Fiona Roby

Name:	Fiona Roby
Affiliation:	Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge
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Last login:	23 Mar 2026, 1:26 p.m.

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• Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine
• Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine
• Pre-viva talks Dept of Veterinary Medicine
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• Grand Rounds - Equine
• A novel hereditary encephalopathy in four related Labrador Retrievers associated with a missense variant in the ALDH5A1 gene’
• Grand Rounds - Soft tissue
• CT Variants of the Caudal Vena Cava in 516 Cats
• Dissecting Virus-Induced Host Cell Death Pathways in Chicken Cells During Influenza A Infection
• Grand Rounds - Neurology: 'Chase...the dream??'
• Is there a link between the plasma concentration of extracellular vesicles and presentation/outcome of IVDE in dogs?
• From Structure to Shield: Smarter Vaccine Design for Broader Protection
• Mathematical Modelling for the Early Detection of Circulating Rift Valley Fever in Uganda
• The Evolution of B Cell Reactivity Following Sequential Dengue Infection
• Identifying novel antimicrobial resistance variants in Klebsiella pneumoniae
• Evidence of filovirus circulation among bats and humans in Ghana
• 'MRI findings in cats with histologically confirmed or serologically suspected central nervous system toxoplasmosis
• How can we best teach ethics to vet students?
• Investigating Brachycephalic Obstructive Airway Syndrome in Previously Unstudied Breeds
• What’s fishy in New England: Melanoma in a benthic catfish species represents a new transmissible cancer
• JCTS talks
• JCTS talks
• Rabies Elimination in Nepal: Evaluating the Burden, Surveillance, and Treatment-Seeking Behaviour of Animal Bite Victims
• Piezo1 as a Key Mediator of Calcium-Dependent Phosphatidylserine Exposure in Sickle Cell Disease
• Investigation into the role of Poly ADP-Ribose (PAR) in intervertebral disc calcification in dogs
• Grand Rounds - Farm Animal
• Multivalent recombinant vaccines based on the bacterial Outer Membrane Vesicles (OMV) platform
• Smart Medicine for All Species: AI in Veterinary and Biomedical Research
• Novel antimicrobial peptides in Teladorsagia circumcincta excretory-secretory products: new leads in helminth–microbiota interactions
• Uncovering Genomic Drivers Across 13 Feline Cancer Types
• CRAF forms (staff talk)
• Innate Immune Sensing of Cytosolic Bacterial Lipopeptides
• Nasal Mucosal Leishmaniasis: Clinical Features, Gaps in Models, and a New Experimental Direction?
• MicroRNA expression in histiocytic sarcomas of flat-coated retrievers
• Grand Rounds
• CamVet Clinial Research Grants
• An Investigation into The Mineral And Mechanical Properties Of The Canine Intervertebral Disc And Its Clinical Implications
• Advanced imaging of the feline biliary tract.
• Canine Myasthenia Gravis: Insights from 167 cases and the need for better diagnostics
• JCTS Presentations
• JCTS Presentations
• Leishmaniasis in Colombia: A Host-Pathogen Interaction Perspective.
• Mapping germinal center responses after monovalent vaccination in individuals with distinct dengue immune histories
• Grand Rounds - Oncology
• A novel approach to the maxillary nerve: The Palatine Technique
• What’s the DVM Research Admin Team Up To? Grants, Culture, Impact & New Collaborations!
• Stereo-photogrammetry of reef manta rays: insights into aggregation, maturity, and sexual dimorphism
• The global epidemiology of Streptococcus canis identifies genomic features of host adaptation, virulence and antimicrobial resistance
• Grand Rounds - Our experience treating cats with feline infectious peritonitis
• Geospatial Analysis of Bacterial Meningitis Outbreaks in Africa
• Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Unraveling Its Variability, Mimics, and Predictors
• Grand Rounds - QICG
• Investigating the role of Influenza virus neuraminidase activity on the host immune response
• Evaluation of fluorescence in situ hybridisation for the detection of bacterial pathogens in liver biopsy samples from dogs with idiopathic chronic hepatitis
• Development of diagnostic assays using a surface plasmon resonance platform technology
• Preparing for the next pandemic: a computationally designed, future-proofed pan-H5 haemagglutinin nanoparticle vaccine
• Grand Rounds - Neurology
• Computational Methods to Design Broad-Spectrum Medical Countermeasures Against Antigenically Diverse Pathogens
• Computational Methods to Design Broad-Spectrum Medical Countermeasures Against Antigenically Diverse Pathogens
• BOAS, the canine 'obstructive sleep apnoea' effect on the brain - The BBB study'
• The MRC Toxicology Unit Histopathology Core Facility – resources and potential opportunities?”
• Epidemiology and modelling to support the routine infant immunisation programme in England
• Epidemiology and modelling to support the routine infant immunisation programme in England
• Exploring the Impact of One Health Approaches on Canine Rabies Vaccination Efforts Globally
• 'Diagnostic challenges and outcome following splenectomy due to Polyclonal B-cell Lymphocytosis in an English Bulldog (PBLEB)
• Epithelial and immune cell dynamics in non-traditional models of mammary postnatal development
• Epithelial and immune cell dynamics in non-traditional models of mammary postnatal development
• Genome secrets: Unmasking intervertebral disc disease in Miniature Dachshunds
• Ornithobacterium hominis: investigating a 'bird bacterium' found in the respiratory tract of humans
• Better together? Evidence-based use of trazodone and gabapentin for sedation’
• Disarm and disengage: Understanding Aurodox - a Type III Secretion System inhibitor from Streptomyces
• Use of a novel haemostatic sponge following alarvestibuloplasty in French Bull Dogs
• Where do pathogens live? Mapping the microbial hiding spots of pathogenic Streptococcus suis in pigs and farms
• Gene-based vaccines to combat bacterial diseases, hurdles and opportunities
• Infection- and Vaccine-induced Immune Responses to SARS-CoV-2 and Other Human Coronaviruses.
