ANIMAL BREEDING AND GENETICS

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SILVESTRELLI Maurizio - Full Professor AGR/17

Graduated in Veterinary Medicine (1978, University of Perugia)

Research interests and technical-scientific skills:

  • Genetics and genomics of domestic species
  • Phenotype and genotype assessment for genetic improvement of domestic species with particular focus to the Italian sport and saddle horse breeds
  • Evaluation and genetic selection of the saddle horse through participation in the main Central Technical Commissions of stud books.
  • Genetic variability analysis and mating plans optimitazion in indigenous and endangered equine and asinine populations

PIERAMATI Camillo - Associate Professor AGR/17

Graduated in Veterinary Medicine (1986, University of Perugia).

PhD in "Increase, hygiene, healthiness and quality of animal production" (University of Perugia, 1990)

Research interests and technical-scientific skills:

  • Genetic improvement of quantitative traits in livestock
  • Bioinformatics and Implementation of algorithms for genetic analysis
  • Biostatistics

VERINI SUPPLIZI Andrea - Associate Professor AGR/19 

Graduated in Veterinary Medicine (1984, University of Perugia)

Research interests and technical-scientific skills:

  • Functional genomics and genomics of exercise induced stress in athlete horses for training evaluation and poor performance / overtraining syndromes assessment
  • Nutrigenomic approaches in monogastric and ruminants for the evaluation of the effects of phytoderivative supplementation
  • Evaluation of chromosomal anomalies of mammalian embryos produced in vivo and in vitro
  • In vitro fertilization

CAPOMACCIO Stefano – Associate Professor AGR/17

Graduated in Animal Sciences (2001, University of Perugia).

PhD (2005, University of Perugia).

Research interests and technical-scientific skills:

  • Genetics, genomics and epigenomics of domestic species
  • Bioinformatics and software development for genomic and transcriptomic analysis
  • Transcriptomics of the exercise in the athlete horse
  • Nutrigenomics studies in monogastric and ruminants
  • Role of repeated sequences in exercise physiology
  • Association studies in livestock

CAPPELLI Katia - Associate Professor  AGR/17

Graduated in Veterinary Medicine (1997, University of Perugia).

PhD in Biochemical Sciences (2002, University of Perugia).

Research interests and technical-scientific skills:

  • Transcriptomics, genomics and genetics of the domestic species
  • Functional and epigenomic genomics of exercise stress in athlete horses for training evaluation and poor performance / overtraining syndromes assessment
  • Role of the molecular cargo of extracellular vesicles
  • Nutrigenomic approaches in monogastrics and ruminants for the evaluation of phytoderivative supplementation
  • Genetic and epigenetic modifications in cancer of domestic animals 

GIONTELLA Andrea - Research Fellow  AGR/17

Graduated in Science and Technology of Animal Production (2005, University of Perugia).

PhD in Equine Sciences (2010, University of Perugia).

Research interests and technical-scientific skills:

  • genetics and genetic improvement of livestock
  • study and evaluation of mathematical-statistical models for the evaluation and genetic selection of livestock with focus on sport horses.
  • statistical analysis of phenotypes and mathematical modeling in data analysis for domestic species
  • bioinformatics and software design for the management and analysis of genetic databases
  • integration of quantitative genetics methods with of molecular genetics data for zootechnical interest species selection programmes

OTER STAFF

MECOCCI Samanta

PhD student in Healthcare and Veterinary Experimental Sciences.

Graduated in Biotechnological Medical, Veterinary and Forensic Sciences (2018, University of Perugia)

  • Nutraceutical formulation enriched in milk exosomes with beneficial effects in the attenuation of intestinal inflammatory processes in humans. 

ALUNNI Gianluca

Technical, technical-scientific and data processing area, cat. C5

Technical manager of the Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology.

Expert in techniques of:

  • Molecular genetics
  • Gas chromatography
  • HPLC

Collaboration in the students training activities for Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology degrees.

ERC sectors

  • LS2_1 Genetics

  • LS2_3 Epigenetics

  • LS2_5 Genomics

  • LS8_2 Biodiversity

  • LS9_2 Applied genetics, gene editing and transgenic organisms

  • LS9_10 Veterinary and applied animal sciences