| Name & position* |
Research expertise |
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Andrew Sykes
Professor
Head of Department |
- Animal nutrition
- Mineral and vitamin nutrition
- Modelling of magnesium metabolism in dairy cattle
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Jan Haldane
Secretary |
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Mitchell Andrews
Associate Professor |
- Plant microbial interactions
- Nitrogen assimilation in plants
- Plant environmental physiology
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Kim Barnes
Technician |
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Graham Barrell
Associate Professor |
- Mammalian reproduction
- Endocrinology and its links with immunology
- Markers of bone growth
- Deer lactation and antler biology
- Climate stress in dairy cows
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Alistair Black
Lecturer |
- Growth and development of crop plants
- Pasture growth and management
- Use of nitrogen fertiliser
- Grazing systems for beef production in Ireland
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Racheal Bryant
Lecturer |
- Pasture ecology
- Grazing preference
- Nitrogen use in dairy pastures
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Craig Bunt
Senior Lecturer |
- Formulation and veterinary drug delivery
- Particulate delivery systems
- Parenteral delivery systems
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Tony Bywater
Professor |
- Farming systems
- Analysis and modelling
- Information and decision systems
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Michael Cripps
Postdoctoral Fellow |
- Pasture grass endophytes
- Ecosystem function
- Plant invasion ecology
- Biological control of weeds
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Jeff Curtis
Manager |
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Farhad Dastgheib
Lecturer |
- Plant science
- Statistical analysis
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Daniel Dash
Field Technical |
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Grant Edwards
Professor |
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Roy Edwards
Lecturer |
- Pasture agronomy
- Horticulture
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Freeman Fang
Technician |
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Vonny Fasi
Technician |
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Alan Gash
Senior Lecturer |
- Arable crop growth
- Cereal pests and diseases
- Arable crop inputs
- Nutrient applications
- Postharvest technology
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Jim Gibbs
Senior Lecturer |
- Lameness in dairy cattle
- Rumen function in pasture based ruminants
- Pasture and supplement feed evaluation
- Methanogenesis activity in dairy cows on pasture
- Nematode control in replacement heifers
- Nutritional manipulation of immunity to endoparasitism in sheep
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Andrew Greer
Lecturer |
- Nutritional cost of immunity to parasites in sheep
- Mucosal tolerance to parasites in sheep
- Development of anthelmintic resistance in parasite populations
- Nutritional manipulation of immunity
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Don Heffer
Technical Officer |
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Jon Hickford
Associate Professor |
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George Hill
Associate Professor |
- Grain legume agronomy
- Weed control
- Biological nitrogen fixation
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Alison Hind
Flock-Linc Computer Operator |
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Simon Hodge
Senior Lecturer |
- Positive plant-microbial interactions
- Plant-insect interactions
- Insect-vectored plant viruses
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Andrea Hogan
Technician |
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Dave Jack
Technician |
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Nigel Jay
Senior Technical Officer |
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Diane Keaney
Senior Research Technician |
Currently on parental leave |
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Judith Kidd
Technician |
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Chris Logan
Animal Programme Manager |
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Dick Lucas
Contract Lecturer |
- Pasture science
- Agronomy and management
- Pasture ecology
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Alan Marshall
Manager |
Field Service Centre |
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Robin McAnulty
Technical Officer |
- Epidemiology
- Gastro-intestinal parasites
- Parasite interactions
- Molecular identification
- Parasite species
- Parasitology
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Leona Meachen
Nursery Assistant |
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Anna Mills
Postdoctoral Fellow |
- Effects of temperature water and nitrogen
- Differences in animal production
- Differences in pasture
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Derrick Moot
Professor |
- Plant species growth
- Dryland pastures
- Cereal crops
- Grain legumes
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Warwick Mottram
Technician |
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Alastair Nicol
Postgraduate Supervisor |
- Animal grazing
- Behaviour and production systems
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Colin Pettigrew
Livestock Manager |
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Keith Pollock
Technical Officer |
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Matt Price
Technician |
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Brent Richards
Technical Officer |
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Martin Ridgway
Manager |
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Richard Sedcole
Consultant in Statistics & Biometrics |
- Consultancy
- Statistics
- Biometrics
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Amy Smaill
Research Technician |
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Malcolm Smith
Technician |
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Rosy Tung
Technician |
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Jenny Zhao
Technical Officer |
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Huitong Zhou
Senior Research Officer |
- Polymorphism screening
- Genotyping of polymorphic genes
- Gene-marker technology
- Livestock improvement
- PCR-based diagnostics
- Gene-Marker Laboratory
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