Stuart Naylor is a Principal Pathologist within the pathology department at Charles River Laboratories in Edinburgh.  He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1999, after which he commenced a PhD on the molecular basis of the persistence and pathology of E. coli O157:H7 in cattle based jointly at the Moredun Research Institute and the University of Edinburgh. After gaining his PhD in 2003 he took up the position of Research Scientist in the Scottish Agricultural College, developing interests in other aspects of bacterial diseases of livestock including vaccine development.  He joined the pathology department of Charles River Laboratories in Edinburgh in 2008 and became a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists by examination (laboratory animals) in 2012. He has published numerous papers in peer reviewed journals in the fields of toxicological pathology and infectious disease and is the chair of examiners for veterinary pathology at the Royal College of Pathologists.

Graduated University College Dublin, 1986. PhD on pathogenesis of Bovine tuberculosis, The Queen’s University of Belfast, 1998. Currently, Associate Professor of Veterinary Pathology,  University College Dublin. Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists since 2001: examiner since 2007; member of Special Advisory Committee for Veterinary Pathology 2015-2022.  Member of The Veterinary Council of Ireland 2007-2011. Scientific editor with ‘The Veterinary Journal’ 2007-2014. Member of editorial board of ‘Veterinary Pathology’ 2015-2017. Current research interests include pathogenesis of respiratory disease in animals and in particular bovine tuberculosis, and veterinary undergraduate ‘open-book’ online assessment.

Dr Pamela Kelly is an Assistant Professor in Veterinary Pathology and Head of Section of Veterinary Pathobiology, in the UCD, School of Veterinary Medicine. She is a recognized European Specialist in Veterinary Pathology EBVS®, a diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Pathologists and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath). She has a PhD in Dermatopathology and is a graduate of Veterinary Medicine (UCD, 2009) and Science (human physiology, UCD, 2004). Pamela has a keen interest in Dermatopathology, ‘One Health’ and Comparative Pathology.

Mark is a full-time consultant anatomic veterinary pathologist working with zoo, exotic and wildlife species including fish, at International Zoo Veterinary Group (IZVG) in Keighley, West Yorkshire. He joined IZVG in 2003. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and an RCVS Recognised Specialist in Veterinary Pathology (Zoo and Wildlife). Mark was President of the British Veterinary Zoological Society between 2015 and 2017.

Professor Roberto La Ragione is a veterinary microbiologist with a particular interest in zoonotic bacterial pathogens of livestock, poultry and companion animals. His current research focuses on understanding the pathobiology of zoonotic pathogens, antimicrobial resistance and the development of novel intervention strategies, including diagnostics, vaccines, prebiotics, probiotics and postbiotics. Roberto has published over 240 peer reviewed publications in the area of veterinary microbiology and is a member of a number of scientific advisory committees. Roberto is currently a Professor of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology in the School of Veterinary Medicine, and the Interim Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean for the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences (FHMS), at the University of Surrey.