Role
Dr Imrie is a Lecturer for the Veterinary Nursing Foundation Degree course and is Module Leader for Applied Functional Anatomy and Theatre Practice and Diagnostics
Career overview
Dr Imrie is a veterinarian with experience in small animal practice. Part of her career has been spent in research; completing her PhD at the University of Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé where she looked at the carriage of immune complexes by human red blood cells. She then spent six years at the University of Oxford where she looked at innate immune responses to malaria in children in Papua New Guinea and Gabon.
Research areas
Dr Imrie is currently looking at immune responses in chickens in collaboration with Dr Emily Burton's group and has an interest in bovine mycobacterial diseases. Dr Imrie is collaborating with colleagues at the University of Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé into the development of apps to improve numeracy in students within the health care profession.
Opportunities to carry out postgraduate research towards an MPhil/PhD exist in the School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences and further information may be obtained from the NTU Doctoral School.
Publications
. Imrie HJ, Fowkes FJI, Migot-Nabias F, Luty JF, Deloron P and Day KP, PLoS ONE, 2012, 7 (11) e49816
. O'Donnell A, Fowkes FJ, Allen SJ, Imrie HJ, Alpers MP, Weatherall DJ and Day KP, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2009, 103 (7) 679-86
. Fowkes FJI, Michon P, Pilling L, Ripley RM, Tavul L, Imrie HJ, Woods CM, Mgone CS, Luty AJF and Day KP, Malaria Journal, 2008, 7 (1) 1
. Barry AE, Leliwa-Sytek A, Tavul L, Imrie HJ, Migot-Nabias F, Brown SM, McVean GAV and Day KP, Public Library of Science Pathogens, 2007, 3 (3) e34
. Imrie HJ, Fowkes FJI, Michon P, Tavul L, Reeder JC, Luty AJF and Day KP, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2007, 76 (2) 280-4
. Imrie HJ, Fowkes FJI, Michon P, Tavul L, Hume JCC, Piper KP, Reeder JC and Day KP, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2006, 74 (6) 965-971
. Imrie H, Fowkes FJI, Migot-Nabias F, Michon P, Justice A, Deloron P, Luty JF and Day KP, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2006, 74 (1) 26-30
. Imrie HJ, Ferguson D and Day KP, Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 2004, 133 (1) 93-98
Press expertise
- Animal immunology, specifically to bovine TB, liver fluke and human malaria
- Animal anatomy and physiology
- Animal diagnostics