{"id":2934,"date":"2023-04-11T17:40:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T15:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purpan.fr\/?page_id=2934"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:03:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:03:55","slug":"department-animal-sciences-livestock-systems","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.purpan.fr\/en\/research\/our-teaching-and-research-departments\/department-animal-sciences-livestock-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Sciences and Livestock Systems Department"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background-holder\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background\"><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__foreground\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__content\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The department\u2019s research is structured around the following areas: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Area 1 &#8211; Understanding and controlling gut microbiomes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Area 2 &#8211; Rethinking food and nutritional strategies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Gut microbiota in ruminants: optimizing digestive health and efficiency (projects: Smarter (2020\u20132024), Holoruminant (2021\u20132025), MicroSigns (2021\u20132025), ConEHECtion (2022\u20132025), etc.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Identify nutritional levers of action (nutritional practices and functional ingredients) to positively orient gut microbiota and preserve intestinal barrier function (projects: AJI2021, MIZU, CARNOT project with INRAe Tours, COQ, Microsaf, Microsleep, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Area 3 &#8211; Adapting livestock production systems and sectors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Supporting and adapting livestock farming activities towards agro-ecological, climate and food transitions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Utilization of grassland floral diversity and secondary metabolites as a lever for integrated health management in small ruminant farming. Understanding metabolic pathways<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This department works with the <strong><a href=\"\/en\/?page_id=12881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dairy Cows &amp; Poultry Farming Platform.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"anchor-summary\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.purpan.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/troupeau-mouton-3.jpg')\">\n    <div>\n        <strong>Summary<\/strong>\n        \n        <ul id=\"anchor-summary__list\">\n            \n        <\/ul>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9697,"menu_order":136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2934","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purpan.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purpan.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purpan.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purpan.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purpan.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.purpan.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14217,"href":"https:\/\/www.purpan.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2934\/revisions\/14217"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purpan.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purpan.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}