Owen Gunner

Mr
Owen
Gunner

Mycoplasma Team Laboratory Manager
Animal and Plant Health Agency
Biography

Microbiology biochemistry degree BSc (Hons) University of London South Bank 2008

Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) 2009 Reagent Production Unit working on supplying serological reagent to support serological diagnostic testing, Antiserum production in Rabbits

Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) 2011 surveillance laboratory serviced division (SLSD) serological diagnostics CFT, IFAT, HAI, AGIT, SNT, VNT, Cell and tissue culture.

Animal and Plant Health Agencies (APHA) 2014 Mycoplasma team diagnostic team, and serological diagnostic Immunoblotting and ELIAS, progressed into exotic to the UK mycoplasma species research and serological test and protein analysis for the use in serological diagnostic testing.

Research interests

Serological assay development and design

The use of vaccine targets as potential diagnostic targets or to offer potential differentiation states of immunity either natural infection or vaccinated.

Projects you're working on

Identification of novel immunogenic targets for Mycoplasma species endemic and exotic to the UK

Discipline
Bacteriology
Host species
Buffalo Camels Cats Cattle Dogs Horses Pigs Poultry Small ruminants
Pathogen
Bacteria
Stage of vaccine development
Antigen discovery and immunogen design Correlates of protection – immunomonitoring