Dr Jennie Pryce is Principal Research Scientist of Agriculture Victoria and La Trobe University, located at AgriBio, where she leads a large team of scientists and supervises PhD students. Her main areas of interest are genetic improvement of functional traits in dairy cattle, optimising breeding scheme design under genomic selection and development of dairy selection indices.
Jennie is Lead Scientist of DataGene and also sits on several industry and research alignment groups that shape the future of dairy research in Australia. Jennie is also a member of the ICAR (International Committee on Animal Recording) working group on functional traits. Previously, she was employed by the Scottish Agricultural College, and Livestock Improvement Corporation in New Zealand.