Animal And Veterinary Sciences

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Projects per year 2012 2018 2022 2030

• 50 Active
• 149 Finished

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  Behavioural Signatures of Parasitism

  Smith, L. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/17 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research

  • Lamb 100%
  • Social Environment 20%
  • Adaptive Response 20%
  • Teladorsagia circumcincta 20%
  • Ovis 20%

• Can the survival of lambs from larger litters be improved?

  Dwyer, C. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/17 → 30/06/23

  Project: Research

• Investigations of the origins of altered pain perception in a commercial pig strain

  Sandercock, D. (PI)

  1/08/17 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research

• The use of intestinal microbiota as a biomarker for swine wellness and performance

  Roehe, R. (PI), Auffret, M. (CoI) & Rutherford, K. (CoI)

  3/04/17 → 2/09/18

  Project: Research

• Genomic management tools to optimise resilience and efficiency GenTORE

  Wall, E. (PI), Eory, V. (CoI) & Bunning, H. (CoI)

  European Commission

  1/04/17 → 31/07/22

  Project: Research

  • Beef Carcasses 100%
  • Growth Traits 100%
  • Carcass Characteristics 100%
  • Europeans 100%
  • Carcass Weight 100%

• Phenomics and genomics of behavioural and growth traits in group-housed pigs

  Turner, S. (PI), Roehe, R. (CoI) & D'Eath, R. (CoI)

  Michigan State University

  1/04/17 → 30/04/21

  Project: Research

• Healthy animals, healthy food, healthy people

  Dwyer, C. (PI), Dixon, L. (CoI), Turner, S. (CoI) & Somarriba Soley, M. (CoI)

  University of Edinburgh

  1/04/17 → 31/03/25

  Project: Research

• Carcass trait phenotype feedback for genomic selection in sheep

  Mucha, S. (CoI), Lambe, N. (PI) & Conington, J. (CoPI)

  1/02/17 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

  • Lamb 100%
  • Texel 61%
  • Computed Tomography 59%
  • Sheep Meat 47%
  • Sires 46%

• BarkCure : Condensed tannins from Norwegian pine and spruce bark - antiparasitic effects and potential commercial exploitation

  Athanasiadou, S. (PI)

  Norsk Senter for Okologisk Landbruk

  6/01/17 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

  • Antiparasitic Activity 100%
  • Condensed Tannin 100%
  • Picea Abies 80%
  • Weight Gain 80%
  • Oocyst 80%

• Advanced technologies for efficient crop management: a participatory approach with application at farm scale

  Hoad, S. (PI), Borthwick, F. (CoI), Rees, B. (CoI), Barnes, A. (CoI), Crawford, C. (CoI), Florence, A. (CoI), Buckingham, S. (CoI), Buckingham, S. (CoI), Miller, S. (CoI), Fortune, J. (CoI), Vigors, B. (CoI), Domalazek, N. (CoI), Rzepka, A. (CoI) & Redpath, R. (CoI)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/12/16 → 30/11/20

  Project: Research

  • Leaf Area Index 100%
  • Common Wheat 66%
  • Crop Management 50%
  • Cropland 50%
  • Plant Breeding 50%

• extension to Solutions for sustainable lamb production for more taste & less waste to increase food security in the UK and beyond

  Lambe, N. (PI)

  1/11/16 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Mathematical and statistical tools to quantify disease in aquaculture

  Davidson, R. (PI)

  REF Funding

  1/10/16 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

• The effectrs of stress on the ruminal microbial environment in beef cattle and its relationship to feed efficiency and methane emissions

  Turner, S. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research

• An investigation of the kinesiology of lying behaviour in dairy cattle and the implications for cow housing

  Haskell, M. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• Farmer behaviour and TB control: developing an interdisciplinary theory on the spread of infectious diseases

  Davidson, R. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 31/01/21

  Project: Research

• Breeding for disease resistance in sheep

  Conington, J. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 30/11/23

  Project: Research

• Preventing respiratory disease in calves: optimising ventilation and thermal comfort and reducing microbial transmission

  Haskell, M. (PI)

  Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board

  1/10/16 → 31/07/22

  Project: Research

  • Hyperthermia 100%
  • Dairy Breeds 100%
  • Body Temperature 100%
  • Liveweight Gain 100%
  • Wind Speed 53%

