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.
🐖 Mining Porcine Blood Whole-DNA Sequencing Datasets to Uncover Pig Viromes: An Exploratory Application to Identify Potential Infecting Agents of an Undefined Disease Outbreak
https://academic.oup.com/jas/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jas/skaf178/8142364
🐝 Comparing Morphometric and Mitochondrial DNA Data from Honeybees and Honey Samples for Identifying Apis mellifera ligustica Subspecies at the Colony Level
17-20 June 2025 - Grugliasco (Turin, Italy) Chair of the session: "Genetics: OMICS-BASED APPROACHES". Dr. Schiavo will also give two oral presentationa.
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.
11th of July 2025. The EU-LI-PHE Stakeholders workshop will be held at KULeuven (Belgium), as a side event of the ICPD2025 conference.
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).
13-23 May 2025. Daniela has been granted an STSM by the Bioaqua Cost Action