The PIGWEB Junior Community
“A network for the new generation of scientists”
The PIGWEB project aims to strengthen the pig research community and reinforce a culture of cooperation between the research community and industrial and societal stakeholders. One of the tools to achieve this is the PIGWEB Junior Community, a network dedicated to post-docs, PhD students and early career scientists working on the many facets of pig production.
The network is run by and for the new generation of scientists.
Come and meet them!
Francis Amann Eugenio, researcher at Adisseo, France
Francis Eugenio is currently working as an amino acid metabolism scientist of Adisseo France. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in agriculture, specialising in animal nutrition, from the University of the Philippines Los Baños. For five years after finishing university, he held two positions as a research and technology staff and commercial farm formulator for a commercial feedmill. He holds a master’s degree in animal science where he did a special project on tryptophan metabolism and a master thesis on the effects of live yeast supplementation in sow diets on the health and performance of their piglets. The doctoral school of Ecologie, Géosciences, Agronomie et Alimentation (EGAAL) and l’Institut Agro Rennes-Angers awarded him with a doctoral degree in animal biology and physiology in 2022 after completing his thesis entitled: “Balance and form of amino acid intake in the diet: physiological and metabolic consequences in pigs”. The thesis was done as a CIFRE thesis between INRAE PEGASE (Saint-Gilles, France) and BCF Life Sciences (Pleucadeuc, France). He was then involved in the PIGWEB project as a postdoc of the PigVampire project that aims to improve the blood collection techniques in pigs, which he done in collaboration between Agroscope (Posieux, Switzerland), INRAE PEGASE, and FBN (Dummerstorf, Germany).
Clémence Orsini, PhD Candidate at Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Clémence Orsini received a Master of Science degree in Agronomy Engineering with a specialization in Animal Science from Institut Agro (Rennes, France). During her MSc studies, she conducted research on the impact of enrichments on the behavior of fattening pigs at VetMedUni (Vienna, Austria), as well as on sow behaviour and nutritional requirements at INRAE (Saint-Gilles, France). Currently, she is pursuing her Ph.D. at Wageningen University & Research, focusing on modeling social behaviours in pigs using automated data. In collaboration with computer and data scientists, she is contributing to the development of computer vision algorithms. Her research involves utilizing tracking-by-detection and behaviour recognition outputs to investigate social preferences and predict early signs of damaging behaviours in pigs.
Inés García Viñado, PhD Candidate at Agroscope Posieux, Switzerland
Born in Zaragoza (Spain) in 1994, she always wanted to work with animals and decided to start Veterinary studies at the University of Zaragoza in 2012. After finishing in 2018, she completed a Master’s in Pig Production and Health a year later at the University of Lleida (Spain). Since then, she has worked as a pig veterinarian and field researcher in Spain and France. She is currently in her 3rd year of PhD in Agroscope- Posieux (Switzerland), she is ESR2 in the MonoGutHealth project, a Marie Curie project. Her project consists of the validation of an in-vivo sampling tool to collect small intestine content in living pigs and the study of the dynamic picture of gut microbiota under normal and pathological conditions.
Yarsmin Yunus Zeebone, PhD in Animal Science from the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (MATE), Hungary
Yarsmin Yunus Zeebone received her PhD in Animal Sciences from the Institute of Physiology and Farm Animal Nutrition of the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (MATE), Hungary. Her doctoral dissertation investigated gastrointestinal tract alterations brought on by dietary fumonisins in pigs. Her MSc from the same university focused on oxidative damage induction by mycotoxins. Working as a Research Assistant for the ELKH — MATE Mycotoxins in the Food Chain Research Group over the years gave her extensive experience in mycotoxin research. She’d also offered some teaching and practical lessons to MSc students enrolled in MATE’s English-taught Animal Nutrition Program. She received the 2020 Animal Science Days Symposium Best Presentation Award (Padova, Italy) and the Special Award at MATE’s Faculty Scientific Student Conference in 2018 (Kaposvár, Hungary). Currently, Dr. Zeebone is acting as a Technical Support Scientist for Urban Farmer Ghana, a South African-based Animal Nutrition Company.
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