Stephanie Lam
Project 21 - 06
Dr. Stephanie Lam is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Lacombe Research and Development Centre. She obtained her M.Sc. (2016) and Ph.D. (2020) at the University of Guelph, Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock, where she studied feed efficiency in beef and dairy cattle using high-throughput -OMICs technologies. Stephanie is currently working under the supervision of Dr. Manuel Juárez in the Livestock Phenomics program. Her current projects involve improving the understanding of the transformation of muscle tissue to meat at the molecular level, using molecular methods for improved phenotyping for muscle fibre type composition, comparison of technologies to measure meat quality and carcass traits, and evaluation of factors influencing carcass primal cut-out composition. Her aim is to improve the sustainability, profitability, and efficiency of the Canadian livestock and meat industry and continue to transfer and translate research knowledge.
Dr. Stephanie Lam, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - Lacombe
Current research and/or projects
- Use of functional genomics to better understand meat and muscle biology
- Evaluation of factors influencing meat compositional traits
- Comparison of technologies used for measuring meat quality and carcass traits
- Use of molecular methods for improved phenotyping of meat traits
- Integration of -OMICs technologies for systems biology approaches to optimize the study of meat quality and carcass traits
Research and/or project statements
- Meat quality, carcass, and production traits
- Functional Genomics
- Transcriptomics and RNA-Sequencing
Ontario Pork funded projects: