Ehsan Khafipour

Director, Microbiome Research and Technical Support

Cargill

Amy Biddle

Assistant Professor, Animal and Food Sciences

University of Delaware

Amy Biddle earned her PhD in Microbiology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and continued with postdoctoral study with Dr Roderick Mackie at the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign. Her research focuses on the equine gut microbiome in health and disease.  The Biddle Lab launched the Equine Microbiome Project in 2015, the first large-scale survey of the equine gut microbiome. As a growing collection of gut microbe and horse health data, the EMP database is being used to identify patterns between the equine microbiome and factors such as age, diet, exercise, and metabolic state. Related projects in the Biddle Lab include in vitro experiments focusing on equine gut community function, and projects to survey equine gastrointestinal parasites, specifically taxa differences between small strongyles related to dewormer resistance.   

Rainer Roehe

Professor of Animal Genetics and Microbiome

SRUC

Diego Moya Fernandez

Interdisciplinary Research Fellow in Animal Sciences

Aberystwyth University

Philippe Velge

Group Leader

INRA