Current VTRI Projects Available

These are example projects currently on offer for 2007 Vacation Scholarships  and 2007-2008 MSc by Research, however there are many more projects in the pipeline.  There will also be future MSc by Research projects available for 2008-2009.

If you are interested in any of these opportunity's please contact the relevant supervisor, or for more general VTRI Reseach questions, contact Ivan Morrison via Pauline.McMannus@ed.ac.uk

MSc Projects

Title Supervisor/contact
Genetic architecture of the ovine MHC and resistance to nematode infection m.j.stear@vet.gla.ac.uk
GTP cyclohydrolase function in Teladorsagia circumcincta development and early host-parasite interactions Jacqui.Matthews@moredun.ac.uk

 
Role of PAR2 (protease-activated receptor 2) in epithelial responses to EHEC.  David.G.E.Smith@moredun.ac.uk
To address the role of chitinase-like molecules elicited in response to Teladosagia circumcincta infection pam.knight@ed.ac.uk
Gene expression profiling /proteomic analysis of the response of the abomasal mucosa to Teladorsagia circumcincta challenge in sheep (2 projects expected to be available).  pam.knight@ed.ac.uk

alan.pemberton@ed.ac.uk

 

Summer studentships

Title Supervisor/contact
Sheep granzyme B      

alan.pemberton@ed.ac.uk
Sheep CD244 & CD48 alan.pemberton@ed.ac.uk
Strain specific variation in the mouse intelectin locus alan.pemberton@ed.ac.uk
Gene expression profiling of the response of the abomasal mucosa to Teladorsagia circumcincta challenge in sheep pam.knight@ed.ac.uk
Chemokines produced by the abomasum in response to Teladorsagia circumcincta infection in sheep; relevance to age-related immunity?   pam.knight@ed.ac.uk
Improved diagnosis of nematode infections in livestock by proteomic analysis m.j.stear@vet.gla.ac.uk
Testing Escherichia coli clinical isolates for expression of a novel adhesion molecule dgally@ed.ac.uk

 
O-island deletions of Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 and surviving environmental stresses.   dgally@ed.ac.uk