ROSLINREPORTER

Issue 27 June 2013

n another bumper edition of the IRoslin Reporter you can catch up on our science, public engagement, industry collaboration and much more. back at the Royal Highland Show

he Roslin Institute was once again on that highlighted the work Helen Sang and her Inside this issue: Tshow at the Royal Highland Show. In group are undertaking to create genetically addition to sharing our marquee with our modified, disease-resistant chickens. Adrian Director’s Message Page 3 friends from the Royal (Dick) School of Sherman, who is the specialist behind the Veterinary Studies (R(D)SVS), we were technology needs a steady hand for the work Roslin In The News Page 4 also delighted to be joined by colleagues and we were keen to see who might rival his from The Pirbright Institute (like The Roslin skills – thus the buzzing chicken! Other News Page 9 Institute, Pirbright receives strategic funding Eliza Wolfson, a recent Roslin Institute PhD from the BBSRC) and the Scottish Centre for graduate, also put together an activity to Recent Publications Page 26 Regenerative Medicine (SCRM) (also part illustrate the work of Ross Houston who is of the University of ’s College of aiming to identify genetic markers in salmon Medicine and Veterinary Medicine). that will revolutionise the salmon breeding The volume and variety of activities on the stand industry through improved animal health. made for a thoroughly enjoyable as well as Eliza’s pool with disease resistant and educational experience for all those who visited. susceptible salmon provided some gentle The Roslin Institute had a buzzing chicken fishing for the younger visitors while the adults that required a steady hand to keep it quiet. had a chance to ask about the research. The activity was part of an information area The R(D)SVS team were kept busy providing guidance on vet school admission and Mouth Disease viruses and Ingrid from requirements to a large number of future vets SCRM explaining how stem cell research is but also had a lot of fun running through x-rays taken from laboratory to the clinic, our visitors with the potential recruits. had plenty to find out about. With Zoe and Charles from The Pirbright We’ll be back next year so see you there for Institute discussing Schmallenberg and Foot a chat.

2 Directors Message lready half way through the year! The Atime has flown by – but what a productive period of time it has been. Construction of the first of the National Avian Research Facility (NARF) buildings is nearing completion and ground will be broken on the second in July. Alan Hart has joined The Roslin Institute as coordinator for the NARF and he will tell you more about the facility elsewhere in this newsletter. Development plans for the next phase of development at the Easter Bush Campus are well underway and we have been choosing between early design concepts for the new building, currently being referred to as the Hub. In addition to providing additional laboratory space for the rapidly expanding Roslin Institute, this building will provide bioincubator lab space, public exhibition space and important campus facilities such as a nursery, shop and gym. Funding for the build is currently secured from the Scottish Government and with further announcements due soon. I mentioned the Institute’s continued Pathology. Michael is currently part-time while he concludes work at MRC Harwell, but he will join us full time in October at which point he will be developing up the Comparative Pathology Centre at the East Bush Campus. Roslin’s partnerships are strengthening all the time. We are working with the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and Scotland’s Rural College on our submission to the REF2014 exercise. One thing that is crystal clear is the John James strength of the research that we have at the Eas