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Section Board for 'Animal Nutrition' (84)

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Prof. Dr. Sven Dänicke
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Section Editor-in-Chief
Institute of Animal Nutrition, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute (FLI), Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Brunswick, Germany
Interests: dairy cow nutrition and metabolism, mycotoxins
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Prof. Dr. Mariangela Caroprese
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Section Associate Editor
Department of Agricultural Food and Environmental Sciences (SAFE), University of Foggia, Via Napoli 25, 71122 Foggia, Italy
Interests: ruminant welfare; veterinary immunology; oxidative state of ewes; effects of heat stress and feeding strategies on ruminant welfare and production; effects of algae and PUFAs in the diet on ruminant immune responses and milk production
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Dr. Angela Schwarm
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Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, P.O. Box 5003, 1432 Ås, Norway
Interests: ruminant nutrition; ruminal digestion; feed efficiency; mitigating methane emissions; immune response
Dr. Qi Wang
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Guelph Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Guelph, ON N1G 5C9, Canada
Interests: antibiotic alternatives; microencapsulation; delivery technology; carbohydrate analysis; dietary fiber
Dr. Rafat A.M. Al-Jassim
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Centre for Animal Science, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) level 2 Queensland Bioscience Precinct (Building 80), The University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072, Australia
Interests: animal nutrition; ruminants; equine; camelids; gut microbiology; animal systems
Prof. Dr. Martina Pérez Serrano
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Department of Producción Agraria, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Interests: poultry; pig; product quality; deer antler
Dr. Myunggi Baik
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Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea
Interests: ruminant nutrition; functional genomics; nutrigenomics; stress and welfare; intramuscular fat deposition and beef quality; methane mitigation
Prof. Dr. Xiangfeng Kong
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Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China
Interests: swine nutrition; feed additives; amino acid; gut health; gut microorganism
Prof. Dr. Pekka Huhtanen
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Department of Agricultural Research for Northern Sweden, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden
Interests: ruminant; digestion and passage kinetic; feed intake; protein metabolism in dairy cows; methane emissions; feed efficiency; modelling; forage evaluation
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Windisch
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TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Interests: feed additives; (trace) mineral metabolism; animal nutrition
Dr. Ellen S. Dierenfeld
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LLC & School of Animal, Rural & Environmental Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Brackenhurst Campus, Southwell, UK
Interests: comparative animal nutrition
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Dr. Ajmal Khan
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Animal Nutrition and Physiology, AgResearch Limited, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
Interests: calf nutrition; ruminant nutrition; animal physiology; dairy cattle; animal welfare; feed additives; livestock IOT; precision feeding
Dr. Massimo Trabalza-Marinucci
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Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Perugia, Via San Costanzo 4, 06126 Perugia, Italy
Interests: animal feeding; digestive metabolism; rumen ecosystem; functional feeds; essential oils; polyphenols; nutraceutics; small ruminants; chickens
Prof. Dr. Jarmo Valaja
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Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Interests: poultry nutrition; broiler nutrition
Prof. Dr. In Ho Kim
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Department of Animal Resource & Science, Dankook University No.29 Anseodong, Cheonan, Korea
Interests: swine nutrition; liquid feeding program; feed additive; dietary probiotic blend
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Dr. Raffaella Rossi
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Department of Veterinary Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Lodi, Italy
Interests: animal nutrition; monogastric species; nutrition, meat and product quality; sensory analysis of animal products; oxidative stress and animal welfare; natural antioxidants
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Dr. Donald C Beitz
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Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
Interests: animal nutrition; the etiology and prevention of ketosis in dairy cows; animal-derived foods; the biochemistry and physiology of nutrition; the etiology and prevention of fatty liver and ketosis in dairy cattle; dietary and chemical control of production of greenhouse gases by livestock
Dr. Igino Andrighetto
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Dipartimento di Medicina Animale, Produzioni e Salute, Università degli Studi di Padova, 35020 Legnaro, Italy
Interests: ruminant feed science; livestock management; silage quality; dairy productions; beef cattle & meat production
Dr. Kyle Mcleod
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Department of Animal and Food Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
Interests: ruminant nutrition; cattle nutrition; cattle growth
Prof. Dr. Eduarda Molina-Alcaide
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Department of Physiology and Biochemistry of Animal Nutrition, Estación Experimental del Zaidin (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), C/ ProfesorAlbareda 1, 18008 Granada, Spain
Interests: proteins; animal production; animal nutrition; digestive physiology; ruminant nutrition; feed evaluation
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Dr. Javier Álvarez-Rodríguez
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Departament of Animal Science, University of Lleida, Av. Rovira Roure 191, 25198 Lleida, Spain