• JCTS Presentations
• JCTS Presentations
• A Clinical research project, the positives and the pitfalls?
• FluTrailMap: Disease prevention on farms: understanding the socio-ecological factors influencing the use of biosecurity on poultry farms in the UK
• Evaluation of haematology scatter plots as a method of predicting blood film abnormalities'
• Long-term survival and adaptive strategies of Burkholderia pseudomallei in distilled water: Insights from a 28-year study
• Grand Rounds - QICG/Vetsafe
• Modelling stochastic die-out and re-introduction of meningococcal serogroup A in Ghana
• RADIOGRAPHIC FINDINGS OF THE COELOMIC CAVITY IN A GROUP OF 44 JUVENILE FARMED CROCODILES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
• Genomics and evolution of two transmissible cancers in the endangered Tasmanian Devil
• Streptococcus equi whole genome sequencing data shed new light on endemic persistence and transmission of strangles in the United Kingdom
• Clinical Research Talks
• Active Surveillance of Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Fresh Push to Identify Reservoir Hosts
• The global ecological landscape of Enterobacteriaceae within the human gut microbiome
• 'The Effects of Pre-existing Human Adenovirus Immunity on Adenovirus vectored COVID-19 Vaccine'
• Advances, challenges, and new initiatives in veterinary clinical microbiology
• JCTS Presentations
• Seneca Valley Virus infection detections in United Kingdom
• Non-Viral Based Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Therapeutics Against Osteoarthritis in Canines
• How use of SSRI impacts placenta and mammary gland development
• Underreporting of animal bite cases in Nepal
• Allelic Expression Imbalance in CTVT
• Not all visitors welcome at this summer’s Olympics: managing neurological EHV-1 at equine events
• Charting the unknown diversity of the human gut microbiome in health and disease
• Covering All Bases: A Novel Method To Design Broad-Spectrum Vaccines
• Grand Rounds - Just because it’s a dachshund it’s not always a disc!
• The Bioscience Technology Platform Project
• Applying for Clinical Research Funds: Some guidance on how make a good clinical research funding application
• Is Rift Valley fever disease endemic in Uganda? Lessons from livestock abortions surveillance study
• A review of anti-CD20 targeted therapeutics in canine lymphoma'
• Grand Rounds
• Did a body temperature change cause expansion of innate immunity in mammals comparing to birds?
• VHHs for the prevention and control of Campylobacter spp
• The role of SARS-CoV-2 Membrane and Envelope proteins in protective immunity to COVID-19
• Identification of novel antibiotic resistance mechanisms in Klebsiella pneumoniae using machine learning
• Grand Rounds - Oncology
• Seasonal and spatial patterns of henipavirus seroprevalence in Straw-colored Fruit Bats (Eidolon helvum)
• Outcomes following explantation of pancarpal, pantarsal and partial tarsal arthrodesis plates
• Modelling optimal intervention strategies for animal diseases in data poor settings
• Serum symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA) concentrations are not influenced by systemic inflammation in cats
• The Expansion of a Canine Pathogen through Acquired Virulence and Multi-Host Transmission
• Jane Dobson – Teaching Guide
• Grand Rounds
• JCTS Presentations
• Predicting in vivo metabolic vulnerabilities in Streptococcus suis using metabolic models
• JCTS Presentations
• Comparison of the outcome of dogs undergoing hiatal hernia repair with and without use of a gastropexy: 41 cases (2012-2022)
• Discovery of potent broadly neutralizing antibodies against dengue virus using a targeted E dimer probe
• The role of SARS-CoV-2 Membrane and Envelope proteins in protective immunity to COVID-19
• Midline shift diagnosed on brain MRI is a prognostic factor for survival time in dogs with structural brain disease
• Participatory development of a drinking water testing system
• The reciprocate interaction between gut microbiome and parasite eggs
• Evaluation of the association between myoclonus and cervical intervertebral disc disease in dogs
• Grand Rounds
• Clec9A-targeting as a pathogen agnostic vaccine platform for pandemic vaccine response
• Nationwide HLA frequency and Network based viral host prediction.
• Tick-borne diseases with special focus on Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever in Humans and Animals
• JCTS PRESENTATIONS
• JCTS PRESENTATIONS
• JCTS PRESENTATIONS
• Mitigating zoonotic risk from bats in rural Kenya
• Immune imprinting and implications for next-generation influenza and coronavirus vaccines
• A Novel Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) ST5 Clone in Asia
• Canine Intervertebral Disc Extrusions
• Whole genome sequenced based molecular diagnostics for enteric pathogens
• Real-time Genomics and One Health – The River Cam and novel pathogen surveillance technology
• Grand Rounds (Oncology): 'Allergic to mast cells'
• One Health In Action in the Caribbean
• Brain and Serum profile of the African Giant Rat brain (Cricetomys gambianus) after natural exposure to heavy metal environmental pollution in the Nigerian Niger Delta
• Scalable monitoring of Infectious Diseases through biological weather stations
• Campylobacter and Host Interactions in West Africa
• Rehabilitation for neuro patients in Mexico
• Grand Rounds (Cardiology): 'Lidocaine for supraventricular tachyarrhythmias: the good, the bad, and the ugly'
• Grand Rounds - Breaking down barriers to clinical research
• Optical monitoring of cerebral metabolism: from seizures to dogs
• Analysing the immunity profile of group A meningococcus in Ghana
• Transmission history of SARS-CoV-2 in white-tailed deer
• A genome-wide association study for paroxysmal dyskinesia in the Norwich Terrier breed of dog
• Unravelling the whipworm niche at the host intestinal epithelia
• Clinical reasoning in acute thoracolumbar myelopathy in dogs without advanced imaging
• Identification and expression of putative antimicrobial molecules from gastrointestinal nematode excretory-secretory products
• Contribution of pneumococci to the risk of developing pneumonia: The Drakenstein Child Health Study
• Grand Rounds - Hypercalcaemia in a cat with concurrent CKD previously treated for hyperthyroidism with Iodine -131
• Towards the development of a pan-betacoronavirus vaccine: evaluating cross-reactive embecovirus antigens in vivo
• Outcome and Complications Associated with Cholecystoenterostomy Surgery in Dogs and Cats
• Mechanisms of intervertebral disc calcification and its clinical implications in dogs
• A novel approach to producing a Universal Influenza Vaccine
• Monitoring of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and reasons for vaccine acceptance in Finland between 2020 and 2021
• Using genomics to diagnose helminths in poo
• Spillover Surveillance and One Health Response: Understanding Emerging Zoonotic Threats in Real Time
• Grand Rounds - Medicine - The Textbook Addisonian?
