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Prof. Dr. Vimal Selvaraj

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Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Interests: steroid biosynthesis; endocrinology; mechanisms of energy metabolism; cholesterol

Dr. Fabrizio Serena

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CNR IRBIM National Research Council—Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnologies Via Vaccara, 61-91026 Mazara del Vallo, TP, Italy
Interests: marine ecology; natural resource management; invasive species; ecology; endangered species; biodiversity; conservation biology; conservation; species diversity; ecosystem ecology
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Prof. Dr. Martina Pérez Serrano

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Departamento de Producción Agraria, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28054 Madrid, Spain
Interests: poultry; pig; product quality; deer antler

Dr. Agostino Sevi

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Department of the Sciences of Agriculture, Food and Environment (SAFE), University of Foggia, Via Napoli, 25, 71122 Foggia, Italy
Interests: animal welfare; meat quality; milk quality; animal immunology; livestock systems

Prof. Dr. Agostino Sevi

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Department of Agriculture, Food Science, Natural Resources and Engineering (DAFNE), University of Foggia, Via Napoli, 25, 71122 Foggia, Italy
Interests: animal welfare; milk yield and quality; rearing strategies in warm climate

Prof. Dr. Alessandra Sfacteria

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Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Via G. Palatucci, 98168 Messina, Italy
Interests: veterinary pathology; mammary gland tumours; tumour microenvironment; translational medicine
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Dr. Majid Shakeri

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U.S. National Poultry Research Center, USDA-ARS, Athens, GA 30605, USA
Interests: roiler meat quality growth; broiler physiology; growth performance; antioxidants activities; feed additives; stress conditions
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Prof. Dr. Xiuzhen Sheng

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Laboratory of Pathology and Immunology of Aquatic Animals, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
Interests: fish immunity; viruses; virus-host interactions; cellular receptor; viral attachment proteins; lymphocystis disease virus; FV3; mucosal immunity; IgM; polymeric Ig receptor (pIgR); mucin; mucous cells; microfold cells; diagnostic technology
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Dr. Patrick C. Shih

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Informatics Department, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Interests: human and animal capabilities in animal-assisted interventions

Prof. Alexander Chong Shu-Chien

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1. Centre for Chemical Biology, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Minden 11900, Penang, Malaysia;
2. School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Minden 11800, Penang, Malaysia
Interests: aquaculture; crustacean and finfish nutrition and metabolism; feeding; comparative physiology; comparative genomic; gene expression

Prof. Dr. Marta Siemieniuch-Tartanus

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Department of Large Animals Diseases with the Clinic, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Nowoursynowska 100, 02-787 Warszawa, Poland
Interests: horse breeding; reproductive health; reproductive pathology; hippotherapy; equine-assisted therapy

Prof. Dr. Alexandre Rodrigues Silva

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Laboratory of Animal Germplasm Conservation, Department of Animal Sciences, Federal University of Semiarid Region—UFERSA, Mossoró 59625-900, RN, Brazil
Interests: wildlife reproductive physiology and biotechnologies; assisted reproductive technology; wildlife reproduction
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Dr. João Paulo Silva

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Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Fornelo e Vairao, Portugal
Interests: conservation biology; bird ecology; movement ecology; climate change

Dr. Lúcia Daniel Machado da Silva

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Laboratory of Carnivore Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, State University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
Interests: sperm; semen analysis; cryopreservation; semen

Dr. Miguel A. Silvestre

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Celular Biology, Functional Biology and Physical Antropology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Interests: spermatozoa; sperm assessment, cryopreservation; in vitro fertilization, artificial insemination
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Dr. Amit Kumar Sinha

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Centre of Excellence, Deppartment of Aquaculture and Fisheries, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Pine Bluff, AR, USA
Interests: fish welfare; aquaculture; water quality; fish physiology; toxicology; genomics
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Prof. Dr. Federico Sirri

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Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, 40064 Ozzano dell’Emilia, Italy
Interests: chicken; hen; turkey; metabolism and nutrition; product quality; meat; egg

Prof. Dr. Dariusz Skarzynski

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Department of Reproductive Immunology and Pathology, Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Tuwima 10, 10-748 Olsztyn, Poland
Interests: corpus luteum; uterus; estrous cycle; early pregnancy; early embryo; mortality; endometritis; endometrosis; adenomyosis; mastitis; cytokines; prostaglandins; bovine; equine
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Prof. Dr. Maciej Skoracki

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Department of Animal Morphology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
Interests: acarology; mite parasites; quill mites; host-parasite relationships; communities of bird parasites; evolution; ecology
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Dr. Ki-Duk Song

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Department of Agricultural Convergence Technology, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Republic of Korea
Interests: transcriptome; gene expression analysis; cell signaling; molecular genetics; immunity; livestock

Dr. Nucharin Songsasen

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Center for Species Survival, Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, 1500 Remount Rd., Front Royal, VA 22630, USA
Interests: reproductive physiology; cryobiology; assisted reproduction; carnivore conservation; conservation biology; ex situ management
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Prof. Dr. Alessandro Spadari

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Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences (DIMEVET), University of Bologna, Via Tolara di Sopra 50, Ozzano dell’Emilia, 40064 Bologna, Italy
Interests: videosurgery; equine surgery; equine colic; animal models
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Dr. Derek Spielman

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Sydney School of Veterinary Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Interests: wildlife pathology, diseases and ecology and epidemiology of wildlife diseases; pharmacokinetics of antibiotics in australian marsupials conservation genetics

Dr. Giuseppe Spinella

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Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Interests: canine sports medicine; musculoskeletal ultrasound; veterinary physiotherapy; canine rehabilitation
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Dr. Paulo Steagall

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Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculté de médecine vétérinaire, Université de Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC, Canada
Interests: anesthesiology and pain management

Prof. Dr. Bruno Stefanon

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Department of Agrofood, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy
Interests: system biology; functional genomics; nutrigenomics; metagenomic; biomarkers discovery
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Prof. Dr. Amir Steinman

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Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
Interests: clinical pharmacology; vector borne diseases; equine piroplasmosis; west nile virus; MDR bacteria
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Dr. Horst Dieter Steklis

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Human-Animal Interaction Research Initiative, School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Interests: human-animal interactions; behavioral biology; biopsychology; evolutionary psychology; ethology; animal welfare; animal ethics; great apes; animal sentience; animal emotions

Prof. Dr. Alessandra Stella

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CREA-Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment, via di Corticella 133, 40128 Bologna, Italy
Interests: DNA; epigenetics; genomic; genetics; bioinformatic; NGS; animal science; veterinary; cattle
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Prof. Dr. Wildeus Stephan

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Small Ruminant Research, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA 23806, USA
Interests: small ruminant production systems; sheep reproduction; small ruminant breed germplasm preservation
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