Author Biographies

Dr. Luciano da Silva Cabral is a full Professor at the Federal University of Mato Grosso-Cuiabá-Mato Grosso-Brazil. He received his B.S. in Animal Science (1996) from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (RJ), and his M.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2002) in Animal Science from the Federal University of Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. His thesis topics included the evaluation of feeds for ruminants through in vitro and in vivo assays as well as through the determination of carbohydrate and nitrogen fractions and their digestion rates. After graduation, he became a Professor at the Federal University of Mato Grosso where he teaches ruminant nutrition and rumen microbiology in undergraduate and graduate courses and develops research on feed evaluation and ruminal microbiology. He is a member of the Brazilian Society of Animal Science for which he is currently the vice president.
Dr. Paul J Weimer is an Associate Professor Emeritus at the Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received his Master’s degree at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1975 and completed his PhD studies at the same University in 1978. He has over forty years of experience in government, industrial, and academic laboratories in the area of microbiology, biochemistry, and metabolism of strictly anaerobic bacteria, with an emphasis on cellulose biodegradation; anaerobic culture and bioreactor methods; biomass fermentations into fuels and chemicals (particularly the carboxylate platform for organic acid synthesis); and ruminal microbial ecology and its relationship with dairy production.
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