• JCTS PRESENTATIONS
• JCTS PRESENTATIONS
• JCTS PRESENTATIONS
• The journey of XDR typhoid in Pakistan
• Uncovering the role of the vertebrate gut microbiota in the pathophysiology of schistosomiasis mansoni
• Clinical presentation of squamous cell carcinoma of the frontal sinus and response to radiation therapy
• Title to be confirmed
• Grand Rounds - Soft Tissue
• Modelling the implementation of routine varicella vaccination in the UK
• Mr Wobbles
• Exploring terminal duct lobular unit (TDLU) development using non-traditional models
• Acupuncture in Veterinary Medicine
• Incidence of post-anaesthetic respiratory complications and their risk factors in 199 dogs undergoing surgery for brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome
• Genomic epidemiology of E. coli isolates from Pakistan
• Grand Rounds: From back pain to paralysis; what should we do with those discs?
• One health, many challenges no silver bullet.
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome economization for pathogenesis: “More from less for more”
• JCTS PRESENTATIONS
• JCTS PRESENTATIONS
• GRAND ROUNDS: Fad diets and broken hearts: the link between diet and DCM in dogs
• Does Schistosoma mansoni harbour a microbiota
• Feline cholangiopathies – A search for an immune-mediated aetiology
• Looking for the biases and gaps in spillover data of zoonotic viruses
• Use of cellular barcoding to track the clonal evolution in Ewing's Sarcoma cells
• The evolution of virulence in Streptococcus suis
• Investigating BOAS in different brachycephalic breeds
• GRAND ROUNDS: Neurotoxicoses: a short case series
• Modelling the spatial and temporal patterns of anthrax risk across Kenya and Uganda using a Bayesian approach
• Acute portal hypertension during liver lobectomy in a dog - a rare, but fatal complication
• Identification and production of putative antimicrobial peptides from the Black Soldier Fly
• A comparison of systemic lidocaine and brachial plexus blockade for rabbits undergoing orthopaedic surgery
• BBB study - Brachycephalic Breathing Brain
• Temperament, Health and Production in Dairy Cattle
• Multimodality advanced imaging
• GRAND ROUNDS Imaging.
• A brief history of the HBLB equine influenza surveillance programme
• antibody dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) in vaccinated healthcare workers
• The comparison of low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), cone beam computed tomography (CBCT), and fan beam computed tomography (FBCT) for detection of fetlock pathology in equine cadaver limbs
• Infection and Vaccine Induced T-cell Responses to SARS-CoV-2 in Healthcare Workers and Immunodeficient Persons
• Immunogenicity of a trivalent vaccine candidate against Lassa fever, Ebola and Marburg virus
• The activation of the complement system contributes to severe inflammatory pathology in COVID-19
• The interesting case of a retroperitoneal mass in a young German Shepherd Dog
• GRAND ROUNDS Anaesthesia
• Non-pharmaceutical interventions and heterogeneous transmission effects
• Genetic studies of paroxysmal dyskinesia in the dog
• A case of unusual transmissible venereal tumour
• Hypercalcaemia in typical and atypical hypoadrenocorticism in dogs; prevalence, breed association and suggested aetiology
• Title to be confirmed
• JCTS PRESENTATIONS
• JCTS PRESENTATIONS
• Situation of animal rabies in Nepal
• Canine intervertebral disc disease: How much do we really know?
• Modelling the impact of Covid-19 on meningococcal disease
• Characterisation of monocytes fate mapping mouse model
• Computational Methods To Accelerate Vaccine Development
• Use of the ‘anti-asthma drug' salbutamol in myasthenia
• Grand Rounds: Clinical microbiology and antimicrobial stewardship at the QVSH: whose job is it, anyway?
• GRAND ROUNDS Clinical pathology.
• The relationship between calcification and intervertebral disc disease in chondrodystrophic dogs
• Serosurvey of 3 zoonotic causes of reproductive failure in small ruminants in Zimbabwe’s smallholder sector
• Grand Rounds
• GRAND ROUNDS
• In search of genetic modifiers of protein misfolding neurodegenerative disease
• Longitudinal Study on HiC Data in Pig Farms
• Junior Clinical Training Scholar talks
• Adaptation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to growth as a biofilm
• Junior Clinical Training Scholar talks
• Vaccination against the brown stomach worm, Teladorsagia circumcincta, followed by parasite challenge, induces inconsistent modifications in gut microbiota composition of lambs
• Defining candidate correlates of humoral immunity to COVID-19 using convalescent serum samples from hospitalised patients and NHS healthcare workers
• Ultrasonography and photogrammetry: new approaches to the study of manta rays ecology
• Time-dependent rates of evolution in pathogens
• Grand Rounds - Multiple infectious diseases in an untravelled dog: True or False?
