Projects

Research projects and supervisions undertaken by Dr Laura Glendinning (Chancellor’s Fellow) in the Glendinning Lab

Metagenome assembled genome taxonomic tree from chicken caeca
Metagenome assembled genome taxonomic tree from chicken caeca

Current projects

  • EUPAHW Animal Health and Welfare Internal Programme: Easter Bush lead for SOA 28 – “Risk of spread of AMR and associated genes in veterinary pathogens” (2025-2028).
  • Houghton Trust Small Project Research Grant (principal investigator) (2025-2026) – “Chicken dendritic cell – microbiota interplay in vaccine-mediated responses”.
  • Roslin Foundation PhD studentship (primary supervisor): Student – Mingzhen Jiang (2026-2031) – “Constructing simplified microbial communities to understand fibre fermentation in the chicken gut microbiota”.

Completed projects

  • SFC-ISPF 24-25 partnership award (co-applicant) (2023-2024) – “Understanding antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Yak milk microbiomes: An interdisciplinary capacity building approach in Nepal”
  • International Institutional Award 2024 (co-applicant) (2024) – “International Collaborative Workshop to catalyse Horizon Europe funding application to understand and improve the productivity, survivability and sustainability of Guinea Fowl systems for small holder farmers”.
  • ISP Pump Priming grant (co-applicant) (2024-2025) – “Metagenomics in Mussels unveiling Immune Gene Presence-Absence Variation and large Structural Variants.”
  • ISP Pump Priming grant (co-applicant) (2024-2025) – “Testing establishment of MDR E. coli ST131 in the pig gastrointestinal tract and impact of phage intervention in vivo and in bioreactors.”
  • BBSRC grant BB/V018450/1 (principal investigator) (2023-2024) – “Enriching Mgnify Genomes to capture the full spectrum of the microbiota and bolster taxonomic classifications”
  • Roslin ISP ECR grant (2022) – “The microbiota of gene-edited chickens”.
  • Roslin ISP ECR Grant (2022) – “Metagenomic characterisation of the caecal microbiota of XCR1 knockout chickens”.
  • BBSRC Impact Acceleration Accounts (IAA) (2020) – “Characterization of novel enzymes derived from gastrointestinal microbiota for livestock feed additive commercialization””
  • ISP Early Career Grant (2020) – “Towards a functional understanding of the chicken caecal microbiota via culturing of novel strains and species of bacteria”.
  • Houghton Trust Small Project Grant (2019) – “The impact of a natural microbiota treatment on the chicken respiratory microbiota and the response to live-attenuated viral vaccines.”

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