Infection and Immunity Research Programme
People
Sophie Adamantos
Sophie has been a Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care in the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals (QMHA) since 2006. Her role encompasses clinical, research and teaching work. Sophie is co-head of the Section of Emergency and Critical Care. She is also co-director of the Small Animal Junior Clinical Training Scholarship (Internship) programme.
Ilknur Aktan
Ilknur is an Anatomy Demonstrator in Veterinary Basic Sciences Department.
Pablo Alarcon Lopez
Pablo is a PhD student in veterinary epidemiology. His research focuses on the investigation of the epidemiology of post-weaning Multi-systemic Wasting Syndrome and on the use of research evidence by farmers for the control of infectious diseases.
Karin Allenspach
Karin is a Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Internal Medicine and Head of Clinical Investigation Centre at the RVC. She currently spends part of her time on clinics in the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals and the rest of her time on research and teaching. Her main research interest is in canine inflammatory bowel disease.
Silvia Alonso Alvarez
Silvia is a lecturer in veterinary public health. Her research interest include the epidemiology of zoonoses and specially vector-borne diseases. She has also an interest in animal and human health in developing countries.
Clive Bate
Clive is a Lecturer for the PID department at the Royal Veterinary College. Clive’s primary research interest is in neurodegenerative diseases, specifically those caused following protein misfolding. He also has interests in membrane biology, glycosylphosphatidylinositols, membrane rafts and cell signalling.
Damer Blake
Damer is a lecturer in Molecular Parasitology. His research interests are focused on protozoan parasites and pathogens of poultry using genetics and molecular biology.
Ross Bond
Ross is a Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Dermatology at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals (QMHA)
David Brodbelt
Dave Brodbelt is a Senior Lecturer in Companion Animal Epidemiology at the Royal Veterinary College and is a European Veterinary Specialist in Anaesthesia.
Joe Brownlie
Joe Brownlie is Emeritus Professor of Veterinary Pathology in the Department of Pathology & Infectious Diseases. He currently heads up two active research groups at the RVC; one on Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Virus (BVDV) and one on Canine Infectious Coronavirus Disease (CIRD).
Jackie Cardwell
Jackie is a Lecturer in Epidemiology. Her research interests include equine infectious disease, zoonotic disease, companion animal clinical epidemiology and (human) mental health. She is co-course Director for the MSc in Control of Infectious Disease in Animals (CIDA).
Brian Catchpole
Brian is a Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Immunology. He is a veterinary clinical research scientist whose research involves studying canine immunology and immune-mediated diseases.
Ruby Chang
Ruby is Lecturer in Statistics at the RVC.
Emily Clark
Emily is a postdoctoral researcher in molecular parasitiology. She is employed on the BBSRC/DfiD CIDLID project 'Anticoccidial vaccine development: the importance of genetic diversity and delivery strategy'.
Mandi De Mestre
Mandi is a lecturer in Veterinary Basic Sciences. Mandi’s research focuses particularly on the immunobiology of the maternal-fetal interface, with a particular interest in pregnancy-related conditions in the mare.
Felicity D'Mello
Felicity is a Lecturer in Virology. She is a Molecular Virologist with interests in vaccines and bioinformatics. Currently she is working on bovine noroviruses and a newly described genus of bovine enteric calicivirus.
Julian Drewe
Julian is a Research Fellow in Veterinary Epidemiology and a European Veterinary Specialist in Zoological Medicine. He is particularly interested in finding out how diseases transmit between wildlife, domestic animals and humans.
Bettina Dunkel
Since 2008 Bettina has been employed as a lecturer in equine medicine at the Royal Veterinary College.
Bettina's research interests are equine platelet function and coagulation as well as equine neonatology and all aspects of equine critical care.
Kate English
Kate is a Lecturer in Veterinary Clinical Pathology.
Mark Fox
Mark currently leads veterinary parasitology teaching at the College and has longstanding research interests in the pathophysiology, epidemiology and control of parasite infections in both domestic and wild animals.
Oliver Garden
Oliver is a Reader in Internal Medicine and Immunology. His research focuses on regulatory T cells and autoimmune disease in dogs, mice and human beings.
