Honours Projects 2012

• Biological defleecing of sheep

• Foetal programming: in ovo manipulation of embryonic development

• Short chain volatile fatty acid oral bolus challenge and pH changes as a marker of adaptation to high energy diest in the sheep

• Energy expenditure in dogs differing in tendency to obesity

• Mechanisms of nutrient absorption in bats

• Physiology of heat stress in birds

• Digestive performance and enzyme/transporter function

• Investigating the potential mechanism of Grape Seed Extract: a potential new adjunctive treatment for intestinal disease

• European mistletoe extract: a potential new treatment for chemotherapy-induced mucositis

• European mistletoe extract: a potential new treatment for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)

• Effects on mucin dynamics and intestinal cell kinetics induced by probiotic treatments for intestinal mucositis and inflammatory bowel disease

• Influence of chemotherapy-induced mucositis on the gut microbiota

Adrian Cummins
Will van Wettere

• The Wnt/β-catenin system and regulation of intestinal stem cells in the piglet

• Lectin histocehmistry of goblet cell sugar residues in the small intestine of the chick

• The role of mucin glycoproteins in Giardia pathogenesis

• The development and maintenance of a healthy intestinal environment for improved performance and uniformity of broiler flocks

• Large scale validation trial of the optimal ratio of linoleic acid and a-linoleic acid in the diet for promoting intestinal and cardiovascular health of broiler chickens

• A Cranio-Morphometric Study of the P.R.E. Horse

• Comparative anatomy

Farhid Hemmatzadeh

• Expression & Purification of recombinant PIII protein of M13 bacteriophage and its application in competitive ELISA for detection of avian influenza virus infections

• A novel antimicrobial for treating multidrug resistant infections (2 projects)

• Non-antimicrobial control of post weaning diarrhoea

• Prevalence of MRSA in South Australian horses and equine practitioners/owners

• Preliminary investigation into the hindgut microbiota of koalas

Ryan O'Handley

• Reduction of winter scours through continuous exposure to worm antigens to prevent the development of hypersensitivity

• Characterisation of the anti-giardial activity of bovine colostrum

• Molecular insights into xenobiotic disposition in Australian marsupials

• Appropriate and safe use of over-the-counter medicines

• Mechanism of herb-drug interations: the effects of St John's Wort on membrane transport

• Generic substitution: assessing in vitro bioequivalence of multiple generic medicines

• Mobility scoring in dairy cattle

• Short chain volatile fatty acid oral bolus challenge and pH changes as a marker of adaptation to high energy diets in the sheep

Karen Kind

Roy Kirkwood

• Pre-mating nutritional manipulation: effects on follicle function, oocyte development and potential litter size and sow behaviour/welfare (3 projects)

• Improving piglet performance through increased polyamine ingestion

• Synthetic androstenol: a potential alternative to boar exposure

• Improving welfare of group housed sows: reducing frustration and aggression

• Alternative methods for controlling gill and skin fluke in yellowtail kingfish

• Development of bacteriophage therapy in marine hatcheries

• Antibiotic resistence in bacteria associated with aquarium fish

• Marbling in beef: turning muscle into fat?

• Osteocytes and canalicular density in vertebral trabecular bone of osteoporotic subjects

• Comparison investigation of expression of Dickkopf (DKK-1) by osteoblasts like cells from normal and osteoportic sheep using a human DKKK-1 antibody (in vitro study)

• Investigation of osteocyte and canalicular density in vertebral trabecular bone in osteoporotic and normal sheep

• Animals with willpower: genes controlling feed intake in cattle

• Maternal productivity of beef cattle

• Attitudes of stud beef cattle breeders to BREEDPLAN

• Maternal productivity of sheep

• Maternal  productivity of sows

• Pastoral beef cattle production

• Beef quality in South Australia

• Imprinted quantitative trait loci in cattle

• Identification and characterization of imprinted transcripts involved in bovine foetal growth regulation and programming

• Molecular characterization of canine mast cell tumours

• Human-animal bond

• Neospora caninum infection in greyhounds

• Infectious causes of reproductive failure in beef cattle in South Australia

• SA Sheep Health Questionnaire

Karen Kind
Kathy Gatford

• Behavioural effects of placental restriction, neonatal growth and dietary methyl supplementation

• Puppy preschools in the Adelaide areas

• Puppy and up: a study of temerpament in puppies and human attachment and how this afects the human-dog bond

• Thermoregulation in hares

• Grazer Impacts on Vegetation Restoration Projects

• Novel strategies to enhance creep attractiveness and reduce piglet mortality

• Investigation into preputial gland ablation as a method to modify murine pheromones to control aggression in group housed male mice

• Feeling good, feeling bad: human expressions on dog faces

• Equine Colic Syndrome (various projects)

• Electrolytes supplementation & electrolyte imbalance and its relation to the prevalence of cardiac arrhythmias in endurance horses during competition

• Continious monitoring of body temperture by telemetry-based gastrointestinalpill in exercising horses

• An investigation of causes of lamb loss in sheep (co-supervised with Wayne Pitchford or Phil Hynd or Karen Kind)

• Reducing stillbirths and early postnatal mortality in pigs

• Poultry nutrition
• Poultry digestive physiology

Karen Kind
Vicki Clifton
Julie Owens

• Immune function after placental restriction and dietary methyl supplementation

• Epigenetic consequences of placental restiction and dietrary methyl supplementation

• Is the oviduct an oxygen sensitive organ?
• Do specific oocyte secreted proteins alter the metabolism of their surrounding cumulus cells?

• The influence of hyperglycaemia during the periconception period on pig oocyte development
• Glucosamine supplementation and the oocyte

• Understanding the Fuctioning of Oocyte-derived Growth Factors

• Herbal ingredients in pig diets as stimulators of milk production

• Social learning in piglets as a way of stimulating feed intake

• Hormonal and nutritional regulation of ovarian function in pregnant pigs
• Embryo survival during early pregnancy in pigs

Rob Moore (IMVS)
Cindy Bottema

• Osteocytes and bone mineral density in trabecular bone of Osteoporotic sheep