Livestock Breeding

Projects

Projects per year 2012 2016 2018 2019 2022 2027

• 18 Active
• 41 Finished

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  FastBreederAPI: Programmatic data transfer to EGENES for genomic evaluation of Dourie Farming herd

  Salavati, M. (PI) & Coffey, M. (CoI)

  1/11/23 → 1/05/24

  Project: Research

  • Herd 100%

• RDE079 Sublot 8.2: Animal Welfare Implication of use of Precision Breeding Techniques

  Haskell, M. (PI), Dwyer, C. (PI) & Li, B. (PI)

  24/10/22 → 31/05/23

  Project: Research

  • Animal Welfare 100%
  • Pig 66%
  • Breed 44%
  • Case Study 44%
  • Salmo salar 33%

• Modular workflow for the community-led development of custom livestock DNA methylation arrays

  Coffey, M. (PI)

  1/08/22 → 31/08/24

  Project: Research

  • DNA Methylation 100%
  • Epigenetics 28%
  • Smoking 14%
  • DNA Sequence 14%
  • Bovine 14%

• Genomics of sheep resilience to climate change

  Banos, G. (PI) & Li, B. (CoI)

  1/12/21 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

  • Sheep 100%
  • Phenotype 100%
  • Single Nucleotide Polymorphism 50%
  • Lamb 50%
  • Animal 50%

• Development of microRNA diagnostic test for Johnes disease

  Hall, S. (PI), Hutchings, M. (Researcher), Coffey, M. (PI) & Hanks, E. (CoPI)

  1/10/21 → 1/04/23

  Project: Research

  • MicroRNA 100%
  • Paratuberculosis 100%
  • Farm Animal 25%

• Genomic characterisation of North Ronaldsay sheep

  Banos, G. (PI) & Coffey, M. (CoI)

  1/08/21 → 1/07/22

  Project: Research

  • Feeds 100%
  • Rare Breeds 50%
  • Inbreeding 50%
  • Genetic Divergence 50%
  • Population Structure 50%

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

  Banos, G. (PI)

  Hannah Dairy Research Foundation

  1/01/20 → 31/10/20

  Project: Research

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

  Conington, J. (PI) & Lambe, N. (CoI)

  UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  1/10/19 → 30/09/23

  Project: Research

  • Greenhouse Gas 100%
  • Methane 100%
  • Feed Efficiency 66%
  • Feed Intake 37%
  • Farm Animal 20%

• Database design and data flows from farms

  Archibald, I. (PI)

  Agri-EPI Centre Ltd

  13/09/19 → 31/01/20

  Project: Research

• Welsh Sheep Breeding Project

  Coffey, M. (CoI), Id Lahoucine, S. (PI) & Kaseja, K. (CoI)

  Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board

  1/08/19 → 31/01/24

  Project: Research

  • Flocks 100%
  • Parentage 20%
  • Genetic Improvement 20%
  • Rams 20%
  • Lambing 10%

• Egenes Evaluation Service

  Coffey, M. (PI) & Cosso, M. (CoI)

  Roslin Technologies Limited

  1/07/19 → 30/06/20

  Project: Research

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

  Roehe, R. (PI) & Dewhurst, R. (CoI)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/05/19 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

  • Microbiome 100%
  • Rumen 60%
  • Microbial Gene 41%
  • Methane 36%
  • Bovine 29%

• EGENES - Texel

  Coffey, M. (PI), Kaseja, K. (CoI) & Id Lahoucine, S. (CoI)

  Texel Sheep Society

  1/05/19 → 31/03/24

  Project: Research

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

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

  1/04/19 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

  • Microbiome 100%
  • Methanogenesis 100%
  • Methanogen 50%
  • Protista 33%
  • Fibrobacter 33%

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

  Coffey, M. (PI) & Denholm, S. (CoI)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/01/19 → 6/09/21

  Project: Research

  • Dairy Cows 100%
  • Dairy Cattle 71%
  • Cow 47%
  • Infrared Spectroscopy 38%
  • Herd 35%

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

  Banos, G. (PI) & Coffey, M. (CoI)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  2/12/18 → 31/01/23

  Project: Research

  • Sole 100%
  • Holstein 69%
  • Cow 68%
  • Claws 67%
  • Horn 66%

• SMARTER - SMAll RuminanTs breeding for Efficiency and Resilience

  Conington, J. (PI)

  European Commission

  1/11/18 → 31/07/23

  Project: Research

  • Lamb 100%
  • Genome-Wide Association Study 94%
  • Sheep Meat 78%
  • Single Nucleotide Polymorphism 63%
  • Scottish Blackface 58%

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

  Roehe, R. (PI)

  1/10/18 → 31/01/23

  Project: Research

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

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

  Krzyzelewski, T. (PI), Wells, A. (CoI) & Coffey, M. (CoI)

  AHDB Beef & Lamb

  1/04/18 → 3/03/24

  Project: Research

  • Sheep 100%
  • Animal Genetics 100%
  • Tissue Distribution 33%
  • X-Ray Computed Tomography 33%
  • Artificial Intelligence 33%

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

  Banos, G. (PI), Coffey, M. (CoI) & Sparks, N. (CoI)

  University of Edinburgh

  1/04/18 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

  • Transcriptome 100%
  • Bird 100%
  • Campylobacter 100%
  • Quantitative Trait Locus 100%
  • Major Histocompatibility Complex 60%

• Genetic Evaluations for Danish Genetics Pig Data

  Coffey, M. (PI)

  1/03/18 → 28/02/19

  Project: Research

• UK Sheep Genetic Improvement Scoping Study

  Conington, J. (PI), Banos, G. (CoI), Coffey, M. (CoI) & Wall, E. (CoI)

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

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

  Banos, G. (PI), Mrode, R. (CoI) & Coffey, M. (CoI)

  AHDB Beef & Lamb

  1/11/17 → 31/10/20

  Project: Research

• Delivering the agricultural greenhouse gas and ammonia inventories and projections

  Wall, E. (PI), Pritchard, T. (CoI) & Archibald, I. (CoI)

  UK 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. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/17 → 30/06/23

  Project: Research

• 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

• 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%

• 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

• 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%

• Breeding for disease resistance in sheep

  Conington, J. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 30/11/23

  Project: Research

• 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

• 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

• 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%

• 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

• 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%

• Maternal Traits in sheep breeding programmes

  Conington, J. (PI)

  1/02/14 → 31/12/16

  Project: Research

• New computing methods for calculating genomic breeding values in livestock

  Banos, G. (PI)

  1/10/13 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

• Efficient goat breeding for sustainable milk production

  Conington, J. (PI)

  1/02/12 → 31/03/15

  Project: Research