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Section Board for 'Cattle' (36)

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Prof. Dr. Marina Von Keyserlingk
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Section Editor-in-Chief
UBC Animal Welfare Program, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, 2357 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Interests: animal welfare; behavior; farm animals; ethology
Dr. Bradley J. Heins
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Department of Animal Science, University of Minnesota, Morris, MN 56267, USA
Interests: organic dairy production systems; crossbreeding; renewable energy systems for dairy farms; integrated crop–livestock systems
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Dr. Irina Garcia Ispierto
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Agrotecnio Center, Animal Science Department ETSEA, University of Lleida, 25198 Lleida, Spain
Interests: bovine reproduction; ecography; sincronization; fertility; pregnancy loss; twin pregnancy and post-partum; Coxiella burnetti and Neospora caninum in dairy cattle
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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
Dr. Maya Zachut
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Department of Ruminant Science, Institute of Animal Sciences, Agriculture Research Organization, Volcani Center, Rishon Lezion 7505101, Israel
Interests: physiology of dairy cows; metabolic and environmental stressors; proteomic analysis and stress biomarkers; adipose tissue inflammation and endocannabinoids
Prof. Dr. Alfonso Zecconi
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Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences One Health Unit, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 10, 20133 Milan, Italy
Interests: epidemiological studies on risk factors for mastitis (clinical and subclinical); epidemiological studies on risk factors for Bovine Viral Diarrhoea virus and Johne’s disease; development of an immunological model to assess immune status of the cows at blood and milk level; assessment of the relationship between machine-induced teat tissue changes and mastitis incidence; characterization of S.aureus and relationship with the virulence of different strains; development of dairy herd health management programs in association with prudent use of antimicrobials
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Dr. Rafael S. Bisinotto
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Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
Interests: reproduction; dairy cattle; pregnancy; embryo; uterus; ovary; steroid; uterine disease; reproductive behavior
Dr. Sébastien Buczinski
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Département des sciences cliniques, Faculté de médecine vétérinaire, Université de Montréal, Saint‐Hyacinthe, QC, Canada
Interests: dairy calves health; bovine respiratory disease; veal calves health; diagnostic tests; latent class analysis; bayesian modeling; data visualization
Dr. Johann KOFLER
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University Clinic for Ruminants, Department of Farm Animals and Veterinary Public Health, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, 1210 Vienna, Austria
Interests: cattle; lameness; musculoskeletal ultrasonography; claw diseases; bovine orthopedic disorders; bovine orthopedic surgery; digital dermatitis; hoof trimming
Dr. Sigrid Lehnert
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Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Agriculture and Food, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Interests: genomics; gene expression; reproduction; cow fertility; tropical cattle
Prof. Dr. Marta I. Miranda Castañón
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Departamento de Anatomía, Producción Animal y Ciencias Clínicas Veterinarias, 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. Claudio Cipolat-Gotet
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Department of Veterinary Science, University of Parma, Via del Taglio 10, 43126 Parma, Italy
Interests: dairy cattle; milk quality; milk coagulation properties; cheese-making; infrared spectroscopy
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Prof. Dr. George F. W. Haenlein
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Department of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
Interests: sheep milk; dairy goat farming; dairy cattle
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Dr. Emma Bleach
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Department of Animal Production, Welfare and Veterinary Sciences, Harper Adams University, Newport TF10 8NB, UK
Interests: dairy cow; follicle; oestrus; calf; growth; health; endocrine; ultrasound
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Dr. Mark McGee
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Teagasc, Livestock Systems Department, Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Grange, Dunsany, Co. Meath, Ireland
Interests: ruminant nutrition; feed efficiency; suckler beef cattle production
Prof. Dr. Masahito Oba
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Department of Agricultural Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2P5, Canada
Interests: dairy; ruminant nutrition; metabolism; feed evaluation
Prof. Dr. Ton Baars
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Department Immunopharmacology, Utrecht University, 3508 TD Utrecht, The Netherlands
Interests: raw milk; animal welfare; milk and human health
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Prof. Dr. Zhijun Cao
