Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Research success: Marie Curie Doctoral Network (BullNet)

 


Prof. Sean Fair (picture), has recently coordinated a successful Marie Curie Doctoral Network (BullNet) which will train 12 PhD students in the area of bull fertility. The objective of Doctoral Networks is to implement doctoral programmes by partnerships of organisations from different sectors across Europe to train highly skilled doctoral candidates, stimulate their creativity, enhance their innovation capacities and boost their employability. BullNet, consisting of 8 beneficiaries and 13 associated partner organisations across 7 countries, is a multi-disciplinary and inter-sectorial research programme designed to unravel the complex underlying biology of compromised fertility of individual bulls. Cutting-edge basic, applied and machine-learning approaches will be used to deliver a robust, flexible semen product from young, appropriately reared and managed, first-season elite sires that can be used successfully for artificial insemination (AI) with predictable and consistent fertility, so as to provide the industry with key tools to meet current emissions and animal welfare demands. BullNet will also lead to the advancement of knowledge in how bull management strategies and semen processing affect the functional and molecular characteristics of sperm, thus opening scientific horizons for new applications in the area of assisted reproduction. BullNet will expose PhD students to different sectors and they will acquire a comprehensive set of transferable skills working in the specific research area relating to their individual research projects, with an emphasis on the need for technology transfer from academic institutions to commercial users.

With a 9% success rate in the most recent Doctoral Network call we congratulate Sean on coordinating this prestigious grant and wish him and his consortium well.


Recent related publications

The transcriptomic response of bovine uterine tissue is altered in response to sperm from high and low fertility bulls
Comparison of the uterine inflammatory response to frozen-thawed sperm from high and low fertility bulls

we are hiring: Teaching Assistant in Biological Sciences (2 positions)

 


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05-May-2023 12:00