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Section Board for 'Animal Genetics and Genomics' (57)

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Prof. Dr. Michael E. Davis
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Section Editor-in-Chief
Department of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Interests: beef; dairy; genetics; genetic engineering; animal breeding; biostatistics; animal genetics
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Prof. Dr. Alessandro Bagnato
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Department of Veterinary Medicine, Università Degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
Interests: animal genomics; genetic improvement; zootechnics; biodiversity
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Dr. Aleksey Zimin
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Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Interests: MaSuRCA assembler; bioinformatics; genome assembly
Dr. Guosheng Su
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Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics Blichers Allé 20 building K23, 3021 8830 Tjele, Denmark
Interests: animal breeding and genetics; genetic evaluation and genomic selection; omics
Prof. Dr. Jonathan E. Beever
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UTIA Genomics Center for the Advancement of Agriculture, Institute of Agriculture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
Interests: cattle; meet; genetics; reproduction
Prof. Dr. Gaetano Odierna
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Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, I-80126 Naples, Italy
Interests: chromosome; karyotype; evolution; amphibia; reptilia; mollusks
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Prof. Dr. Osamu Yamato
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Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kagoshima University, 1-21-24 Korimoto, Kagoshima 890-0065, Japan
Interests: animal genetics; clinical genetics; inherited disorder; clinical pathology; domestic animal; wild animal
Dr. Hideaki Takahashi
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Chief, Major Projects Promotion Office, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba Science, Tsukuba, Japan
Interests: animal genetics; poultry science; meat science; sensory evaluation
Prof. Dr. Donata Marletta
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Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Catania, 95131 Catania, Italy
Interests: molecular genetics; milk proteins; goat; donkey
Dr. Pablo Orozco-terWengel
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School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Sir Martin Evans Building, Museum Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3AX, UK
Interests: population genetics; genomics; conservation; evolution; phylogenetics; bioinformatics
Dr. Kwan-Suk Kim
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Department of Animal Sciences, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk 28644, Korea
Interests: local animal diversity and conservation; genetic adaptation; convergent evolution; marker-assisted selection
Prof. Dr. Cedric Gondro
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Department of Animal Science,College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Interests: computational methods for biology; statistical analysis of high-throughput genomic data; evolution; animal genetics
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Dr. Krzysztof Flisikowski
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TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Interests: animal genetics; genetically modified pigs; cancer research; tumour suppressors and oncogenes
Prof. Dr. Gunnar Klemetsdal
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Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Aas, Norway
Interests: quantitative genetics; feed efficiency; inbreeding
Dr. Oscar Cortes
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Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Interests: animal genetics; conservation genetics; population genetics; genomics; livestock domestication; farm animal genetic resources
Dr. Maria Teresa Sardina
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Dipartimento Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Forestali, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Interests: animal breeding and genetics; molecolar genetics and genomics; Copy Number Variation; pedigree reconstruction
Dr. Phillip Sponenberg
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Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Interests: conservation; domesticated animals; breeds; livestock genetics; animal production systems
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Dr. Javier Cañón
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Departamento de Producción Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avenida Puerta de Hierro, s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: animal genetic diversity; beef cattle genetic improvement
Prof. Dr. Frédéric Farnir
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Fundamental and Applied Research in Animal and Health (FARAH) Department of Veterinary Management of Animal Resources, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liege, Liege 4000, Belgium
Interests: genomics; modelling; QTL mapping; breeding value estimation
Dr. Malcolm D. Schug
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Department of Biology, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27412, USA
Interests: evolutionary ecology and genetics; behavior; life history; population genetics; biogeography
Prof. Dr. Zissis Mamuris
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Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Thessaly, 41221 Larissa, Greece
Interests: population genetics; biodiversity; evolution; molecular markers; animal genomics
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Dr. Sang Hong Lee
