David Kenny
President
David Kenny President
Professor David Kenny is Head of the Teagasc Animal and Bioscience Research Department. He has over twenty years of research experience in the biological control of a range of economically important traits to ruminant livestock production systems, including growth and reproductive efficiency, ruminal methanogenesis and the development and functionality of the rumen microbiome. His work is based on in-depth study and the application of state-of-the-art physiological and molecular approaches to these complex, multidimensional traits. He has led a number of large multi-partner research projects and has supervised the studies of 18 Ph.D. and nine M.Sc. students to completion, as principal supervisor. His research has resulted in the publication of in excess of 190 full length internationally peer reviewed scientific manuscripts and book chapters to-date, as well as many industry targeted technical reports. He is the president of the Physiology Study Commission of the European Association of Animal Production, is a trustee of the British Society of Animal Science (BSAS), and is a member of the management board of the international scientific journal, Animal. He was awarded the prestigious Hammond award by BSAS in 2018 in recognition of outstanding contribution to an improved understanding of how nutrition affects the complex underlying biology regulating economically important traits in cattle, including feed efficiency, rumen methane emissions and male and female reproduction.
He runs a beef and sheep farm in County Mayo, in the west of Ireland and is integrally involved and is well known within the beef cattle sector in Ireland.