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Gareth Difford wins Young Scientist Award

PhD student Gareth Difford won "the young scientist award" for best talk in the Genetics Commission at this year EAAP conference in Belfast.

Gareth Difford
Gareth Difford won "the young scientist award" for his talk "Genes and microbes, the next step in dairy cattle breeding"

The conference also called 67th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science was held from 28 August-2 September 2016. The title of Gareth's lecture was "Genes and microbes, the next step in dairy cattle breeding", where he was in competition with 26 other lecturers.

Gareth Difford, who is originally from South Africa, is a PhD student at the Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics (QGG) in Foulum under the supervision of Senior Researcher Peter Løvendahl and Project Senior Researcher Jan Lassen.

He is enrolled at the European Graduate School of Animal Breeding and Genetics, and is thus also a PhD student at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. His research focuses on quantitative genetic variation for methane, feed intake and utilisation, as well as the microbial composition of the rumen.

Besides the honour of winning, Gareth also gets free registration at next year's conference to be held in Tallinn, Estonia, where he also gets the opportunity to be chairman of a session at the conference.


For further information, please contact

PhD student Gareth Difford

Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Aarhus University, Denmark
gareth.difford@mbg.au.dk
- +45 87154984