Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

Mr Harrison Lamb

PhD Candidate
Centre for Animal Science
Adjunct Fellow
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

Harry is a second-year PhD candidate with the Centre for Animal Science under the supervision of Prof. Ben Hayes and Dr Elizabeth Ross. Harry grew up on a small cattle property north of Brisbane where he developed a love for agriculture. He completed his bachelors of Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering at the University of Queensland in 2019. Combining his passion for agriculture and background in science Harry’s PhD project investigates the feasibility of on-farm DNA sequencing to predict the genetic merit of livestock.

Project title: Crush-side genotyping to accelerate genetic gain livestock

Linkedin: Harry Lamb | LinkedIn

ORCID

Publications

Journal Articles (8)
Conference Papers (4)
Thesis (1)

Journal Articles

Chen, Ziming, Ong, Chian Teng, Nguyen, Loan To, Lamb, Harrison J., González-Recio, O., Gutiérrez-Rivas, M., Meale, Sarah J. and Ross, Elizabeth M. (2025). Biases from Oxford Nanopore library preparation kits and their effects on microbiome and genome analysis. BMC Genomics, 26 (1) 504, 504. doi: 10.1186/s12864-025-11649-z
Lamb, H. J., Nguyen, L. T., Copley, J. P., Engle, B. N., Hayes, B. J. and Ross, E. M. (2023). Imputation strategies for genomic prediction using nanopore sequencing. BMC Biology, 21 (1) 286, 1-18. doi: 10.1186/s12915-023-01782-0
Lamb, H. J., Nguyen, L. T., Briody, T. E., Ambrose, R. K., Hayes, B. J., Mahony, T. J. and Ross, E. M. (2023). Skim-Nanopore sequencing for routine genomic evaluation and bacterial pathogen detection in cattle. Animal Production Science, 63 (11), 1074-1085. doi: 10.1071/an22451
Lamb, Harrison J., Hayes, Ben J., Randhawa, Imtiaz A. S., Nguyen, Loan T. and Ross, Elizabeth M. (2021). Genomic prediction using low-coverage portable Nanopore sequencing. PLoS One, 16 (12) e0261274, e0261274. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0261274
Hayes, Ben J., Nguyen, Loan T., Forutan, Mehrnush, Engle, Bailey N., Lamb, Harrison J., Copley, James P., Randhawa, Imtiaz A. S. and Ross, Elizabeth M. (2021). An Epigenetic Aging Clock for Cattle Using Portable Sequencing Technology. Frontiers in Genetics, 12 760450, 760450. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2021.760450
Trigo, Beatriz B., Utsunomiya, Adam T. H., Fortunato, Alvaro A. A. D., Milanesi, Marco, Torrecilha, Rafaela B. P., Lamb, Harrison, Nguyen, Loan, Ross, Elizabeth M., Hayes, Ben, Padula, Romulo C. M., Sussai, Thayla S., Zavarez, Ludmilla B., Cipriano, Rafael S., Caminhas, Maria M. T., Lopes, Flavia L., Pelle, Cassiano, Leeb, Tosso, Bannasch, Danika, Bickhart, Derek, Smith, Timothy P. L., Sonstegard, Tad S., Garcia, Jose F. and Utsunomiya, Yuri T. (2021). Variants at the ASIP locus contribute to coat color darkening in Nellore cattle. Genetics Selection Evolution, 53 (1) 40, 40. doi: 10.1186/s12711-021-00633-2
Lamb, Harrison J., Hayes, Ben J., Nguyen, Loan T. and Ross, Elizabeth M. (2020). The future of livestock management: a review of real-time portable sequencing applied to livestock. Genes, 11 (12) 1478, 1-27. doi: 10.3390/genes11121478
Lamb, Harrison J., Ross, Elizabeth M., Nguyen, Loan T., Lyons, Russell E., Moore, Stephen S. and Hayes, Ben J. (2020). Characterization of the poll allele in Brahman cattle using long-read Oxford Nanopore sequencing. Journal of Animal Science, 98 (5) skaa127, skaa127. doi: 10.1093/jas/skaa127

Conference Papers

Lamb, H.J., Nguyen, L.T., Randhawa, I.A.S., Hayes, B.J. and Ross, E.M. (2022). The long and short of Nanopore genomic prediction: the effect of read length on prediction accuracy. 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production (WCGALP), Rotterdam, Netherlands, 3-8 July 2022. Wageningen, Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers. doi: 10.3920/978-90-8686-940-4_279
Lamb, H. J. , Nguyen, L. T., Engle, B. N., Hayes, B. J. and Ross, E. M. (2021). Accuracy of genomic prediction in Brahman cattle using simulated genotypes from low-coverage nanopore sequencing. 24th Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics Conference, On-line with local hubs in Australia, 2-4 November 2021. Armidale, NSW Australia: Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics.
Ross, E. M., Lamb, H. J., Engle, B. N. , Nguyen, L. T. and Hayes, B. J. (2021). Assessing the potential of parentage testing using portable long read sequencing technologies. 24th Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics Conference, On-line with local hubs in Australia, 2-4 November 2021. Armidale, NSW Australia: Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics.
Lamb, Harrison, Nguyen, Loan T., Hayes, Ben J., Randhawa, Imtiaz A. S. and Ross, Elizabeth M. (2021). Genomic prediction using low-coverage Nanopore sequencing. 38th International Society of Animal Genetics, Virtual, 26 - 30 July 2021.

Thesis

Lamb, Harrison J. (2023). On-farm genotyping to accelerate genetic gain in Australia’s northern beef industry. PhD Thesis, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/d394913

Areas of research

Centre for Animal Science