SBOHVM External Seminars 2024-25
Our weekly External Lecture series restarts on Wednesday 2nd October in the Graham Kerr Lecture Theatre 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 in the Graham Kerr Lecture Theatre.
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 | Campus | Lecture Theater | Time | Speaker | Speaker Institution | Talk Title |
| 02-Oct-2024 | Gilmorehill | Graham Kerr LT1 | 1-2 pm | Dr Damaris Matoke-Muhia | Kenya Medical Research Institute and Pan-African Mosquito Control Association |
“The big push towards elimination of malaria and other vector-borne diseases: The Pan African Mosquito Control Association (PAMCA) experience of engaging women in vector control" |
| 09-Oct-2024 | Garscube | McCall LT | 1-2pm | Dr Valentina Busin | Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations | "Recent Incursions of Notifiable Diseases" |
| 16-Oct-2024 | Gilmorehill | Graham Kerr LT1 | 1-2pm | SIG reps | University of Glasgow | |
| 23-Oct-2024 | Garscube | McCall LT | 1-2pm | Dr. Mark Dagleish and Prof. Collette Britton with Dr. Matias Perez | University of Glasgow | "How do you test for Scrapie in live sheep?" and "New technologies in Vet Parasitology, with a focus on organoids" |
| 30-Oct-2024 | Gilmorehill | Kelvin Building: 257 Main Lecture Theatre | 5-6 pm | Sarah Cleaveland | University of Glasgow | Blodwen Lloyd Binns lecture |
| 06-Nov-2024 | Gilmorehill | Graham Kerr LT1 | 1-2pm | Sally Mtenga | Ifakara Health Institute |
"Sharing experience of policy translation of health research in Tanzania" |
| 13-Nov-2024 | Gilmorehill | Graham Kerr LT1 | 1-2pm | TBC | TBC | TBC |
| 20-Nov-2024 | Garscube | McCall LT | 1-2pm | Neil Watt | MV Diagnostics | TBC |
| 27-Nov-2024 | Gilmorehill | Graham Kerr LT1 | 1-2pm | Jason Matthiopoulos and Chris Harrod | University of Glasgow |
"Scorched earth and blackened eyes: High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza in the European metapopulation of Northern Gannets" and "Atacama CSI(A:) Reconstructing the last moments of a high and mighty mouse, and an ancient murder victim…" |
| 04-Dec-2024 | Garscube | Ilay LT | 12-1pm | Dr. Lewis Stevens | Wellcome Sanger Institute | TBC |
Winter Break
| Date | Campus | Lecture Theater | Time | Speaker | Speaker Institution | Talk Title |
| 15-Jan-2025 | Gilmorehill | Graham Kerr LT1 | 1-2pm | Dr. Julia Nowack | Liverpool John Moores University |
Waking up to a changing world. Can adaptive thermoregulation help endotherms to respond to rapid environmental change? |
| 22-Jan-2025 | Garscube | McCall LT | 1-2pm | Dr Bushra Schuitemaker | BIOME9 and Quadram Institute Biosciences | One Health: A Zoologist's Perspective |
| 29-Jan-2025 | Gilmorehill | Graham Kerr LT1 | 1-2pm | Prof. Kate Parr | University of Liverpool |
Distinguishing tropical grassy ecosystems and why it matters. |
| 05-Feb-2025 | Garscube | McCall LT | 1-2pm | Dr. Stewart Burgess | Moredun Research Institute |
Unravelling the mechanisms of resistance to the macrocyclic lactones in the sheep scab mite, Psoroptes ovis |
| 12-Feb-2025 | Gilmorehill | TBC | 4-5pm | Prof. Steve Brusatte | University of Edinburgh | The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs |
| 19-Feb-2025 | Gilmorehill | Graham Kerr LT1 | 1-2pm | Dr. Alex Sutton | Bangor University | Understanding context-dependent response to a changing world |
| 26-Feb-2025 | Gilmorehill | Graham Kerr LT1 | 1-2pm | Dr. Simon Allen | University of Bristol - Shark Bay Dolphin Research (Western Australia) | Paradise in peril? A long-term study of beasts with big brains in a rapidly changing world |
| 05-Mar-2025 | Garscube | McCall LT | 1-2pm | Prof Huabing Yin and Prof Julien Reboud | University of Glasgow | TBC |
| 12-Mar-2025 | Gilmorehill | Graham Kerr LT1 | 1-2pm | Dr. Tom Morrison and Dr Harriet Auty | University of Glasgow | TBC |
| 19-Mar-2025 | Garscube | Ilay LT | 1-2pm | Dr. Kathryn Allan and Dr. Michelle Bellingham | University of Glasgow | TBC |
| 26-Mar-2025 | Gilmorehill | Graham Kerr LT1 | 1-2pm | Sean Stankowski | University of Sussex | TBC |