NZ Society of Animal Production 2017
 

 

Dorian Garrick is the Chief Scientist at the AL Rae Center in the Institute of Veterinary, Animal & Biomedical Sciences at Massey University, located at the Ruakura Research Centre in Hamilton. 

He received a First Class Honors degree in Agricultural Science from Massey University in 1981 and a PhD from Cornell University in 1988.  He held the inaugural appointment to the Jay Lush endowed Chair in Animal Breeding & Genetics at Iowa State University for 10 years from 2007 following 5 years at Colorado State University and 15 years at Massey University where he held the A.L. Rae Chair since 1994. 

Dorian is a founding partner of US-based Theta Solutions LLC that licenses BOLT software for national and international genetic and genomic evaluations and is used across a variety of species.  Dorian has been integrally involved in the development and implementation of national animal evaluation programs, performance recording databases and breeding schemes. His recent work has focused on theoretical and applied aspects of using genomic information to predict performance. 

Dorian works routinely in the improvement of beef cattle, dairy cattle, sheep, pigs, and chickens.  He works well with other researchers and equally enjoys working with enthusiastic producer and industry groups that seek to include animal breeding approaches in the attainment of their farm business goals.  


 

 

Voster Muchenje is a Research Professor at the University of Fort Hare and the Editor-In-Chief of the South African Journal of Animal Science. He is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf).
His academic highlights include: being
the DST/NRF SARChI in Meat Science co-host, a CoE in Food Security research associate, a founding member of the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS) and its outgoing co-chair, a National Research Foundation (NRF) C1 rating, producing 18 PhD graduates and over 100 articles, the Food Research International editorial board membership and Managing Guest Editor appointments for special issues on Food and Nutrition Security (2014-2015), and Balanced diets and human health (2016-present).
His accolades include the SASAS President's Award for exceptional contribution to animal science and the UFH VC’s Senior and Emerging Researcher Awards.
He is a member of the SASAS Council; ASSAf Scholarly Publishing Standing Committee and ASSAf AET Panel; and Fort Cox College of Agriculture and Forestry Council.


 

Professor Peter Purslow is the director if the Meat Science Research Group within the Veterinary Faculty of the National University of Central Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.  He has previously held the positions of associate dean, head of department and professor of food science at the University of Guelph in Canada, and a full professorship at the University of Stirling in Scotland.
Prior to this he was the professor of meat science in the meat science area of the Royal Danish Agricultural and Veterinary University (now part of the University of Copenhagen) in Denmark.  Since 1981 Peter has worked on meat quality, muscle and connective tissue biology, consumer acceptability and meat processing issues.
He is associate editor of the international journal “Meat Science “, editor of  a recent Elsevier textbook “New aspects of Meat Quality” , and contributor to the newly-published 8th edition of “Lawrie’s Meat Science

 

Garry Waghorn is a research scientist; his tertiary education commenced at Lincoln, then Massey with a PhD in nutrition and quantitative biology in California in the late 1970s. His B. Agric. Sci. taught him about farming; including good bosses and the miserable ones. He substituted some of his lectures with work in flower nurseries - welding, building and the first shade house in New Zealand. This combination of academic and practical has served very well in both AgResearch and DairyNZ.

 Science has included 30 years with condensed tannins, 20 years measuring methane, and recently selecting dairy cows for divergence in feed utilisation efficiency. His research has been “hands on”, mainly with sheep and cattle, including rumen (and abomasal) fistulation and measuring most aspects of digestion, absorption, forage quality, bloat, parasitology, endophytes, working with microbiologists, live sheep exports, designing sheep crates, respiration chambers and other devices, and helping kakapo lay eggs. Working with students and people who want to learn has been the most fun; challenging the dogma and minimising admin duties! Garry’s publications exceed 200 and he is an adjunct Professor at Massey University.