Professor Hugh T. Blair  BAgrSc(Hons), PhD

• NRCGD Associate Director, Animal sciences

• NRCGD Site representative, Massey University

• NRCGD Project Leader

• Professor of Animal Science and Acting Head of Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences, Massey University

Research interests

Animal genetics and epigenetics; Inheritance of diseases; Animal and veterinary research

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Biography

Professor Hugh Blair received his Bachelor of Agricultural Science (Hons) degree from Massey University in 1976. This was followed by a PhD from the same university in Quantitative Animal Breeding and Genetics in 1981, and a one-year postdoctoral position at Cornell University, New York, in 1981/82.

Hugh has been employed at Massey University since 1976 and became Professor and Head of the Department of Animal Science in 1995. Since 1998, he has been the Deputy Head of the Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences. His teaching and research expertise is in applied animal genetics and he holds several industry consulting positions.

Within the NRCGD, Hugh is the Site Leader for Massey University and is leading several projects investigating the effects of fetal programming on later life productivity in sheep and cattle and the possibility that these programming effects may be transmitted between generations.

Contact details

Massey University

Private Bag 11222

Palmerston North, New Zealand

Email ; Phone +64 6 3505122