Animal Health and Disease

Our Research

Animals are under constant pressures from disease, the environment, and human activity. When animals are unable to overcome these pressures, their welfare suffers. For owners, this is upsetting and for farmers, this may impact profits and increase environmental impacts.

At Lincoln, we are passionate about improving the health of companion, farmed, and wild animals of all types. We are particularly interested in infectious diseases and our team includes specialists in virology, bacteriology, and parasitology. Malaria, influenza, herpesvirus, and E. coli, are just some of the many diseases that we are currently researching. Our other focuses include livestock lameness, stress, and ruminant nutrition.

We are an internationally active group and are keen to improve the health and animals worldwide, especially through collaborating with universities in developing nations to support their research and the communities that benefit from that.

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Key Personnel and Expertise

Academics

Simon Clegg – antimicrobial resistance in domestic and wild animals; bacterial infection and carriage in animals; lameness assessments; pathogens and genetics in sheep and cattle; bee health

Dr Andrew Cooke – goat nutrition in small holder farms in sub-Saharan Africa; park grass: 160 years of forage and nutrition

Dr Stefan Milson – biomarkers of stress; animals and the microbial environment

Dr Colin Butter – avian Immunology

Dr Ashley Roberts – animal virology

 

Postgraduate Researcher and Technical Staff

Agnese Crisante – canine behaviour and microbiota

Adele Spain – canine behaviour and Microbiota

Fiona Newberry – canine microbiota

Karen Staines – avian immunology

 

Research Students

Emma Wilson – avian zoonosis

Robyn Fayers – fox pathogens and microplastics

Emma Turnbull – canine pathogens

David Murphy – canine stress assessment