I am an Associate Professor in Microbiology within the School of Applied Sciences at Edinburgh Napier University, and co-lead for the GRA Animal Health & Greenhouse Gas Emissions Intensity Network. My work focuses on endemic livestock disease and livestock zoonoses. I am involved in a number of national and international multi-disciplinary research programs in the UK and in sub-Saharan Africa where I have a particular interest in diagnosis, immunopathogenesis, and epidemiology.