Section Editors

Section Board for 'Poultry' (24)

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Prof. Dr. Velmurugu Ravindran
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Section Editor-in-Chief
Animal and Biomedical Sciences, School of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
Interests: poultry nutrition; feed evaluation; amino acid metabolism; minerals; nutrition of young broilers; lipid utilisation; particle size; feed processing technology
Dr. Adam Balic
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Division of Functional Genetics and Development, The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Interests: avian immunology; dendritic cells; macrophages; innate immunity; host-pathogen interactions
Dr. Amit Vikram
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center, NE 68933, USA
Interests: food Safety; food microbiology; bacteriophages; antimicrobial resistance; microbiome and metagenomics
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Dr. Andrew M Janczak
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Department of Production Animal Clinical Science, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo, Norway
Interests: pig immune; behavior; animal welfare; behavioural development; immune system; stress; animal welfare; laying hen; pigs
Prof. Dr. Colin Scanes
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Department of Poultry Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
Interests: poultry science; chicken processing; poultry nutrition; poultry welfare; poultry physiology
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Prof. Dr. Jan Jankowski
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Department of Poultry Science, Faculty of Animal Bioengineering, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Oczapowskiego 5, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland
Interests: poultry nutrition; feedstuffs; gut health; quality of poultry products
Dr. Henry Van Den Brand
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Adaptation Physiology Group, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 338, 6700 AH Wageningen, The Netherlands
Interests: poultry nutrition; poultry welfare; incubation; thermoregulation; poultry management
Prof. Dr. Angela Trocino
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Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science (BCA), University of Padova, Viale dell’Università 16, Legnaro, Padova, Italy
Interests: rearing systems and welfare of growing and reproducing rabbits feeding and nutrition of rabbits feeding and nutrition of broilers myopathies in broiler chickens freshness; nutritional quality and safety of fish
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Dr. Jeffrey Downing
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School of Life and Environmental Science, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Interests: farm animal (especially pig and sheep) reproduction; heat stress in broilers; welfare of laying hens; duck production and welfare; stress in farm animals
Dr. Kapil Chousalkar
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School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Roseworthy Campus, University of Adelaide, Roseworthy SA 5371, Australia
Interests: molecular microbiology; salmonella; poultry diseases; food safety
Prof. Dr. Sylwester Świątkiewicz
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National Research Institute of Animal Production, Department of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science, Krakow, Poland
Interests: poultry nutrition; nutrition and physiology; nutrition and immunity; evaluation of feed materials and additives; minerals; egg quality; poultry meat quality
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Dr. Michael Romanov
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1. K. I. Skryabin Moscow State Academy of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology, 23 Akademika Skryabina St., 109472 Moscow, Russia
2. School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NJ, UK
Interests: avian genomics; avian genetics
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Maiorano
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Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, University of Molise, 86100 Campobasso, Italy
Interests: production and meat quality; intramuscular collagen; lipids; hystology; in ovo technology; small ruminants; pig; poultry
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Dr. Alessandra Piccirillo
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Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padua, 35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy
Interests: poultry; poultry diseases; infectious diseases; zoonoses; public health
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Prof. Dr. Avigdor Cahaner

Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Interests: design of biological & agricultural trials + data collection and analysis; design of genetics & breeding trials + data collection and analysis; poultry genetics; poultry breeding; broilers production under sub-optimal conditions; broilers breeding for sub-optimal conditions; broilers growth and feed efficiency; broilers meat yield and quality
Prof. Dr. Eric R. Benson
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Department of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
Interests: emergency animal management; mass emergency depopulation of poultry; decontamination and disinfection of avian influenza; alternative lighting for animal housing; emergency agricultural remediation; agricultural air quality; applied poultry engineering; applied machine vision and applied controls
Prof. Dr. Peter F. Surai
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Vitagene and Health Research Centre, 53 Dongola Road, Ayr KA7 3BN, Scotland, UK
Interests: vitamin E; Se; carotenoids; carnitine; betaine; vitagenes; stress adaptaion
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Prof. Dr. Steffen Weigend
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Institute of Farm Animal Genetics, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut FLI), Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, 31535 Neustadt-Mariensee, Germany
Interests: poultry; genetics; genetic diversity; molecular markers; phylogenetics
Prof. Dr. Paul A. Iji
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College of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Fiji National University, Koronivia Campus Suva 1544, Fiji
Interests: poultry science; animal nutrition; digestive physiology
Prof. Dr. Alireza Seidavi
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Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, 41335-3516 Rasht, Iran
Interests: animal and poultry nutrition; animal and poultry biotechnology; silkworm (genetics; breeding; nutrition and management)
Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Tufarelli
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Department of DETO, Section of Veterinary Science and Animal Production, University of Bari Aldo Moro, s.p. Casamassima Km 3, 70010 Valenzano, Bari, Italy
Interests: animal nutrition; poultry nutrition; feed science; feed technology
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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
Dr. Barbara Tzschentke
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Faculty of Life Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Interests: poultry/avian physiology; incubation physiology; prenatal and perinatal development; critical developmental periods; programming and malprogramming of regulatory systems; long-lasting and transgenerational effects; neuronal hypothalamic plasticity
Dr. Fifi Zaefarian
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Section Associate Editor
School of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
Interests: poultry nutrition; feed evaluation; feed additives; nutrient digestibility
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