Interests: animal nutrition; feed; meat quality
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Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Moniello

Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sassari, Via Vienna 2, 07100 Sassari, Italy
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Dr. Gonzalo Hervás
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Instituto de Ganadería de Montaña, CSIC-Universidad de León, Finca Marzanas s/n, 24346 Leon, Grulleros, Spain
Interests: ruminant nutrition; feed evaluation; milk production; dairy; lipid metabolims; tannins; nutrigenomics
Prof. Dr. Werner G. Bergen
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Department of Animal Sciences, College of Agriculture, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849-5415, USA
Interests: lipid metabolism; protein/rumen metabolism; amino acids and protein quality; protein synthesis and turnover; large animal molecular biology; energy metabolism; intramuscular fat biology
Dr. Tryon Wickersham
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Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Interests: cattle; ruminant nutrition; protein; sustainability; urea; intake; digestion
Prof. Dr. Klaus Eder
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Institute of Animal Nutrition and Nutrition Physiology, Giessen University, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, 35392 Giessen, Germany
Interests: animal nutrition; inflammation; polyphenols; insect meal; metabolism; antioxidant system
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Dr. Chaouki Benchaar
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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Sherbrooke Research and Development Centre, 2000 College street, Sherbrooke, QC J1M 0C8, Canada
Interests: feed additives; plant extract in ruminants (dairy cow) nutrition; enteric methane production in ruminants (dairy cow); nitrogen excretion and utilization in ruminants (dairy cow); feed efficiency and milk production in ruminants (dairy cow)
Prof. Dr. James Matthews
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Department of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546, USA
Interests: selenium metabolism; proteins in ruminants; nutritional physiology
Dr. Dennis E. Jewell
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Department of Grain Science and Industry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
Interests: canine; feline; nutrition; lipid metabolism
Dr. Eric Nanthan Ponnampalam
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Animal Production Sciences, Agriculture Victoria Research, Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Interests: sustainable agriculture; feeding systems; utilisation of forages and supplements; meat production; nutritional value of meat; market requirements; consumer satisfaction
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Dr. Alan Kelly
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College of Health and Agricultural Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Interests: beef production systems; nutritional physiology; feed efficiency; early life calf developmental programming
Dr. Mark D. Finke
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Mark Finke LLC, 17028 E Wildcat Dr, Rio Verde, AZ 85263, USA
Interests: nutrition; entomology; companion animals (dogs and cats) nutrition; comparative nutrition
Dr. Florian Leiber
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Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau, Frick, Switzerland
Interests: Organic livestock; ruminant nutrition; pasture management; feed sustainability; roughages; forages; plant secondary metabolites; feed diversity; alternative proteins; organic poultry
Prof. Dr. Jörg R. Aschenbach
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Institute of Veterinary Physiology, Free University of Berlin, 14163 Berlin, Germany
Interests: ruminant nutrition; metabolism; physiology
Dr. Susana Alves
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Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade de Lisboa, Avenida da Universidade Técnica, 1300-477 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: animal nutrition; meat quality; fatty acid; lipid metabolism
Dr. Takehiro Nishida
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Department of Life and Food Sciences, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido 080-8555, Japan
Interests: animal nutrition; sustainable animal husbandry; global environment problems
Dr. Martin Lessard
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Sherbrooke Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Sherbrooke, QC J1M 0C8, Canada
Interests: animal nutrition; functional foods and probiotics; immunology; inflammation; intestinal health; microbiota; pigs
Dr. Lorenzo E. Hernández Castellano
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Institute of Animal Health and Food Safety, Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35413 Arucas, Spain
Interests: nutrition and lactation physiology; colostrum feeding and immune system development; mammary gland physiology; metabolic diseases; ruminal acidosis; ketosis; hypocalcemia; novel proteomics approaches; dairy cows; newborn ruminants; sheep; goats
Dr. Chanhee Lee
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Department of Animal Sciences, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH 44691, USA
Interests: dairy cows; beef cattle; nutrient management
Prof. Dr. João Pedro Bengala Freire
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Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Tapada da Ajuda 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: swine nutrition; growth; digestive physiology; metabolism; alternative raw materials
Prof. Dr. Joris Michiels
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Laboratory of Animal Nutrition and Animal Product Quality (LANUPRO), Department of Animal Sciences and Aquatic Ecology, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Interests: weanling piglet; broilers; gut health; feed additives; amino acids; heat stress
Dr. Ignacio Badiola
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Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA)-Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), Campus de la Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés (Barcelona), Spain
Interests: agricultural and food safety economics; intestinal microbiota; synbiotics; gastrointestine
Dr. Dana Stanley
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Institute for Future Farming Systems, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, QLD 4702, Australia