Barbara Glanemann
Barbara is a Lecturer in Small Animal Medicine. She currently spends the main part of her time on the referral clinical service in the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals and the rest of her time on teaching and clinical research.
Shan Goh
A Research Fellow in Liam Good's group, Shan has varied interests in antisense RNA for gene silencing in prokaryotes, phage as therapeutic agents and finding novel animal viruses with potential for zoonoses
Liam Good
Liam is a Senior Lecturer in the Pathology and Infectious Diseases department at the Royal Veterinary College.
Javier Guitian
Javier is a Professor of Veterinary Public Health and a member of the Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health Group
Anke Hendricks
Anke is a Veterinary Dermatologist involved in the clinical service provision at the Queen Mother Hospital. She also teaches, is involved in a variety of research projects and enjoys communicating her fascination with all things skin & ear.
Sonja Jeckel
Sonja joined the Royal Veterinary College in 2004 and is working as Veterinary Investigation Officer for the RVC-VLA Surveillance Centre. She is responsible for carrying out post mortem examinations on farmed species and is contributing to the National Disease Surveillance. She also teaches on several undergraduate courses.
Imogen Johns
Imogen is a Lecturer in Equine Medicine, an RCVS Specialist in Equine Medicine (Int Med) and a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. She divides her time between clinical activities as a medicine clinician in the Equine Referral Hospital, teaching of undergraduate students, and research activities.
Sharon Kendall
Sharon is a Lecturer in Pathology & Infectious disease and a member of the Infection & Immunity research programme.
Richard Kock
The postholder is working to establish and promote a One Health and conservation medicine programme including, research on emerging disease systems arising from pathogen flow between wildlife, livestock and humans. The geographical focus is Africa and South Asia and will involve working with regional and international partners. Capacity building is seen as central to achieving these goals and will include module development in professional training in UK and abroad working with partners and providing leadership in RVC teaching and post graduate programmes in wildlfie health and biology.
Rachel Lawrence
Rachel Lawrence is a Senior Lecturer in ImmunoParasitology. Her current research seeks to identify the host immunological environment that influences nematode clearance, survival and fecundity.
David Lloyd
Professor Lloyd holds the Chair of Veterinary Dermatology at The Royal Veterinary College and leads a clinical and research group in small and large animal dermatology. He is also an RCVS Specialist in Veterinary Dermatology and a European Specialist in Veterinary Dermatology.
Anette Loeffler
Anette is a Lecturer in Veterinary Dermatology at the RVC and is involved in providing clinical dermatology services at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals (QMHA).
Gareth Maglennon
Gareth is a postdoctoral research fellow working on a BBSRC-funded project studying Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infection in pigs.
Declan McKeever
Declan is Chair of Immunoparasitology and Head of the Pathology and Infectious Diseases department. He is also research active in the area of tick-borne diseases of livestock.
Raphaelle Metras
Raphaelle is doing a PhD on the epidemiology of Rift Valley fever in South Africa.
John Mitchell
Judy Mitchell
Judy is a post-doctoral research scientist working on vaccine development for canine infectious respiratory disease (CIRD).
Mandy Nevel
Mandy is a Senior Lecturer.
Rob Noad
Rob is a lecturer in Molecular Virology. His current interests include molecular biology, pathogenesis and control of arboviruses, as well as applied research into insect cell based protein expression technologies.
Donald Palmer
Donald is a Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Basic Sciences. His main research interests are immunosenesence, particularly with regards to age-associated thymic involution. He is also interested in the use of antibody phage display technology to identify novel markers on stem cells and cancer cells.
Neil Paton
Neil joined the RVC in 2010 and is a Lecturer in Farm Animal Health and Production. His current position is based in the Welsh Regional Veterinary Centre. There he is involoed in training of RVC students in preventative medicine. He also provides consultation services to the farming community of Wales.
Dirk Pfeiffer
Dirk is a Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology, and Head of the Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health Group in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences. He is currently working on several projects covering animal diseases such as avian influenza, African swine fever, Rift Valley fever, rinderpest and bovine neonatal pancytopenia. He is also a Co-Course Director of the MSc Veterinary Epidemiology and MSc Veterinary Epidemiology & Public Health by Distance Learning. Dirk holds an Honorary Professorship at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Simon Priestnall
Simon is a Lecturer in Veterinary Anatomic Pathology. His main interest is canine infectious respiratory disease. Simon gained his Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath) by examination in November 2010.
