Livestock Breeding

Projects

Projects per year 2012 2025

• 13 Active
• 23 Finished

Projects per year

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• Active

  Dairy_Core Evaluations

  Coffey, M., Tahir, U., Mrode, R., Krzyzelewski, T., Kaseja, K., Wells, A. & Cosso, M.

  AHDB/DAIRY CO

  1/04/20 → 31/03/25

  Project: Research

  • Northern Africa 100%
  • Humidity 85%
  • Climate 83%
  • Heat-Shock Response 80%
  • dairy cattle 71%

• Grass to Gas: Strategies to mitigate GHG emissions from pasture-based sheep emissions

  Conington, J.

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  1/10/19 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

• Welsh Sheep Breeding Project

  Kaseja, K. & Coffey, M.

  Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board

  1/08/19 → 31/01/24

  Project: Research

• EGENES - Texel

  Coffey, M. & Kaseja, K.

  The British Texel Sheep Society Ltd

  1/05/19 → 31/03/24

  Project: Research

• Elucidating bovine host genomic links with rumen microbial genes to improve sustainably feed conversion efficiency using unique selection criteria

  Roehe, R. & Dewhurst, R.

  B.b.s.r.c.

  1/05/19 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

  • Rumen 100%
  • Microbiota 66%
  • Methane 61%
  • Cattle 38%
  • Microbial Genetics 37%

• Aetiopathogenesis and genomic architecture of resistance to claw horn disruption lesions in dairy cattle

  Banos, G. & Coffey, M.

  B.b.s.r.c.

  2/12/18 → 31/01/23

  Project: Research

  • Digital Dermatitis 100%
  • dermatitis 63%
  • Skin Temperature 57%
  • skin temperature 56%
  • dairy cattle 52%

• SMARTER - SMAll RuminanTs breeding for Efficiency and Resilience

  Conington, J. & Mucha, S.

  European Commission

  1/11/18 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

  • Scottish Blackface 100%
  • sheep 93%
  • lambs 93%
  • parasite load 88%
  • body weight 85%

• Development of an integrated metagenomic analysis system using the microbial community, their genes and biological mechanisms to predict cattle phenotype

  Roehe, R.

  1/10/18 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

  • Rumen 100%
  • Methane 91%
  • Microbial Genes 89%
  • Biomarkers 82%
  • methane 64%

• Database and reporting system to support Signet's Sheepbreeder and Beefbreeder Services

  Krzyzelewski, T., Moore, K., Hamper, A., Wells, A. & Coffey, M.

  AHDB Beef & Lamb

  1/04/18 → 3/03/24

  Project: Research

• CTLGH Identification and selection of targets and development of analytical tools to optimize breeding programmes in African chicken populations

  Banos, G., Sparks, N. & Coffey, M.

  University of Edinburgh

  1/04/18 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

  • Campylobacter 100%
  • Quantitative Trait Loci 98%
  • Transcriptome 71%
  • Major Histocompatibility Complex 59%
  • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 16 53%

• Delivering the agricultural greenhouse gas and ammonia inventories and projections

  Wall, E., Pritchard, T., Archibald, I. & Rees, B.

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  4/09/17 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

• Precision breeding for piglet survival and the use of microbiome information to improve wellness in pigs

  Roehe, R.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/17 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

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

  Roehe, R.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 1/02/22

  Project: Research

  • Rumen 100%
  • Microbial Genes 98%
  • Methane 45%
  • Biomarkers 41%
  • Appetite 34%
• Finished

  Early life biomarker predictors of future production, health, welfare and longevity in dairy cattle

  Banos, G.

  Hannah Dairy Research Foundation

  1/01/20 → 31/10/20

  Project: Research

• Database design and data flows from farms

  Archibald, I.

  Agri-EPI Centre Ltd

  13/09/19 → 31/01/20

  Project: Research

• Egenes Evaluation Service

  Coffey, M. & Cosso, M.

