Anna Nikulina
Sustainable diets based on low protein levels and urea for Simmental fattening bulls.
Supervisor: Mauro Spanghero (UniUD)
Peculiar properties of ruminants' digestive system enable ruminant nutritionists to manipulate with its functions in order to reduce the costs of animal production and environmental contamination caused by the contemporary livestock system.
The aim of the Ph.D. thesis is to improve nitrogen utilisation by ruminants without adverse impact on animal health and production. This might enhance animal performance together with the decrease in diets' costs and reactive nitrogen discharge into the environment.
The experiments work is conducted according to fundamental knowledge and recent trends, focusing on innovative principle and the perspectives in improving in nitrogen usage by ruminants.
Biography and contacts
Anna Nikulina was born in 1985 in Primorskiy Kray – USSA (Russia). In 2007 graduated from Belgorod State Agricultural Academy named after V. Gorin, in Russia as a specialist in Technology of Production and Processing of of Animal Products. In 2014 she has started her doctoral course at the PhD school “Agriculture Science and Biotechnology” at the University of Udine as a Erasmus Mundus student.