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Dr. Dan Columbus
Dan completed his PhD at the University of Guelph under the supervision of Dr. Kees de Lange after which he was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Teresa Davis at the USDA/ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Centre in Houston, Texas. In 2015,Danjoined the Prairie Swine Centre in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan as the Research Scientist in nutrition. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science at the University of Saskatchewan. His research program focuses on the interaction between nutrition and pig health, factors affecting nutrient metabolism, and the incorporation of alternative feedstuffs, feeding programs, and technologies in swine production.Dan’s research also utilizes the pig as a model for both swine production and human health, with studies examining the role of birth weight and neonatal nutrition on piglet development and long-term outcomes.
Dr. Ruurd Zijlstra
Dr. Ruurd Zijlstra is Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He was born and raised in The Netherlands where he completed a M.Sc. program at Wageningen University. In 1996, he completed a Ph.D. program at the University of Illinois. He has produced 189 scientific papers and 14 book chapters mostly on swine nutrition topics. His current research program is focused on unique aspects of dietary starch and fiber, nutritional quality of co- products, and feed quality evaluation techniques. He received the 2018 Nonruminant Nutrition Award of the American Society of Animal Science – American Feed Industry Association.
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Meet the founder
Dr. Marcio Goncalves
Dr. Marcio Goncalves earned his veterinary degree from UFRGS, a top university in Brazil, and his PhD in applied swine nutrition from Kansas State University and worked as Global Nutritionist for one of the major swine genetic companies where he led nutrient requirement updates, diet formulation & feeding program for nucleus farms, development of nutritional economic models, and reviewing diets from over 100 customers. Currently, he is the founder of Wisenetix, the largest network of podcasts in the agriculture industry.
He has over 15 years of experience in swine production with exposure to over 20 countries and 120 research studies in pig nutrition/production and his life purpose is to create a positive impact in the world through knowledge dissemination in the global ag industry.
Additionally, he is a member of the Non-Ruminant Nutrition Symposium Committee at the American Society of Animal Science. More information can be found at Google Scholar, Research Gate, and LinkedIn.
