Animal production

Research on activities related to animal husbandry, nutrition and feeding, and rural economics and appraisal.

Research activities in Animal Production, with reference to terrestrial animals of veterinary interest, cover a wide range of topics, including genetics and genetic improvement, nutritional characterization of feed (including the use of NIR tools), animal nutrition and feeding, farm technologies and hygiene, animal welfare, and agricultural economics.

People

Pier Attilio Accorsi

Associate Professor

keywords: Training program, Welfare, Hormones, Human-animal relationship, Immune system

Felice Adinolfi

Full Professor

Maria Laura Bacci

Full Professor

keywords: Translational medicine, Reproductive physiology, Reproductive biotechnologies, Swine species, Transgenic animals,

Anna Badiani

Associate Professor

Niccoló Barbieri

Research fellow

PhD Student

Teaching tutor

keywords: Ai, Machine Learning, Metagenomics, Network, Twiter

Simona Belperio

Research fellow

keywords: welfare, Hermetia illucens, pigs, thermal imaging, diets, sustainability, meat, quality, cattle

Elisa Benini

Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: aquaculture, additives for fish feed, nutrition, feeding strategies in aquaculture, circular ingredients, marine

Giacomo Biagi

Associate Professor

keywords: Nutrition, Dogs and cats, Intestinal health, Probiotics and prebiotics, Mycotoxins, Dietetics

Costanza Bonnici

PhD Student

keywords: Microencapsulation, Botanicals, Antimicrobial activity, Antibiotic resistance

Giovanni Buonaiuto

Research fellow

keywords: Animal nutrition, Animal welfare, NIR spectroscopy, Stayability, Dairy cows, Buffalo, Poultry, Rabbits

Damiano Cavallini

Fixed-term Researcher in Tenure Track L. 79/2022

keywords: Nutrition, Cattle, Horses, Feed analysis, NIR, Modeling and Statistics

Marco Giancarlo Cavazzoni

PhD Student

keywords: Animal Production; Food Safety

Riccardo Colleluori

PhD Student

Angela Costa

Associate Professor

keywords: Animal breeding and genetics, Dairy, Milk quality, Novel phenotypes, Genetic improvement, Genomics, Big data, Animal

Thomas Dalmonte

Research fellow

keywords: Biostatistic, Data analysis, Meta-analysis, Omics data

Alessandra De Cesare

Associate Professor

keywords: Food safety, Foodborne bacteria pathogens, Bacteria genotyping, Microbiological risk assessment, Microbiomes, Next

Antonina De Marco

Research fellow

keywords: Shellfish farming, Sustainable innovations, Climate change

Marco De Nardi

Associate Professor

keywords: Veterinary epidemiology, Epidemiological study design, Animal health surveillance system, Statistics, GIS and Spatial

Giacomo Depau

PhD Student

keywords: Analytical Chemistry, Food Safety, Chromatography, Mass Spectrometry, UPLC-MS/MS, Residues, Contaminants

Emanuele Dolfi

PhD Student

Research fellow

keywords: Agricultural economics, Aquaculture, Artificial intelligence, Sustainability

Alessia Federiconi

PhD Student

Teaching tutor

Asia Ferretti

PhD Student

Research fellow

Andrea Formigoni

Full Professor

keywords: milk aand meat nutritional properties, rumination physiology, feedstuffs fiber digestibility, milk quality for

Ferdinando Galluzzo

PhD Student

keywords: Animal breeding

Pier Paolo Gatta

Full Professor

keywords: Aquaculture, Feed and food quality, Animal nutrition and feeding

Arcangelo Gentile

Full Professor

keywords: Genetic diseases in cattle, Ruminal acidosis in calves, Malformative condition in calves, Neonatal diarrhea in calves,

Laura Gentile

PhD Student

Research fellow

keywords: Marine biology, Fish ecology, Reproductive Biology, Anguilla, Aquaculture, larval feeding

Francesca Ghiaccio

Research fellow

keywords: Animal nutrition, Greenhouse gas, Sustenable livestock farming, Environmental impact, In vitro rumen fermentations,

Serena Giacomozzi

Research fellow

keywords: Metagenomic, Metataxonomic, GUT microbiome, Food microbiome, Sustainability of the dairy supply chain, Food microbiology

Ilaria Guarniero

Assistant professor

keywords: genetic differentiation, fish stock identification, genetic variability, host-parasite genetic corelations, parentage

Gulnara Guluzade

PhD Student

Martina Lamanna

PhD Student

Martina Magnani

Research fellow

Ludovica Maria Eugenia Mammi

Associate Professor

Gaetano Mari

Full Professor

Giovanna Martelli

Full Professor

keywords: Pig, Animal welfare perception, Animal production, Animal feeding, Animal Welfare, Organic farming

Margherita Masi

Research fellow

Teaching tutor

keywords: Agricultural economics, innovation process, circular economy, animal productions, blue economy

Maurizio Mazzoni

Associate Professor

keywords: α-gustducin, DiI neuronal tracer, enteric nervous system, immunohistochemistry, autonomic nervous system, α-transducin,

Attilio Mordenti

Associate Professor

keywords: lipids, animal feeding, beef cattle, dairy cow, rabbit production

Eleonora Nannoni

Associate Professor

keywords: animal welfare, food quality, certified food chains, ethics in animal production

Davide Nordio

Research fellow

keywords: Climate Change, Molluscs, Marine Biology, Restorative Aquaculture

Tolulope Grace Ogundipe

Research fellow

José Manuel Ortiz Rodríguez

Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)

Fabio Ostanello

Associate Professor

keywords: diagnosis, infectious disease, pathology, swine, zoonosis, epidemiology

Alberto Palmonari

Associate Professor

keywords: Rumen Metabolism, Rumen Microbial Ecosystem, GI Tract Microbial Ecosystem

Luca Parma

Associate Professor

keywords: Aquaculture, marine fish species, fish nutrition, novel ingredients, digestive physiology, gut health, gut microbiota

Albamaria Parmeggiani

Associate Professor

keywords: metabolic hormone, gonadal development, nutrition reproduction and stress, endocrine disruptors, intestinal ontogenesis

Giulia Polizzi

PhD Student

keywords: Food Safety, Animal origin food quality control

Laura Prandini

PhD Student

Teaching tutor

keywords: Dry-aging