The teacher-searchers

Animal Sciences and Livestock Systems Department

Living Lab. Dairy cows & Poultry

• Animal breeding
• Population genetics
• Animal Sciences
• Management of livestock systems: pig industry

• Genetic potential of digestive components in pigs
• Predicting traits with genomic/microbiota information
• Pig breeding program

Head of teaching units: 

• Plant and animal breeding
• Animal feed and nutrition

PhD in pathology, toxicology, genetics and nutrition from INP Toulouse

• 2018-2021: Thesis, IFIP-Institut du Porc/INRAE: “Potential of digestive efficiency for genetic improvement of feed efficiency in growing pigs in a context of diversification of feed resources, and the role of gut microbiota”
• 2022: Postdoctoral researcher at NCSU (North Carolina State University, North Carolina, USA) on the imputation accuracy from low- to medium-density SNP chips for US crossbred dairy cattle
• 2023: Postdoctoral researcher, INRAE and IFIP-Institut du Porc R&D alliance, on the contribution of digestive components for the selection of feed efficiency in pigs

• Déru V, Bouquet A, Hassenfratz C, Blanchet B, Carillier-Jacquin C and Gilbert H (2020). Impact of a high-fiber diet on genetic parameters of production traits in growing pigs. Animal, 14:11, 2236-2245. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1751731120001275
• David I, Aliakbari A, Déru V, Garreau H, Gilbert H and Ricard A (2020). Inclusive inheritance for residual feed intake in pigs and rabbits. Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, 137, 535:544. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jbg.12494
• Déru V, Bouquet A, Labussière E, Ganier P, Blanchet B, Carillier-Jacquin C and Gilbert H (2021). Genetics of digestive efficiency in growing pigs fed a conventional or a high-fiber diet. Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, 138, 246–258. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jbg.12506
• Bouquet A, Déru V, Blanchet B, Ganier P, Flatrès-Grall L, Ligonesche B, Carillier-Jacquin C, Labussière E and Gilbert H (2022). Digestive efficiency traits in growing pigs are genetically correlated to sow litter traits in the French Large White breed. Animal, 16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.animal.2021.100447
• Déru V, Bouquet A, Zemb O, Cauquil L, Blanchet B, Carillier-Jacquin C and Gilbert H (2022). Genetic relationships between efficiency traits and gut microbiota traits in growing pigs fed a conventional or a high-fiber diet. Journal of Animal Science. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jas/skac183
• Déru V, Tiezzi F, Carillier-Jacquin C, Blanchet B, Cauquil L, Zemb O, Bouquet A, Maltecca C, Gilbert H (2022). Gut microbiota and genetics contribute to the phenotypic variation of digestive and feed efficiency traits in growing pigs fed a conventional and a high-fiber diet. Genetics Selection Evolution. doi: 10.1186/s12711-022-00742-6
• Déru V, Tiezzi F, VanRaden P, Lozada Soto E, Toghiani S, Maltecca C (2023). Imputation accuracy from low to medium-density SNP chips for US crossbred dairy cattle. doi: 10.3168/Jds.2023-23250
• Déru V, Tiezzi F, Carillier-Jacquin C, Blanchet B, Cauquil L, Zemb O, Bouquet A, Maltecca C, Gilbert H (2024). The potential of microbiota information to better predict efficiency traits in growing pigs fed a conventional and a high-fiber diet. doi: 10.1186/s12711-023-00865-4

GenPhySE (Genetics, Physiology and Livestock Systems)