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Prof. Dr. Michael Hess
Prof. Dr. Michael Hess
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Editor-in-Chief
Clinic for Poultry and Fish Medicine, Department for Farm Animals and Veterinary Public Health, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Veterinärplatz 1, A-1210 Vienna, Austria
Interests: avian adenoviruses; poultry diseases; vaccinology; advanced diagnostics
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Prof. Dr. Dong Uk Ahn
Prof. Dr. Dong Uk Ahn
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
Interests: oxidation mechanisms; antioxidants; prevention of oxidation; functional peptides; egg proteins and peptides; egg processing; meat quality
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Dr. Shiping Bai
Dr. Shiping Bai
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Animal Nutrition Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, No. 211 Huimin Road, Wenjiang District, Chengdu, China
Interests: poultry nutrition
Prof. Dr. Avigdor Cahaner
Prof. Dr. Avigdor Cahaner
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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; breeding of dual-purpose chickens and broilers; broilers production under sub-optimal conditions; broilers breeding for sub-optimal conditions; broilers growth and feed efficiency; broilers meat yield and quality; effects of defeathering on carcass and breast meat quality; body weight dimorphism between female and male broilers
Dr. Patrizia Casagrande-Proietti
Dr. Patrizia Casagrande-Proietti
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Associate Professor, Department Veterinary Medicine, Università degli Studi di Perugia, 06126 Perugia, Italy
Interests: antimicrobial resistance in zoonosic bacteria; phenotipic and genotipic characterization of antimicrobial-resistance mechanisms, including bacterial biofilm-forming ability; phenotypic and genetic mechanisms underlying the efflux-mediated resistance in zoonosic bacteria
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Dr. Yuval Cinnamon
Dr. Yuval Cinnamon
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Institute of Animal Science, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel
Interests: genome editing; genetic engineering; embryology; poultry; animal welfare; sustainability; agriculture; chicken embryo; broiler; muscle development; CRISPR-Cas9; genetics
Dr. Douglas E. Cosby
Dr. Douglas E. Cosby
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Editorial Board Member
Poultry Microbiological Safety and Processing Research Unit, USDA, Athens, GA 30605, USA
Interests: broilers; poultry; animal production
Prof. Dr. Rocio Crespo
Prof. Dr. Rocio Crespo
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27607, USA
Interests: poultry health; poultry farms; poultry pathology
Prof. Dr. Alessandro Dal Bosco
Prof. 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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Prof. Dr. Ahmed Elbestawy
Prof. Dr. Ahmed Elbestawy
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Bird and Rabbit Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Menoufia University, Shebeen Elkom 32511, Egypt
Interests: poultry diseases; virology; vaccinology; poultry immunology; poultry production; poultry behavior and hygiene
Dr. Siham Fellahi
Dr. Siham Fellahi
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Veterinary Pathology and Public Health, Agronomy and Veterinary Institute Hassan II, BP 6202, Rabat 10000, Morocco
Interests: poultry health; diagnosis of avian diseases; avian influenza; avian infectious bronchitis; infectious bursal disease; Newcastle disease
Prof. Dr. Peter Ferket
Prof. Dr. Peter Ferket
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Prestage Department of Poultry Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7608, USA
Interests: nutritional requirements of poultry; vitamins; minerals; gut health; perinatal nutrition; nutritional modeling; enzymes; digestion; feed formulation; feed manufacturing
Dr. Maria Pia Franciosini
Dr. Maria Pia Franciosini
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Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Perugia Studies, Perugia, Italy
Interests: infectious diseases; bacteria; immunity; intestinal microflora (poultry and pig); probiotics; antibiotic resistance; neoplastic diseases in poultry
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Dr. Priscilla F. Gerber
Dr. Priscilla F. Gerber
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1. Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
2. School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia
Interests: virology; zoonoses; vaccines; emerging infectious viruses; diagnostic methods; poultry and porcine infectious diseases
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Dr. Ilias Giannenas
Dr. Ilias Giannenas
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Laboratory of Nutrition, School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: animal nutrition; health; antioxidants; feed additives; aromatic and medicinal plants; alternative feedstuffs with bioactive compounds
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Dr. Vasudevan Gowthaman
Dr. Vasudevan Gowthaman
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Poultry Disease Diagnosis and Surveillance Laboratory, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Namakkal 637 002, India
Interests: transboundry; zoonotic and emerging diseases of poultry; clinical poultry medicine; respiratory disease complex in poultry; food safety; antimicrobial resistance
Prof. Dr. Guido Grilli
Prof. Dr. Guido Grilli
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Avian Pathology and Poultry Zoonosis, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Milan, 26900 Lodi, Italy
Interests: poultry; poultry diseases; infectious diseases; zoonoses; public health
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The Department of Applied Animal Science, College of Animal Life Science, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 24341, Republic of Korea
Interests: meat quality; antioxidant activity; animal production; meat science and technology; bioactivity; poultry science; food chemistry; egg production; food analysis; antioxidants
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Prof. Dr. Marcin Wojciech Lis
Prof. Dr. Marcin Wojciech Lis
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Department of Zoology and Animal Welfare, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Mickiewicz 24/28 Ave., 30-059 Kraków, Poland
Interests: poultry incubation; embriology; poultry welfare; in ovo model in biological research
Dr. Vagner Ricardo Lunge
Dr. Vagner Ricardo Lunge
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Institute of Biotechnology, University of Caxias do Sul, Caxias do Sul 95070-560, RS, Brazil
Interests: avian infectious diseases; molecular biology; virology; bacteriology
Dr. Alessandra Piccirillo
Dr. Alessandra Piccirillo
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Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padua, Legnaro, 35020 Padua, PD, Italy
Interests: molecular microbiology; food-borne zoonoses; antimicrobial use; antimicrobial resistance; microbiome; resistome
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Prof. Dr. Sheila Purdum
Prof. Dr. Sheila Purdum
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Department of Animal Science, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA
Interests: pullet and layer nutrition; pullet and layer management; pullet and layer welfare; pullet and lay behavior
Prof. Dr. Moazur Rahman
Prof. Dr. Moazur Rahman
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School of Biological Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab 54810, Pakistan
Interests: poultry and human viral proteins; recombinant vaccine development; enzyme biotechnology; X-ray/protein crystallography; structural biology
Dr. Subir Sarker
Dr. Subir Sarker
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Biomedical Sciences & Molecular Biology, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4810, Australia
Interests: virus evolution; viral metagenomics; wildlife diseases; veterinary virology; viral protein structure and function; recombinant vaccines; animal immunology
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Dr. Shourong Shi
Dr. Shourong Shi
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Poultry Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Yangzhou 225125, China
Interests: metabolism; microorganism; nutrition; immune
Prof. Dr. Honglei Sun
Prof. Dr. Honglei Sun
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Key Laboratory of Avian Influenza of the Ministry of Agriculture and Key Laboratory of Animal Epidemiology of the Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: avian influenza virus; pathogenicity; transmissibility; mechanism
Prof. Dr. Piotr Szeleszczuk
Prof. Dr. Piotr Szeleszczuk
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Department of Pathology and Veterinary Diagnostics, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW, Nowoursynowska 159c St., 02-776 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: general poultry pathology; poultry vaccinology and serology; gut health; columbopathology