• Spillover – lessons learned from emerging bat viruses
• The title of my presentation is: Evaluation of lymph node metastasis in patients with mast cell tumors
• The evolution of pathogenicity in Streptococcus suis
• Grand Rounds
• Therapies for hereditary retinal diseases
• Does patient positioning affect the ease of cystolith retrieval during percutaneous cystolithotomy?
• Campylobacter in the food chain: Survival
• A booster dose enhances immunogenicity of the COVID-19 vaccine candidate ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 in aged mice
• Klebsiella pneumoniae gene essentiality and fitness during infections
• Title to be confirmed
• Follow-up TPLO radiography: ‘belts and braces’ or a victim of tradition?
• Grand Rounds
• The applicability and analytical challenge of urinary 5-Hydroxyindole acetic acid (5-HIAA) as a biomarker in dogs.
• Cryptic susceptibility of major MRSA lineages to potentiated penicillins
• Title to be confirmed
• Title to be confirmed
• Grand Rounds
• AO Global Data – revolutionising medical data collection, enabling outcome reporting and evidence-based medical decision making.
• GRAND ROUNDS
• Detection and Characterization of Blood-borne Prions
• A Study of Pathological Lesions in European badgers (Meles meles) with and without mycobacteriosis in England
• Pig Impacts: Comparing Costs of Contrasting Livestock Systems How do Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Antimicrobial Use and Animal Welfare of UK and Brazilian Pig Production vary with Yield?
• Retrospective evaluation of albuminocytological dissociation (ACD) and survival in dogs
• Understanding the Risk Factors for Lassa Virus Transmission
• GRAND ROUNDS
• Unsocial Medicine: exploring intersections between livestock health epidemiology and local knowledge networks
• Where is the African meningitis belt now?
• Equine induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) as an alternative source of obtaining chondrocytes
• 'Use of genetic and serological data in dynamical models of infectious disease'
• JCTS tlks
• Postponed - talk will be presented as physical lecture when Department returns - date provisional (The therapeutic utility of inhibiting the lectin pathway of complement activation .....
• The Cancer Paradox: Investigations into the somatic mutation rate across mammals
• Title to be confirmed
• The role of infectious mammalian prions in disease phenotype
• Control strategies for bovine tuberculosis in endemic settings
• GRAND ROUNDS: "Becky...The case that kept on giving"
• Morris Animal Foundation: Grant funding opportunities and access to the Golden Retriever Lifetime Study
• Cannabis Medicines - a Modern Reality
• Title to be confirmed
• Commensal E. coli are a reservoir for the transfer of XDR plasmids into epidemic fluoroquinolone-resistant Shigella sonnei
• JCTS Presentations
• Of cats and men: Studying feline biliary tract disease’
• JCTS Presentations
• Metabolomics: Applications and impact in animal health and husbandry
• Using genomics to enrich our knowledge of the human gut microbiome
• Developing pain alleviation therapeutics from mesenchymal stem cells for osteoarthritis
• MDR cartography: Visualisation of multidrug resistance phenotypes in Streptococcus suis'
• GRAND ROUNDS - To cut, or not to cut, that is the question
• Pancreatic islet microenvironment
• Dogs, Cats, Disease, and the Galapagos Islands
• GRAND ROUNDS
• Combining 3D printing and collagen scaffolds to produce orthopaedic implants
• Physiological consequences of a common POMC mutation in dogs
• Genomic epidemiology of bacterial antimicrobial resistance across the One Health spectrum
• Canine Total Hip Replacement - The Benefit of 3D planning - An update
• Silicon as a plant nutrient: An opportunity to improve household incomes of small scale mango farmers in Kenya
• Exploring the intimacy between bats and viruses: the evolution and function of bat antiviral IFITM proteins
• How to fix a broken heart?
• A Wobbly Path: Looking for answers on Cervical Spondylomyelopathy
• Inferring Mycobacterium bovis transmission between cattle and badgers using the RBCT sampling framework
• Title to be confirmed
• Ancient DNA, extinction, domestication and the cost of modern farming
• Unravelling mysterious interactions between viruses and antibodies: molecular mechanisms and importance in vaccination
• Social dynamics in dairy cattle
• Organoids: closing the gap between in vitro & in vivo models
• GRAND ROUNDS - Suspected canine systemic lupus erythematosus
• Paint-on antimicrobial bandages: a new approach for veterinary wound management
• The lectin pathway of complement: The Swiss army knife of innate immunity
• Dissecting the host response during pathogen-specific mastitis in cows
• Tracing the evolution of contagious cancers in the Tasmanian devil
• Genome remodelling in Streptococcus pyogenes
• GRAND ROUNDS - ‘Pip the Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever: a chronic diarrhea case’
• Evaluation of serum C-reactive protein in 26 dogs with Meningoencephalomyelitis of Unknown Origin
• Risk factors for temporary tracheostomy tube placement in dogs undergoing BOAS surgery
• How often do cervical nerve roots contrast enhance on MRI independent of a specific lesion?
• The parallelism of evolution of multi-drug resistant clones
• GRAND ROUNDS - 'A potpourri of clinical research'
• Title to be confirmed
• Mechanism of PS (Phosphatidylserine) exposure in red blood cells from patients with sickle cell disease: A role for Piezo1?
• Uncovering the role of Tyrosine Kinase 2 in Monogenic IBD
• Understanding the Immune Correlates of protection from Ebola Sudan in survivors
• JUNIOR CLINICAL TRAINING SCHOLARS PRESENTATIONS
• Sickle cell anaemia: the first molecular disease
• JUNIOR CLINICAL TRAINING SCHOLARS PRESENTATIONS
• How Listeria sense the environment-to-host transition via PrfA
• GRAND ROUNDS - Kennels Calamity
• Canine Babesiosis: selected aspects of the topic
• Adipose tissue from surgical waste to valuable source of mesenchymal stem cells: Bone tissue engineering prospective.
