British Deer Society AGM Weekend 2018
Friday 18th / Saturday 19th May 2018
Final agenda now available - view below
For this year’s Society Annual General Meeting and two day conference event, Scottish Trustee Director and Area Chair John Bruce will be welcoming delegates, members and Society friends to Edinburgh. The event will be based at the Holiday Inn, Corstorphine where accommodation at preferential rates has been earmarked and guests will also be able to make use of the indoor pool and a fitness centre.
Friday 18th May is planned as a full day conference with speakers on deer related topics of national importance including some of particular Scottish relevance. The conference will take place in the Budongo Lecture Theatre at Edinburgh Zoo which is conveniently placed adjacent to the hotel. The Royal Zoological Society Scotland Edinburgh Zoo is set in over 82 acres of sloping parkland and home to over 1,000 rare and endangered animals, including Giant Pandas, and will be well worth a visit.
Saturday’s conference will be at the Holiday Inn itself and will major on talks by BDS sponsored researchers, ending with the AGM meeting late afternoon and finally the AGM dinner in the evening. Visitors can then decide whether to travel home on Sunday or spend more time exploring Scotland’s exciting capital city and the multitude of interesting places to visit.
We very much hope to welcome as many members as possible to this weekend.
Final Agenda
Friday 18th May - Edinburgh University
| 09:00 | Registration, Edinburgh Zoo |
| 09:45 | Welcome Michael Thick |
| 10:00 | Genetics of deer - Hybridisation and introgression between red deer and Japanese sika Prof. J.M. Pemberto, Institute of Evolutionary Biology |
| 10:30 | Biodiversity and ungulate management in managed forests Claudia Jordan-Fragstei, Projektbüro BioWild |
| 11.00 | - Break - |
| 11:30 | Habitat Impact Assessment - Assessing herbivore impacts on woodlands: an observational approach Dr Helen Armstrong |
| 12:00 | Scotland’s Wild Deer: A National Approach – what is the role of BDS? Jessica Findlay, SNH |
| 12:30 | Wild Deer Best Practice - where it is and what is does Alastair MacGugan, SNH |
| 13:00 | - Lunch and zoo visit. Free tickets to see the Pandas available - |
| 15:00 | Landscape development - Impacts of scale & diversity of land ownership in Scotland Stephen Thomson, SRUC |
| 15:30 | Landscape development - The role of red deer in shaping the upland Scottish landscape Dr James Fenton |
| 16:00 | Landscape development - National trends & regional differences in red deer density in Scotland Donald Fraser, Operations Manager, SNH |
| 16:30 | - Close - |
Saturday 19th May 2018 - Holiday Inn Hotel
| 09:00 | Registration Holiday Inn Hotel |
| 09:30 | Research - Roe deer genomics - Insights into the demographic history of roe deer populations Menno de Jong, PhD candidate, Whitehead Trust |
| 10:00 | Research - A citizen science approach for studying impacts of outdoor recreation on red deer Dr Jed Long, St Andrews University |
| 10:30 | Research - Disturbance of red deer on Ulva Hagen O’Neill, Durham University |
| 11:00 | - Break - |
| 11:30 | Ticks & Borreliosis - Ticks on South Downs Jo Middleton, BSMS |
| 12:00 | An overview of the ecology of Lyme disease in the UK Prof Richard J Birtles, School of Environment & Life Sciences |
| 12:30 |
Rationale and implementation of a UK-wide tick-borne virus deer serosurveillance study Maya Holding, NIHR, University of Liverpool |
| 13:00 | - Lunch - |
| 14:00 | Deer Health - Chronic Wasting Disease, explained in worldwide scenario Dr. Mark Dagleish |
| 14:30 | Deer Health - Modelling the susceptibility of British deer to Chronic Wasting Disease Dr. Fiona Houston & Amy Robinson, Roslin Institute, Edinburgh |
| 15:00 | Deer Health - E Coli0157:H7 - prevalence and risks Dr Tom McNeilly, Moredun Institute |
| 15:30 |
Infra-red thermography: development of a field method to assess chronic stress in free-ranging deer Prof Rory Putman |
| 16.00 | - Break - |
| 16:30 | BDS AGM |
| 19:30 | Aperitifs – Reception Holiday Inn Hotel |
| 20:00 | Society Dinner – Dining Room, Holiday Inn Hotel |
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