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Currently a research associate at the University of Western Australia, Luoyang Ding has also worked as a one-year postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Queensland in 2021. He served as an adjunct lecturer at Yangzhou University in 2022. His research emphasizes the criticality of maintaining positive welfare conditions for farm animals and explores the application of microbiota to enhance temperament and cognitive abilities, thereby improving welfare and production performance in livestock farming. Using a multidisciplinary approach that integrates genomics, metagenomics, proteomics, artificial intelligence techniques, multi-omics analysis, microbial culture in vitro, and microbiota transplantation, his research aims to unravel the synergistic effects of microbiota, host genetics, temperament, and cognitive ability, and to identify key microbiota to improve the welfare of farm animals. His PhD research demonstrated the beneficial effects of temperament on health, growth, slaughter performance, and meat quality in sheep, along with identifying several genetic biomarkers of temperament in Merino sheep.
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