Fields of Research

Agricultural biotechnology diagnostics (incl. biosensors)
Animal management
Animal immunology
Endocrinology
Animal behaviour
Animal physiology - cell
Animal reproduction and breeding
Animal physiology - systems
Veterinary diagnosis and diagnostics
Sustainable agricultural development
Animal nutrition
Bacteriology
Crop and pasture production
Horticultural production
Soil sciences

Research Objectives

Dairy cattle
Expanding knowledge in the biological sciences
Sheep for meat
Beef cattle
Horses
Other plant production and plant primary products
Pigs
Horticultural crops

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

A novel behavioral model of the pasture-based dairy cow from GPS data using data mining and machine learning techniques; Journal of Dairy Science
Comparison of the microbial population in rabbits and guinea pigs by next generation sequencing; PLoS ONE
Cyclophilin A is a new M cell marker of bovine intestinal epithelium; Cell and Tissue Research
Effects of preimplantation factor on interleukin-6 and prostaglandin F_2α and E₂ in the bovine endometrium; Theriogenology
Energy Homeostasis by the Peripheral Serotonergic System; Serotonin: A Chemical Messenger Between All Types of Living Cells
Extracellular cyclophilin A possesses chemotaxic activity in cattle; Veterinary Research
Fixed-time data segmentation and behavior classification of pasture-based cattle: Enhancing performance using a hidden Markov model; Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
IL-12p40 gene expression in lung and hilar lymph nodes of MPS resistant pigs; Animal Science Journal
Interaction of preimplantation factor with the global bovine endometrial transcriptome; PLoS One
Lying behaviour of housed and outdoor-managed pregnant sheep; Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Phenotypic and functional analysis of bovine peripheral blood dendritic cells before parturition by a novel purification method; Animal Science Journal
Rapid detection of Galba truncatula in water sources on pasture-land using loop-mediated isothermal amplification for control of trematode infections; Parasites and Vectors
Serotonin improves high fat diet induced obesity in mice; PLoS ONE
Stimulatory effect of plasma samples from fattening cattle on adipogenesis-related gene expression in preadipocyte cells; Animal Science Journal
Temporal dynamics of trematode intermediate snail host environmental DNA in small water body habitats; Environmental DNA
Understanding the microbial fibre degrading communities & processes in the equine gut; Animal Microbiome
Variable segmentation and ensemble classifiers for predicting dairy cow behaviour; Biosystems Engineering

Research Projects

Research & Development Contractual Agreement - TIA JVA; Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania (NRE Tas)
JM Roberts Seed Funding for Sustainable Agriculture
PhD top up scholarship

Research Candidate Supervision