Section Editors

Section Board for 'Pigs' (23)

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Dr. Gareth Pearce
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Section Editor-in-Chief
Animal Health and Welfare Group, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ES, UK
Interests: animal health; animal welfare; farm animals; aquatic animals; social networks; sensor technology
Dr. Bruce Mullan
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Principal Research Scientist, Livestock Research and Industry Innovation, Primary Industries Development, Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, 1 Nash Street, Perth WA 6100, Australia
Interests: pig nutrition; pig management; sheep production; value chains; agricultural management; research management; project management; coaching young scientists
Dr. Clemente López-Bote
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Departamento de Producción Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: swine; nutrition; meat quality; lipids; oxidative stress
Dr. Juan Florenñcio Tejeda Sereno
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Institute of Agronomy, University of Extremadura, Afda. Adolfo Suárez s/n, 06007 Badajoz,Spain
Interests: pig; meat; lipids; extensive system; feeding; quality; dry-cured products
Dr. Raul Carlos Mainar-Jaime
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Departamento de Patología Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón-IA2 (Universidad de Zaragoza-CITA), Zaragoza, Spain
Interests: bacterial zoonoses; epidemiology; animal health; public health; antibiotic resistance; swine; salmonellosis; disease control
Prof. Dr. Mª Dolores Garrido
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Department of Food Science and Technology, Veterinary Faculty, University of Murcia, 30071 Murcia, Espinardo, Spain
Interests: meat; meat productos; quality; shelf life; technology process; boar taint
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Dr. Darryl D’Souza
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SunPork Solutions, SunPork Group, Eagle Farm, QLD 4009, Australia
Interests: pigs; processing; meat quality; production; nutrition; management
Prof. Dr. Hyeun Bum Kim
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Department of Animal Resources Science, Dankook University, Cheonan 31116, Korea
Interests: poultry; pig; Veterinary microorganisms; immune response
Prof. Dr. Timothy Safranski
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Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65221, USA
Interests: reproductive management; heat stress; gilt development; piglet survival; sperm production and quality
Dr. Fabio Ostanello
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Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Bologna, Ozzano dell'Emilia, BO, Italy
Interests: swine; hepatitis E virus (and / or HEV); epidemiology; veterinary public health; infectious diseases; diagnosis
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Prof. Dr. Chris Van Ginneken
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Laboratory of Applied Veterinary Morphology, Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
Interests: pig; rearing strategies; gut health; perinatal physiology
Prof. Dr. Isabel Henning-Pauka
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Field Station for Epidemiology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Buescheler Straße 9, 49456 Bakum, Germany
Interests: swine; porcine infectious diseases; porcine herd health management; vaccination in swine; pork production
Dr. M. Ángeles Latorre
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Departamento de Producción Animal y Ciencia de los Alimentos, Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón-IA2 (Universidad de Zaragoza-CITA), 50013 Zaragoza, Spain
Interests: animal science; pig husbandry; swine nutrition; meat quality
Prof. Dr. Robert M Friendship
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Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Interests: swine health management; disease surveillance; pre-harvest aspects of food safety; sow reproduction
Prof. Dr. Takeshige Otoi
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Laboratory of Animal Reproduction, Faculty of Bioscience and Bioindustry (Ishii campus), Tokushima University, Ishii, Myozai-gun, Tokushima 779-3233, Japan
Interests: in vitro fertilization; genome editing
Prof. Dr. Maria Laura Bacci
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Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Bologna, 40064 Ozzano dell’Emilia (BO), Italy
Interests: swine; physiology; endocrinology; reproduction; welfare; reproductive biotechnology; transgenesis
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Prof. Dr. John J. McGlone
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Departments of Animal and Food Science and Animal Care Services, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
Interests: behavior; neuroscience; welfare; immunology; stress physiology and behavior; pheromones in pigs and other animals
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Dr. Jesús Hernández
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Centro de Investigacion en Alimentacion y Desarrollo, Sonora, Mexico
Interests: swine infectious diseases; immunology; flow cytometry cytokines; T Lymphocytes; dendritic cells
Prof. Dr. Inger Lise Andersen
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Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1433 As, Norway
Interests: social behaviour; maternal behaviour; behavioural indicators of welfare; environmental enrichment; behavioural needs; pre and postnatal stress; behavioural development; design of future farming solutions based on animal needs
Dr. John-Erik Haugen
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NOFIMA-Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research, P.O. Box 210, N-1431 Ås, Norway
Interests: chemical analysis methods; meat quality (i.e. animal derived food); flavor chemistry (including also sensory science); lipids and lipid oxidation; boar taint and rapid detection methods
Prof. Dr. Augusta Zannoni
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Department of Veterinary Medical Science, University of Bologna, Via Tolara di Sopra, 50-40064 Ozzano Emilia (BO), Italy
Interests: physiology; inflammation; gene expression; in vivo model; in vitro model; angiogenesis; mesenchimal stem cells; endothelial cells; intestine.
Prof. Dr. Steven van Cruchten
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Comparative Perinatal Development, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Biomedical, Pharmaceutical and Veterinary Sciences, University of Antwerp, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
Interests: pig; translational; pediatrics; neonatal; pharmaceuticals
Prof. Dr. Yulong Yin
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Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China
Interests: pig nutrition; pig health; nutrient metabolism; nutrition absorption
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