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Research interests
I am a behavioural ecologist in the Disease Systems Team, and my main interests are:
- Impact of disease on animal behaviour
- Pathogen induced changes in behaviour
- Behavioural alterations to avoid pathogens
- Sickness behaviour
- Impact of animal behaviour on disease dynamics
- social behaviour
- Ecology & community structure
- Behaviour as an early indicator of disease
I am interested in disease dynamics in both wildlife and livestock species, as well as the wildlife-livestock intereface. I am an experiences experimental field biologist. My reserch used livestock and remote monitoring techniques (proximity loggers, GPS, activity loggers) to investigate concepts in behavioural ecology and disease ecology.
Teaching
Veterinary Epidemiology MSc, University of Edinburgh
- Co-ordinator role for whole Vetrinary Epidemiology programme
- Module leader: Livestock behaviours as routes of disease transmission
- Module leader: Rights, roles and Responsibilities in disease control
- Lecturer:
- Introduction to Veterinary Epidemiology
- Livestock management impacts on disease control
- Host-pathogen arms race
BSc Global Academy of Agriculture & Food Security, University of Edinburgh
- Lecturer - Interactions within systems
Ecology/Zoology BSc, University of Edinburgh
- Lecturer - Behavioural Ecology
Applied Animal Science, BSc SRUC/University of Glasgow
Module leader: Diversity of Life
Module leader: Host-pathogen Interactions
Module leader: Wildife-Agriculture Interactions
Supervision
PhD student 2017 - present. Behavioural signatures of Parasitism
MSc students: 6 students studying topics in behaviour, parasitiology and Epidemiology
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Herbivore grazing decisions in relation to parasites in the environment, University of York
2004 → 2007
Award Date: 26 Jul 2007
Master, Applied Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare, University of Edinburgh
2001 → 2002
Award Date: 1 May 2002
Bachelor, Zoology, University of Aberdeen
1996 → 2000
Award Date: 1 May 2000
External positions
University of Stirling
Nov 2007 → Mar 2009
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RESAS 22-27: SRUC-a2-3 A Systems Understanding Of The Flow Of Amr From Livestock Production To The Environment And Humans: Informing Antimicrobial Stewardship And Optimal Use
Hutchings, M., Webster, C., Tongue, S., Baker, E., Henry, M., Humphry, R., Holden, N., Rodrigues da Costa, M., Smith, L. & Humphry, R.
Scottish Government: Rural & Environment Science & Analytical Services
1/04/22 → 31/03/27
Project: Research
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RESAS 22-27: SRUC-b6-2 A Systems Understanding Of The Flow Of Amr From Livestock Production To The Environment And Humans: Informing Risk Analyses
Hutchings, M., Baker, E., Galgano, S., Pollock, J., Holden, N. & Smith, L.
Scottish Government: Rural & Environment Science & Analytical Services
1/04/22 → 31/03/27
Project: Research
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RESAS Strategic Research Programme 2016-21 WP2.3 Productive and sustainable land management
Wall, E., Smith, S., Nicoll, L., Parker, J., Robertson, D., Davidson, R., Donbavand, J., Anderson, C., Roehe, R., Harrison, B., Purcell, L., Duthie, C., Gunn, G., Pritchard, T., Jones, S., Bagnall, A., Vosough Ahmadi, B., Archibald, I., Rees, B., Eory, V., Glenk, K., Edwards, T., Buckingham, S., March, M., Broadbent, C., Cloy, J., Hargreaves, P., Wishart, H., Griffiths, B., Fox, N., Sparks, N., Shrestha, S., Banos, G., Henry, M., Watson, C., Dickinson, J., Topp, K., Burnett, F., Kyle, J., Denholm, S., Dewhurst, R., Lawson, D., McCubbin, I., Dwyer, C., Holland, J., McCracken, D., Barratt, A., Havis, N., Stanisz-Migal, M., Miller, G., Bowen, J., Hutchings, M., Creissen, H., D'Eath, R., Baddeley, J., Houdijk, J., Coffey, M., Morgan-Davies, C., Walker, R., Turner, S., Haskell, M., Barnes, A., Athanasiadou, S., Cole, L., Sandilands, V., McLaren, A., MacLeod, M. & Smith, L.
1/04/19 → 31/03/20
Project: Research
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Early signals of parasitism expressed through behaviour but modulated by social context
Morris, A. M. M., Innocent, G. T., Cunningham, E. J. A., Athanasiadou, S., Hutchings, M. R. & Smith, L. A., Nov 2022, In: Animal Behaviour. 193, p. 157-179 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Temporal and nutritional effects on the weaner pig ileal microbiota
Pollock, J., Glendinning, L., Smith, L. A., Mohsin, H., Gally, D. L., Hutchings, M. R. & Houdijk, J. G. M., 28 Aug 2021, (First published) In: Animal Microbiome. 3, 1, 58.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Infection of non-ruminant wildlife by Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis.
Fox, N. J., Smith, L. A., Stevenson, K., Davidson, R. S., Marion, G. & Hutchings, M. R., 2020, Paratuberculosis: organism, disease, control. Behr, M. A., Stevenson, K. & Kapur, V. (eds.). 2nd ed. CABI Publishing, p. 200-212 13 p. (Paratuberculosis: organism, disease, control).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Considering appropriate replication in the design of animal social network studies
Smith, LA., Swain, DL., Innocent, GT., Nevison, I. & Hutchings, MR., 10 May 2019, In: Scientific Reports. 9, 7208.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ubiquitous parasites drive a 33% increase in methane yield from livestock
Fox, NJ., Smith, LA., Houdijk, JGM., Athanasiadou, S. & Hutchings, MR., Nov 2018, In: International Journal for Parasitology. 48, 13, p. 1017 - 1021 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile25 Citations (Scopus)95 Downloads (Pure)
Datasets
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Data from: The ecology of wildlife disease surveillance: demographic and prevalence fluctuations undermine surveillance
Walton, L. (Contributor), Marion, G. (Creator), Davidson, R. (Contributor), White, P. C. L. (Creator), Smith, L. (Contributor), Gavier-Widen, D. (Contributor), Yon, L. (Creator), Hannant, D. (Creator), Hutchings, M. (Contributor) & White, P. C. L. (Creator), Dryad, 1 Jan 2017
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.s6518, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.s6518
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