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
No comments:
Post a Comment