Lallemand adds new talents in OMICS technologies and bioinformatics
The Lallemand Animal Nutrition Centers of Excellence's teams have been bolstered with new talent added focused on the ruminant, forage and monogastric fields.
Emmanuelle Apper, manager of the Centers of Excellence, said: “With this team, we expect to reinforce expertise in our various fields of investigation and to bring value by providing high-quality science and communicating our work both internally and externally. We also expect to accelerate our innovation processes.”
Ana Rodiles, has joined the Monogastric Center of Excellence as a senior scientist. In this position, the company said she will lead bioinformatics analysis trials on pets, fish, shrimp, and equine, and will actively participate with research and development in these fields. In addition, she will ensure scientific intelligence in the field of bioinformatics to develop and test new models and will train both research and marketing teams.
She holds a master’s degree in aquaculture and a doctorate in fish nutrition from the University of Cadiz (UCA, Spain). She conducted a postdoctoral research on fish gut microbiota at the University of Plymouth (PU, UK), enabling implementation of bioinformatics analysis. During her scientific carrier, Ana worked with massive data analysis of the microbiome of more than 15 animal species and published 35 peer-reviewed papers. She jumped into applied sciences in farming animals working as a gut microbiota researcher for a Dutch company for two years before joining Lallemand.
Laurie Guillot [pictured] joined the Ruminant Center of Excellence based at UMR MEDIS, INRAE Rhône Alpes Auvergne-University of Clermont Auvergne as a research project leader. She will lead some research projects applying molecular biology based approaches — OMICS — to document the mode of action of Lallemand Animal Nutrition products and will develop new methods and models, said the company.
She holds a master’s degree in microbiology and has worked for four years as an engineer at INRAE where she researched the human gut microbiota. She has strong experience in anaerobic microbiology, molecular biology methods and the use of animal models like gnotobiotic rodents, reported Lallemand.
Richard Scuderi has joined the Forage Center of Excellence in Chazy, New York in the US. He will lead some innovative research projects applying OMICS technologies to characterize Lallemand Animal Nutrition bacteria strains and investigate the application of forage inoculants during ensiling and their subsequent animal performance during feedout, said the company.
He holds a master’s degree in animal science from the University of Vermont. Prior to joining Lallemand Animal Nutrition, he acted as the director of dairy nutrition and quality assurance for Mercer Milling Company in Liverpool, NY, for two years. He has also conducted research at the University of Vermont’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Animal and Veterinary Sciences Department, Burlington, Vermont.
