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She is an agricultural engineer and she had her PhD in Animal Sciences. Her experience in Animal Sciences is thirty years. Main topics of her research are fish, rabbits and poultry rearing, nutrition and product quality. Since 2012, she is involved in trials on insects as potential raw material in fish and poultry nutrition in collaboration with Italians and foreign research groups. She is also involved in trials on insect rearing evaluating the impact of rearing substrates and environmental conditions on live cycles and product quality for feed purposes. She is President of the Insect Commission of the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP).

Since obtaining his PhD in Poultry Science (2002), the prime focus of his research career has continued to address the various aspects of poultry science, especially nutrition, welfare and biodiversity preservation. He has also dedicated considerable time and energy to numerous projects carried out in developing countries and in association with the industrial sector, with the primary scope of skill transfer. His research interests and desire to interact with the scientific community in international contexts has led him to attend a multitude of congresses (worldwide) and complete several research secondments (in France and Spain). Since 2002, he has been teaching bachelor, master, and PhD courses in animal nutrition and poultry science.

Her main research topics concern the biology, ethology and epidemiology of insect vectors of plant pathogens and foodstuff pests as well as the development and application of innovative control strategies. Moreover, her research activity is focused on immune responses, at cellular and humoral level, of both pests and farmed insects with approaches of nutritional immunology.

He graduated in 2017 as Doctor in Zootechnical Sciences at the Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences of the University of Torino. After the master degree, in 2021 he obtained his Ph.D. in Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences defending a thesis about the insect meal utilization in aquaculture fish nutrition (Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences).

She is veterinarian with more than 25 years of experience in Animal Pathology. She is Coordinator of the PhD committee in Veterinary Sciences for Animal Health and Food Safety Veterinary Sciences, since December 2020. She is Coordinator of the Biosecurity Committee of the DSV since 2018. Her main topics of research are: gut health in livestock species and animal models, neuromuscular pathology, host pathogens interactions in veterinary medicine and cardiovascular pathology. Since 2014, she is involved in researches evaluating the gut health/systemic morphological alterations following the use of new dietary supplements by means of morphometric, histological, immunohistochemical and biomolecular methods.

He is graduated with a M.Sc. degree in Agricultural Sciences with specialization in Animal Production in 1988 and obtained a Ph.D. degree in 1992 at the University of Turin, Italy. After the conclusion of the Ph.D. course, he was a post-doctoral Researcher at the University of Turin. Since 1998, he was associated with the Department of Zootechnical Science of the University of Turin where he was promoted to Assistant Research and then to Assistant Professor. He teaches courses in Animal Science and in Food Science and Technology post-graduate degrees. His research interests include effects of genetics and management systems for livestock production on carcass composition and meat quality. He has particular interests in post-mortem technology to enhance meat quality and, in particular, on improving meat colour and tenderness. He has published more than 100 papers, among international journals and proceedings of national and international congresses. At today its work count 1188 (not self-) citations and his Hirsch's h-index count 15 (Scopus).

She obtained her M.Sc. in Forestry and Environmental Sciences in 2007 and her Ph.D. in Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (specialization in Animal Science) in 2011, both from the University of Turin. From 2011 to 2018 she won several grants to work as Post Doc Researcher at the same University, studying the effects of the rearing systems and diet on the growth performance and products quality from both ruminant and monogastric animals. She works as Editor of international scientific journals, such as the Italian Journal of Animal Science, Journal of Dairy Research, Frontiers in Veterinary Science, Dairy, and Ruminants. Since 2015 she is involved in trials on insect rearing and use of insects as raw material in feeds for farmed animals. Her main research interests are focused on the effects of animal diet on animal-derived food products quality, with particular emphasis on milk and meat fatty acid composition.

His main focus is the study of microbiome in environment and foods as well the gut microbiome of humans and animals. He is currently working in the projects Microbiome Support and IS_MIRRI21 to increase microbiome research by isolating, characterizing, preserving and distributing microbes around the world.

Her research activity focuses on farming and nutrition of fish, poultry and rabbits. In particular, she deals with the impact of insect-derived products (larvae, meals, and oils) on fish and poultry species, focusing on the productive performance, gut health (especially gut microbiota/microbiome) and product quality of the insect-fed animals. She also works on the effects of organic waste on the production cycles of Hermetia illucens, as well as the determination of its nutritional requirements. Partner and/or WP leader of PRIMA, H2020, Cariplo, CRT and Regione Piemonte projects.

He graduated in 2017 in Horticulture with maximum grade at the University of Bologna, with a thesis on Drosophila suzukii, its phenology and the wild plant hosts in Hungary. After graduation, he went to work for the French company Mutatec, which implements a bioconversion process of agricultural by products into animal feed through the breeding of black soldier fly larvae. There, he worked in R&D for year and then I was head of production for 2 years. Passionate about insects since his university years, he now works at the University of Turin with a scholarship at the Animal Science sector. His topics of research are the effects of the abiotic factors on the lifecycle of Tenebrio molitor and Hermetia illucens, their nutritional requirements and the use of these species as aquafeed.

She graduated in 2018 as M.Sc. and in 2022 as PhD, both in Animal Science and at the University of Turin. She is working on different fields related to the use of insect meals as feed ingredient (poultry and fish) and live larvae as environmental enrichment in poultry diets. Since almost four years, her research topic is the insect production (Hermetia illucens and Tenebrio molitor) and the determination of nutritional requirements to formulate substrate waste-based diets. She is also expert on chemical analyses.

She graduated at the University of Milan in Animal Science Production. Her research project aims to increase the environmental sustainability of poultry production and evaluate the effects of the live larvae supplementation on the growth and slaughter performance, welfare, health, meat quality and microbiota.

PhD in Animal Health and Food Safety (Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Turin, Italy). Her work is focused on poultry nutrition, with particular focus on the dietary inclusion of insects as protein substitute or environmental enrichment in poultry species, evaluating digestibility, performance, health status, and behaviour.

She obtained her BSc in Animal Production at the University of Bari and her MSc in Animal Science at the University of Turin. Her main research interests are alternative protein sources, insects as feed (Hermetia illucens and Tenebrio molitor), and circular economy.