PEOPLE
The scientists involved in PigPhenomics are from the Universities of Bologna, Milan and Padua.
LUCA FONTANESI
Full Professor - Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences (coordinator of the project)
Full Professor of animal breeding and genetics at the University of Bologna. He works in the fields of animal genetics and breeding, animal genomics and authenticity of food products. His research interests are mainly towards the application of genomics, metagenomics, metabolomics and phenomics in the animal production sector, for food characterization, authentication and traceability and for environmental analyses. His research activities include all main livestock species (pig, cattle, sheep, goat, horse, donkey, rabbit, poultry) aquaculture species, honey bees, wild and extinct animal species and environmental DNA. He is involved in several national and international projects and has extensive collaborations with many research centres in Europe and throughout the world. He has published more than 200 peer reviewed scientific papers (h index = 29), several book chapters and a few patents. He is sector editor of several scientific journals in the animal science sector and he is member of university boards and national and international commissions and scientific societies.
SAMUELE BOVO
Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)
Samuele Bovo obtained his master degree with Laude in Bioinformatics at the University of Bologna in the year 2013, discussing a thesis on "Biomarkers identification in Pig: Metabolomics meets Genomics for the characterization of an animal model". At the same university, he obtained in the year 2018 the PhD in Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical Sciences (focused in Bioinformatics) discussing a thesis on the "Development of computational methods for biological complexity". He is a former member of the Bologna Biocomputing Group (led by Prof. Rita Casadio), where he developed tools relying on protein-protein interaction networks for the analysis of genomic, proteomic and metabolomic data. His main activities (carried out in the laboratory of Prof. Luca Fontanesi) regard the analysis of omic data (genomes, proteomes, metabolomes and metagenomes) from different animals (pigs, cattle, rabbits, fishes and bees) and their derivates (meat, milk, cheese and honey).
