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Australian Government

Research Funding Provided by: Australian Government
Australian Research Council
National Health & Medical Research Council

 

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Network Member Profile

Dr Gregory Harper

 

Dr Gregory Scott Harper

Department:
Business Development

Organisation:
CSIRO Livestock Industries

Address:
Queensland Bioscience Precinct, 306 Carmody Road, St Lucia QLD 4067

Telephone: 07 3214 2516 Facsimile: 07 3214 2696

Email: gregory.harper@csiro.au

 

Current Field of Study

  • Animal Science, Biochemical Genetics
  • Animal Science, Growth and Development
  • Systems Biology

Australian Collaborators

  • Assoc. Prof. Paul Greenwood (NSW Agriculture, Armidale, NSW)
  • Dr. Sigrid Lehnert (CSIRO LI, Brisbane, Qld)
  • Dr. Yong Hong Wang (CSIRO LI, Brisbane, Qld)
  • Prof. Miranda Grounds (UWA, Perth, WA)
  • Dr. Jason White (UWA, Perth, WA)
  • Prof. Frank Dunshea (DPI Vic., Werribee, Vic)
  • Assoc. Prof. Dave Pethick (Murdoch Uni., Perth, WA)
  • Prof. Hutton Oddy (UNE, Armidale, NSW)
  • Dr. Terry Longhurst (MLA, Sydney, NSW)

International Collaborators

  • Prof. N. Cockett, Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences, Utah State University, USA

Facilities

  • My role is management of a $10M p.a. fund dedicated to strategic science, with relevance to the animal production industries.
  • I remain associate supervisor for one PhD student, Thu Zhu.

Lab Members

Dr Greg Harper

Manager, Strategic Science

Ms Thu Nguyen Zhu

PhD Student

 

Recent Publications

ALLINGHAM, P.G., BROWNLEE, G., HARPER, G.S. Pho, M., Nilsson, S.K. and BROWN, T. (2006) Gene expression, synthesis and degradation of hyaluronan during differentiation of 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 452: 83-91.

ALLINGHAM, P.G., GARDNER, G.E., TAYLOR, M., HEGARTY, R.S. and HARPER, G.S. (2006) Effects of sire genotype and plane of nutrition on fascicular structure of M. longissimus thoracis et lumborum and its effect on eating quality. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 57, 641-650.

REVERTER, A., HUDSON, N.J., WANG, Y.-H., TAN, S.-H., BARRIS, W., BYRNE, K.A., McWILLIAM, S.M., BOTTEMA, C.D.K., KISTER, A., GREENWOOD, P.L., HARPER, G.S., LEHNERT, S.A. and DALRYMPLE, B.P. (2006) A gene co-expression network for bovine skeletal muscle inferred from microarray. Physiol. Genomics. (in press)

LEHNERT, S.A., BYRNE, K.A., REVERTER, A., NATTRASS, G., GREENWOOD, P.L., WANG, Y.-H, HUDSON, N.J. and HARPER, G.S. (2006) Gene expression profiling of bovine longissimus muscle in response to nutritional change describes a molecular phenotype of atrophying skeletal muscle. J. Anim. Sci., in press.

Hudson, N.J., Lehnert, S.A., Ingham, A.B., Symonds, B., Franklin, C. E. and Harper, G.S. (2005) Lessons from an estivation frog: Sparing muscle protein despite starvation and disuse Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol (October 20, 2005). doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00380.2005

WANG, Y.H., REVERTER, A., MANNEN, H., TANIGUCHI, M., HARPER, G.S., OYAMA, K., BYRNE, K.A., OKA, A., TSUJI, S. and LEHNERT, S.A. (2005) Transcriptional profiling of muscle tissue in growing Japanese Black cattle to identify genes involved with the development of intramuscular fat. Aust. J. Exp. Agric. 45: 809-820.

REVERTER, A., BARRIS, W., MORENO-SANCHEZ, N., McWILLIAM, S., WANG, Y,-H., HARPER, G.S., LEHNERT, S.A. and DALRYMPLE, B.P. (2005) Construction of gene interaction and regulatory networks in Bovine skeletal muscle from expression data Aust. J. Exp. Agric. 45: 821-829.

Dunshea, F.R., D'Souza, D.N., Pethick, D.W., Harper, G.S. and Warner, R.D. (2005) Effects of dietary factors and other metabolic modifiers on quality and nutritional value of meat. Meat Science 71: 8-38.