMUNOMODULATION USED BY FASCIOLA HEPATICA: APOPTOSIS AND REGULATORY…
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…