Dr Dairu Shu is a scientist with experience in gastroenterology, immunology, experimental pathology, animal models, infectious diseases, and vaccine development. Dairu is an AgResearch employee seconded to Lucidome Bio. She is particularly interested in understanding host immune reactions to pathogens and vaccine antigens. Dairu graduated from Zhejiang University in China with a major in veterinary science and received her PhD in physiopathology at Massey University in 1994. She worked at Wakefield Gastroenterology Research Institute, Wakefield Hospital, Wellington before joining AgResearch in 2001. She has worked on projects on sheep lice, bovine tuberculosis and understanding mucosal immune responses and the progress of Johnes’ disease in cattle and is now focusing on developing a methane vaccine.