• A meta-analysis of public available 16S datasets reveals new insights into interactions between gut microbiome and parasites
• Title to be confirmed
• Linking the microbiome to the resistome in complex microbial communities
• 'Thoughts on discussing clinical ethics with students during rotations
• Thoughts on discussing clinical ethics with students during rotations
• Machine Learning in Radiology
• Direct from sputum sequencing of TB in the field, and connecting them to a global google.
• How bacteria escape from elimination by the host's complement system
• When the search for Salmonella reveals more’
• Title to be confirmed
• Pathophysiology of feline diabetes mellitus
• Grand Rounds
• Livestock Associated Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA MRSA ST398) in Relation to Pig Farming in the UK
• Glycoengineering of poultry vaccines’
• Intervertebral disc disease in dogs: evidence based or defensive medicine?
• Intestinal Absorption of Food Additive Nanoparticles and Microparticles by Human Volunteers
• The Evolutionary Genomics of Staphylococcus aureus Infections
• Grand Rounds
• Jockeying for position: defining Streptococcus equi gene essentiality in the horse
• Clonal complex 398 as a litmus test for determining past and present host switching dynamics in Staphylococcus aureus’
• Evaluation of Whole-Body Barometric Plethysmography in BOAS patients while sleeping’
• ‘Cluster headache: novel approaches to phylogenetic clustering’
• Rapid in-house CSF analysis utilising sedimentation direct from the spinal needle’
• New materials and devices for interfacing with the nervous system
• Grand Rounds - "To TEG or not to TEG - That was the question?"
• Diary of a Diabetic cat
• Phasevarions of bacterial pathogens: shedding new light on old enemies
• Challenges in Veterinary Forensic Pathology
• GRAND ROUNDS - ‘The curious case of Trixie Reay’
• Brachycephalic dogs: There is plenty of bad news. So is there any good news?
• Stress, Neophobia and Learning in Captive Dolphins
• Colibactin-producing Escherichia coli in experimental neonatal infection
• Comparative glucocorticoid metabolism; lessons from horses, humans and mice
• Mathematical Modelling of Salmonella Within-Host Dynamics
• Epidemiology of canine lymphoma in first opinion practice
• AGE IMMUNE: do bats hold the secret of extended longevity?
• GRAND ROUNDS - 'To control reproduction is to control the future'
• Junior Clinical Training Scholar talks
• Fur seal: secrets in their faeces
• The effect of maropitant on intraoperative isoflurane requirements and postoperative nausea and vomiting in dogs: a randomized clinical trial
• Engineering biology – where science meets imagination
• G protein-coupled neurotransmitter signalling in oligodendrocyte lineage
• Evaluation of a salivary urea test strip method for use in dogs.
• GRAND ROUNDS -The Basset Hound that (nearly) caught us out
• The HIV glycan shield as a target for broadly neutralizing antibodies
• 'Friends or Foes? Helminth-microbiota interactions in the equine gastrointestinal tract
• Who gave that to me? Carriage and transmission of Staphylococcus aureus in schools.
• The microbiome of sheep following administration of a recombinant anti-helminth vaccine – implications for parasite control
• Characterising Embryonic Stem Cell Derived Tenocytes and Determining the Changing Role of Scleraxis During Tendon Development
• GRAND ROUNDS - Choroid plexus carcinoma? Needed like a hole in the head!
• Junior Clinical Training Scholars Presentations
• Unlocking medical questions with a developmental biology key
• Intercity dynamics of Influenza in Australia
• Evaluation of a pre-tied ligature loop for canine total lung lobectomy
• Vaccines for notorious Zoonotic Viruses
• GRAND ROUNDS: ‘The horse which shed tears of blood'
• Optimisation of a recombinant vaccine to control parasitic nematodes
• Urinary Sphincter Mechanism Incompetence (USMI) treated with Static Hydraulic Urethral Sphincter (SHUS), complications and long-term outcome in female dogs
• Flying Around Cambridge
• The Power of Non-invasive Approaches to Conservation Science
• Ethical Dilemmas in Veterinary Anaesthesia
• Novel Calcium Phosphate Nano-Probes for the Intestinal Immune System
• Insect-based biomass valorisation: using Hermetia illucens to convert waste into food & medicine
• Accelerating the control of bovine Tuberculosis in developing countries
• Sneks long balus
• Zoonotic brucellosis in Ethiopia
• Antibodies inside cells
• Developing a Simulation-based Inferential Framework for Influenza Phylodynamics
• GRAND ROUNDS: Disseminated granulomatous inflammation in a Siamese cat
• Zoo and Wildlife Work
• Viral infection dynamics in transplant recipients undergoing immunosuppression
• The MHC ligandome of two contagious cancers within the Tasmanian devil population, Devil Facial Tumour 1 and Devil Facial Tumour 2
• Genome size reduction in the pig pathogen Streptococcus suis
• An investigation into hepatocyte expression and prognostic significance of senescence marker p21 in canine chronic hepatitis
• Participatory approaches to encourage responsible use of antibiotics in livestock
• Streptococcus suis - managing a global zoonotic pathogen of pigs
• GRAND ROUNDS
• Cancelled - Intracellular Salmonella persisters
• Canine Total Hip Replacement - The benefit of 3D planning
• Genomic rearrangements in Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumour
• DEVELOPMENT OF BIOMATERIALS AND CELL THERAPIES FOR BONE REGENERATION
• GRAND ROUNDS - Hypercalcaemia and myoclonus in a dog with poorly differentiated lymphoproliferative neoplasia
• Bat-borne zoonoses in reservoir and livestock hosts
• Radiation therapy in companion animal neoplasia
• Rapid host-pathogen co-evolution following a severe emerging infectious outbreak
• GRAND ROUNDS - "A challenging case of pyothorax and pulmonary lymphomatoid granulomatosis in a cat"
• Horizontal transfer of antimicrobial resistance drives multi-species population level epidemics
• The role of intraepithelial lymphocytes (IELs) in early gut immunity against murine norovirus (mnv)
• In vitro assessments for the effect of artificial buffer systems and autologous plasma on K-Cl cotransporter in low-potassium sheep red blood
• Zoo and Wildlife Work
• Prevalence of Meningococcal Carriage by Age in the African Meningitis Belt
• Dissecting disease transmission between species
• GRAND ROUNDS -‘MRI evaluation of the periphery of sarcomas - a small case series’
• Title to be confirmed
• Sustainability of livestock production: water, welfare and woodland
• A novel approach to worm control: Helminth-microbiota interactions in thoroughbred broodmares
• Novel antibacterial copper nanoparticles
• Cross-species investigation of the inflammasome
• 'An ‘eye’ on the importance of communication between clinicians and veterinary pathologists'
• Genetic Investigations into Progressive Retinal Atrophy in the Lhasa Apso dog
• A transmissible RNA pathway in honeybees
• GRAND ROUNDS - An interesting case of jaundice in a cow - comparative pathology
• PET for pet
• Junior Clinical Training Scholar Presentations
• Student Presentations
• Linking Mammary Development and Breast Cancer
• Within-host spatiotemporal dynamics of systemic Salmonella infection during and after antibiotic treatment
• The healing power of hyaluronan!
