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David Johnston

Principal Scientist

Phone: +61 2 6773 2658

Email: djohnsto@une.edu.au

David has been a beef cattle geneticist at AGBU for almost 28 years. During that time David has been responsible for the design and management of several large beef cattle breeding projects, and the implementation of the research into BREEDPLAN. David is the project leader of a large MLA-funded breeding project in Queensland and the Northern Territory that is developing enhanced genetic evaluation of female reproduction traits through the implementation of new genomic selection techniques in tropically-adapted beef breeds. David spends considerable time interacting with the beef industry and has been an invited speaker at scientific forums, both nationally and internationally.