Rate My Professor Laura Peachey

Dr Laura Peachey, BSc, BVSc, PhD, is Associate Professor of Parasitology at Bristol Veterinary School, University of Bristol. She qualified in Veterinary Science with a BVSc from the University of Liverpool in 2007, having intercalated a BSc in veterinary pathology from the Royal Veterinary College in 2005. After completing a clinical internship in equine medicine and surgery at the University of Liverpool, where she also investigated a neurological disease outbreak in Gambian donkeys, Peachey served as a research assistant at Liverpool in 2010 evaluating bioactive plant compounds against equine gastrointestinal parasites in Ethiopia. Her PhD research at the University of Liverpool focused on anthelmintic resistance in equine small strongyles and the efficacy of ethnoveterinary medicines for parasite control in Ethiopian equid populations.

From September 2016 to August 2020, Peachey was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, studying helminth-microbiome interactions in UK equids. Appointed Lecturer in Veterinary Parasitology at Bristol Veterinary School in 2018, she progressed to Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor of Parasitology, and Research Community Lead in Infection, Inflammation and Immunotherapy. Her specializations encompass livestock microbiome research, emphasizing early life influences on neonatal gut microbiome-immune system interactions, mucosal immunity, helminths, bioinformatics, and food security. Using next-generation sequencing and metagenomic analyses, her projects explore helminth-microbiome dynamics in sheep and horses, prebiotic effects on equine microbiota and immunity, microbiome development in primates, and 'microbiome divergence' in lambs impacting methane emissions, metabolism, and performance. Key publications include 'Quantitative DNA metabarcoding reveals species composition of a macrocyclic lactone and pyrantel resistant cyathostomin population in the UK' (2025, International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance), 'BEVA primary care clinical guidelines: Equine parasite control' (2024, Equine Veterinary Journal), and 'Protecting the piglet gut microbiota against ETEC-mediated post-weaning diarrhoea using specific binding proteins' (2024, npj Biofilms and Microbiomes). With over 1,400 citations, her work advances anthelmintic resistance solutions and livestock productivity.