Clifford Adams
Clifford Adams studied agricultural sciences and biochemistry at universities in the UK, Canada, USA and Australia and is currently the Nutritional Services Director of one of Europe's leading feed additive manufacturers, based in Belgium.
He is involved in research and development of new products and of new nutritional strategies for both human and animal nutrition. His general research interest is the function of various food components and their impact upon health, growth and environment.
Particular interests are in the safety of foods of animal origin, and in developing a nutritional approach to health maintenance and disease avoidance. He introduced the concept of bioactive food components or nutricines, important in both health and nutrition, and subsequently developed Total Nutrition as a strategy for the production of food of animal origin where nutrition contributes to health as well as growth and performance of animals. This is of particular importance where a reduction in use of antibiotics in animal production is required.
David Charles
David Charles worked for ADAS from 1965 until 1996, mostly in poultry and livestock consultancy, though with a brief spell as a team manager, and latterly in ADAS Marketing. Overseas assignments were in 25 countries. In the 1970s he was associated with the development of the Gleadthorpe poultry research unit, and in 1977 won the prestigious BPF/BOCM PAULS Poultry Industry Award for contributions to research and consultancy. Since 1996 he has been working freelance. Other posts include Special Lecturer at Nottingham University Sutton Bonington Campus and Chairman of the UK Poultry Research Liaison Group. Other interests include researching the history of food, agriculture and the countryside.
John Cole
John Cole, until recently, Professor of Human and Regional Geography at the University of Nottingham, was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1928 but has spent most of his life in England. He graduated in Geography and Spanish at Nottingham in 1950 where, after completing his National Service in the Special Branch of the Royal Navy, he joined the staff of the Geography department. He has travelled extensively, visiting about 70 different countries, in some of which he has lectured and carried out research, and has acquired a working knowledge of several languages. Between 1957 and the present he has written or co-authored over 25 books for a variety of publishers on various aspects of geography.
Robin Crawshaw
Robin Crawshaw has spent nearly 40 years as an advisory nutrition chemist, providing feed evaluation and guidance on feeding to farmers, the feed industry and to government. He has provided technical support on animal feed matters to legislators in the UK and the European Union, and his technical services have been provided outside Europe, in Pakistan, Australia and Argentina. For four years he held the position of agricultural Attaché to the British High Commission in New Zealand. Over the last decade, he has developed a special interest in the feed materials that become available as a result of processing by the food, drinks and bio-ethanol industries. In conjunction with his wife, he now runs an independent feed consultancy business from his home on the Cambridgeshire / Lincolnshire border.
Burk Dehority
Burk Dehority's research interests are in the area of rumen microbiology, focusing on the bacteria, protozoa and fungi responsible for the breakdown of forage structural carbohydrates and their interactions. His studies have involved enumeration, isolation and identification of the functionally active rumen bacteria and the effects of ration changes. Studies have also been conducted on microbial digestion in the hindgut of both ruminants and non-ruminants, and its contribution to overall ration digestibility. In recent years he has placed increased emphasis on studying the value of protozoa and fungi in the overall rumen fermentation process. A unique area of Burk Dehority's research has been his extensive studies on the ecology of the microbial populations, particularly the protozoa, in numerous species of herbivores from various geographical areas around the world. His teaching responsibilities include a graduate course in Rumen Microbiology taught every other year during the summer quarter at Wooster, and he advises graduate students.
John Gadd
John Gadd, while he lives in England, through his writing and travel has been described as "one of the best-known people in pigs in the world". He has been involved solely in pig production for 40 years both at commercial and grass-roots levels, and has been writing about pigs for 34 years with over 2,500 technical articles and papers published to date. He won the prestigious agricultural Business Writer of the Year award in 1996 and has his own quarterly magazine on technical pig production. The Pig Pen is now in it's 8th year.
Keith Gregson
University Teacher (part time) at the University of Nottingham and Consultant in Numerical Applications in Biological Science.
From 1969-1972 I was Research Fellow in the Faculty of Agriculture at Nottingham working on the barley crop and its environment.
Lecturer, senior lecturer and is currently University Teacher (part time) in the School of Biosciences within the Faculty of Science. During 1994 I was visiting professor in the Department of Statistics and the Center for Environmental Change at Oregon State University.
