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Andrea Bragaglio - Profile
Dr. Andrea Bragaglio. Researcher at Italian Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Centre for Engineering and Food Processing. His activities are dedicated to Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies of agricultural and livestock systems, animal science, precision agriculture, and 4.0 agriculture. Researcher of Animal Science at University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Department of Veterinary Medicine. Main research interests: techniques and procedures aimed to improve immune response and quality productions in ruminants, adopting agroindustry by-products. A multidisciplinary approach to the assessment of the environmental impact of ruminants, in particular cattle and buffaloes, adopting Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method. Teaching activity for animal science and veterinary medicine students, disciplines of sustainable husbandry, precision livestock farming (PLF), and animal science. PostDoc position at Italian Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture, mainly working in precision livestock farming (PLF) about dairy cattle. Ph.D. in Agricultural, Forest, and Food Sciences obtained at the University of Basilicata, School of Agricultural Sciences. He acquired specific expertise in environmental impact with Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) criterion, particularly about beef. Specific animal welfare skills were also acquired, mainly about dairy livestock, cattle, buffaloes, goats, and sheep.
Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Añez - Profile
Prof. Dr. Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Añez, ORCID number: 0000-0002-3827-1186
D.V.M., M.S., Ph.D. Post-Doc (BIH-Charité, FLI-ING, Germany)
University of Zulia, College of Veterinary Medicine
Maracaibo-Venezuela
Dr. Gutiérrez holds competencies in animal reproduction and handling several reproductive biotechnologies, including reproductive ultrasonography, artificial insemination, estrus synchronization, superovulation, and embryo transfer, besides the whole package of in vitro embryo production (ovum pick up: OPU, oocytes evaluation, IVM, IVF, IVC, embryo cryopreservation) in addition, to an interdisciplinary approach to molecular biology, cell biology, and biochemistry through techniques such as FACS (fluorescence-activated cell sorting), computer-aided sperm analysis (CASA), RT-qPCR, and immunofluorescence. His current leading research interest involves the cloning and modification of the genome of farm animals through gene editing. The applications of this technology include the identification of target genes for disease resistance and animal production, as well as the area of biomedical models in animals for the study of diseases that affect humans through CRISPR-Cas9 technology.
Special Issues | Journal of Buffalo Science
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Napolitano Fabio |
Buffalo farming: high quality process for high quality products |
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Gianmarco Ferrara - Profile
Ferrara Gianmarco (DVM, PhD in Veterinary Sciences) graduated in 2017 with full marks in Veterinary Medicine with a thesis entitled "Caprine Herpesvirus as Candidate of Oncolytic Therapy". In 2018, he was selected for an industrial PhD project entitled "Characterization of 4 recombinant antigens for the Q fever diagnosis in domestic ruminants." During this period, he had the opportunity to visit the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the Rickettsiology Department, and IN3 Diagnostics, an agency placed in Turin that develops and commercializes diagnostic kits for livestock. He completed his PhD with full marks in 2021. Currently, he has a post-doctoral position in the Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science of Naples and, at the same time, is a master's student in the specialization school of infectious diseases in the same department. He has published several articles in international and indexed journals, as well as participated in several national and international conferences. His expertise includes epidemiological studies in livestock (including buffalo) and virus-host cell interaction (particularly how viruses change cellular pathways).
Editors-in-Chief: Profile
Fabio Napolitano
- After achieving a PhD in Animal Science, in 1995 was appointed as Researcher in Animal Scienceand in 2006 asAssociate Professor at the School of Agriculture, Food, Forestry and Environment(University of Basilicata, Italy).
- He has been involved in several projects concerning animal behaviour (regional and national level) and animal welfare (national and international level) as local project leader and coordinated a national project on product quality and animal welfare in 2005.
- He is author of 107 indexed scientific articles with 1596 citations and an H-index of 24 (Scopus, 5 May 2018).
- His research activity is particularly centred on the study of behaviour andwelfareof farm animals, including buffaloes; the effect of information about animal welfare on consumer perception of product quality and willingness to pay is also a focus of his studies.
- His teaching activity at master level includes two courses: Sustainable Animal Production and Organic Production and Animal Welfare. At PhD level he is teaching a course entitled How to Write a Scientific Article and Present Experimental Data.
- He has been included in the list of experts and, for the period 2009-2011, nominated member of the scientific committee of external reviewers by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), while in 2013 he was nominated member of the working group on sheep welfare.
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