• Selection and diseases in structured populations
• Grand Rounds: 'Believe nothing that you hear and only half what you see - an interesting ear lesion'
• Compensatory lameness in dogs: kinematic description and inertial sensors detection
• Evolutionary analysis on barcode NGS swine influenza virus data
• Genetic Investigations of Progressive Retinal Atrophy in Multiple Breeds of Dog
• THERE IS NO TALK ON WEDNESDAY 24TH May
• Title to be confirmed
• Hepatic Leptospiral Infections without Prominent Renal Involvement
• A metagenomic approach for identifying the host of AMR genes in a fecal microbiome
• Recent advances in the molecular diagnosis of canine and feline lymphoma
• Helminth-associated changes in composition of the faecal microbiota of a Sri Lankan community
• CT assessment of block recession trochleoplasty and partial patellectomy in cats
• Can we exploit companion dogs to advance therapies for spinal cord injury?
• Grand Rounds - ‘A tale of TCC’
• Molecular dissection approaches to study diseased tissues
• Nature & Frequency of antimicrobial resistance plasmid transfer in E. coli
• Myelination in development and learning
• Anaesthesia and theatre scheduling - what's new
• IgA-mediated enchained growth mediates protection and modulates bacterial evolution in the intestinal lumen
• It's a dog's life - or is it? The health and welfare of dogs owned by homeless people
• Grand Rounds - An unusual bone lesion in a dog
• A tissue engineering approach for fracture healing after radiation therapy treatment
• Oral malignancies in dogs - can histopathological features explain differential radiosensitivity between SCC and FSA?
• Vector-borne helminths of zoonotic concern in Europe: emerging or neglected?
• Sensitivity to BST-2 restriction correlates with Orthobunyavirus host range.
• Grand Rounds
• Tracing the location of genes within microbiomes – a novel application of chromosome capture techniques
• Duration of action of ultrasound guided femoral and sciatic nerve blocks using bupivicaine in dogs
• 'Translational orthopaedics - vet in a medics world'
• Introduction to the Luminex 200-Instrument: Procarta Immunoassays and Quantigene Plex
• Understanding and manipulating the T-cell response to peptide-MHC
• The biology and function of urinary exosomes - more than just a message in a bottle!
• Investigating Models of Metastasis in Human and Canine Musculoskeletal Cancers
• Zoonotic leishmaniosis: don’t put the blame on dogs only
• Grand Rounds - A case of Ehrlichia Encephalitis
• Complement therapeutics on the crossroads between inflammatory and infectious disease
• Large Animal Models For Retinal Gene Therapy
• The highs and lows of rotavirus vaccines; why don’t they work as well where they are needed most?
• GRAND ROUNDS - Controversies in the management of Hepatic encephalopathy'
• Informing immunisation policy for meningitis vaccines in UK and Africa using mathematical models
• Acute myeloid leukemia is associated with a poorer prognosis than acute undifferentiated leukemia and acute lymphoblastic leukemia in the dog
• Exploring the Expansion and Evolution of Devil Facial Tumour Disease Across Tasmania
• A Natural History of Sentience
• Use of the Clinical Skills Centre
• Genetic variation, selection and mutagenesis in a transmissible cancer
• Cognitive antimicrobial discovery
• GRAND ROUNDS - A Donkey Dilemma
• Woofing it down – lessons on the neurobiology of appetite from man’s best friend
• Appointment with death: Cellular interplay during mammary gland involution and tumourigenesis
• Identifying Novel Regulators of the TLR4 Response through Iterative and Integrative Analysis of Genome-wide Studies
• Interpreting variants in the genomic era and utility of IPSC derived retinal cells and optic cups to explore mechanisms of disease and potential therapies for retinal degenerations
• Myelination - the developmental pattern in the mouse neocortex and its role in learning
• Application of the London Protocol (a systems analysis of clinical incidents) to anaesthesia's little pink book
• Disease dynamics in animal hosts: How natural selection affects disease transmission in insects; and how animal density and climatic factors can influence the prevalence of zoonotic diseases
• GRAND ROUNDS - The challenging case of Lucie - a Westie.
