Dr. Leslie MacLaren
Retired, Professor Emeritus of Animal Physiology, Department of Animal Science and Aquaculture, Dalhousie University
Agricultural Genomics, Agriculture, Agroecosystems, Animal Physiology, Cell and Molecular Biology, Food and Culture, Food and Health, Nutritional Supplementation, Physiology, Placentation, Pregnancy, Reproductive Hormones, Ruminants, Sustainable Agriculture
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Biography
Dr. Leslie MacLaren is Professor Emeritus of Animal Physiology, Department of Animal Science and Aquaculture at Dalhousie University. Her teaching focuses on physiology - how animals work - and in particular on how cells and body systems communicate with one another. Whether the course is for technician students or postgraduate M.Sc. students, MacLaren emphasizes the relationship between the basic mechanisms that control a physiological process and how our management, genetics, and the environment affect those mechanisms.
She is the author of several scholarly publications, including L.A. MacLaren, T.R. Bilby, F. Michel, A. Guzeloglu, C.R. Staples and W.W. Thatcher. 2011. Supplementation of dairy cows with bovine somatotropin or omega-3 rich fish oil affects the endometrial expression of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors. Eurasion J. Vet. Sci., 27(4):207-218, and K.E. Glover, S. Budge, M. Rose, H.P. Rupasinghe, L. MacLaren, J. Green-Johnson, A.H.Fredeen. 2012. Effect of feeding fresh forage and marine algae on the fatty acid composition and oxidation of milk and butter. J. Dairy Sci., 95(6):2797-809 [Pubmed 22612917].