Faculty profile
Graham Plastow
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Latest papers
Seasonal metabolic and growth responses of grazing beef heifers divergent in residual feed intake.
PloS one · 2026
Genome-Wide Association Study for Individual Primal Cut Quality Traits in Canadian Commercial Crossbred Pigs.
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025
Genome-Wide Association Study for Belly Traits in Canadian Commercial Crossbred Pigs.
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025
Latest funding
- $1,226,245
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the Canadian beef industry through the development and adoption of genomic tools
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $515,568
Improving sow lifetime productivity and the number of quality pigs marketed per sow using novel phenotypes and genomics
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $4,500
Forage to Beef
NSERC · 2018 · Principal investigator
88 publications.
Seasonal metabolic and growth responses of grazing beef heifers divergent in residual feed intake.
Londono-Mendez MC, Lasso-Ramirez S, Fitzsimmons C, Plastow G, Bork EW, Basarab J, Vasco ACCM, Silva AEM, Macias Franco A, Vinsky M, Li C, Medeiros da Silva G
Genome-Wide Association Study for Individual Primal Cut Quality Traits in Canadian Commercial Crossbred Pigs.
Mozduri Z, Plastow G, Dekkers J, Houlahan K, Kemp R, Juárez M
Genome-Wide Association Study for Belly Traits in Canadian Commercial Crossbred Pigs.
Mozduri Z, Plastow G, Dekkers J, Houlahan K, Kemp R, Juárez M
Circulating serum metabolites as biomarkers and predictors of residual feed intake in lactating dairy cows.
Hailemariam D, Manafiazar G, Baes C, Schenkel F, Miglior F, Stothard P, Plastow G
Genetic parameters and QTL mapping for novel metabolic traits in early-lactation Holsteins.
Liu R, Hailemariam D, Baes C, Miglior F, Stothard P, Colazo M, Plastow G
Development of genomic evaluation for methane efficiency in Canadian Holsteins.
Rojas de Oliveira H, Sweett H, Narayana S, Fleming A, Shadpour S, Malchiodi F, Jamrozik J, Kistemaker G, Sullivan P, Schenkel F, Hailemariam D, Stothard P, Plastow G, Van Doormaal B, Lohuis M, Shannon J, Baes C, Miglior F
eQTL-Detect: nextflow-based pipeline for eQTL detection in modular format with sharable and parallelizable scripts.
Chitneedi PK, Hadlich F, Moreira GCM, Espinosa-Carrasco J, Li C, Plastow G, Fischer D, Charlier C, Rocha D, Chamberlain AJ, Kuehn C
Characterization of runs of homozygosity islands in American mink using whole-genome sequencing data.
Davoudi P, Do DN, Rathgeber B, Colombo S, Sargolzaei M, Plastow G, Wang Z, Miar Y
Identifying selection signatures for immune response and resilience to Aleutian disease in mink using genotype data.
Hu G, Do DN, Manafiazar G, Kelvin AA, Sargolzaei M, Plastow G, Wang Z, Davoudi P, Miar Y
Identification of consensus homozygous regions and their associations with growth and feed efficiency traits in American mink.
Davoudi P, Do DN, Rathgeber B, Colombo S, Sargolzaei M, Plastow G, Wang Z, Miar Y
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the Canadian beef industry through the development and adoption of genomic tools
Principal investigators: Basarab, John JA
Keywords: barriers to adoption; beneficial management practices; carbon offset; fecal nir; genetic selection; greenhouse gas reduction; methane; molecular breeding values; producer incentives; sustainability
Improving sow lifetime productivity and the number of quality pigs marketed per sow using novel phenotypes and genomics
Principal investigators: Plastow, Graham GS
Keywords: genomics; gilt puberty; longevity; phenotypes; sow lifetime productivity; sustainability
Forage to Beef
Principal investigators: Plastow, Graham
Using genomics to characterize and maintain genetic variation in heritage chicken breeds
Principal investigators: Plastow, Graham
Enhancing production in mink through advanced genomics
Principal investigators: Miar, Younes Y
Sustainability of beef production: The interaction of cow, forage, and genomics on managing your herd
Principal investigators: Plastow, Graham
One Genome, One Health: Our Animals, the Environment and Us
Principal investigators: Plastow, Graham
Pyrosequencer for genomics and epigenomics research
Principal investigators: Guan, Leluo
Use of-omics technologies toward profitability and beef consumers' satisfaction
Principal investigators: Canovas, Angela
Livestock Gentec Student Poster Presentation and Industry Networking Event
Principal investigators: Plastow, Graham
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Anthony Kusalik and Scott Napper: 22 shared papers
- Paul Stothard and Graham Plastow: 15 shared papers
- Younes Miar and Graham Plastow: 11 shared papers