Fabio Procoli
Fabio is a third-year Senior Clinical Training Scholar in Small Animal Internal Medicine and is currently studying towards the ACVIM diploma. At the completion of his
Robert Rivera
Rob Rivera is currently a PhD student at the RVC working in the fields of microbiology and immunology.
Jonathan Rushton
Jonathan is a Senior Lecturer in Animal Health Economics and a member of the Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health Group. His work focuses on improving the wellbeing of people and animals through better resource allocation to animal health, disease and welfare problems.
Andrew Rycroft
Professor Rycroft holds the chair of Clinical and Veterinary Microbiology at the RVC, is a teacher of Veterinary Bacteriology and Mycology, and a Fellow of the Society of Biology and the Royal College of Pathologists.
Silke Schmitz
Started 2009 as PhD student supervised by Dr. Karin Allenspach and Prof. Dirk Werling. Title of the project: "Investigations into the efficacy of probiotics in canine Inflammatory Bowel Disease".
Cheryl Scudamore
Cheryl is Professor of Toxicologic Pathology at the Royal Veterinary College and is an RCVS Specialist in Veterinary Pathology. She is currently funded by an MRC Skills Gap award with the aim of increasing training opportunities in laboratory animal pathology and knowledge transfer of good pathology practices between industry.
Md. Mahmudul Sikder
Mahmudul Sikder is a Commonwealth Scholar doing his PhD under Dr. Sharon Kendall and Professor Neil Stokers' supervision.
His research involves investigating the role of TetR regulator in the virulence and persistence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis using the model of M. smegmatis and M. bovis.
Yogesh Singh
Yogesh is currently working as a Post-doctoral Researcher with Dr. Bradley Cobb in miRNA and Lymphocyte Development group
Josh Slater
Josh is a Professor of Equine Clinical Studies at the Royal Veterinary College. He is currently the head of the equine clinical group, and is the immediate past president of the British Equine Veterinary Association (BEVA).
Ken Smith
Ken is Professor of Companion Animal Pathology at the Royal Veterinary College. His research interests include infectious diseases in horses and neoplasia in small animals.
Katharina Staerk
Katharina is Professor of Veterinary Public Health Management
Kim Stevens
Kim is an Assistant Lecturer in Epidemiology. Her research interests include the epidemiology of vector-borne diseases, the effect of climate change on the epidemiology of disease and spatial modelling.
Brian Summers
Brian is the Professor of Comparative Neuropathology at the Royal Veterinary College. His textbook of Veterinary Neuropathology was written with Professors John Cummings and Alexander de Lahunta. In addition, he has published over 140 papers.
Carole Thomas
Carole is a Research Associate within the Pathology and Infectious Diseases Department.
Fiona Tomley
Fiona is Professor of Experimental Parasitology in the department of Pathology and Infectious Diseases. Her research interests are centred on protozoan parasites and poultry.
Steven Van Winden
Steven is Senior Lecturer in Production Animal Medicine and Head of the Farm Animal Health and Production group. He spends his time split between HH campus and the WRVC (www.rvc.ac.uk/wrvc)
Martina Velasova
Martina is a Research Assistant within Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health Group. Her research is mainly focused on epidemiology of pig diseases such as post weaning multi-systemic wasting syndrome (PMWS), swine Influenza and porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome. Currently she is also involved in a dairy cow project. Her interest also includes zoonoses and veterinary public helath.
Dirk Werling
I am Professor of Molecular Immunology. My current mainresearch interest is the ontogeny of the innate immune system between species, the importance of SNP in innate immune receptors for ligand binding, and how we can use our knowledge regarding the innate immune system to design new/optimise existing vaccine strategies.
Barbara Wieland
Barbara is a Lecturer in Veterinary Epidemiology and strand leader of the Professional Studies Strand of the BVetMed course. She is involved in projects on African Swine Fever and leads the epidemiological part of a study into Post-weaning Multi-systemic Wasting Syndrome (PMWS).