Animal and Food Genomics Group

Animal and Food Genomics, and more ...!

We are focused on the application of genetics, genomics, metagenomics, metabolomics and phenomics in the animal production sector to:
1) develop innovative animal breeding and selection programs in livestock and insect species and novel conservation strategies of animal genetic resources;
2) characterize, authenticate and trace animal-derived food products and production systems;
3) analyse various environmental footprints through environmental DNA (eDNA) information.
The research activities include all main livestock species, aquaculture species, wild and extinct animal species, insects, environmental DNA, One Health approaches and all main animal derived food products.

SPOTLIGHTS

📢Our latest publication on Veterinary Sciences is out

🐖 Mining Porcine Blood Whole-DNA Sequencing Datasets to Uncover Pig Viromes: An Exploratory Application to Identify Potential Infecting Agents of an Undefined Disease Outbreak

📢Our latest publication on Animals is out

🐝 Comparing Morphometric and Mitochondrial DNA Data from Honeybees and Honey Samples for Identifying Apis mellifera ligustica Subspecies at the Colony Level

Annual Meeting of the COST Action EU-LI-PHE (European Network on Livestock Phenomics)

The second EU-LI-PHE Annual and MC meeting will be held at KULeuven (Belgium), as a side event of the International Conference of Production Diseases in Farm Animals (8-11 July 2025) - ICPD2025.

EU-LI-PHE Stakeholders workshop

11th of July 2025. The EU-LI-PHE Stakeholders workshop will be held at KULeuven (Belgium), as a side event of the ICPD2025 conference.

Visit of Paula Aranguren Rivas from INIA-CSIC

5–16 May 2025. Paula has been granted an STSM by the EU-LI-PHE Cost Action. Activities are part of the WG2-WG3 (CA EU-LI-PHE) and WP3 (HE Re-Livestock).