Interests: NGS; microbial ecology; transcriptomics; microbiome
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Dr. Carrie L. Walk
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DSM Nutritional Products, Animal Nutrition and Health, Wurmisweg 576, 4303 Kaiseraugst, Switzerland
Interests: broiler; pig; minerals; enzymes; feed additives; coccidiosis; digestibility
Dr. Anna Maria Pérez-Vendrell
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Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology (IRTA Mas Bové), Animal Nutrition Department, 43120 Constanti, Spain
Interests: enzymes; poultry; in-feed methods of analysis; nutritive value; mycotoxins; feed additives
Dr. Manuel Fondevila
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Departamento de Producción Animal y Ciencia de los Alimentos, Instituto Agronómico de Aragón (IA2), Universidad de Zaragoza, Calle Miguel Servet 177, 50013 Zaragoza, Spain
Interests: feed evaluation; microbial fermentation; digestive utilisation; ruminants; pigs; in vitro
Prof. Dr. Eugeni Roura
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Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia 4072, Australia
Interests: digestive physiology; pigs; chickens; nutritional chemosensing; taste Receptors; appetite/feed intake
Prof. Dr. Beob Gyun Kim
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Department of Animal Science and Technology, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Korea
Interests: swine nutrition; trace minerals; enzyme additives; amino acids; novel feed ingredients
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Prof. Dr. Grazia Pastorelli
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Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Milano, Via dell’Università 6, 26900 Lodi, Italy
Interests: animal nutrition; pig welfare; oxidative stress; feed additives; botanicals; meat quality
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Prof. Dr. Kyoung Hoon Kim
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Department of Ecofriendly Livestock Science, Institute of Green Bio Science and Technology, Seoul National University, Pyeongchang 25354, Gangwon-do, Korea
Interests: feef cattle; energy mtabolism; intramuscular fat; feed evaluation; methane mitigation; rumen microbiome
Prof. Dr. Marian Czauderna
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The Kielanowski Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jablonna, Poland
Interests: animal nutrition; ruminant physiology; functional foods; selenium physiology; essential elements; conjugated fatty acid analyses; gas and liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; nuclear activation analysis; gamma spectrometry
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Prof. Dr. Ilias Giannenas
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Laboratory of Nutrition, School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece
Interests: antioxidants; dietary supplements; poultry nutrition
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Dr. Hong-Gu Lee
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Department of Animal Science and Technology, Sanghuh College of Life Sciences, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Korea
Interests: ruminant; nutrition and physiology; nutrigenomics; heat stress; milk protein; meat quality; milk quality; lipide metabolism; protein metabolism
Dr. Sonia Andrés Llorente
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Instituto de Ganadería de Montaña (CSIC-Universidad de León), Finca Marzanas, E-24346 Grulleros, León, Spain
Interests: feed efficiency; meat quality; -omics; animal production; immunology
Dr. F. Javier Giráldez
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Department of Nutrition and Production of Herbivores, Instituto de Ganadería de Montaña (IGM, CSIC-Universidad de León), Grulleros, Leon, Spain
Interests: ruminant feeding; feed efficiency and milk yield and composition; Strategies to improve animal welfare and resilience and reduce labor; energy use; and environmental impact on dairy farms
Prof. Dr. Cristina Saro
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IGM - Instituto de Ganadería de Montana, University of Leon, Leon, Spain
Interests: rumen; microbiota
Prof. Dr. Michael Y. Roleda
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Department of Botany, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Interests: algal stress physiology; applied phycology; biodiversity; cultivation; ecophysiology; photobiology
Prof. Dr. Carlo Corino
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Department of Veterinary Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Lodi, Italy
Interests: animal nutrition; nutrition and immunity; nutrition and meat quality; meat quality; monogastric nutrition; pig nutrition; fats and CLA in pig nutrition
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Dr. Robert Pieper
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Head of Unit Feed and Feed Additives, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany
Interests: animal nutrition; feed evaluation; feed and food safety; feed additives; contaminants; gut microbiota/host interaction
Dr. Massimo Todaro
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Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Forestali, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Interests: cheese; milk quality
Dr. Gabriel De La Fuente
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Department of Animal Science, University of Lleida, 25198 Lleida, Spain
Interests: microbial ecology; ruminant nutrition; control of greenhouse gases; precision feeding
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Dr. Alessandro Dal Bosco
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Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Science, University of Perugia, Borgo XX Giugno 74, 06100 Perugia, Italy
Interests: poultry meat quality; rearing systems; welfare; sustainability
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Dr. Raffaella Tudisco
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Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Production, University of Napoli Federico II, 80100 Naples, Italy
Interests: animal nutrition; nutrigenomics
Prof. Dr. Federico Infascelli
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Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Production, University of Napoli Federico II, 80137 Napoli, Italy
Interests: animal nutrition
Dr. Jeremy Cottrell
