Dr Russ Morphew
PhD
Reader
Contact Details
- Email: rom@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0003-0304-4730
- Office: 3.29, Edward Llwyd Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622314
- Twitter: @RussMorphew
- Research Portal Profile
Teaching
Module Coordinator
Tutor
- BRS0060 - Integrated Year in Industry
- BR26620 - Proteins and Enzymes
- BRM1620 - Infection and Immunity
- VE11350 - Form and Function (Year 1)
- BRM0920 - Hot Topics in Parasite Control
- BR27520 - Research Methods
- BRM2860 - MBiol Research Project
Coordinator
Lecturer
- BR15420 - Disease Diagnosis and Control
- BRM6060 - MRes Dissertation (A)
- BR34120 - Veterinary Infectious Diseases
- BR22920 - Practical Skills for Biochemists
- BR25420 - Invertebrate Zoology
- BRM6160 - MRes Dissertation (B)
- VE10320 - Principles of Science
- VS20340 - Egwyddorion Gwyddoniaeth (blwyddyn 2)
- VE20340 - Principles of Science (year 2)
- BRM2860 - MBiol Research Project
- BR36820 - Veterinary Pharmacology and Disease Control
Grader
Moderator
Research
Current research is aimed at utilising modern high resolution proteomic technologies and mass spectrometry to investigate protein function and interactions. This work has focussed upon microbial-host interactions and the proteins that act upon this interface. In particular, how proteins can facilitate the invasion, establishment or colonisation of an organism within a host. Present research focuses upon the interaction of of extracellular vesicles released from parasitic helminths on the microbiome. Of interest are the parasitic helminths of economic importance including the liver flukes Fasciola hepatica and F. gigantica, nematodes Haemonchus contortus and Teladorsagia circumcincta as well as neglected veterinary parasites such as the rumen fluke, Calicophoron daubneyi, and the equine tapeworm, Anoplocephala perfoliata. Recent research using high resolution proteomics has focussed upon vaccine discovery and the development and response to anthelmintic stress and metabolism. The main driver of future research is to increase our understanding of how proteins interact with other proteins within the same organism, between organisms or within a host. How proteins interact with ligands such as anthelmintics and metabolites are also of interest, including how proteins function in the metabolism and action of anthelmintics and ultimately anthelmintic resistance.