• Syntax in C. elegans locomotion
• Phage display: a new tool for the discovery of novel antimicrobial therapy options
• Student Welfare Presentation
• Debunking the Neandertal myth
• The translation of discovery research with nanostructured bio-minerals: from Cancer to Crohn’s disease’
• Biocompatible Virucidal Materials as Broad Spectrum Antivirals
• Non-antibiotic Strategies to Prevent and Control Respiratory Bacterial Infections in Swine
• (Cancelled:) Understanding and manipulating the T-cell response to peptide-MHC
• Climate Change, Infectious Disease and the Arctic: Are we opening Pandora's box?
• Simultaneous identification of genes required for the survival of Streptococcus equi subspecies equi, by Transposon Directed Insertion-site Sequencing (TraDIS)
• How do dolphins adapt and adapt?
• Hello From the Other Side: The Cutting Edge of Skeletal Reconstruction in Human Medicine’
• GRAND ROUNDS - title tbc
• Canine Elbow Dysplasia - starting from the ground up!
• Identification of genetic modifiers of prion replication and neurotoxicity
• Tasmanian devils, a species threatened by two transmissible cancers
• Suffering Shipwrecks: practical and ethical dilemmas and the Euthanasia of Large Whales
• Horizontal transfer of mitochodria in cancer.
• Recombinant adeno-associated virus for therapeutic gene delivery: 30 million years in the making.
• GRAND ROUNDS - A challenging case of recurrent dyspnoea in a cat - 1 symptom, 4 causes?
• 100 years after William Bateson – what can we learn about epistasis by today’s statistical machine learning?Title to be confirmed
• 100 years after William Bateson - what can we learn about epistasis by today's statistical machine learning?
• An investigation into islet cell area in different dog breeds: do boxer dogs have bigger islets than other breeds?
• Sickle cell disease in Oman
• "The meaning of art, life and everything" An introduction to your resident artist
• Modelling the impact of MenAfriVac in the African meningitis belt
• Investigation of genetic risk factors in canine hormone dependent diabetes
• Grand Rounds - Title to be confirmed
• People, pathogens and parks: ecosystem health research in Tanzania
• Retrospective evaluation of masitinib and prednisolone compared to masitinib alone in canine mast cell tumours.
• Investigating the potential costs and benefits of immunisation against neonatal GBS disease in the UK
• Investigating the potential costs and benefits of immunisation against neonatal GBS disease in the UK
• Functional genomics for schistosomes: approaches to interrogate host-parasite interaction, and schistosomiasis-associated diseases.
• Oral fluid testing in pigs: the potential of novel collective sampling methods to detect low prevalence and subclinical diseases
• Massively parallel sequencing and analysis of allergy-causing parasites
• New discoveries about ageing in C. elegans
• Grand Rounds - 'To stage or not to Stage? That is the question!'
• Natural history collections and parasitology - links with veterinary research
• Parasites on the move. Travelling pets and parasite control.
• Massively parallel sequencing and analysis of allergy-causing parasites
• The effectiveness of laser-assisted turbinectomy in treating severe brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome (BOAS) in 8 pugs
• Mitochondrial DNA reveals patterns of global expansion, selection and recombination in a canine transmissible cancer
• Grand Rounds - 'Complications following thyroidectomy in a dog'
• An APC centric view of Viral haemorrhagic fever
• Intra-abdominal pressures in horses
• Bottlenecks, diversity and phase variation during infection; the pneumococcal model.
• Coronary venous systems of common model species - a comparative study
• Single molecule imaging of Mal - a TLR4 adaptor protein
• Flying high: a Drosophila model of mammalian prion disease
• What is a Pet?
• Characterizing the immune correlates of protection in vaccinated Rhesus macaques resistant to SIV infection
• An investigation of polysystemic immune-mediated disease in the English Cocker Spaniel
• GRAND ROUNDS
• Investigating Group A rotaviruses in farm animals in Ghana
• Morbilliviruses persistence in the CNS
• Visual communication between human and dog from different comparative perspectives
• Genetic analysis of transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils
• GRAND ROUNDS - "A particularly severe stick injury"
• Introducing the High Performance Computing Service: a computing resource for researchers
• Mechanisms of environmental and within host survival of the food borne pathogen Campylobacter jejuni
• Investigating the biology of DEXI – a novel candidate gene in autoimmunity
• Understanding parasites in fish mariculture
• Food safety – flexible approaches to production and official controls
• Why do bacterial pathogens have smaller genomes than their non-pathogenic relatives
• “If only they could talk” – the role of a vet in Parliament
• Fragmented Medial Coronoid Process in Dogs: Benchside to Bedside
• Ocular Manifestations of Systemic Infectious Disease
• Ocular Canine Herpesvirus-1 Infections: Recurrent Disease Triggers and Treatments
• Of worms, germs and men: a role for the gut microbiota in helminth-induced suppression of inflammation
• Ebola: Response, vaccines, survivors and sequencingon
• CARD9 negatively regulates the inflammasome
• Radiotherapy of the pituitary macrotumours, a comparison of two protocols
• Microbiota-host interplay in the intestine and its impact on health and disease
• Noisy stress responses and their fitness consequences for C. elegans
• Barcoded influenza viruses
• Transfer of passive immunity in lambs
• The influence of diet and metabolites on Immunity against enteric viral infections
• What's new in urology and urodynamics
• Onobrychis viciifolia a natural alternative to ivermectin
• Grand Rounds: A difficult case of prostatic disease in the dog
• EXPRESSION OF FIBROBLAST ACTIVATING PROTEIN (FAP) IN TUMOUR ASSOCIATED FIBROBLASTS (TAF) OF CANINE MAST CELL TUMOURS AND CORRELATION WITH TUMOUR GRADE AND MITOTIC INDEX
• MOVING MITOCHONDRIA: Mitochondrial horizontal transfer in a transmissible cancer
• Generating Evidence from Vetcompass for Practice: Survival of dogs with Degenerative Mitral Valve Disease
• Understanding synaptic input in OPCs and other CNS cells using optogenetics
• CT evaluation of the middle ear in brachycephalic dogs vs non -brachycephalic dogs.
