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Eve O'Kelly · 22 July 2025

Eve O’Kelly Awarded Irish Society for Parasitology William C. Campbell Award 2025

Eve O’Kelly Awarded the Irish Society for Parasitology William C. Campbell Award 2025. Eve O’Kelly is a PhD candidate in the Molecular Parasitology Laboratory (MPL) lead by Prof. John P. Dalton at the University of Galway, Ireland. Her work focused on the isolation and molecular/biochemical characterization of immunomodulatory proteins from Fasciola hepatica (liver fluke). Now pursuing her PhD, Eve is continuing this research with the aim of identifying and characterizing novel vaccine targets to combat fasciolosis, a significant parasitic disease affecting livestock and humans.

Taddese Alemu Zerfu · 31 May 2023

The double-edged sword of keeping livestock: balancing nutritional benefits with disease risks in poor nations

In many low- and lower-middle-income countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where mixed crop-livestock farming is widely practiced, livestock keeping provides income, food, nutrition and other benefits for the rural poor. The nutritional benefits of livestock keeping are particularly important since malnutrition continues to cause nearly half of annual global child deaths, and can have lasting effects on the physical growth and cognitive development of millions of surviving children.

Cambridge University Press · 17 January 2022

Meet the Editors: Q&A with Professor Jonathan Wastling

Thank you so much for agreeing to participate in our Meet the Editors series on the Parasitology blog. We are very grateful for your time and input, and we hope that you enjoy the chance to share your work and a little bit about yourself with our readers.

D. P. Hennessy · 30 November 2021

Meeting our future food demand: Are our livestock a help or a hindrance?

When discussing how we should design our future-food systems we need to consider feed-food competition occurring in our livestock systems. Feed-food competition occurs when arable land, which could be used to produce human edible food from crops, is instead used to produce feed for livestock.

F. N. S Santos · 30 October 2020

Total mixed ration silages based on Cactus and Gliricidia

Silage – basically fermented grass – is used widely as a feed source for animals, preserving the pasture for livestock to eat later in the year when the natural pasture is not good and retaining more nutrients than turning it into hay.…

Jan M. Sargeant · 2 March 2020

Antibiotics in animals: more research urgently needed

Resistance to antibiotics has been declared a global health emergency – and it’s not just humans who are impacted by this public health crisis.…

J. D. Taylor · 20 December 2019

Reducing stress of weaning can improve weight gain of beef calves

The animal article of the month for January is Comparison of effects of four weaning methods on health and performance of beef calves by, J.…

Bertrand Dumont · 25 July 2019

Searching for a more balanced livestock debate

The special topic in August’s issue of animal is Multicriteria assessment of livestock systems using a graphical tool While the world has limits, the global population is growing, along with an increased demand for food.…

Maria Lozano Jaramillo · 14 June 2019

Can we predict breed suitability for different environments?

The animal article of the month for July is ‘Use of Geographic Information System tools to Predict Animal Breed Suitability for Different Agro-Ecological Zones’ Predicting breed suitability is challenging in livestock production.…

Gregoire Leroy et al · 14 November 2018

Livestock (grazing) systems provide a large diversity of ecosystem services

The animal article of the month for December is ‘Perception of livestock ecosystem services in grazing area‘ The interaction between livestock systems and their respective environments is complex.…

Gesa Busch and more · 14 September 2018

Changes in livestock farming required

The animal article of the month for October is ‘Opinion paper: What needs to be changed for successful future livestock farming in Europe?’…

M. Gill and more · 16 July 2018

Livestock production evolving to contribute to sustainable societies

Some anthropologists hypothesise that we probably wouldn’t be the sophisticated, technology-driven society we are today, if our ancestors had not started to eat meat.…

Heleen van Kernebeek · 16 July 2018

Reducing phosphorus waste in the food system

We are wasting a mineral essential for our food security. A mineral without which crops and grass cannot grow, i.e. phosphorus.…

M J MacLeod · 6 February 2018

The Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM)

The animal article of the month for February is ‘Invited review: a position on The Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM)‘ The livestock sector is one of the fastest growing subsectors of the agricultural economy and it makes a major contribution to global food supply and economic development.…

Dawn Havard · 11 November 2016

Rumen fluke now very common in Wales

A study by scientists at Aberystwyth University’s IBERS working with Wales YFC reveals that rumen fluke (Calicophoron daubneyi) is now prevalent on Welsh farms.…

Toby Mottram · 19 October 2016

We have changed cattle husbandry more in 20 years than in the previous 10000

By the mid 1990s, after ten years of development, we had working robotic milkers. Once it launched on farms we could turn to the question “How do we monitor cows when there are no humans?”

Saheed Salami · 26 August 2016

Appraisal of authorization of antioxidant feed additives in livestock production

The animal article of the month for August is entitled 'Review: In vivo and post-mortem effects of feed antioxidants in livestock: a review of the implications on authorization of antioxidant feed additives'

Gregoire Leroy · 25 February 2016

Sustainability of crossbreeding in developing countries; definitely not like crossing a meadow…

The agricultural sector plays an important economic role in many developing countries, meaning that smallholder farmers must be at the center of the growth process in order to reduce poverty.

Yvette de Haas · 16 September 2015

Reducing Livestock methane emissions: A review of genetic possibilities

The livestock sector, particularly ruminants, is estimated to contribute up to 18% of total global anthropogenic Green House Gas emissions.

Armin M. Scholz · 15 July 2015

A review of non-invasive techniques to measure livestock body composition

The ability to accurately measure body or carcass composition is an important application for farm animal breeders, producers, abattoirs, butchers, meat (and fat) processors.

Milton Mccallister · 30 June 2014

Vaccines for malaria and other human protozoal diseases could benefit from animal research

The June article of the month from Parasitology is “Successful vaccines for naturally occurring protozoal diseases of animals should guide human vaccine research.…

How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability

Holly Pascoe · 8 February 2023

The 33%: Q&A with Dame Anna Dominiczak

Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science

Alexandra R. Lampard-Scotford · 23 August 2022

The impact of parasite infection on mental illness

More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.

Dr Dami Ajayi · 28 March 2022

Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths

APSR Authors · 15 December 2020

Conversations with Authors: Institutionalized Police Brutality

This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…

Karen Stollznow · 15 November 2024

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Eve O’Kelly Awarded Irish Society for Parasitology William C. Campbell Award 2025

The double-edged sword of keeping livestock: balancing nutritional benefits with disease risks in poor nations

Meet the Editors: Q&A with Professor Jonathan Wastling

Meeting our future food demand: Are our livestock a help or a hindrance?

Total mixed ration silages based on Cactus and Gliricidia

Antibiotics in animals: more research urgently needed

Reducing stress of weaning can improve weight gain of beef calves

Searching for a more balanced livestock debate

Can we predict breed suitability for different environments?

Livestock (grazing) systems provide a large diversity of ecosystem services

Changes in livestock farming required

Livestock production evolving to contribute to sustainable societies

Reducing phosphorus waste in the food system

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Rumen fluke now very common in Wales

We have changed cattle husbandry more in 20 years than in the previous 10000

Appraisal of authorization of antioxidant feed additives in livestock production

Sustainability of crossbreeding in developing countries; definitely not like crossing a meadow…

Reducing Livestock methane emissions: A review of genetic possibilities

A review of non-invasive techniques to measure livestock body composition

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