Awards and Prizes

Animal Production Science is pleased to offer a Young Scientist Award for the best oral or poster paper presented at the biennial conferences of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics and Australian Association of Animal Sciences (formally Australian Society of Animal Production).

The award carries a prize of a personal one-year online subscription to Animal Production Science, a AU$250 book voucher from CSIRO Publishing, and a certificate.

To be eligible for the prize, the first author must be no more than 10 years post-PhD (i.e. <35 years old), and a member of the relevant society.

Authors are asked to nominate whether a paper is suitable for consideration for the award, and nominations are then judged by the Executive Committee of the Society, and an Editor, to select a winner.

The winner of the award(s) will be announced at the conclusion of the conference and in an Editorial published in the journal.

• 2023: 25th Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics Conference (26-28 July 2023)​: Pâmela Alexandre

  Development of female fertility indicator traits for the Angus HeiferSELECT genomic tool​.
  P.A. Alexandre, L.R. Porto-Neto, B.C. Hine, A.M. Samaraweera, A.I. Byrne, A.B. Ingham, C.J. Duff and A. Reverter
  Proc. Assoc. Advmt. Anim. Breed. Genet: 25: 67-70

• 2021: 24^th Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics Conference (2-4 November): Evans Cheruiyot

  Editor’s Choice for Best Student Paper: Evans Cheruiyot
  Using selected sequence variants to improve genomic prediction of heat tolerance in dairy cattle.
  E.K. Cheruiyot, M. Haile-Mariam, B.G. Cocks, I.M. MacLeod and J.E. Pryce
  Proc. Assoc. Advmt. Anim. Breed. Genet: 24: 50-53

• 2018: Australian Society of Animal Production (2-4 July): Sarita Guy and Holly Cuthbertson

  Best Oral Presentation: Sarita Guy
  Big data – what’s the value and its potential? Data capture through Australian beef cattle and meat sheep value chains: opportunities for enhanced feedback to commercial producers
  S. Z. Y. Guy, D. J. Brown and R. G. Banks
  pp. 1497–1503
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  Best Poster: Holly Cuthbertson
  The relationship between infrared thermography measured on farm and the potential indicators of stress in beef cattle
  Holly Cuthbertson

• 2014: Joint ISNH/ISRP International Conference (8-12 September): Jaime Manning and Rachael Rodney

  A pilot study into the use of global navigation satellite system technology to quantify the behavioural responses of sheep during simulated dog predation events
  Jaime K. Manning, Eloise S. Fogarty, Mark G. Trotter, Derek A. Schneider, Peter C. Thomson, Russell D. Bush and Greg M. Cronin
  pp. 1676-1681
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  Influencing the future: interactions of skeleton, energy, protein and calcium during late gestation and early lactation
  Ian J. Lean, Peter J. DeGaris, Pietro Celi, David M. McNeill, Rachael M. Rodney and David R. Fraser
  pp. 1177-1189
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• 2008: Australian Society of Animal Production (23-27 June): Maree Bowen
  Evaluation of a remote drafting system for regulating sheep access to supplement
  M. K. Bowen, P. M. Pepper, R. C. McPhie and M. R. Winter
  pp. 248-252
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• 2006: Australian Society of Animal Production (9-12 July): Kristie Martin and Pietro Celi

  Effects of stimulation on tenderness of lamb with a focus on protein degradation
  K. M. Martin, D. L. Hopkins, G. E. Gardner and J. M. Thompson
  pp. 891-896
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  Lactation curve and persistency of lactation in dairy ewes milked once a day
  D. Macgill, K. Fullard, P. Celi, P. Thompson, E. Hall, A. Iqbal, P. Wynn and H. W. Raadsma

• 2005: Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (25-28 September): Jenny Pryce and Mehdi Sargolzaei

  Breeding for body condition score in dairy cows
  J. E. Pryce, B. L. Harris and W. Montgomerie

  The gametic covariance matrix between relatives for a chromosomal segment
  Mehdi Sargolzaei and H. Iwaisaki