Dr. Natalie Pickering
HEAD SCIENTIST (PhD, BAppSc(Honsl)
With a PhD in quantitative genetics, Natalie leads and collaborates with both our research community and commercial farmers, implementing research into our sheep and deer breeding programmes, directing genetic plans, and focusing on continual improvements for the sector.
Her background in farming provided a foundation for her studies across genetics and genomics and helped shape her ‘get on and do it’ attitude. Natalie has worked on numerous traits including; meat eating quality, climate-adaptation traits, low-methane sheep, flystrike and dags and host resistance to internal parasites. Natalie holds positions across deer and sheep industry stakeholder groups and maintains collaborative relationships with both local and international researchers.