• Demand-driven solutions to reduce aggression in pigs

  Turner, S. (PI)

  1/10/16 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

  • Animal Welfare 100%
  • Pig 100%
  • Pheromone 33%
  • Farm Animal 16%

• iSAGE Innovation for sustainable sheep and goat production in Europe

  Banos, G. (PI) & Dellar, M. (PhD Student)

  1/10/16 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

• The use of networks of rumen microbial genes associated with performance traits for precision breeding and nutrition in beef cattle

  Roehe, R. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 1/02/22

  Project: Research

  • Feed Conversion 100%
  • Feed Intake 100%
  • Rumen 100%
  • Microbial Gene 100%
  • Thermal Diffusion 100%

• Ewe and lamb behaviour and lamb mortality during the periparturient period - effects of nutrition and genotype

  Dwyer, C. (PI)

  Teagasc - Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority

  1/10/16 → 31/08/23

  Project: PhD project

• Development of international sheep genetic and genomic evaluations between Ireland and the UK

  Banos, G. (PI)

  Teagasc - Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority

  12/09/16 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

• Enhanced monitoring systems for improved health management of dairy-bred beef youngstock

  Duthie, C.-A. (PI), Mason, C. (CoI), Haskell, M. (CoI), Parker, J. (CoI) & McCubbin, I. (CoI)

  AHDB Beef & Lamb

  1/09/16 → 30/11/20

  Project: Research

  • Dairy Calves 100%
  • Bovine Respiratory Disease 100%
  • Dairy Breeds 20%
  • Precision Agriculture 20%
  • Starter Diets 20%

• Sharing expertise and experience towards sheep productivity through NET working (SheepNET)

  Dwyer, C. (PI), Vipond, J. (CoI), Morgan-Davies, C. (CoI), Camerlink, I. (CoI), Frater, P. (CoI) & McLaren, A. (CoI)

  European Commission

  1/07/16 → 31/10/19

  Project: Research

  • Lamb 100%
  • Pregnancy Rate 40%
  • Dairy Sheep 40%
  • Lambing 20%
  • Grassland 20%

• Genetic evaluation of British Limousin Cattle Society Data

  Kaseja, K. (PI), Moore, K. (CoI) & Wells, A. (CoI)

  1/04/16 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Collaborative development of positive welfare indicators for farm assurance

  Dwyer, C. (PI), Lawrence, A. (CoI), Dixon, L. (CoI), Mackay, J. (CoI), Wemelsfelder, F. (CoI) & Haskell, M. (CoI)

  14/03/16 → 31/03/18

  Project: Research

• iSAGE Innovation for sustainable sheep and goat production in Europe

  Banos, G. (PI), Conington, J. (CoI), Lambe, N. (CoI), Wall, E. (CoI) & Topp, K. (CoI)

  1/03/16 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

  • Dairy Sheep 100%
  • Climate Change 77%
  • Genetic Correlation 55%
  • Animal Performance 50%
  • Europeans 44%

• N-CIRCLE: Virtual Joint centre for Closed-Loop Cycling of Nitrogen in Chinese Agriculture

  Rees, B. (PI), Roehe, R. (CoI), Jones, S. (CoI), Bingham, I. (CoI), Tarsitano, D. (CoI), Buckingham, S. (CoI), Bell, M. (CoI), Topp, K. (CoI), Houdijk, J. (CoI), Crawford, C. (CoI), Anderson, C. (CoI) & Parker, J. (CoI)

  1/01/16 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research

  • Agricultural Soil 100%
  • Greenhouse Gas 100%
  • Common Wheat 100%
  • Cropping System 66%
  • Emissions 55%

• Future-proofing our breeding goals: breeding for climate resilience in UK dairy systems

  Wall, E. (PI), Hill, D. (CoI) & Moran, D. (CoI)

  1/12/15 → 30/04/19

  Project: Research

• IRELAND: Balancing short and long-term aggression in pigs to maximise welfare and productivity

  Turner, S. (PI)

  1/10/15 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

• Modelling the dynamics of monogastric gut microbiota

  Houdijk, J. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/15 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

