Masters student Bridgette Logan recently joined the NSW DPI meat research team and is currently based at the Cowra Agricultural Research and Advisory Station to complete her Masters through Charles Sturt University (CSU) Wagga.
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Bridgette completed an undergraduate Animal and Veterinary Bioscience degree at the University of Sydney (USYD) in 2017.
For her honours, she investigated drip loss methods and use for alpaca meat.
“I did an Honours project in alpaca meat, I did that through USYD, one of my supervisors was Dr Hopkins so we came out to do some work on meat science,” Bridgette said.
“At the end of the year, I thought I would like to continue in meat science and he said we’ve got one (position) if I wanted to join and now I’m through CSU.”
She will be presenting the results of her honours work at the 32nd Biennial Conference of the Australian Society of Animal Production with her registration sponsored by Teys Australia.
For the Masters, Bridgette will be working on the MLA/MDC project “Verification of the production system of origin of grass and grain fed beef through the use of Raman spectroscopy” under the supervision of Drs Stephanie Fowler and Dave Hopkins.
“I hope to complete into my PhD and then I’d probably stay in research,” she said.
Alongside Bridgette is Masters student Ashleigh Kilgannon, who is in the 2nd year of her study as part of the AMPC funded project “A practical means to accelerate beef ageing and sustain acceptable eating quality and safety: Chilled storage temperature manipulation”.
“I graduated with a Bachelor of Animal Sciences at Charles Sturt University in 2016, at that point, honestly, I didn’t have too much direction in terms of what I wanted to do so I thought I would give this a go when the opportunity came up,” Ashleigh said.
Ashleigh is also enrolled through CSU Wagga, but full time at Cowra under the supervision of Drs Benjamin Holman and Dave Hopkins.
In June, Ashleigh will attend the 71st Reciprocal Meat Conference in Kansas City, Missouri with funding support from the Graham Centre and AMPC to present a paper on her Masters work “Effect of controlled temperature-time variation during the chilled storage of beef on tenderness (shear force and particle size) characteristics”.
After completing her research, Ashleigh plans to go for a more hands-on approach in agriculture.
“At this point I have no plans, next year, once I finish, I plan on persuing a nomadic lifestyle,” she said.
“So essentially I’ll be stepping away from research and more so focusing on building my skill set in terms of hands on farming to get that experience behind me.”
