Graham Gardner
Associate Professor
School of Veterinary and Life Sciences
Murdoch University
Australia
Biography
Graham has been an academic at Murdoch University since 2005, after relocating from Armidale in NSW where he was previously employed as an academic at the University of New England.
Research Interest
Graham’s research is predominantly focused on the impact of selection for growth, leanness and muscling within the sheep and cattle industries, looking at aspects of carbohydrate and intermediary metabolism, stress sensitivity, and growth and maturity, as well as the metabolic changes that take place in muscle. He is also heavily involved in the development of measurement technologies for determining lean meat yield and eating quality. Most recently he has developed an X-ray system for use in determining lamb carcase composition at abattoir chain-speed.
Publications
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Bonny, S., Pethick, D., Legrand, I., Wierzbicki, J., Allen, P., Farmer, L., Polkinghorne, R., Hocquette, J., Gardner, G., (2016), Ossification score is a better indicator of maturity related changes in eating quality than animal age, Animal, 10, 4, pages 718 - 728.
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Jose, C., Jacob, R., Pethick, D., Gardner, G., (2016), Short term supplementation rates to optimise vitamin E concentration for retail colour stability of Australian lamb meat, Meat Science, 111, , pages 101 - 109.
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Yang, R., Abraham, S., Gardner, G., Ryan, U., Jacobson, C., (2017), Prevalence and pathogen load of Campylobacter spp., Salmonella enterica and Escherichia coli O157/O145 serogroup in sheep faeces collected at sale yards and in abattoir efuent in Western Australia, Australian Veterinary Journal, 95, 5, pages 143 - 148.