  • Microflora 100%
  • Metabolite 100%
  • Pig 100%
  • Dynamics 25%
  • Synbiotics 8%

• Fin damage in farmed salmonids: an investigation of the underlying causal abnormal behaviour, fin biting, and the identification of risk factors that elicit fin biting on farm

  Haskell, M. (PI)

  1/10/15 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• IRELAND: Strategies to reduce the risk of tail biting in pigs managed on slatted floors

  D'Eath, R. (PI)

  1/09/15 → 1/09/19

  Project: Research

  • Pig 100%
  • Tail 77%
  • Floors 66%
  • Dietary Fiber 50%
  • Rearing 50%

• Breeding for feed conversion and behaviour in pigs in groups - consultancy

  Turner, S. (PI)

  1/07/15 → 30/06/19

  Project: Research

• Exploitation of genomic technologies for sustainable intensification of dairy goats

  Conington, J. (PI)

  7/04/15 → 31/07/18

  Project: Research

• Genomic predictions of mastitis resistance in dairy goats using computational genomics

  Conington, J. (PI)

  1/04/15 → 30/03/18

  Project: Research

  • Texel 100%
  • Breeding Value 87%
  • Single Nucleotide Polymorphism 83%
  • Sheep Meat 74%
  • Genome-Wide Association Study 74%

• Genetic evaluation of beef cattle and sheep

  Coffey, M. (PI), Krzyzelewski, T. (CoI), Moore, K. (CoI), Kaseja, K. (CoI) & Stainton, J. (CoI)

  BASCO DATA LTD

  1/04/15 → 1/07/20

  Project: Research

• Validation of Lameness and Pain Biomarkers in Pigs

  Sandercock, D. (PI) & Hall, S. (PI)

  10/02/15 → 30/11/15

  Project: Research

• Investigation of reproductive and health factors influencing breeding ewe fertility in hill flocks

  McEvoy, T. (PI)

  5/01/15 → 31/05/20

  Project: Research

• Improving the sustainability and competitive position of the UK beef industry through selective breeding

  Wall, E. (PI), Pritchard, T. (CoI), Dewhurst, R. (CoI), Coffey, M. (CoI) & Moran, D. (CoI)

  UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  1/01/15 → 30/07/19

  Project: Research

  • Feed Intake 100%
  • Feed Conversion 66%
  • Feed Efficiency 66%
  • Greenhouse Gas 66%
  • Livestock Production 33%

• IRELAND: Increasing sow output through implementation of pre-weaning interventions to keep weak piglets alive OPTIPIG

  Baxter, E. (PI)

  1/10/14 → 29/08/18

  Project: Research

  • Pig 100%
  • Piglet 66%
  • Artificial Rearing 50%
  • Birth Weight 50%
  • Behavioral Assessment 50%

• Impact of genetics and growth promoters on avian intestinal microbiota and health

  Athanasiadou, S. (PI)

  Scottish Government: Rural & Environment Science & Analytical Services

  1/10/14 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research

• Maternal Traits in sheep breeding programmes

  Conington, J. (PI)

  1/02/14 → 31/12/16

  Project: Research

• Modelling effects of climate change on intensive animal production systems

  Dwyer, C. (PI)

  1/01/14 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• New computing methods for calculating genomic breeding values in livestock

  Banos, G. (PI)

  1/10/13 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

• FareWellDock: EU: Ending tail docking and tail biting in the EU - hazard characterisation and exposure assessment of a major pig welfare problem

  Sandercock, D. (PI)

  1/09/13 → 30/09/18

  Project: Research

  • Innervation 100%
  • Piglet 100%
  • Body Position 100%
  • Pig 100%
  • Pendant 100%

• Porcine hyperalgesia after NGF - administration

  Sandercock, D. (PI)

  1/09/12 → 30/10/12

  Project: Research

• Increasing efficiency of dietary nitrogen use in dairy systems

  Roberts, D. (PI), Bagnall, A. (CoI), Flockhart, J. (CoI), Bell, D. (CoI), Dickinson, J. (CoI) & McCubbin, I. (CoI)

  21/06/12 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Efficient goat breeding for sustainable milk production

  Conington, J. (PI)

  1/02/12 → 31/03/15

  Project: Research