Projects

Current projects

  • Flu Trailmap (Transmission and risk of avian influenza: learning more to advance preparedness)
  • ECOFLU: Understanding the ecology of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in wild bird populations
  • Development of genetic improvement tools to support tropical poultry small holder livestock systems
  • Understanding the resilience of wild birds to climate change: seasonal genomics of the annual migratory breeding cycle
  • Investigating the host response to avian influenza - genes underlying disease susceptibility/resistance
  • Transcriptomic analysis of seasonal lay in guineafowl
  • The genetics of improved production/environmental adaptation in Bangladeshi chickens
  • Genetics for an improved breeding programme for heat tolerant chickens in Egypt