  Roslin Technologies Limited

  1/07/19 → 30/06/20

  Project: Research

• RESAS Strategic Research Programme 2016-21 WP2.3 Productive and sustainable land management

  Wall, E., Smith, S., Nicoll, L., Parker, J., Robertson, D., Davidson, R., Donbavand, J., Anderson, C., Roehe, R., Harrison, B., Purcell, L., Duthie, C., Gunn, G., Pritchard, T., Jones, S., Bagnall, A., Vosough Ahmadi, B., Archibald, I., Rees, B., Eory, V., Glenk, K., Edwards, T., Buckingham, S., March, M., Broadbent, C., Cloy, J., Hargreaves, P., Wishart, H., Griffiths, B., Fox, N., Sparks, N., Shrestha, S., Banos, G., Henry, M., Watson, C., Dickinson, J., Topp, K., Burnett, F., Kyle, J., Denholm, S., Dewhurst, R., Lawson, D., McCubbin, I., Dwyer, C., Holland, J., McCracken, D., Barratt, A., Havis, N., Stanisz-Migal, M., Miller, G., Bowen, J., Hutchings, M., Creissen, H., D'Eath, R., Baddeley, J., Houdijk, J., Coffey, M., Morgan-Davies, C., Walker, R., Turner, S., Haskell, M., Barnes, A., Athanasiadou, S., Cole, L., Sandilands, V., McLaren, A., MacLeod, M. & Smith, L.

  1/04/19 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

  • Rumen 100%
  • Methane 91%
  • Microbiota 66%
  • Cattle 53%
  • Fibrobacter 51%

• Predicting TB status of dairy cows from mid infra-red spectral data using machine learning

  Coffey, M. & Denholm, S.

  B.b.s.r.c.

  1/01/19 → 6/09/21

  Project: Research

  • Milk 100%
  • Deep Learning 97%
  • dairy cows 90%
  • milk 71%
  • learning 64%

• Genetic Evaluations for Danish Genetics Pig Data

  Coffey, M.

  1/03/18 → 28/02/19

  Project: Research

• UK Sheep Genetic Improvement Scoping Study

  Conington, J., Banos, G., Coffey, M. & Wall, E.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• Development of national genetic evaluations of beef cattle for resistance to bovine tuberculosis (bTB)

  Banos, G., Mrode, R. & Coffey, M.

  AHDB Beef & Lamb

  1/11/17 → 31/10/20

  Project: Research

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

  Turner, S., Roehe, R. & D'Eath, R.

  Michigan State University

  1/04/17 → 30/04/21

  Project: Research

• Carcass trait phenotype feedback for genomic selection in sheep

  Mucha, S., Lambe, N. & Conington, J.

  1/02/17 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

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

  Lambe, N.

  1/11/16 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Breeding for disease resistance in sheep

  Conington, J.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 31/08/21

  Project: Research

• iSAGE Innovation for sustainable sheep and goat production in Europe

  Banos, G. & Dellar, M.

  1/10/16 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

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

  Banos, G.

  Teagasc - Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority

  12/09/16 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

• iSAGE Innovation for sustainable sheep and goat production in Europe

  Banos, G., Conington, J., Lambe, N., Wall, E. & Topp, K.

  1/03/16 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

  • Weather 100%
  • Sheep 80%
  • Volatilization 73%
  • Breeding 51%
  • Climate 51%

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

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

  1/01/16 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research

  • Nitrous Oxide 100%
  • Soil 80%
  • nitrous oxide production 77%
  • nitrous oxide 68%
  • agricultural soils 63%

• Exploitation of genomic technologies for sustainable intensification of dairy goats

  Conington, J.

  7/04/15 → 31/07/18

  Project: Research

• Genetic evaluation of beef cattle and sheep

  Coffey, M., Krzyzelewski, T., Moore, K., Kaseja, K. & Stainton, J.

  BASCO DATA LTD

  1/04/15 → 1/07/20

  Project: Research

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

  Conington, J.

  1/04/15 → 30/03/18

  Project: Research

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

  Wall, E., Pritchard, T., Dewhurst, R., Coffey, M. & Moran, D.

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  1/01/15 → 30/07/19

  Project: Research

• Maternal Traits in sheep breeding programmes

  Conington, J.

  1/02/14 → 31/12/16

  Project: Research

• New computing methods for calculating genomic breeding values in livestock

  Banos, G.

  1/10/13 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

• Efficient goat breeding for sustainable milk production

  Conington, J.

  1/02/12 → 31/03/15

  Project: Research