Honours Projects 2010

• Marbling in beef: turning muscle into fat?

• Relationship between osteocytes and bone microstructure in vertebral and iliac crest trabecular bone of osteoporotic sheep and lambs

• In vitro investigation of the osteogenic properties of osteoblast-like cells derived from normal and osteoporotic sheep

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

• Animals with willpower: genes controlling feed intake in cattle

• Ultrasonographic imaging as a refinement technique in laboratory rodent models and potential applications of the technology in gastro-intestinal disease studies

Ross Butler

• Development of the sucrose breath test in the horse

• The newly identified probiotic, Streptococcus thermophilus TH-4, and effects on intestinal mucositis induced by Doxorubicin chemotherapy

• Traditional Chinese medicine as a potential new treatment for inflammatory bowel disease

• Investigating the potential mechanism of Emu Oil: a potential new adjunctive treatment for intestinal disease

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

• Investigating the potential mechanism of Iberogast: a potential new herbal 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 of mucin dynamics and intestinal cell kinetics induced by probiotic treatments for intestinal mucositis and inflammatory bowel disease

• Investigating a mechanism of action for Traditional Chinese Medicine: a potential new adjunctive treatment for intestinal disease

• 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 Functioning of Oocyte-derived Growth Factors

• Bovine Viral Diarrhoea in cattle herds in South Australia

• Neospora caninum infection in greyhounds

• Evaluation of D-lactate as an indicator of persistent subclinical acidosis in sheep

• Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (3 projects)

• Protecting native mammals during rat pest control programs

• Overwintering in hatchling tortoises

• Grazer Impacts on Vegetation Restoration Projects

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

• Imprinted quantitative trait loci in cattle

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

• 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

• Canine Obesity: A study to identify factors involved in making some dog breeds obese

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

• Poultry welfare: infrared beak treatment

• Poultry welfare: role of environmental enrichment in attracting free-range birds into the range

• Comaprison of meat quality from Merino and Damara lambs.

• Improving piglet performance through increased polyamine ingestion

• Effect of Vitamin A on oocyte quality and embryo survival

• Improving sow reproductive output through dietary manipulation in late lactation

• Seasonal and nutritional effects on ovarian function and oocyte quality

• 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