The research project is focused on optimizing feeding practices of livestock animals in order to promote nutritional efficiency, gut health, antibiotic reduction, waste and environmental impact.
Therefore, new nutritional strategies aimed at supporting animal defense systems and reducing the risk of the presence in the livestock environment of potentially harmful substances, such as mycotoxins, anti-nutritional factors, and pathogenic bacteria, will be investigated.
Specifically, the functional and nutritional properties of combinations of additives and ingredients, including waste products from the human food chain, will be evaluated using both in vitro and in vivo approaches.
The project will be conduct in a vision of nutritional ecology, in fact, the exploitation of by-products, co-products and former food products is a crucial point in the sustainability of the food chain. Increased nutritional efficiency will lead not only to increased welfare of farm animals resulting in increased animal productivity, but there will also be a reduction in the emission of eutrophicating molecules into the environment which will have an important implication in containing the impact of major livestock production.
The research will be carried out in collaboration with Biotecnologie BT a company with more than 30 years of experience in environmental impact assessment of agrochemicals, chemical and biological products, veterinary medicinal products and biocides a start-up working in the agriculture and biotechnologies sectors.
Master’s degree in Veterinary Biotechnology at the University of Milan (UNIMI), with a thesis on the role of neutrophils in the efficacy of anticancer therapies, conducted in collaboration with the experimental immunology laboratory of the Humanitas Clinical Institute of Milan.
Fellowship period in the laboratory of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology of the University of Milan (UNIMI), Department of Veterinary Medicine.
Research contract on the evaluation of functional modulation of the Mucosal immune system by Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT): a translational study (IMMUBAC) at Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Grande – Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico of Milan.
Fellowship for promising graduate students on the evaluation of functional ingredients for health improvement as well as alternatives to antibiotics from the perspective of nutrition ecology, at the Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences (DIVAS), University of Milan (UNIMI).
Publications: Orcid; Scopus; IRIS-AIR
Supervisor Prof. Luciana Rossi