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Australian Centre for Precision Health, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Interests: GWAS; SNPs; genomic prediction; GxE; reaction norm; GREML; GBLUP; linear mixed models
Dr. Esmaeil Ebrahimie
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School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Interests: bioinformatics; genomics; machine learning; microbiome
Prof. Dr. Juha Kantanen
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Production Systems, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), 31600 Jokioinen, Finland
Interests: animal genetic resources; breed, conservation genetics; domestication; domestic animals; gene expression; genomics; population genetics
Dr. Pilar Hernandez
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Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Interests: meat quality; lipid metabolism; fatty acids; genetics
Dr. Abdelhabib Semlali
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Groupe de Recherche en Écologie Buccale, Faculté de Médecin Dentaire, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
Interests: genetic of cancer; gene expression; epigenetic modification; polymorphism; tissue engineering; cell signaling
Dr. Mekonnen Haile-Mariam
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Agriculture Victoria Research, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, 5 Ring Road, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia
Interests: genomic prediction for milk yield traits
Dr. Yuliaxis Ramayo-Caldas
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Animal Breeding and Genetics Program, Institute for Research and Technology in Food and Agriculture (IRTA), Torre Marimon, 08140, Caldes de Montbui, Catalonia, Spain
Interests: genetics; genomics; transcriptomics; metagenomics; computational biology; systems biology
Dr. Catarina Ginja
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Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Vairão, Portugal
Interests: population genetics; conservation genetics; phylochronology; archaeogenetics; domestication; animal improvement; farm animal genetic diversity; Y-chromosome; mitogenomes; ancient DNA
Dr. Isabel Cervantes
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Departamento de Producción Animal, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avda. Puerta de Hierro s/n, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: conservation and breeding programs; breeding value prediction; population genetic structure; genetic robustness; horse breeding and selection
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Dr. Maria Luisa Dettori
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Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sassari, via Vienna 2, 07100 Sassari, Italy
Interests: fatty acids; milk composition; animal production; casein gene cluster; goat, sheep; growth hormone; polymorphism; ovine milk; milk coagulation property; cheese-making property; duplicate GH gene; renneting properties; goat milk; alpha-lactalbumin; autochthonous goat; haplotypes; single nucleotide polymorphism; Mediterranean breeds; Alpine breeds; fat; protein; casein; casein number; growth hormone receptor; association analysis
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Prof. Dr. Félix Goyache
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Centro de Biotecnología Animal, Gijon, Spain
Interests: conservation of animal genetic resources; diversity; selection signatures; genealogies; effective size; domestication; genetic parameters; fitness; phylogeography
Dr. Armin Schmitt
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Breeding Informatics Group, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Göttingen, 37075 Göttingen, Germany
Interests: genomics; breeding informatics; big data; biostatistics; bioinformatics; evolution
Dr. Noelia Ibáñez-Escriche
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Institute for Animal Science and Technology, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Interests: cuantitative genetics; animal breeding; bayesian statistics; genetics; genomics analysis; GWAS; genomic selection
Dr. Mauro Penasa
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Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, 35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy
Interests: quantitative genetics; genomics; biostatistics; dairy production; milk quality; functional traits; milk coagulation properties; phenotyping; crossbreeding
Prof. Dr. Martino Cassandro
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Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), Università di Padova, Viale dell’Università 16, 35020 Legnaro, Italy
Interests: dairy cattle; economic values; genetic improvement; animal products; livestock biodiversity; genetic traceability
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Prof. Dr. Gustavo Gandini
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Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Interests: farm animal genetic resources; biodiversity conservation; animal genetics; animal ethics; urban wildlife
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Prof. Dr. Roberto Rasero
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Department of Veterinary Science (DSV), University of Turin, Largo Paolo Braccini 2, 10095 Turin, Italy
Interests: animal breeding and genetics; conservation genetics; livestock; molecular markers
Dr. Christopher Ashwell
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Department of Poultry Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Interests: genomics; epigenetics; poultry; quantitative trait loci (QTL)
Dr. Jorge Hugo Calvo
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Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón, Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón (IA2), CITA–Zaragoza University, 50059 Zaragoza, Spain
Interests: genomics; transcriptomics; metagenomics; animal science; system biology; gastrointestinal parasites
