Animal Physiology

Academic staff

The following staff are available to supervise honours and masters coursework in the field of Animal Physiology.

Project topics:

Nutrition, metabolism and physiology during growth, pregnancy and lactation in sheep and dairy cows
Improving heat tolerance in ruminants through nutritional manipulation
Investigating the physiological basis of variation in energetic efficiency and/or response to high environmental heat load in livestock
Investigating the physiological basis of variation in the efficiency of digestive processes livestock
Regulation of feed intake in livestock
Evaluating feeds for ruminants using in vitro fermentation