Job Farm Scotland video
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…
Work form UCD PhD student Amalia Naranjo Lucena
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
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…
Ruth Clements (Benchmark), Work Package 4 Lead of PARAGONE, speaks at the London Vet Show in November 2018
Ruth Clements (Benchmark), Work Package 4 Lead of PARAGONE, speaks at the London Vet Show in November 2018 on sustainable food systems, including the implementation of effective vaccines to control animal disease Global human birth rate is on the decline,…
Raúl Pérez Caballero (BVM, MVSc) and veterinary surgeon and young research at Veterinary Faculty of Córdoba
My name is Raúl Pérez Caballero (BVM, MVSc) and I am a veterinary surgeon and young research at Veterinary Faculty of Córdoba (Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases Unit). Over the last three years, I have been involved in different activities. I…
ImmunoTools (ImmT) is a german biotech company with focus on biologically active proteins and antibody reagents for biomedical and veterinary research
ImmunoTools (ImmT) is a german biotech company with focus on biologically active proteins and antibody reagents for biomedical and veterinary research. Established in 2004 as vendor of high-quality research reagents we started early with development of specialized antibody reagents for…
Mar Siles-Lucas attended the 14th International Congress of Parasitology (ICOPA)
Mar Siles-Lucas attended the 14th International Congress of Parasitology (ICOPA), held from the 19th to the 24th August 2018 in Daegu, Korea. Dr. Siles-Lucas presented the results obtained in the PARAGONE project on “Recognition pattern of the Fasciola hepatica vaccine…
Infection by the helminth parasite Fasciola hepatica requires rapid regulation of metabolic, virulence, and invasive factors to adjust to its mammalian host
Cwiklinski, K., Jewhurst, H., McVeigh, P., Barbour, T., Maule, A., Tort, J., Robinson, M., O’Neill, S.M., Donnelly, S. & Dalton, J.P. (2018) Mol Cell Proteomics. 17:792-809. doi:10.1074/mcp.RA117.000445 http://www.mcponline.org/content/17/4/792.long Our study published in Molecular Cell Proteomics integrates a range of ‘omics’…
Rumen fluke – The Law of Unintended Consequences
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,…
Higher grazing is safe for now!
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)…