- Volker Gerdts and Scott Napper: 5 shared papers
- Frank van der Meer and Sylvia Checkley: 5 shared papers
- Kim Stanford and Graham Plastow: 4 shared papers
- Graham Plastow and John Basarab: 4 shared papers
- Younes Miar and Stefanie Colombo: 3 shared papers
- Stefanie Colombo and Graham Plastow: 3 shared papers
- Frank van der Meer and Graham Plastow: 3 shared papers
- Christine Baes and Paul Stothard: 3 shared papers
- Christine Baes and Graham Plastow: 3 shared papers
- Paul Stothard and John Basarab: 3 shared papers
- Heather Bruce and Graham Plastow: 3 shared papers
- Anthony Kusalik and Graham Plastow: 2 shared papers
- Younes Miar and Dan Tulpan: 2 shared papers
- Leluo Guan and Paul Stothard: 2 shared papers
- Sylvia Checkley and Paul Stothard: 2 shared papers
- Scott Napper and Graham Plastow: 2 shared papers
- Paul Stothard and Dan Tulpan: 2 shared papers
- Graham Plastow and Dan Tulpan: 2 shared papers
- Graham Plastow and John Harding: 2 shared papers
- Ellen Goddard and Aidan Hollis: 1 shared paper
- Ellen Goddard and Ian Lewis: 1 shared paper
- Ellen Goddard and Kathy McCoy: 1 shared paper
- Ellen Goddard and Myles Leslie: 1 shared paper
- Ellen Goddard and Elissa Rennert-May: 1 shared paper
- Ellen Goddard and Sylvia Checkley: 1 shared paper
- Ellen Goddard and Hans-Joachim Wieden: 1 shared paper
- Ellen Goddard and Graham Plastow: 1 shared paper
- Aidan Hollis and Ian Lewis: 1 shared paper
- Aidan Hollis and Kathy McCoy: 1 shared paper
- Aidan Hollis and Myles Leslie: 1 shared paper
- Aidan Hollis and Elissa Rennert-May: 1 shared paper
- Aidan Hollis and Hans-Joachim Wieden: 1 shared paper
- Aidan Hollis and Graham Plastow: 1 shared paper
- Ian Lewis and Kathy McCoy: 1 shared paper
- Ian Lewis and Myles Leslie: 1 shared paper
- Ian Lewis and Elissa Rennert-May: 1 shared paper
- Ian Lewis and Hans-Joachim Wieden: 1 shared paper
- Ian Lewis and Graham Plastow: 1 shared paper
- Kathy McCoy and Graham Plastow: 1 shared paper
- Volker Gerdts and Graham Plastow: 1 shared paper
- Volker Gerdts and John Harding: 1 shared paper
- Myles Leslie and Graham Plastow: 1 shared paper
- Elissa Rennert-May and Graham Plastow: 1 shared paper
- Kim Stanford and Leluo Guan: 1 shared paper
- Leluo Guan and Graham Plastow: 1 shared paper
- Kimberly Ominski and Graham Plastow: 1 shared paper
- Sylvia Checkley and Graham Plastow: 1 shared paper
- Michael Dyck and Graham Plastow: 1 shared paper
- Michael Dyck and John Harding: 1 shared paper
- Hans-Joachim Wieden and Graham Plastow: 1 shared paper
- Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
- Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of
- Agriculture, Faculty of
- Biological Sciences Department
- Department of Animal Biosciencies
- Animal Science and Aquaculture - Dalhousie University
- Other
Co-authors at University of Alberta, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Paul Stothard
Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
15 shared papers, latest 2025
Younes Miar
Agriculture, Faculty of
11 shared papers, latest 2024
John Basarab
Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
4 shared papers, latest 2026
Kim Stanford
Biological Sciences Department
4 shared papers, latest 2021
Heather Bruce
Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
3 shared papers, latest 2016
Stefanie Colombo
Animal Science and Aquaculture - Dalhousie University
3 shared papers, latest 2024
Frank van der Meer
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2021
Christine Baes
Department of Animal Biosciencies
3 shared papers, latest 2025
John Harding
Large Animal Clinical Sciences
2 shared papers, latest 2023
Dan Tulpan
Department of Animal Biosciences
2 shared papers, latest 2022
Scott Napper
Biochemistry
2 shared papers, latest 2022
Anthony Kusalik
Computer Science
2 shared papers, latest 2022
Aidan Hollis
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Leluo Guan
Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Ellen Goddard
Rural Economy
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Kimberly Ominski
Animal Science
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Sylvia Checkley
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Michael Dyck
Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Hans-Joachim Wieden
Chemistry and Biochemistry
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Kathy McCoy
Physiology and Pharmacology
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Volker Gerdts
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Elissa Rennert-May
Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Myles Leslie
Department of Community Health Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2021
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