Dr Daniel Horton

Graduated from Cambridge in 2002 with an intercalated zoology degree, then spent four years in first and second opinion exotic pet and wildlife veterinary practice during
which he undertook a Masters in Wild Animal Health at the Royal Vet College/Institute of Zoology. He then completed a PhD with the Cambridge Infectious Diseases Consortium (funded by the Veterinary Training and Research Initiative), collaborating with the AHVLA and CDC Atlanta using novel computational techniques to measure antigenic variation in zoonotic viruses. He joined AHVLA as a veterinary scientist in the Wildlife Zoonoses and Vector Borne Diseases Group in 2009, where he supports the laboratory's role in the statutory diagnosis and surveillance for West Nile Virus, rabies, bat lyssaviruses and zoonotic arboviruses in animals, and the diagnosis of rabies in
humans. His research interests include the characterisation of new and emerging lyssaviruses and assessing the risk posed by zoonotic wildlife diseases.