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Department of Animal Biosciences (ABSc) Formerly: Department of Animal and Poultry Science

Food Agriculture Communities Environment. Department of Animal Biosciences (ABSc) Formerly: Department of Animal and Poultry Science. www.animalbiosciences.uoguelph.ca /. Our Vision. We are global leaders in innovative education, research and technology transfer in animal biosciences.

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Department of Animal Biosciences (ABSc) Formerly: Department of Animal and Poultry Science

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  1. Food Agriculture Communities Environment Department ofAnimal Biosciences (ABSc)Formerly: Department of Animal and Poultry Science www.animalbiosciences.uoguelph.ca/

  2. Our Vision • We are global leaders in innovative education, research and technology transfer in animal biosciences.

  3. Research Themes • Sustainable and ethical animal production, care and use • Increase efficiency of using resources to provide safe and nutritious animal products for consumers, and to improve animal well-being • High quality and value-added animal products • Production of nutritionally enriched or tailored animal products to improve human and animal health and increase producer profit • Animal models for human metabolism, nutrition and health • Use of animal models for studying human health and physiology

  4. Disciplines • Animal Behaviour and Welfare • Livestock, poultry, captive / lab animals, fish, horse • Animal Breeding and Genetics • Dairy, beef, swine, sheep, goats, fish, turkey • Animal Nutrition • Dairy, beef, swine, poultry, fish, dog, cat, horse • Animal Physiology • Cattle, swine, chickens, fish, horse

  5. People • Faculty • 29 regular faculty • 4.5 federal / provincial/industry co-locations • 13 active associated faculty • Graduate Students • About 160 grad students • ~40% M.Sc. Thesis, ~20% M.Sc. Coursework, ~ 40% Ph.D. • Staff • 12 full and part-time, excluding facility management

  6. Status Report One of the most student / research intensive Departments within the University of Guelph • Undergraduate Teaching (W19) • 771 BSc ABIO • 114 BSc AGR • 106 BBRM equine • Graduate Teaching (W19) • 59 PhD (25 International) • 66 MSc thesis (9 International) • 32 MSc course work • Research • Over $10 million annually, high publication output

  7. Core competencies of faculty Physiology Animal product quality Behaviour & welfare Breeding, Genetics, Genomics Nutrition Incl. Modelling Fan Bureau De Vries Cant Osborne Huber Ellis Shoveller Kiarie Wood Tulpan Li Bedecarrats Squires Karrow Ribeiro Pearson Steele Widowski Mason Harlander De Vries Bergeron Merkies Widowski Mason Harlander De Vries Bergeron Merkies Schenkel Karrow Robinson Baes Canovas Tulpan Schenkel Karrow Robinson Baes Canovas Mandell Squires Cant Bureau Kiarie Moccia Wood Mandell Squires Cant Bureau Kiarie Moccia

  8. Recent Faculty Hires • Harlander Poultry behaviour • Baes Dairy Genomics • Canovas Beef Cattle Genomics • Shoveller Companion Animal Nutrition • Kiarie Poultry Nutrition • Ribeiro Reproductive Physiology • Carpenter Dairy Nutrition Management • Wood Beef Nutrition • Pearson Equine Physiology • Huber Swine Nutrition • Steele Animal Physiology • Tulpan Computational Biology • Ellis Animal Systems Modelling

  9. Research facilities • Dairy, beef, poultry, swine, equine, sheep, aquaculture ‘animal production’ research units* • Flexible animal housing unit (small scale) • Animal metabolism units • Isolation units (infectious diseases) • CFIA licensed abattoir and meats laboratory • Lab Services Div, including Animal Health Lab* • Science Complex: genomics, mass spectroscopy, etc. • Collaborating institutions and laboratories • Commercial farms * Supported largely by the $70M/yr OMAFRA & Univ. of Guelph agreement

  10. New Initiatives • Recent upgrades to abattoir and meat lab ($3.5M) • only CFIA licensed abattoir in a Canadian University • Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) • $78M project ‘Food from Thought’ • Livestock theme focused on ‘Precision Agriculture’ and ‘Big data’ • Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) application • Integrated Biosensing project; Infrastructure to support CFREF priorities • Upgrade our animal holding and analytical facilities on campus; connect to Elora Facilities hub.

  11. Looking ahead Our opportunity: • Improve understanding and applications of animal biosciences • Integrate across scientific disciplines and university departments • Supporting real-time decision making to optimize animal care and use: • use sensorics, collect and manage large data to develop decision support systems to optimize animal genotype by environment interactions • Use animals as model for humans • Develop highly qualified personnel

  12. Perspective • There is real momentum in the Department of Animal Biosciences (ABSc) • New faculty, infrastructure, funding opportunities and collaborations • Agri-Food is again being recognized as of economic importance and is part of new government and university research priorities • ABSc is committed to work with key organizations to support a variety of R&D efforts in Ontario and beyond

  13. Elora Beef New Elora Dairy ArkellFeedmill, Swine, Poultry, Equine Alma Aquaculture Ponsonby General Animal Facility Ponsonby Sheep

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