Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies
The School teaches postgraduate and undergraduate degree programmes, the latter providing the necessary training for a future career as a veterinary surgeon, and undertakes research across a range of veterinary-related fields.Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies is part of The College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine. Visit the School web site at www.vet.ed.ac.uk.
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LD4D - Proceedings of Meeting 4-6 February 2020, Rome
(2020-02-06)Presenters will share experiences measuring impact at different scales, including what methods and data they use to measure impact, and the robustness of those measurements. The community will be invited to provide feedback ... -
LD4D - Proceedings of Meeting 4-6 February 2020, Rome
(2020-02-06)Producers and other actors are making significant investments in livestock farming systems and value chains. How should we plan investments that safeguard sustainable livestock development now and in the future? How should ... -
LD4D - Proceedings of Meeting 4-6 February 2020, Rome
(2020-02-06)How are technology applications supporting livestock health and productivity in LMICs? This dynamic and interactive session will showcase well-established solutions as well as new and emerging tech that support value chains ... -
LD4D - Proceedings of Meeting 4-6 February 2020, Rome
(2020-02-06)Longitudinal datasets provides valuable insights to changes over time at a national level. This session will consider which longitudinal datasets are currently available, how they contribute to knowledge in the sector, and ... -
LD4D - Proceedings of Meeting 4-6 February 2020, Rome
(2020-02-06)Speakers will present their insights into future livestock trends (increased demand for meat, climate change impacts on food production, etc) and present key opportunities and challenges for the livestock sector. -
LD4D - Proceedings of Meeting 4-6 February 2020, Rome
(2020-02-06)The 2020 LD4D Community of Practice meeting was hosted by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome from 4-6 February. There was a special focus on “making the most of FAO’s livestock data”. -
Molecular mechanisms underlying hair shape variation in the human population
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-04)Hair is one of the defining characteristics of mammals and functions in thermoregulation, protection, camouflage and social signalling. In humans, scalp hair is a distinctly variable trait, differing in colour, shape and ... -
Veterinary and medical undergraduate attitudes to pain in animals and non-verbal humans
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-04)Attitudes have the potential to influence future behaviour and may affect how people respond to pain in animals and non-verbal humans. The attitudes of veterinary and medical students towards pain are unknown. In order ... -
Investigating the impact of osteoblast-specific NPP1 ablation on bone and energy metabolism
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-04)The skeleton is a mineralised tissue, which facilitates classical functions of locomotion, organ protection and mineral homeostasis. However, the bone has more recently been identified as an endocrine organ with the ability ... -
Application of social network analysis to understand acute and chronic post-mixing aggression in commercially reared pigs
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-04)In commercial systems, pigs are routinely regrouped with unfamiliar conspecifics which leads to physical aggression in order to establish new dominance relationships. Post-mixing aggression lasts approximately 24 hours ... -
Investigation into germ cell fate determination of rat embryonic stem cells
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-04)The laboratory rat is an important experimental model in biomedical research. Rat embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are valuable for studying mammalian development and for facilitating germ line-modification of rat strains. ... -
Demand-driven solutions to reduce aggression between pigs
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-04)Aggression between pigs is common in commercial farming as pigs fight to establish dominance relationships at regrouping. The behaviour has been studied extensively since the 1970s and several strategies to reduce ... -
Companion animal tuberculosis: clinical presentations, outbreak investigations, improved diagnostics and the early macrophage response
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-04)Tuberculosis caused by the Mycobacterium (M.) tuberculosis-complex (MTBC) of organisms remains one of the most prevalent and deadly infectious diseases of man and other animals. The mycobacteria responsible are a highly ... -
Phage-mediated adaptation of Staphylococcus aureus to the avian innate immune response
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-04)Staphylococcus aureus is an important human and livestock pathogen. An S. aureus prophage (Avβ) inserted into the chromosome at the β-toxin gene (β-converting phage) is present in approximately 90% of human strains and is ... -
Leprosy in squirrels: an ancient disease in an endangered wildlife host
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-04)Leprosy is an ancient human disease that was thought to have been eradicated from the British Isles. The last case of autochthonous human infection was documented in the 1950’s. Natural infection with leprosy bacilli in ... -
An investigation into the wild meat trade in Malaysia and its implications for zoonotic disease
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015)Hunting wildlife for food has detrimental effects on many wild animal populations and represents a major threat to biodiversity. The great diversity of zoonotic pathogens identified in wildlife hosts may pose infection ... -
Mode of action of a novel lymphocyte inhibitory factor of attaching and effacing Escherichia coli
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-04)Attaching and effacing Escherichia coli are significant diarrhoeal pathogens that can spread between humans or via animal reservoirs. An important virulence factor produced by these bacteria is the large multifunctional ... -
Genomic and transcriptomic landscape of the Indian Water Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-04)The water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) is one of the most important domesticated species in India providing milk, meat, hide and draft power. At over 100 million animals, India has the highest number of water buffalo in the ... -
Examining the potential of rationally designed recombinant Infectious Bronchitis Virus as a vaccine against Infectious Bronchitis
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-04)Infectious Bronchitis Virus (IBV) is a gammacoronavirus that is prevalent in poultry flocks worldwide. Infection results in Infectious Bronchitis (IB), an economically important disease characterised by snicking, rales, ... -
East Coast Fever and vaccination at the livestock/wildlife interface
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-04)East Coast fever (ECF) in cattle is caused by the tick-borne protozoan Theileria parva, and is transmitted by the three-host tick Rhipicephalus appendiculatus. The African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is the natural host ...