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School of Agriculture and Food, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Interests: physiology and nutrition of production animals; pig; chicken
Dr. Cormac O'Shea
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School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Loughborough, UK
Interests: nutrition; physiology; microbiology; inflammation; environment
Dr. Margalida Joy Torren
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Animal production and health, Agrifood Research and Technology Centre of Aragon, Av. Montañana 930, 50059 Zaragoza, Spain
Interests: animal production; animal nutrition; lipid metabolism
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Prof. Dr. Laura Gasco
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Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (DISAFA), University of Turin, Largo Paolo Braccini 2, Grugliasco, 10095 Turin, Italy
Interests: aquaculture; rabbit and poultry breeding; alternative protein sources; insects as feed; fish, rabbit and poultry nutrition; animal product quality
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Prof. Dr. Kendall Swanson
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Department of Animal Science, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58102, USA
Interests: beef cattle production; feedlot nutrition; cow/calf nutrition; ruminant nutritional physiology; energy and protein metabolism; pancreatic function; developmental programming
Prof. Dr. Johann Detilleux
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Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liege, Boulevard de Colonster 20, B-4000 Liege, Belgium
Interests: epidemiology; animal breeding; mathematical modeling and statistics; insects in feed
Dr. Antonio Gallo
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Department of Animal Science, Food and Nutrition (DIANA), Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 29122 Piacenza, Italy
Interests: dairy animal nutrition; feed evaluation; feed safety; digestion; silages; mathematical modeling; system dynamic modelling; multivariate statistics; decision support system
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Dr. Monica Isabella Cutrignelli
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Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Production, University of Napoli Federico II, 80137 Napoli, Italy
Interests: cow; goats; sheep; nutrition; feedstuffs evaluation; milk yield; milk quality; fatty acids profile; co-products; environmental impact
Dr. Martin Krøyer Rasmussen
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Department of Food Science, Aarhus University, Agro Food Park 48, DK 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
Interests: meat quality; boar taint; gene-expression; hepatocytes; Cytochrome p450; food-drug interactions; in vitro meat; wooden breast; bioactive compounds; bioavailability
Prof. Dr. Marta López Alonso
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Departamento de Patoloxía Animal, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Facultad de Veterinaria, Campus Terra, Lugo, Spain
Interests: cattle; toxic and trace elements; organic farming; conventional farming; cattle medicine
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Dr. Margalida Joy
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Animal production and health, Agrifood Research and Technology Centre of Aragon, Av. Montañana 930, 50059 Zaragoza, Spain
Interests: animal production; animal nutrition; feeding system; feedstuffs; animal product quality
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Dr. Enric Gisbert
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Institut de Recerca I Technologia groalimentaries, Caldes de Montbui, Spain
Interests: aquaculture nutrition
Prof. Dr. Paolo Bosi
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Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Interests: feeding of pigs; weaning; physiology; microbiology; immunity and health of the pig's digestive tract; nutrigenomics of the pig
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Dr. Giacomo Biagi
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Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Bologna, via Tolara di Sopra 50, 40064 Ozzano Emilia (BO), Italy
Interests: animal nutrition; cats; clinical nutrition of dogs and cats; dogs; intestinal microbiota; mycotoxins; pet food safety
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Prof. Dr. José Francisco Pérez
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Department of Animal and Food Science, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Interests: mineral nutrition; metabolic interactions in pigs and birds; piglet feeding; food preference; appetite
Prof. Dr. María Dolores Carro
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Departamento de Producción Agraria, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Agrónomos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: ruminant nutrition; digestive physiology; methane; rumen microbiota; feed additives to modify rumen fermentation; feed evaluation
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Dr. Fernando Vicente Mainar
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Department of Animal Nutrition, Grasslands and Forages, Servicio Regional de Investigación y Desarrollo Agroalimentario (SERIDA), 33300 Villaviciosa, Spain
Interests: dairy cattle nutrition; dairy farm management; environmental impact on dairy farms; organic production; grazing; milk quality; fatty acid
Prof. Dr. Maria Teresa Capucchio
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Department of Veterinary Science, University of Turin, Largo Paolo Braccini 2, 10095 Grugliasco (TO), Italy
Interests: gut health evaluation; morpho-histology; immunohistochemistry; mucin evaluation; neuromuscular diseases; animal model; host/pathogens interactions in comparative medicine
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Dr. Juan José Pascual
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Institute for Animal Science and Technology, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Interests: rabbit reproductive biology
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Prof. Dr. Stefania Silvi
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School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, Via Gentile III da Varano, I-62032 Camerino, MC, Italy
Interests: microbiology; probiotics; prebiotics; probiotic functional food; intestinal microbiota; faecal microbiota; microbial food spoilage; antimicrobial activities; microbial fermentation; food shelf-life
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