Dr Francesca Chianini
Address:
Moredun Research Institute
Pentlands Science Park
Bush Loan
Penicuik
Midlothian EH26 0PZ
Scotland
Telephone Number:
+44 (0)131 445 5111
Email address:
Francesca Chianini graduated in 1995 from Pisa Vet School in Italy. She practised in central Italy for two years before joining the Department of Pathology at the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona in Spain where she carried out a Marie Curie founded PhD on Circovirus in pigs.
In 2002 she moved to Moredun where she leads the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) group. She also provides veterinary pathology expertise for Moredun research projects covering a number of viral and parasitological diseases of sheep and cattle, as well as undertaking consultancy neuro-histopathological surveillance of diseases of farm livestock in Scotland. From 2009 she has also taken up a new role as Moredun's main scientific contact on EU funding issues.
Current Research:
- Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
- Protozoan infections in ruminants (Toxoplasma and Neospora).
- Comparative neuropathology.
- Infectious disease of livestock.
Selected Key Publications:
Selected Key Publications
- Eaton, S. L., Rocchi M. S., Gonzalez L., Hamilton S., Finlayson J., Sales J., et al. 2007. Immunological differences between susceptible and resistant sheep during the preclinical phase of scrapie infection. Journal of General Virology. 88(4):1384 - 1391.
- Dagleish, M. P., Rodger S. M., Simmons M. M., Finlayson J., Buxton D., & Chianini F. 2008. Atypical scrapie in a sheep in Scotland. The Veterinary Record. 162():723-724.
- Rocchi, M. S., Anderson M., Eaton S., Hamilton S., Finlayson J., Steele P., et al. 2007. Three-colour flow cytometric detection of PrP in ovine leukocytes. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology. 116(3-4):172 - 181.
- Sisó, S., Jeffrey M., Steele P., McGovern G., Martin S., Finlayson J., et al. 2008. Occurrence and cellular localization of PrP d in kidneys of scrapie-affected sheep in the absence of inflammation. The Journal of Pathology. 215(2):126 - 134.
- Di Bari, M. A., Chianini F., Vaccari G., Esposito E., Conte M., Eaton S. L., et al. 2008. The bank vole (Myodes glareolus) as a sensitive bioassay for sheep scrapie. Journal of General Virology. 89(12):2975 - 2985.
- Eaton, S. L., Anderson M-J., Hamilton S., González L., Sales J., Jeffrey M., et al. 2009. CD21 B cell populations are altered following subcutaneous scrapie inoculation in sheep. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology. 131(1-2):105 - 109.