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Professor Lewis Kahn

Professorial Research Fellow - Professor Livestock System - School of Environmental and Rural Science

Phone: +61 2 6773 2997

Building: Business School (W40)

Biography

Professor Lewis Kahn works with farmers, scientists, industries and government, investigating priority issues for livestock production systems. His research and consultancy has a broad focus on health, nutrition, reproduction and survival of ruminant livestock, grazing management, pastures and soils, industry adoption of innovation, and biophysical modelling. He has specialist skills in the epidemiology of gastrointestinal nematode parasites of livestock, covering host immunity and parasite ecology. He has managed large research teams with collaboration across universities, state DPIs, RDCs, Bureau of Meteorology, CSIRO, industry consultants and CRCs.

Qualifications

BRurSci (Hons 1) - University of New England

PhD - Biochemistry, Microbiology and Nutrition, University of New England

Primary Research Area/s

Landscape and agricultural sustainability; Grazing management and effects on animal production and natural resources; Nutritional and genetic regulation of host resistance to parasites of livestock; Ecology of major trichostrongylid parasites of sheep

External Profiles

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Professor Lewis Kahn

Biography

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