Hui Zheng has joined our lab - remotely from China but will visit Ireland during her studies. 
Naomi Ogbulafor has joined the lab to complete her PhD on bovine mastitis. Naomi will be co-supervised by Dr Orla Keane in Teagasc.
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We are delighted to have Dr Alia Parveen as a postdoctoral researcher in our lab. Alia will work on aspects of mycobacterial immunity related to vitamin D.  
Rachel Lee has started an MSc examining the role of vitamin D in bovine TB. Rachel will be based in Queens University Belfast with Prof Ilias Kyriazakis 

​Yingkin Zhu, based in the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, has started a PhD project investigating how nutritional supplementation may boost immune function in calves.​
Ozge Sidekli

Ozge has started a PhD with Kieran Meade and Dr Ed Hollox, University of Leicester to develop assays to type Copy-Number Variation in bovine defensin genes.
Marcello Valente has started with our team, and will work in Teagasc, Grange but be primarily based in Tyndall in Cork. Marcello's work will develop a nanosensor to detect DNA methylation as a mechanism to monitor disease susceptibility and improve disease diagnosis.