Prof. Chris Knight is a lactation researcher with interests in both animal and human lactation. His large animal research is done in collaboration with Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala and includes nutritional and management manipulations of milk quality. He is particularly interested in the way in which milk quality varies across the course of lactation, and also in the impact of novel production strategies on milk composition and cow welfare. He collaborates with food scientists and human nutritionists in Copenhagen and Uppsala and am currently co-ordinating applications for Comparative Lactation Centre of Excellence funding (Uppsala) and Erasmus Mundus Food of Life MSc programme funding. The latter is focused on teaching across the animal science/food science disciplines and involves KU, SLU, Helsinki University and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona as full partners.

Publications:

• Yeo, J.-M., Knight, C.H. and Chamberlain, D.G. (2003) Effects of changes in dietary amino acid balance on milk yield and mammary function in dairy cows. Journal of Dairy Science 86, 1436-1444.
• Sorensen, A., Muir, D.D., Knight, C.H. (2008) Extended lactation in dairy cows: effects of milking frequency, calving season and nutrition on lactation persistency and milk quality. Journal of Dairy Research 75, 90-97.
• Knight, C.H. (2009) Changes in requirements with age after birth. In Symonds, M. and Ramsay, M. Changes in infant nutrition requirements with age. Cambridge University Press, in press.