• GRAND ROUNDS- A Pancreatic Challenge in a Jack Russell Terrier
• Assessment of pain in sheep
• Host protection, autoinflammation and cell death: the NLRP3 inflammasome
• Finding cancer drivers in mouse, man and dog
• Rescuing Rhino
• Molecular tools for detection and control of Streptococcus suis infection in pigs
• The political economy of bovine tuberculosis
• GRAND ROUNDS: ‘When pattern recognition lets you down!’
• The influence of mycophenolic acid on selected parameters of the canine immune system
• Colitis in chronic granulomatous disease: mechanisms and therapeutic targets in inflammatory bowel disease
• Examining West African systems of response to limited outbreaks of unfamiliar pathogens: a case study of a cryptic encephalitis outbreak in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana
• Caring for All Creatures Great & Small: A Qualitative Analysis of Senior Veterinary Students’ Career Choices
• Grand Rounds: ‘Blindness in wasting sheep’
• GRAND ROUNDS
• Evidence-based Veterinary medicine – so what?
• An assessment of the potential uses of tympanometry in small animal
• An investigation of mecC Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on Dairy Farms
• Fowling things up for avian flu - transgenic intervention as an approach to combatting influenza infection in livestock.
• Biomechanical analysis of a novel veterinary crimpless, knotless suture anchor system
• Understanding RNA virus evolution: from sequence to information
• Understanding Mechanisms of Sterile Inflammation
• Syringomyelia in Cavalier King Charles Spaniels
• Activation of NLRC4 by Salmonella flagellin
• Re-building the diseased retina with stem cells
• GRAND ROUNDS: In place of usual Grand Rounds will be 'The 40 week final year: discussion', Chaired by Alun Williams
• Vets and Animal Research - 5 short talks
• Viral infections in the immunocompromised host
• A novel axial pattern skin flap based on the cranial cutaneous branch of the saphenous artery in dogs
• Ebola Wave Spread and Gorilla Vaccination
• 'Becky's Second Chance: A case of Patent Ductus Arteriosus in a Border Collie Puppy'
• Investigation of a novel iron-uptake system in Staphylococcus aureus
• Regenerative medicine solutions for orthopaedic problems
• Follicular dendritic cells: A key player in the pathogenesis of foot and mouth disease virus?
• Evolving technologies for liver targeted gene and cell therapies.
• GRAND ROUNDS: ‘Dancing eye syndrome in an adult English Springer Spaniel’ - Ed Ives; ‘Management of porto-systemic shunts’ - Andrew Murdoch
• One Health and the future of the Veterinary Profession
• Ecology, Cross-Species Emergence and Control of Vampire Bat Rabies
• The role of sympatric fruit bats from Ghana in the persistence and zoonotic emergence of henipaviruses and filoviruses
• Incomplete resection of primary site anal sac adenocarcinoma - is Radiotherapy helpful?
• Molecular subclasses in canine osteosarcoma and mammary cancer
• Tracking Disease Transmission in Western Uganda - A tale of data mining and electronic syndromic surveillance
• Recurrence of a thymoma in a cat with metastatic spread
• GRAND ROUNDS: Ventricular tachycardia in the dog. To treat or not to treat?
• Working internationally and locally; rolling out the Global Foot-and-Mouth Disease Control Strategy, one step at a time
• Triceps tendon rupture in dogs and cats: A retrospective study of 14 cases
• Evaluation of the tumour bed biopsy technique in canine and feline oncologic surgery
• Megaoesophagus: A Clinical Sign of Underlying Neurological Disease
• Switching OPC to repair mode - Role of Sox2 in CNS remyelination
• Cellular self-defense: how cell-autonomous immunity protects against pathogens
• A case of Rasamsonia Argillacea pyelonephritis in a German Shepherd dog
• The effects of N-acetyl-aspartate (NAA) and N-acetyl-aspartyl-glutamate (NAAG) on oligodendrocyte precursor cells
• Lessons in innate immunity taught by a virus
• Switching OPC to repair mode - Role of Sox2 in CNS remyelination
• Just how do the poor chickens survive all those pathogens?
• Title to be confirmed
• Digital Pathology: Why bother?
• Tiletamine-zolazepam field anaesthesia in grey seals
• Two modes of Myelination
• Preclinical and Clinical Animal Models in Translational Orthopaedic Research
• 'North, South, East, West - which veterinary education is best?'
• Staphylococcus aureus at the human-animal interface
• In place of the usual scientific seminar Clare Bryant will be giving her Inaugural Lecture: 'From infection to allergy: a tail of specks, spots, hooves and whiskers'
• Grand Rounds
• GRAND ROUNDS: 'An update on MRSA transmission in the Veterinary Hospital' -Mark Holmes. 'How to fix a Broken Herart' - James Warland
• GRAND ROUNDS
• Sensors and systems for animal monitoring and welfare assessment
• Evaluation of novel urinary screening tests for feline chronic kidney disease
• The use of facial expression to assess pain in sheep.
• Understanding and manipulating CNS remyelination - in mouse, man and zebrafish.
• Grand Rounds: "An unusual anal sac adenocarcinoma", led by Jon Hall with Ed Ives, Heike Rudorf, Angie Rupp and Jane Dobson in support.
• Use of miRNA Expression Profiles in Classification and Prognosis of Canine Soft Tissue Sarcoma
• Management of Aural Haematoma in dogs in UK general practice’
• Dog Diarrhoea - newly emerging viral causes in the UK
• Laryngeal ultrasound
• Bovine TB: A Black and White Issue?
• Grand Rounds: "An unusual presentation of histiocytic sarcoma in a Flat-coated Retriever"