Laboratory : animal genetics & molecular biology

team leaders
Bruno Stefanon, full professor of Animal Genetics and Biotechnology
Giuseppe Stradaioli, associate professor of Animal Reproduction.

lab facilities 
Extraction and purification of nucleic acids and proteins from tissues and biological fluids
Molecular biology
Andrology
Ecography
Cell culture
Microscopy
Biochemistry
Bioinformatics and Biostatistics

Lab facilities

Extraction and purification of nucleic acids and proteins from tissues and biological fluids
Molecular biology
Andrology
Ecography
Cell culture
Microscopy
Biochemistry
Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
 

Topics offered for thesis
GWAS for breeding and selection in pigs and dairy cows
Discovery of biomarkers for new phenotype in dairy cows (stress response, residual feed intake, carbon footprint)
Characterization of microbiome and immune response in dairy cows (host-microbial interplay)
Fertility and Reproduction in cows
Mechanisms of action of nutragenomic foods in human and dogs, combining organ specific cell cultures with NGS techniques
Studying the mechanisms of dairy cow hypo fertility and the role of stress by means of expression profiling (RNA-seq) of oocytes and ovarian follicle’s cells (supervisor prof. Giuseppe Stradaioli).