Eileen Wall

Personal profile

Research interests

My main research focus is on livestock genetics and the development of breeding tools for use by the agricultural community. Current research interests and projects include climate change and livestock systems, genetics of fitness traits, development of sustainable and environmental breeding goals and improvements to national livestock genetic evaluations.

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, University of Edinburgh

1 Nov 1998 → 30 Mar 2002

Master, University College Dublin

1 Sep 1997 → 31 Oct 1998

Bachelor, University College Dublin

1 Oct 1993 → 30 Jun 1997

External positions

President, British Society of Animal Science

8 Apr 2019 → 1 Apr 2020

Deputy Chair (Cmmtt A), BBSRC

1 May 2017 → 1 May 2020

Member, Young Academy of Scotland

1 May 2015 → 1 May 2020

Vice President Animal Genetics Commission, European Association of Animal Production

30 Aug 2014 → 30 Aug 2020

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Projects 2015 2022

5 Finished
8 Active

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., Krzyzelewski, T., Toma, L., Lawrence, A., Mitchell, M., 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., Wemelsfelder, F., McCracken, D., Barratt, A., Havis, N., Stanisz-Migal, M., Miller, G., Bowen, J., Hutchings, M., Creissen, H., D'Eath, R., Baddeley, J., Houdijk, J., Vigors, B., Ferguson, H., Coffey, M., Stephen, K., Morgan-Davies, C., Walker, R., Turner, S., Haskell, M., Farish, M., Barnes, A., Athanasiadou, S., Cole, L., Sandilands, V., McLaren, A., MacLeod, M., Smith, L. & Jack, M.

RESAS

1/04/19 → 31/03/20

Project: Research

Conception to consumption: Aligning farmers to consumers using modern data, decision support and precision agriculture technologies

Wall, E.

1/02/19 → 31/01/22

Project: Research

CTLGH A genomic reference resource for african cattle

Wall, E.

University of Edinburgh

1/04/18 → 30/09/20

Project: Research

CTLGH Enhances tools and methodolgies to determine breed composition of African cattle

Wall, E.

University of Edinburgh

1/04/18 → 30/09/20

Project: Research

Modelling short & long-term resilience and efficiency of cattle production

Wall, E.

University of Edinburgh

1/10/17 → 30/09/21

Project: Research

Research Output 2003 2019

63 Article
6 Abstract
6 Paper
3 Review article
8 More

Empirical and dynamic approaches for modelling the yield and N content of European grasslands

Dellar, M., Topp, CFE., Pardo, G., del Prado, A., Fitton, N., Holmes, D., Banos, G. & Wall, E., 1 Dec 2019, In : Environmental Modelling and Software. 122, 104562.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

grassland

modeling

Dynamic models

climatic region

Nitrogen

2 Downloads (Pure)

Energy profiling of dairy cows from routine milk mid-infrared analysis: Energy Profiling From MIR Spectra

Smith, SL., Denholm, SJ., Coffey, MP. & Wall, E., Dec 2019, In : Journal of Dairy Science. 102, 12, p. 11169-11179 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

Energy Intake

Milk

dairy cows

milk

prediction

Impact of animal breeding on GHG emissions and farm economics

MacLeod, M., Leinonen, I., Wall, E., Houdijk, JGM., Eory, V., Burns, JB., Vosough Ahmadi, B. & Gomez-Barbero, M., 17 Sep 2019, EUR 29844 EN ed. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg: European Commission. 48 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

Open Access

animal breeding

economics

farms

breeding

Phenotypic and genetic analysis of milk and serum element concentrations in dairy cows

Denholm, SJ., Sneddon, A. A., McNeilly, T. N., Bashir, S., Mitchell, M. C. & Wall, E., Dec 2019, In : Journal of Dairy Science. 102, 12, p. 11180-11192 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

genetic techniques and protocols

Milk

dairy cows

milk

blood serum

2 Citations (Scopus)

6 Downloads (Pure)