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191 mechanisms and Peste de Petit Ruminants virus transmission in African wildlife. In early 2012 I moved to a new post as senior lecturer in veteri- nary virology at the School of Veterinary Medicine SVM within the Faculty of Medical Sciences FMS at The University of the West Indies UWI and was promoted to the role of Professor in February 2014. Since starting at The UWI in January 2012 I have submitted seven grants for funding as Principal Investigator PI and one as a co-applicant.I am in the process of setting up a one- health based research programme concentrating on pathogens of importance within the Caribbean region. I am currently the principal supervisor of three postgraduate students two PhD and one MPhil. I am currently conducting five main research activities and am actively pursuing opportunities to enter into other areas of research through ongoing grant applications Respiratory viruses in avian and swine populations in Trinidad and Tobago. This work has been funded by the UWI Research Development and Impact RDI fund for TT80000 and has one PhD and one MPhil student working on it. Work is progressing well on this grant and many of the samples have been collected from the field.Relevant assays ELISA and real- time PCR have and are being set up in the newly formed molecular diagnostic lab at the SVM and samples will be tested in the next few months. Identification of Culicoides species and related viruses in Trinidad and Tobago. This work is partially funded by the Livestock and Livestock Products Board LLPB of Trinidad and has one PhD student working on it. Work is progressing well on this project with four serotypes of Bluetongue virus BTV being identified to be circulating in Trinidad. Other viruses that are transmitted by Culicoides midges have been identi- fied and work is ongoing to identify the species of Culicoides midges that are present in Trinidad. Molecular identification of Eimeria species in poultry in Trinidad and Tobago.This work is funded by the UWI Research and Publication fund. Through real-time PCR technology this project has identified the species of Eimeria parasites that are present in Trinidadian poultry which will help farmers to control this globally important parasite within Trinidad. Causes of abortion in dairy cattle in Trinidad and Tobago.This work is funded through an SVM undergraduate student project with co-funding from Nestle.This project has success- fully identified two important pathogens in Trinidad cattle that may be causing subfertility and abortion. Other impor- tant reproductive pathogens have also been ruled out as a cause of abortion. Promotion of the One Health concept across the Caribbean region. The University of the West Indies along with PAHOWHO CIRAD FAO and the Ministries of Agriculture of GuyanaGrenada and St Kitts Nevis as partners have recently been successful in securing funding Euros 1.164000 from the European Commission ACP ST II for a project entitled One Health One Caribbean One Love. The two main aims of this three-year project will be to promote and entrench a One Health approach to zoonotic and food borne disease surveillance diagnosis and response within the Caribbean region as well as to strengthen the ability of Caribbean countries to recognise diagnose and respond to animal zoonotic diseases. Selected Publications Oura C.A.L. P.P Powell and R.M.E Parkhouse. African swine fever a disease characterised by apoptosis. Journal of General Virology 1998 79 1427-1438. Oura C.A.L. B. Asiimwe W. Weir G.W. Lubega and A. Tait. Popula- tion genetics and sub-structuring of Theileria parva in Uganda. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 2005 149 229-239. Oura C.A.L. James Wood Anna Sanders Abid Bin-Tarif Mark Henstock Lorraine Edwards Toby Floyd Hugh Simmons and Carrie Batten. Seroconversion neutralising antibodies and protection in bluetongue Serotype 8 vaccinated sheep. Vaccine 2009 27 73267330