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Dr. Antonio Humberto Hamad Minervino
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Laboratory of Animal Health (LARSANA) Federal University of Western Pará (UFOPA), 68040-255 Santarém, Brazil
Interests: animal physiology and nutrition; animal parasitology; ticks and tick-borne diseases
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Prof. Dr. Cristina Castillo Rodríguez
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Departamento de Patoloxía Animal, Facultade de Veterinaria, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 27002 Lugo, Spain
Interests: ruminants; oxidative stress; nutrition metabolism; sustainable farming; intensive production
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Dr. Karen Goossens
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Animal Sciences Unit, Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO), Scheldeweg, 9090 Melle, Belgium
Interests: rumen microbiota; methane emission; dairy cattle; ruminant nutrition
Dr. Nuria Prieto Benavides
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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | AAFC, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Interests: meat quality; high-throughout technologies; chemometrics; sensory evaluation; flavourchemistry
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Prof. Dr. Walter Lilenbaum
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Veterinary Bacteriology Lab, Biomedical Institute, Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro 24210-130, Brazil
Interests: microbiology; infectious diseases; leptospirosis
Prof. Dr. Ted Friend
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Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, 3785 W. Villa Maria Rd., Bryan, TX 77807, USA
Interests: animal wellbeing; equine; cattle; calves; performing animals; elephants; tigers
Dr. Monique Rijnkels
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Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Interests: lactation; mammary gland; genomics; epigenetics; development; milk; dairy cattle
Dr. Mirco Corazzin
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Department of Agri-Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, Via delle Scienze 206, 33100 Udine, Italy
Interests: animal production; dairy science; meat science; pasture management
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Prof. Dr. Junichi Takahashi
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School of Animal and Food Hygiene, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro 080-8555, Japan
Interests: rumen manipulation; nitrate-nitrite poisoning in ruminant animals; animal energy metabolism
Dr. Edouard Timsit
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1. Ceva Sante Animal, R&D pharma innovation, Libourne, France
2. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
3. College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Interests: production animal health; immunology and infectious disease; wpidemiology; bovine respiratory disease
Prof. Dr. D. Claire Wathes
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Department of Pathobiology and Population Sciences, The Royal Veterinary College, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK
Interests: ruminant reproduction
Prof. Dr. Alan Fredeen
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Department of Plant and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Agricultural Campus, Dalhousie University, Truro, NS B2N 5E3, Canada
Interests: sustainable dairy systems; pasture-based milk production
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Dr. Richard Laven
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IVABS, Massey University, Palmerston North 5321, New Zealand
Interests: cattle; lameness; welfare; reproduction; mastitis; micronutrients
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Dr. Natalia Elguezabal
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Animal Health Department, NEIKER-Instituto Vasco de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario. Derio, E-48160 Bizkaia, Spain
Interests: innate immune response; vaccines; probiotics; passive immunity transfer; antibody therapy; diet
Dr. Cristina Lecchi
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Dipartimento Di Medicina Veterinaria, Università Degli Studi Di Milano, Milan, Italy
Interests: ruminant; molecular pathology; biomarkers; acute phase proteins; microRNA; immune response; monocytes
Dr. Johannes Charlier
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Kreavet, Hendrik Mertensstraat 17, Kruibeke, 9150 Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Interests: the diagnosis; epidemiology and economics of helminth infections in ruminants; gastrointestinal nematodes in cattle
Prof. Dr. Pablo Diaz
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INVESAGA Group, Department of Animal Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary, University of Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Spain
Interests: parasitology; ruminants; cryptosporidium; giardia; eimeria; rumen flukes; epidemiology; wildlife; ticks; tick-borne diseases
Prof. Dr. Søren Nielsen
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Animal Welfare and Disease Control, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Københavns Universitet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Interests: epidemiology; antimicrobial resistance; animal welfare; Paratuberculosis; cattle; Infectious Diseases
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