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Prof. Dr. Riccardo Negrini
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Istituto di Zootecnica, Facoltà di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Ambientali, Università Cattolica del S.Cuore, 29100 Piacenza, Italy
Interests: genetic diversity; domestic breeds; genetic improvement of livestock
Prof. Dr. Juan Pablo Gutierrez
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Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Veterinary, ComplutenseUniversity of Madrid, Avda. Puerta de Hierro s/n, E-28040-Madrid, Spain
Interests: quantitative genetics; animal breeding; genomic selection; conservation genetics; population genetics; genetic diversity; sheep; cattle; alpaca; mice; horse
Prof. Dr. Ralf Einspanier
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Institute of Veterinary Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Interests: expression profiling/RNA; genetically modified food/feed; veterinary disease diagnostics; animal cell culture systems; proteome profiling; animal cellular communication
Dr. Bianca Castiglioni
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology, National Research Council of Italy, Lodi, Italy
Interests: dairy microbiome (milk and cheese microbiome); metagenomics and molecular investigation for food quality and safety; development of molecular diagnostic tools (PCR, multiplex PCR, Real-time PCR, Digital PCR) for food safety of animal products
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Prof. Dr. Nicolas Gengler

TERRA Research Centre, University of Liège-Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium
Interests: management of dairy cows; milk; data modelling; dairy Science; “big data” in animal productio; on-farm measurement; environmental and efficiency traits
Prof. Dr. Ana M. González-Tizón
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Departamento de Biología and Centro de Investigaciones Científicas Avanzadas (CICA), Universidade da Coruña, 15071, A Coruña, Spain
Interests: cytogenetics; chromosomes; conservation; crustacean; molluscs
Dr. Maria Munoz
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Mejora Genética Animal, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agrarias, Carretera de la Coruña km 7.5, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: transcriptomics; genomics; Iberian pig; heat stress; meat quality; metagenomics; metabolomics
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Dr. Pietro Parma
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Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences - Production, Landscape, Agroenergy, Milan University, Via Celoria, 2 - 20133 Milan, Italy
Interests: citogenetics; chromosome; sex determination; sry; sox; robertsonian traslocation; animal genetics
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Dr. Md Ezharul Hoque
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Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, Jalan Lagoon Selatan, Bandar Sunway, Petaling Jaya 47500, Malaysia
Interests: animal model; nanoparticle synthesis; transfection; mouse model
Prof. Dr. Ed Smith
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Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Interests: avian genomes; bird; single nucleotide polymorphisms; chicken genomics and development; genome sequence; phenotypic variations; Turkey
Dr. Cristina Sartori
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Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals & Environment, Università di Padova, Legnaro, PD, Italy
Interests: animal breeding; quantitative genetics; selection response; evolutionary biology; animal behaviour; functional traits; genetic diversity; horse; cattle; small populations
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Prof. Dr. Juan J. Loor
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Mammalian NutriPhysioGenomics, Department of Animal Sciences and Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Interests: adipose; amino acids; lactation; lipids; liver; methyl donors; microbiota; nutrition
Prof. Dr. Changxi Li
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Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Interests: Identification and characterization of genes for economically important traits including growth, feed efficiency, fat deposition, carcass merit traits, and beneficial fatty acids in beef cattle; investigation of functions of DNA polymorphisms and elucidation of genetic mechanisms regulating growth, feed efficiency and fat deposition in beef cattle; development of genomic tools to enable the beef industry to improve the above mentioned traits through genomic selection and genome assisted management
Dr. Robert Li
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USDA ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, MD, USA
Interests: gut microbiome in nutrition; development; and host-pathogen interactions; metagenomics and microbiome; next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics; bacterial and viral infections
Dr. Andrew C. Gill
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School of Chemistry, Joseph Banks Laboratories, University of Lincoln, Green Lane, Lincoln, Lincolnshire LN6 7DL, UK
Interests: protein structure; proteomics; metabolomics; biochemistry; neurodegeneration; host-pathogen interactions; prion diseases
Dr. Montse Pérez
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Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo, Madrid, Spain
Interests: aquaculture; genetics; parentage; traceability; molecular identification; Taxonomy; gene expression
Dr. Riccardo Bozzi
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Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agrarie, Alimentari, Ambientali e Forestali, Università di Firenze, 50144 Firenze, Italy
Interests: animal breeding; genomics; meat quality; beef cattle; local breeds; precision livestock farming; pigs; heat stress; NIRS
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