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Peter Wahinya
Research Fellow
Phone: +61 2 6773 2749
Email: pwahiny2@une.edu.au
Peter Wahinya is a post-doctoral research fellow at AGBU, involved in the research and development of genetic evaluation and Merino Lifetime Productivity. He has a keen interest in the application of genetics and economics to improve livestock productivity. Peter has a PhD in quantitative genetics from AGBU where he developed breeding strategies for genetic improvement of dairy cattle under different production systems in Kenya. He has been involved in a variety of other projects such as the estimation of genetic parameters of methane emission in Australian sheep and analysis of pure and crossbred genotypes for breed composition estimation and genetic evaluation in beef cattle.