I have applied mathematical and computer modelling techniques to animals, crops and soils, including the development of process based models of global methane sources and sinks at the Earth's surface. I have also been involved in the development and application of remote sensing, both for precision farming and for the measurement of soil water.
I have also been responsible for the application of artificial intelligence techniques to biological problems. This has resulted in expert systems for the identification of macro-invertebrates, the provision of suitable dragonfly habitats and the application of neural network analyses to develop water remediation processes.
My teaching duties at Nottingham include the teaching of mathematics, statistics, and computing and the provision of mathematical/statistical advice to other academics in a wide range of biological applications.
Qualifications
B. Tech. (Applicable Mathematics) Bradford; Ph. D. (Mathematics) Nottingham; Chartered Engineer; Member of the British Computer Society; And other things!
Michael Grossman
Michael Grossman is a Professor in the Departments of Animal Sciences and Statistics at the University of Illinois, Urbana, USA. He has written numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers as well as popular articles, and has given national and international scientific presentations. He has been teaching in the areas of animal genetics and mathematical modelling for more than thirty years. He has taught workshop courses on techniques for writing and presenting a scientific paper to Ph.D. students at the University of Illinois and at Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
Birgitta Malmfors
Birgitta Malmfors is an Associate Professor in Animal Breeding and Genetics at the Swedish University of agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden. She has written many scientific papers, reports and articles. She also has authored textbook chapters in animal breeding and a Swedish handbook on writing and presenting scientific papers. She regularly makes presentations at national and international meetings. She has taught students successfully for thirty years, and has been given a distinguished award for teaching and communication skills.
Derrick Rixson
Derrick Rixson, following a career as a family butcher, joined the staff of Smithfield College, London, where he taught for 25 years. Latterly he was involved in zooarchaeology - processing bones from archaeological sites. Sadly, Derrick passed away in 2002.
Peter Surai
Peter Surai, after graduating from Kharkov State University in the Ukraine, went on to the Ukraine poultry Research Institute. Following two years developing various antioxidant-related techniques at an analytical feed analysis laboratory, he later he became head of the Department of Reproduction and later Department of Physiology, Biochemistry and nutrition (Ukraine) where he was responsible for poultry nutrition throughout the country.
In 1994 he moved to Scotland where he is currently a Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at the Avian Science Research Centre of the Scottish Agricultural College.
His main interest has been concerned with aspects of antioxidant metabolism with a specific emphasis to selenium in relation to animal and human nutrition and reproduction, and has more that 350 research publications devoted to this subject, including 75 papers in peer-reviewed journals. In 1999 he received the prestigious John Logie Baird Award for Innovation for the development of "super-eggs" and in 2000, The World's poultry Science Association Award, in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the development of the poultry industry. For the last decade he has lectured in over 40 countries on various antioxidant-related topics.
Tobias Steiner
Tobias Steiner graduated from the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, where he also obtained his PhD in animal nutrition. Since 2005, he has been based in Austria as technical manager for Natural Growth Promoters at one of Europe's leading feed additives manufacturers.
Dr. Simon M. Shane
Dr. Simon M. Shane is an Emeritus Professor of the Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, where he was involved in teaching, research and service from 1979 through 2001. He currently holds an appointment as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Poultry Science, North Carolina State University.
He obtained his veterinary degree from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, in 1964, and earned a Ph.D. in Poultry Nutrition from Cornell University in 1969. He subsequently earned a Masters degree in Business Leadership from the University of South Africa in 1975, while serving as a production director for a large integrated broiler producer in the Republic of South Africa.
He was awarded the Diploma of Fellowship of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 2001, is a 1991 Charter Diplomate of the American College of Poultry Veterinarians and the 2005 recipient of the AAAP Lasher-Botorff Award. Professor Shane is active in aspects of US and international broiler and egg production with special emphasis on biosecurity, economics and food safety, having consulted extensively in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Dr. Lucy Tucker
Dr. Lucy Tucker received her first degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Lancaster, and went on to complete a Ph.D. in monogastric nutrition and digestion at Harper Adams University College in the UK. Since 1995 she has worked in commercial animal nutrition, specializing in research, development and marketing of technical feed ingredients to improve nutrient delivery and digestion, and promote gastro-intestinal health. Based in New Zealand since 2005, she now works as a consultant nutritionist, reflecting her wide-ranging interest in topics allied to nutrition.