Dr Susan Girdwood

PhD

Dr Susan Girdwood

Senior Teaching Lab Technician

Department of Life Sciences

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I provide technical support for the following modules

BR18040 Crop, grassland, soil and agricultural land management
BR17120 Genetics, evolution and diversity
BR20720 Applied nutrition of livestock, horses and companion animals
BR21810 Chromosome Dynamics
BR35720 Equine Nutrition and Pasture Management

BRM0320 Livestock nutrition

BRM5320 Equine Nutrition

 

I am also responsible for the day to day running of the Advanced Microscopy & Bioimaging Laboratory (JEOL JEM-1400Flash TEM, JEOL JSM-IT200LV SEM, Hitachi S-4700 FESEM, Leica SP8 Super Resolution Confocal microscope) and a number of instruments in the Research Laboratories (e.g. GC-FID, GC-MS, HPLC-MS, Bruker NIR, Elementar Elemental Analysers, Sony SH800 Cell Sorter, Ankom Fibre and Fat analysers).

 

Publications

Livingstone, PG, Ingleby, O, Girdwood, S, Cookson, AR, Morphew, RM & Whitworth, DE 2020, 'Predatory Organisms with Untapped Biosynthetic Potential: Descriptions of Novel Corallococcus Species C. aberystwythensis sp. nov., C. carmarthensis sp. nov., C. exercitus sp. nov., C. interemptor sp. nov., C. llansteffanensis sp. nov., C. praedator sp. nov., C. sicarius sp. nov., and C. terminator sp. nov', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 86, no. 2, e01931-19. 10.1128/AEM.01931-19
Marrs, RH, Lee, HHM, Blackbird, S, Connor, L, Girdwood, SE, O'Connor, M, Smart, SM, Rose, RJ, O'Reilly, J & Chiverrell, RC 2020, 'Release from sheep-grazing appears to put some heart back into upland vegetation: A comparison of nutritional properties of plant species in long-term grazing experiments', Annals of Applied Biology, vol. 177, no. 1, pp. 152-162. 10.1111/aab.12591
Clifton-Brown, J, Senior, H, Purdy, S, Horsnell, R, Lankamp, B, Müennekhoff, A-K, Virk, D, Guillemois, E, Chetty, V, Cookson, A, Girdwood, S, Clifton-Brown, G, Tan, MLMC, Awty-Carroll, D & Bentley, A 2018, 'Investigating the potential of novel non-woven fabrics for efficient pollination control in plant breeding', PLoS ONE, vol. 13, no. 9, 0204728. 10.1371/journal.pone.0204728
Huson, KM, Morphew, R, Allen, N, Hegarty, M, Worgan, H, Girdwood, S, Jones, EL, Phillips, H, Vickers, M, Swain, M, Smith, D, Kingston-Smith, A & Brophy, P 2018, 'Polyomic tools for an emerging livestock parasite, the rumen fluke Calicophoron daubneyi; identifying shifts in rumen functionality', Parasites & Vectors, vol. 11, no. 1, 617. 10.1186/s13071-018-3225-6
Oyama, LB, Crochet, J-A, Edwards, JE, Girdwood, S, Cookson, A, Fernandez-Fuentes, N, Hilpert, K, Golyshin, PN, Golyshina, OV, Privé, F, Hess, M, Mantovani, HC, Creevey, C & Huws, S 2017, 'Buwchitin: A Ruminal Peptide with Antimicrobial Potential against Enterococcus faecalis', Frontiers in Chemistry, vol. 5, 51. 10.3389/fchem.2017.00051
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