Central Faculty

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Projects per year 2012 2018 2019 2022 2023 2031

• 139 Active
• 410 Finished

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  Developing an integrated farm level model for spatial innovative uptake for Scottish Beef farms

  Barnes, A. (PI)

  1/07/16 → 30/06/20

  Project: Research

• 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%

• Sustainable Agriculture Intensification and the Nexus in Brazil (SAIN)

  Barnes, A. (PI), Alexander, P. (CoI), Silva, R. (CoI), Moran, D. (CoI) & MacLeod, M. (CoI)

  9/05/16 → 8/05/19

  Project: Research

• Development of an easy to use metagenomics platform for agricultural science

  Dewhurst, R. (PI)

  European Commission

  1/04/16 → 30/11/19

  Project: Research

  • Microbial Gene 100%
  • Thermal Diffusion 100%
  • Volatile Fatty Acid 60%
  • Metagenomics 40%
  • Metabolic Pathway 40%

• 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

• IMAGE Innovative management of animal genetic resources.

  Barnes, A. (PI), Vosough Ahmadi, B. (CoI) & Moran, D. (CoI)

  1/04/16 → 28/02/20

  Project: Research

• RESAS Strategic Research Programme 2016-21 WP2.1 Crop and grassland production and disease control

  Hoad, S. (PI), Taylor, J. (CoI), Crawford, C. (CoI), Bingham, I. (CoI), Hoebe, P. (CoI), Tarsitano, D. (CoI), Brennan, M. (CoI), Topp, K. (CoI) & Baddeley, J. (CoI)

  1/04/16 → 31/03/17

  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%

• Understanding interactions between Ramularia collo-cygni and barley leaf physiology to target improvements in host resistance and disease control strategies

  Bingham, I. (PI)

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  5/01/16 → 31/01/22

  Project: Research

  • Ramularia 100%
  • Swan 100%
  • Leaf Spot 100%
  • Host Resistance 100%
  • Cytokinin 33%

• Understanding the physiological and molecular basis of genetic variation in post-flowering N dynamics in Barley to improve N use efficiency

  Bingham, I. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  5/01/16 → 31/07/23

  Project: PhD project

• Platform for African dairy genetic gain

  Dewhurst, R. (PI)

  1/01/16 → 31/05/19

  Project: Research

• Agri-Tech in China Network + Newton Fund

  Dewhurst, R. (PI) & Stott, A. (CoI)

  1/01/16 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• 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

• Spatial land use modelling of CAP impacts

  Glenk, K. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/15 → 31/03/23

  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

• Novel methods for understanding the causes and control of a malting barley grain defect called ?skinning?

  Hoad, S. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/15 → 31/07/20

  Project: Research

• Understanding the control of yield information in two and six row winter barley varieties to target disease management practice

  Bingham, I. (PI)

  1/10/15 → 29/05/20

  Project: Research

• Strategic use of carbohydrase enzymes in broiler diets to increase productivity by improving gut health

  Khattak, F. (PI)

  1/10/15 → 30/09/19

  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

• 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%

• Combining agronomy, variety and chemistry to maintain control of septoria tritici in wheat

  Burnett, F. (PI), Yoxall, T. (CoI) & Havis, N. (CoI)

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/08/15 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

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

  Turner, S. (PI)

  1/07/15 → 30/06/19

  Project: Research

• Developing sustainable management methods for club root

  Burnett, F. (PI), Gorniak, K. (CoI), Yoxall, T. (CoI), Gravouil, C. (CoI), McGrann, G. (CoI), Dussart, F. (CoI), Crawford, C. (CoI) & Paterson, L. (CoI)

  1/06/15 → 28/02/19

  Project: Research

• Exploitation of genomic technologies for sustainable intensification of dairy goats

  Conington, J. (PI)

  7/04/15 → 31/07/18

  Project: Research

• IRELAND: Scaling reactive N mitigation in grassland systems

  Rees, B. (PI)

  1/04/15 → 30/06/20

  Project: Research

  • Nitrous Oxide 100%
  • Aerial Photography 100%
  • Emissions 100%
  • Grassland 100%
  • Excreta 100%

• 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

• PrecisionBeef

  Ross, D. (PI), Duthie, C.-A. (PI), Hyslop, J. (CoI), Rooke, J. (CoI) & Dewhurst, R. (CoI)

  1/04/15 → 30/06/18

  Project: Research

  • Feed Intake 100%
  • Feeds 85%
  • Feeding Behavior 64%
  • Feed Efficiency 42%
  • Support Vector Machine 40%

• The BUG consortium Building upon the genome: Using H. contortus genomic resources to develop novel interventions to control endemic GI parasites

  Milne, C. (PI), Stott, A. (CoI) & Pate, L. (CoI)

  REF Funding

  28/03/15 → 27/03/21

  Project: Research

• Validation of Lameness and Pain Biomarkers in Pigs

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

  10/02/15 → 30/11/15

  Project: Research

• ENERWATER`

  Campbell, J. (PI) & Ross, D. (CoI)

  1/02/15 → 30/04/19

  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%
  • Farm Animal 66%
  • Feed Conversion 66%
  • Feed Efficiency 66%
  • Greenhouse Gas 66%

• SUSDIET: Implementing sustainable diets in Europe

  Revoredo Giha, C. (PI), Akaichi, F. (Researcher) & Costa Font, M. (Researcher)

  1/12/14 → 31/08/17

  Project: Research

  • Europeans 100%
  • Food Choice 71%
  • Policy Analysis 28%
  • Animal Welfare 23%
  • Nutrition Economics 14%

• Sustainable environmental remediation of abandoned lead mining sites

  Griffiths, B. (PI)

  1/11/14 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• IRELAND: Understanding farmer decision making in relation to nutrient to improve knowledge transfer methodologies

  Barnes, A. (PI)

  1/11/14 → 30/03/19

  Project: Research

• UK: Efficiency of Information impact on food waste behaviour

  Toma, L. (PI)

  1/10/14 → 2/12/19

  Project: Research

• 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

• Modelling Complex Social Systems in the Context of Coastal Ecosystem Services & Resource Management

  Barnes, A. (PI)

  University of Edinburgh

  1/09/14 → 31/01/24

  Project: PhD project

• The economic value of Farm animal genetic resource in the Uk, Brazil and Malawi

  Barnes, A. (PI)

  1/09/14 → 29/03/19

  Project: Research

• Provision of facilities and personnel for carcass evaluation and incubation of hatching eggs

  Houdijk, J. (PI)

  1/04/14 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

• Provision of a herbage trial to obtain Scottish data for UK National List value for cultivation and use assessments / Scottish recommended list purposes

  Lawson, D. (PI)

  Scottish Government

  1/04/14 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research

• Maternal Traits in sheep breeding programmes

  Conington, J. (PI)

  1/02/14 → 31/12/16

  Project: Research

• KENYA: Herd and animal level interventions for GHG emission mitigation

  MacLeod, M. (PI)

  6/01/14 → 29/03/19

  Project: Research

• DENMARK: Restricting the pathogenic effect on barley of the endophytic fungus Ramularia collo-cygni

  Havis, N. (PI), McGrann, G. (CoI), Mackenzie, A. (CoI) & Sjokvist, E. (CoI)

  1/01/14 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• Modelling effects of climate change on intensive animal production systems

  Dwyer, C. (PI)

  1/01/14 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research