
Bethan Purse
@bethan_purse
Disease ecologist at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, modelling vector-borne and zoomotic diseases and plant pathogens to inform risk mitigation
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http://www.ceh.ac.uk/staff/bethan-purse 26-03-2017 07:29:23
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Amazing time in Glasgow with IAPETUS DTP. It was so great to catch up, talk about my Asian Hornet work and hear about how much everyone's PhD research has progressed! Truly inspired by you all!

Great to see team member Meshach Lee talking about his research on mosquitos around Glasgow on BBC Scotland Evening News last night. In the UK, you can watch on the iplayer from the 16th minute here: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod… @UofG_SBOHVM UofG JMS PhD VectorsGlasgow


New paper on Tick hazard in the South Downs National Park (UK) + how to control without reducing ecosystem health. By me BSMS, Rott Brighton Uni Ecology & Cooper University of Brighton: peerj.com/articles/17483. Funders: British Deer Society (BDS) Royal Society of Biology Nineveh Charitable Trust




Celebrating #WorldZoonosesDay 2024 with CR in Parasitology & Vector-Borne Diseases #OpenAccess ▶️sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 📌 Wild terrestrial vertebrates are involved as reservoirs in cycles of tick-borne zoonotic pathogens in Slovakia. 📌 Wildlife plays a role in the geographical spread of infected ticks and


Apply to work with the brilliant Hannah Rose Vineer to work on tick-borne pathogen modelling... #postdoctoral my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecrui…



I'm pleased to announce that our paper on Aedes albopictus, dengue and phenotypic plasticity has been published in Nature Communications. A quick thread on what's in the paper... 👇 nature.com/articles/s4146…

1/5 #RiftValleyFever (RVF) is a neglected zoonotic disease significantly impacting communities in endemic regions 🦟🦠. Our new review by Centre for Healthcare Innovation Research & @Pibright_Inst explores the socioeconomic impacts of RVF, highlighting the urgent need for prevention. bit.ly/3z6ltlD





A new project will review how climate and land use change, and the ways we deal with them, will affect the spread of some diseases that pose a particular threat to humans, animals or plants. PrepSense is led by Dr Steven White 🌱🦌 Read more: ceh.ac.uk/news-and-media…




Out now in Nature Reviews Biodiversity! Reviewing the current state of aquatic #eDNA research and its usefulness for contributing towards the Kunming–Montreal Global #Biodiversity Framework Includes input from UKCEH's Lori Lawson-Handley ⬇️ rdcu.be/ejPVG
