Animal & Veterinary Sciences

After completing a degree in BVSc at the University of Queensland (UQ), Peter commenced graduate studies on bull fertility supported by the Australian Meat Research Committee. This was followed by a stint in private veterinary practice in North Queensland before leaving these shores to join the faculty at Colorado State, and later, Texas A&M Universities.

Peter returned to Australia in 1980 to take up the position of Director of the UQ Pastoral Veterinary Centre at Goondiwindi, Queensland, progressing to the position of Deputy Dean (Clinical) of the UQ School of Veterinary Science. During this time, he spent a year on sabbatical leave as an Adjunct Professor, within the Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, at the University of Florida (UF).

In 1990, Peter returned to the US to join the faculty of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Florida. He then assumed an endowed Chair (Professor and Coleman Chair in Food Animal Production Medicine) within the College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University.

Peter joined the staff of Charles Sturt University’s Veterinary Science program in 2005 as Professor of Veterinary Reproduction and has since been involved in the development of facilities, resources and curriculum relating to animal reproduction.

 

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Teaching

Subject areas include Veterinary Reproduction, Animal Behaviour and Welfare, Animal Reproduction and Animal Production

Professional Links

• Australian Cattle Veterinarians (Member Executive Board)
• Society for Theriogenology (Member Executive Board, ex-President)
• Association of Applied Animal Andrology.(Founding Director)
• American Society for Animal Science
• Australian Veterinary Association (Member Policy Advisory Committee)
• Society for Reproductive Biology

Interests

• Animal reproduction (particularly male aspects) and livestock infertility
• Animal production – livestock
• Animal behaviour and welfare
• Veterinary education

 

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Research

Research Interests:

• Livestock male fertility/infertility
• Andrology 

Current funding:

• Pork CRC - “Male Factors in Early Pregnancy Loss”. Approx $250,000
• Bayer/AgriSearch – “Reproductive Safety Studies on Use of Antiparasitical Compunds on Rams.” Approx $15,000

Ex-Graduate Students

• Patrick Kayser
• Vivienne Perry
• Antonio Landaeta

 

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Recent publications last 5 years

• Chenoweth PJ (2007). Influence of the male on embryo quality. Theriogenology 68:308-315.
• Chenoweth PJ and Sanderson MW (2005). Beef Practice: Cow/Calf Production Medicine. Blackwell Publishing Professional. Ames Iowa. ISBN 0-8138-0402-7.
• Chenoweth PJ (2005) Genetic sperm defects. Theriogenology. 64:457-468
• Ellis R, Rupp GP, Chenoweth PJ, Cundiff LV and Lunstra DD.( 2005) Fertility of yearling beef bulls during mating Theriogenology 64:657-78.
• Chenoweth PJ. (2004). Food animal veterinary futures. Editorial. JVME. 31:322-327.
• Landaeta-Hernandez AJ, Palomares-Nevada R, Soto-Castillo G, Atencio A, Chase CC Jr and Chenoweth PJ. (2004) Social and breed effects on the expression of a PFG2 ALPHA induced oestrus in beef cows. Reprod. Domest Anim 39:315-20
• Landaeta-Hernandez AJ, Yelich JV, Lemaster JW, Fields MJ, Than T, Chase CC Jr. Rae DO and Chenoweth PJ (2002). Environmental , genetic and social factors affecting the expression of estrus in beef cows. Theriogenology 57: 1357-1370

 

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