Dr Stephanie Knott
Lecturer
Veterinary Physiology
Charles Sturt University
Australia
Biography
Steph's interests lie in the area of ruminant nutritional physiology, with particular emphasis on energy metabolism and stress. She has completed projects in the areas of fodder quality for livestock, feed conversion efficiency in beef cattle and more recently in the area of physiological mechanisms underlying feed conversion efficiency in meat sheep, which explored numerous parameters including body composition, stress and hormone/metabolite profiles.
Research Interest
My research interests lie in the area of ruminant nutritional physiology, with particular emphasis on energy metabolism, stress and the role of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis and the impact this can ultimately have on animal production systems. I have completed research in the area of physiological mechanisms underlying feed conversion efficiency in meat sheep exploring numerous parameters including body composition, stress and hormone/metabolite profiles and I have also completed projects in the areas of fodder quality for livestock and feed conversion efficiency in beef cattle.
