Dr Susan Girdwood

PhD

Dr Susan Girdwood

Senior Teaching Lab Technician

Department of Life Sciences

Contact Details

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).

 

The use of field peas to substitute soya in broiler finishing diets: Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science (BSAS 2023). / MacKintosh, Sian; Abeysena, V.; Thompson, P. et al.
2023. 301-302 Paper presented at BSAS Conference 2023, Birmingham, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

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. / Livingstone, Paul G.; Ingleby, Oliver; Girdwood, Susan et al.
In: Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Vol. 86, No. 2, e01931-19, 07.01.2020.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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. / Marrs, Robert H.; Lee, Hyo Hye Mi; Blackbird, Sabena et al.
In: Annals of Applied Biology, Vol. 177, No. 1, 24.06.2020, p. 152-162.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Investigating the potential of novel non-woven fabrics for efficient pollination control in plant breeding. / Clifton-Brown, John; Senior, Hannah; Purdy, Sarah et al.
In: PLoS ONE, Vol. 13, No. 9, 0204728, 28.09.2018.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Polyomic tools for an emerging livestock parasite, the rumen fluke Calicophoron daubneyi; identifying shifts in rumen functionality. / Huson, Kathryn Mair; Morphew, Russell; Allen, Nathan et al.
In: Parasites & Vectors, Vol. 11, No. 1, 617, 04.12.2018.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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