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Improving feed efficiency dr jennie pryce
Dr Jennie Elizabeth Pryce (born 1972) is a quantitative geneticist based in Melbourne, Australia. She is a principal research scientist with the Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources and principal research fellow of La Trobe University. She has been a sub-program manager of the Dairy Futures Cooperative Research Centre since its inception
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- Early life and education
- Career
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Early life and education
Pryce was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK in 1972. She attended Shrewsbury High School and then the Cheltenham Ladies College.
Pryce became inspired by genetics through owning and breeding her pedigree, registered herd of Holstein dairy cattle, under the prefix of Severnvale Holsteins and decided from a young age to pursue a career in genetics. In 1994 she received BSc (Hons) 1st class from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and a PhD in 1998 also from the University of Edinburgh in "The Genetics of Health and Fertility of Dairy Cattle" under the supervision of Professors Geoff Simm, William G. Hill, Robin Thompson and Roel Veerkamp.
Career
Between 1998 and 2001 Pryce was a dairy geneticist with the Scotland's Rural College, Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2001 she moved to New Zealand to take up a scientist position with the breeding company Livestock Improvement Corporation. Since 2008 Pryce has lived and worked in Melbourne, Australia where her main areas of research interest are genetic improvement of functional traits (especially dairy cow fertility and feed conversion efficiency), optimising breeding scheme design under genomic selection and development of dairy selection indices.
Pryce is also section editor of Journal of Dairy Science, a member of the Functional Traits working group of the International Committee on Animal Recording (ICAR) and a member of the scientific committee of the World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production. In Australia, Pryce sits on the Dairy Moving Forward Fertility group and Holstein Australia's Breed Development and Conformation Committee.