Professor Gareth Evans

Professor in Animal Reproduction
Faculty of Veterinary Science
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006
Telephone: +61 2 9351 3363
Fax: +61 2 9351 3957
Email:garethe@vetsci.usyd.edu.au

Qualifications

BA (Hons I) Ox PhD

Teaching Areas

Lectures & Practicals: Vet Sci II, Applied Reproductive Physiology in Veterinary Anatomy & Physiology; Vet Sci III, Sex Hormones in Veterinary Pharmacology; Vet Sci IV, Applied Reproduction in Applied Reproduction & Obstetrics; Vet Sci V, Controlled Reproduction in Sheep Health & Production; Agricultural Science 3, Animal Reproduction 3; Postgraduate training in research areas below

VEIN Projects

Reproduction

Administration

Associate Dean, Research

Course Coordinator: ANSC3102, VETS 5339 (ART Elective)

Coordinate Careers Program in Animal Science

Research

Applied reproduction in domestic and wild animals; semen and embryo preservation, artificial insemination and embryo transfer; in vitro fertilisation and embryo culture; sperm sexing; seasonality of reproduction

Contributions to the Profession and the Community

Secretary General of the International Congress on Animal Reproduction
Honorary Research Associate of the Zoological Parks Board of NSW (Scientific Advisor)

Selected Publications

Evans G, Maxwell WMC (1987) Salamon's Artificial Insemination of Sheep and Goats', 200 pages, Butterworths, Sydney
Evans G (1991) Application of reproductive technology to the Australian livestock industries. Reprod. Fertil. Dev., 3, 627-650. (Proc. Aust Soc. Reprod. Biol. Ann. Conf., Perth, WA, 1990)
Catt SL, Catt JW, Gomez MC, Maxwell WMC, Evans G (1996) The birth of a male lamb derived from an in vitro matured oocyte fertilised by intra-cytoplasmic injection of a single presumptive male sperm. Vet. Record 139, 494-495.
Maxwell WMC, Evans G, Mortimer ST, Gillan L, Gellatly ES, McPhie CA (1999). Normal fertility after cervical insemination with frozen-thawed spermatozoasupplemented with seminal plasma. Reprod. Fertil. Dev., 11, 123-126.
Evans G, Hollinshead FK, Maxwell WMC (2004) Preservation and Artificial Insemination of Sexed Semen in Sheep. Reprod. Fertil. Dev. 16, 455-464.
Gillan L, Maxwell WMC, Evans G (2004) Preservation and evaluation of semen for artificial insemination. Reprod. Fertil. Dev. 16, 447-454.
Morton KM, Catt SL, Hollinshead FK, Maxwell WMC, Evans G (2004) Production of lambs after the transfer of fresh and cryopreserved in vitro produced embryos from prepubertal lamb oocytes and unsorted and sex-sorted frozen-thawed spermatozoa. Reprod. Dom. Anim. 39, 454-461
Bathgate R, Morton KM, Eriksson BM, Rath D, Seig B, Maxwell WMC, Evans G (2007) Non-surgical deep intra-uterine transfer of in vitro produced porcine embryos derived from sex-sorted frozen-thawed boar sperm. Anim. Reprod. Sci. (in press)
de Graaf SP, Beilby K, O'Brien JK, Osborn D, Downing JA, Maxwell WMC, Evans G (2007) Embryo production from superovulated sheep inseminated with sex-sorted ram spermatozoa. Theriogenology (in press)
Gillan L, Kroetsch T, Maxwell WMC, Evans G (2007) Assessment of in vitro sperm characteristics in relation to fertility in dairy bulls. Anim. Reprod. Sci. (in press)