报告题目:  Metogenomics, Methanogenesis and hydrogenotrophy in ruminant livestock

 

报 告 人: Christopher. S. McSweeney（CSIRO Livestock Industries）

 

报告时间: 2010年9月26日上午08:20-09:50

 

 报告地点: 动科学院二楼会议室（4236）

 

报告人介绍：

Dr Chris McSweeney is a Senior Principal Research Scientist with CSIRO Livestock Industries based at the Queensland Bioscience Precinct, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.He is Stream Leader for the Enhanced Gut Function and Health research group.The Enhanced Gut Function and Health research stream aims to transform gut microbes to produce healthy, safe animal products, while minimising the impact on the environment.Dr     McSweeney’s expertise is in:nutritional toxicology、gut microbial ecology、livestock、food safety.

 

Dr McSweeney joined CSIRO in 1983 as an experimental scientist in the Tropical Animal Production’s nutrition group based in Townsville in northern Queensland.This group researched the major nutritional problems faced by the northern Australian cattle industry including:mineral and nitrogen deficiencies、indigestibility of plant fibre、poor reproductive performance of cows、toxic plant compounds.