Current Activities

• Experimental design and Statistical data analyses: Designing data acquisition in controlled and commercial systems for global animal-production and plant-production companies, and training their personnel in analyzing their databases.
• Consulting in broiler production: Supporting broiler integrations in reducing the negative impacts of rearing and processing on carcass quality aspects, with special interest in spaghetti breast meat.
• Breeding dual-purpose blue-eggs chickens: Mentoring a group of Chinese scientists that develop a chicken line with black body and blue-greenish eggs.

Past Activities

• Heat tolerance: Inducing heat tolerance in broilers by genes responsible for reduced feather coverage (naked-neck) or for featherless chickens (scaleless).
• Ascites: Studying the genetic control of resistance versus susceptibility to the ascites syndrome, and related effects on physiological parameters and on economically important performance traits. Selecting broilers for resistance to the ascites syndrome.
• Meat yield and Quality: Genetic variation in growth rate, body confirmation, meat yield, and meat quality in broilers, and its relationship to environmental stresses.
• Immunocompetence: Studying the genetic control of immune responses in young broilers by divergent selection and by DNA information.