Honours Projects 2013

• Biological defleecing of sheep

• Effect of diet and genotype on lameness in lambs at pasture and in feedlots

• Assessing stress in farm animals

• Mechanisms of nutrient absorption in bats

• Physiology of heat stress in birds

• Digestive performance and enzyme/transporter function

• A novel oil-based formulation for the potential prevention of damage to the intestine caused by cancer chemotherapy

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

• 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

• Adhesion of a non-pathogenic B1 group E. coli strain to chicken intestinal tissue and the role of adhesion in APEC exclusion during early post-hatch development

• The role of mucin glycoproteins in Giardia pathogenesis

• Use of Actigen® as a tool to reduce the impact of necrotic enteritis in poultry

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

• Prevalence and risk factors associated with respiratory disease in horses in South Australia

• In vitro maturation of peri-pubertal canine oocytes

• Comparative anatomy

• Marbling in beef: turning muscle into fat?

• 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

• The effect of alternate lactation housing on weaning stress in the piglet
• Maternal creatine supplementation during gestation: effects on piglet viability and survival
• Mixing sows in lactation: towards inducing lactation oestrus and reducing aggression post-weaning
• Synthetic androstenol: a potential alternative to boar exposure

• Prevalence and economic impact of endemic production diseases in the SA sheep industry using the database from the abattoir surveillance system

Karen Kind
Kathy Gatford

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

• Cognitive bias in chickens

• Effects of the stockperson on sheep behaviour and productivity

• Thermoregulation in hares

• Captive-reared animals are handicapped

• Palatability and digestibility of C4 grasses to rabbits

Farhid Hemmatzadeh

• Expression and purification of soluble recombinant antibody against M2e antigen of avian influenza virus

• Development of ELISA tests for detection of recombinant anti influenza antibodies

• Improvement of protein expression in plasmids for double purification of recombinant proteins.

• Expression and purification of recombinant Tobacco Etch Virus protease.

Ryan O'Handley

• 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

• 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

• Associations between nutrient intake and litter size suckled by primiparous sows on lactation performance and subsequent fertility

• Effect of exogenous gonadotrophins at farrowing on incidence of ovulation, oestrus and regular oestrous cycles

• Prefarrowing lameness scoring of sows and subsequent lactation performance and sow longevity

• Molecular characterization of canine mast cell tumours

• Human-animal bond

• Measurement of Isoprostanes as a potential predictor for equine colic in horses.
• Measurement of radical oxygen species (ROS) in horses suffering from colic.
• 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

Roy Kirkwood

Karen Kind

• Nutritional regulation of ovarian function and subsequent effects on ovarian follicle dynamics and fertility
• Hormonal and nutritional regulation of ovarian function in pregnant pigs