Helen Miller

Helen Miller is a professor of Animal Bioscience at the University of Leeds's Faculty of Biological Sciences. The overall aim of her research is to develop feeding systems which enhance animal health, performance and meat quality in a sustainable manner. This research requires a fundamental understanding of the underlying physiological, metabolic and genomic responses to nutrients so that mechanisms already existing within the animal may be triggered to respond in an optimal way. Two critical periods in the pig’s life are immediately after birth and immediately after weaning. The latter is of particular importance at present following the recent ban on in-feed antibiotic growth promoters which were used routinely in weaner feeds prior to 2006. This research involves defining fundamental changes in the pig that help it to be successful and how these may be stimulated by nutrition.

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