SBOHVM External Seminars 2025-26
Our weekly External Lecture series restarts on Wednesday 8th October in Graham Kerr Lecture Theatre 1 from 1-2pm.
This event will alternate between Gilmorehill and Garscube every week. When the seminar is at Garscube, it will be streamed via zoom (Graham Kerr LT1 until December, Boyd Orr LT 412 from January).
Most seminars will be from 1-2pm, however this is subject to change so please check the table below for the correct time.
We'll be hosting in person and virtual talks by many visitors from across the world. It's guaranteed to be a fun, informative and enlightening regular event.
For the most up to date info, please also visit our School Calendar.
External Seminar Series
| Date | Time | Campus | Location | Host | Speaker | General topic |
| 08/10/2025 | 1-2pm | Gilmorehill | Graham Kerr LT1 | Mariel ten Doeschate | Dr Rosie Williams | Impacts of chemical pollution on marine mammals |
| 15/10/2025 | 1-2pm | Gilmorehill | Boyd Orr 222 | Barbara Mable | Prof. Rob Ogden | Wildlife forensics/Conservation |
| 22/10/2025 | 5-6pm | Gilmorehill | Graham Kerr LT1 | Prof. Grant Hopcraft | ||
| 29/10/2025 | 1-2pm | Garscube | McCall LT | Roz Laing | Helminths | |
| 05/11/2025 | 1-2pm | Gilmorehill | Graham Kerr LT1 | Kathryn Elmer | Dr. Evelyn Jensen | Conservation Genomics |
| 12/11/2025 | 1-2pm | Garscube | McCall LT | Prof. Tyler Stevenson / Prof. Annette MacLeod | ||
| 19/11/2025 | 1-2pm | Gilmorehill | Graham Kerr LT1 | Heather Ferguson | Sylvia Valentine | History of anti-vaccination in Scotland (small pox) |
| 26/11/2025 | 1-2pm | Garscube | McCall LT | Taya Forde | Nat Ring | Rapid sequencing-based diagnostics and AMR detection |
| 03/12/2025 | 1-2pm | Gilmorehill | Graham Kerr LT1 | |||
| 10/12/2025 | 1-2pm | Garscube | McCall LT | Lydia Trippler | Dr. Joseph Timothy | |
| Christmas Break | ||||||
| 07/01/2026 | 1-2pm | Gilmorehill | Boyd Orr 412 | |||
| 14/01/2026 | 1-2pm | Garscube | McCall LT | James Cotton | Dr Anostasios Tsauosis | Cryptosporidium molecular something |
| 21/01/2026 | 5-6pm | Gilmorehill | Graham Kerr LT1 | Prof. Sarah Cleveland | ||
| 28/01/2026 | 1-2pm | Garscube | McCall LT | |||
| 04/02/2026 | 1-2pm | Gilmorehill | Boyd Orr 412 | |||
| 11/02/2026 | 4-5pm | Gilmorehill | Boyd Orr 412 | |||
| 18/02/2026 | 1-2pm | Gilmorehill | McIntyre 201 | Kim Hamer | Prof Crawford Revie | LLM in diagnosis |
| 25/02/2026 | 1-2pm | Garscube | McCall LT | |||
| 04/03/2026 | 1-2pm | Gilmorehill | Boyd Orr 412 | |||
| 11/03/2026 | 1-2pm | Garscube | McCall LT | Roy Neilson | Soil ecology/nematodes | |
| 18/03/2026 | 1-2pm | Gilmorehill | Boyd Orr 412 | |||
| 25/03/2026 | 1-2pm | Garscube | McCall LT |