John Pluske

CEO and Chief Scientist, Australasian Pork Research Institute Ltd. (APRIL); Honorary Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Principal Consultant, SciEcons Consulting (Perth, Australia).

Bachelor of Science (Agriculture); The University of Western Australia (1988).

Doctor of Philosophy (Psychological and nutritional stress in pigs at weaning: Production parameters, the stress response, and histology and biochemistry of the small intestine); The University of Western Australia (1995).

Post-doctoral scientist positions at The University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB, Canada; 1993-1995), Murdoch University (1995-1996) and Massey University (Palmerston North, New Zealand; 1996-1999).

Visiting Professor at The University of Guelph (Guelph, ON, Canada; 2005), and Australian-American Fulbright Commission Distinguished Chair in Agriculture and Life Sciences at Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS, USA; 2014-2015).

Professor at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia; May 1999 to January 2021.

Research interests are focused on nutrition-gut disease interactions in young pigs, general pig nutrition, pig growth and development, piglet behaviour, feed and ingredient evaluation, nutrition-immunology-microbiome interactions, nutritional alternatives to growth promoting antimicrobials, and bacterial resistance to dietary antimicrobial compounds.

Updated CV 06-Aug-2021