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  Developing an assessment framework to identify plant health benefits and risks for emerging novel crops in Scotland

  Surendran, A. (PI), Havis, N. (CoPI), Kaczmarek, M. (CoI) & Yang, C. (CoI)

  4/11/24 → 30/04/25

  Project: Research

• Unravelling the mechanisms of resistance to the macrocyclic lactones in the sheep scab mite, Psoroptes ovis

  Hearn, J. (PI)

  1/09/24 → 31/08/27

  Project: Research

• MOSAEC: Mobilising Scotland’s assets in equitable ways for epidemic control

  Holden, N. (PI)

  1/09/24 → 31/05/25

  Project: Research

• UltraGreenCow: Comprehensive greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions measurement capacity for large ruminant production

  Miller, G. (CoPI), Roehe, R. (PI), Conington, J. (CoI) & Duthie, C.-A. (CoI)

  1/08/24 → 31/07/25

  Project: Research

• Soil acoustics and biodiversity

  Newbold, J. (PI) & Hargreaves, P. (CoI)

  1/08/24 → 31/01/26

  Project: Research

• Transform Dairy Net

  Haskell, M. (PI), March, M. (CoPI) & Ferguson, H. (CoPI)

  1/06/24 → 31/05/27

  Project: Research

• Reducing sheep methane emissions: sustainability in practice via new breeding goals

  Lambe, N. (PI), Conington, J. (CoI), MacLeod, M. (CoI), McLaren, A. (Researcher), McLean, K. (Technician) & Gordon, J. (Technician)

  1/04/24 → 30/04/27

  Project: Research

• The impact of withdrawing of zinc oxide supplementation during piglet weaning on AMR, pathogens and the microbiome

  Beechener, S. (PI), Rodrigues da Costa, M. (Researcher), Hutchinson, I. (Researcher), Webster, C. (Technician) & Chalmers, G. (Consultant)

  1/03/24 → 28/02/27

  Project: Research

• The Evaluation of Market Ready agricultural Technology Options (TEMaRTO)

  Barnes, A. (PI), Mckay Fletcher, D. (CoI), Eory, V. (CoPI) & MacLeod, M. (CoPI)

  19/02/24 → 18/02/27

  Project: Research

• CHERI: Calf Health Evaluation and Remote Inspection

  Duthie, C.-A. (PI), Haskell, M. (CoI) & Bell, D. (CoI)

  1/12/23 → 30/11/25

  Project: Research

• LUNZ-Hub: Land-use for Net Zero Hub

  Bolton, S. (PI), Atterton, J. (CoI) & Sellars, A. (Researcher)

  1/11/23 → 28/02/27

  Project: Research

• Understanding activities of the rumen microbiome during herbivore digestion to advance sustainable ruminant farming

  van Munster, J. (PI)

  1/10/23 → 30/09/31

  Project: Research

• Calf housing and ventilation: CEVEC – Cost Effective Ventilated Environment for Calves

  Bell, D. (CoI), Barraclough, R. (Researcher), Haskell, M. (PI), Duthie, C.-A. (PI) & Mason, C. (CoI)

  1/10/23 → 31/08/25

  Project: Research

• Impacts Of Larger Litter Size On Robustness And Resilience Of Pigs

  Baxter, E. (Supervisor) & Futro, A. (PhD Student)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/23 → 30/09/30

  Project: PhD project

• Metabolic Interactions Between Fungi And Bacteria In The Rumen Microbiome

  van Munster, J. (Supervisor) & Monino Ramos, S. (PhD Student)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/23 → 30/09/27

  Project: PhD project

• Rapid Domestication Of Purslane (portulaca Sp.) In A Vertical Farm Environment.

  Powell, W. (Supervisor) & Irving, E. (PhD Student)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/23 → 30/09/27

  Project: PhD project

• ColdSpot: Using Data to Drive Sustained Improvements in Dairy Supply Chain Operations towards Net Zero

  Salavati, M. (PI) & March, M. (CoI)

  1/10/23 → 30/09/25

  Project: Research

• Understanding Molecular Variations Of Cattle Genome By Machine Learning

  Li, B. (Supervisor) & Wells, A. (PhD Student)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/23 → 30/09/27

  Project: PhD project

• Molecular Epidemiology Of Neoparamoeba Perurans, Causative Agent Of Amoebic Gill Disease (agd) In Farmed Salmonids

  Boerlage, A. (Supervisor) & Dagen, S. (PhD Student)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/23 → 30/09/27

  Project: PhD project

• Understanding Micronutrients Provision In A Changing Global Food System

  Eory, V. (Supervisor) & Waxenberg, K. (PhD Student)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/23 → 30/09/27

  Project: PhD project

• Understanding, Predicting And Preventing The Welfare Costs Of Inappropriate Body Condition In Suckler Cows

  Turner, S. (Supervisor) & Smith, I. (PhD Student)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/23 → 30/04/28

  Project: PhD project

• Developing forestry by-products as a novel therapeutic for parasite control in ruminants

  Athanasiadou, S. (PI)

  1/10/23 → 30/09/26

  Project: Research

• Sustainability Of Seal Tourism In The Ythan Estuary

  Marley, S. (Supervisor) & Stainfield, C. (PhD Student)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/23 → 30/09/27

  Project: PhD project

• Investigating The Use Of Bark Compounds For Disease Control In Ruminants

  Athanasiadou, S. (Supervisor) & Lynas, C. (PhD Student)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/23 → 30/09/27

  Project: PhD project

• Seascape Nursery Habitat Quality And Juvenile Fish Growth

  Burns, N. (Supervisor) & Lowe, E. (PhD Student)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/23 → 30/09/27

  Project: PhD project

• Life In The Belly Of A Whale: Genomic And Population Genetic Approaches To Disentangle The Adaptations Of The Parasitic Liver Fluke Campula Oblonga And How It Interacts With Its Cetacean Host

  Lawton, S. (Supervisor) & Beaton, K. (PhD Student)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/23 → 30/09/27

  Project: PhD project

• Cool Cows: Cool Cows (EnviroCow+): Accelerated breeding for low methane emissions and high feed efficiency

  Dewhurst, R. (PI), Coffey, M. (CoI) & Newbold, J. (CoI)

  1/10/23 → 30/09/25

  Project: Research

• BIOservicES: Linking soil biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services in different land uses: from the identification of drivers, pressures and climate change resilience to their economic valuation

  McVittie, A. (PI) & Glenk, K. (CoI)

  1/09/23 → 31/08/28

  Project: Research

• Genetic and management solutions for lameness-associated endemic diseases in dairy cattle

  Banos, G. (PI) & Coffey, M. (CoI)

  1/09/23 → 31/08/26

  Project: Research

• DETECT: A Non-Invasive and Automated Real-Time Disease Detection Tool for Cattle

  Duthie, C.-A. (PI) & Haskell, M. (CoI)

  1/09/23 → 31/08/26

  Project: Research

• A face-based automated on-farm pig health monitoring system: IntelliPig

  Baxter, E. (PI)

  1/09/23 → 30/09/26

  Project: Research

• A UK platform for the control of Bovine Viral Diarrhoea:Application of a novel disease simulation model to guide programme development & policy design

  Eze, J. (PI), Duncan, A. (CoI) & Beechener, S. (CoI)

  1/09/23 → 30/06/26

  Project: Research

• Towards a more circular blue economy: from aquaculture waste to re-use in sustainable water treatment and agriculture

  Boyko, R. (PI), Ross, M. (CoPI) & Taggart, M. (CoPI)

  1/08/23 → 31/01/26

  Project: Research

• BB/X008754/1: INTEGRATING CLINICAL, DATA-DRIVEN, AND IN-VITRO APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS IN BOVINE DIGITAL DERMATITIS

  Banos, G. (PI), Coffey, M. (CoI) & Li, B. (CoI)

  1/07/23 → 30/06/26

  Project: Research

• Breeding low methane sheep

  Lambe, N. (PI), Kaseja, K. (CoI) & Conington, J. (CoI)

  1/06/23 → 31/05/26

  Project: Research

• Nitrogen efficient plants for climate smart arable cropping systems

  Houdijk, J. (PI)

  1/04/23 → 31/03/27

  Project: Research

• RESAS 22-27: Centre Of Expertise For Plant Health 2023-26

  Burnett, F. (PI)

  Scottish Government: Rural & Environment Science & Analytical Services

  1/04/23 → 31/03/26

  Project: Research

• ClimateSmartAdvisors: ClimateSmartAdvisors: Connecting and mobilizing the EU agricultural advisory community to support the transition to Climate Smart Farming

  Ramsay, N. (Project manager), Audsley, R. (PI) & Bauer, A. (CoI)

  1/04/23 → 31/03/30

  Project: Research

• Daffodil enabled Climate friendly ruminant production: Dancing with daffodils

  Newbold, J. (PI), Newbold, J. (CoPI), Duthie, C.-A. (CoPI) & Palma-Hidalgo, J. (Researcher)

  1/04/23 → 31/03/27

  Project: Research

• Hempcrete carbon footprinting, carbon analysis and feasibility

  Buckingham, S. (PI)

  28/03/23 → 31/03/27

  Project: Consultancy

• Integrating genomics and transcriptomics to empower dairy breeding for feed efficient animals

  Li, B. (PI)

  20/03/23 → 19/03/26

  Project: Research

• Shifting mobilities linked to the Covid-19 pandemic: Exploring new migration flows into rural and island communities

  Atterton, J. (PI)

  1/03/23 → 30/06/25

  Project: Research

• CLEAR: Collaborative Landscape planning for Enhanced Agrobiodiversity and Resilience (CLEAR)

  Cole, L. (CoI), Watson, C. (PI) & Topp, K. (CoI)

  1/03/23 → 28/02/26

  Project: Research

• Climate Smart Beef Genetics - Innovative approaches to the reduce environmental impact of the UK beef supply chain

  Roehe, R. (PI)

  1/02/23 → 31/01/27

  Project: Research

• Moy Park - Agrecalc Data Exchange

  Bell, J. (PI) & Armstrong, J. (Project manager)

  1/01/23 → 31/12/28

  Project: Consultancy

• BRACE: Biosecurity and Roundworm Advice for Cattle Enterprises (BRACE)

  Lamont, K. (PI)

  1/01/23 → 15/01/26

  Project: Research

• INTERCROPS: Developing Intercropping for agrifood Value chains and Ecosystem Services delivery in Europe and Southern countries

  Watson, C. (PI), Topp, K. (CoI), Walker, R. (CoI) & Hargreaves, P. (CoI)

  1/11/22 → 31/10/26

  Project: Research

• AgroServ: Integrated SERVices supporting a sustainable AGROecological transition

  Dewhurst, R. (PI), Duthie, C.-A. (CoI), Bowen, J. (Researcher), Ferguson, H. (Researcher) & Miller, G. (Researcher)

  18/10/22 → 17/10/27

  Project: Research

• Supply of data from Inoculated disease trials for AHDB's Recommended List project

  Havis, N. (PI)

  3/10/22 → 24/09/27

  Project: Research

• Knowledge And Information In Sustainable Food Production: Farmers Mental Representation Of Soil Health And The Environment

  Eory, V. (Supervisor)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/22 → 30/09/26

  Project: PhD project