Feeding strategies to improve health status and reduce environmental impact in young dairy ruminants.
The aim of the project is to investigate feeding strategies to improve health status and reduce environmental impact in young dairy ruminants.
The Early Stage Researcher (ESR) will determine the effects of nutritional strategies such as additive and novel food administration to reduce methane emissions and improve oxidative status and health status in young dairy ruminants. To carry out the project in-vivo trials will be performed. Animal performances and methane emissions will be measured and blood , rumen fluid, fecal and saliva samples will be collected. Blood samples will be analyzed to principal oxidative stress biomarkers and inflammation biomarkers. Rumen fluid, fecal and saliva samples will be collected for analyses related to the microbiome and rumen metabolism using OMICs approaches.
The ESR will be enrolled in the University of Milan (UNIMI) under the supervision of Prof. Giovanni Savoini.
The selected candidate will participate in the network’s training activities and work placements in the laboratories and zootechnical centre of the participating academic partners.
Bachelor degree in “Animal Husbandry and Dog Education” from University of Pisa (UNIPI).
Master degree in “Animal Husbandry Sciences and Technologies” from University of Pisa (UNIPI).
Research period abroad at South Dakota State University, dairy and food science department. During this four months she had the opportunity to learn good practices, management and organization of lab procedures and she worked with microbiology and molecular biology technologies.
Five months of scholarship at University of Milan working for the project “The Cardo flour and the Camelina cake as unconventional ingredients with a high bioactive potential in food of Dairy goat: effects on production, nutritional quality of milk and dairy products and on health of animal and man”.
Publications: Orcid ; IRIS-AIR
Supervisor Prof. Giovanni Savoini
