Rate My Professor Zamira Gibb

Associate Professor Zamira Gibb is an ARC Research Fellow in the School of Science, College of Engineering, Science and Environment, at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She earned her PhD and Bachelor of Animal and Veterinary Bioscience (Honours) from the University of Sydney, along with a Certificate IV in Horse Industry Applications from TAFE NSW. Following her PhD in 2010, Gibb joined the University of Newcastle as a postdoctoral researcher and has progressed to Associate Professor and Director of the Priority Research Centre for Reproductive Science. She leads the Livestock Fertility research group, specializing in reproductive biology with a focus on equine fertility enhancement. Her work addresses declining fertility in horses due to pollutants, stress, and selective breeding, employing molecular-level insights into sperm metabolism, oxidative stress, cryopreservation, and assisted reproductive technologies.

Gibb collaborates with the Thoroughbred and Standardbred industries, including Harness Racing Australia and the Hunter Valley Equine Research Centre, to improve stallion fertility and reproductive outcomes using natural and artificial methods. She has attracted over $7.7 million in funding as lead or chief investigator on grants from the Australian Research Council, AgriFutures Australia, and industry partners, including the ARC project Improving the Sustainability of Australian Livestock Production Systems ($997,221, 2022-2026) and A Novel Device for the On-farm Assessment of Stallion Sperm Fertility ($300,503, 2019-2022). Key publications feature Causes and consequences of oxidative stress in spermatozoa (2015, 550 citations), The paradoxical relationship between stallion fertility and oxidative stress (2014, 291 citations), The Impact of Sperm Metabolism during In Vitro Storage: The Stallion as a Model (2016), and L-Carnitine and Pyruvate Are Prosurvival Factors During the Storage of Stallion Spermatozoa at Room Temperature (2015). Gibb supervises PhD students on stallion fertility, mare oocyte quality, and early pregnancy diagnostics, bridging academia and industry for sustainable livestock breeding.