Yanan Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor. Research on nutrition regulation of egg quality. He has presided over 5 national and provincial projects, including 1 National Natural Science Foundation project, 2 Natural Science Foundation projects of Guangdong Province and 1 Science and Technology Project of Guangzhou City. As the backbone of science and technology, he participated in 2 national key research and development projects, the research on nutrition and feed posts of laying ducks in the national waterfowl industry technology system, and 1 key project of Guangzhou Science and Technology Plan. The first author has published 26 academic papers, including 12 SCI papers and 13 Chinese core journals. 16 conference abstracts in both Chinese and English, more than 10 oral reports at home and abroad, participated in the completion of the national standard "Nutritional Requirements for Laying Ducks". He won the 2021 Yihe Youth "New Talent Award", the "First Prize of Shennong Chinese Agricultural Science and Technology", the "China Young Scholars Animal Nutrition Science Award" of the Animal Nutrition Branch of the Chinese Society of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, the second prize of the Oral report of the 13th Academic Seminar on Animal Nutrition, the third prize of Wall paper, etc.

Education: B.S. 2003-2007 Southwest University, Biological Science M.S. 2007-2010 Huazhong Agricultural University, Microbiology 2010-2011 Zhejiang University, College of Animal Sciences, Research Assistant Ph.D. 2011-2014 Zhejiang University, Animal Nutrition and Feed Science Work Experience: 2014-2017 Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Institute of Animal Science, Assistant Researcher 2017 to today Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Institute of Animal Science, Associate Researcher 2018-2019 Tufts University, School of Medicine, Research Scholar Research Areas: Animal nutrition; Immunology Research Interests: Dr. Hu mainly focuses on piglets nutrition and immune regulation. She aims to systematically and mechanistically investigate how nutrients and their metabolites work on the immune system (e.g., amino acids, vitamins and so on) and provides nutrient strategies to meet the challenge of antibody elimination.

Xiao Hao, PhD, Associate Investigator, Master supervisor, Visiting researcher of University of Macau, mainly devoted in the study of stress response and nutritional regulation for sow and piglets, and specialized in the research and development of anti-stress feed additives. She graduated from Huazhong Agricultural University with a bachelor degree of Science in July 2011, and got her doctorate degree of Animal Ecological Nutrition from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences in July 2017. She was awarded Excellent Doctor and Young Associate Researcher of Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences. She has published more than 40 papers, including 18 SCI papers, as the first/corresponding author. She has leaded or participated in more than 10 funding, eg. national Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, and National Key Research and development sub-projects. She also serve as resident reviewer for many journals, such as Animal Nutrition, Food & Function, Frontiers Cell and Developmental Biology.

Dr. Bin Hu graduated from Sun Yat-sen University. He mainly engaged in research on topics related to the pig industry, including the research and application of biosafety, production management, breeding system establishment, market analysis and forecasting, strategy of industry development, etc. He has served as the production and breeding director in several pig breeding groups, focused on the technical and scientific system improvement. He has cultivated and applied for new livestock and poultry synthetic line “Longbao 1st pig synthetic line” as the principle research personnel. More than ten research projects has presided and participated, such as “Research and development of local pig breeding technology system and establishment of new lines” and “Comparative study on performance of small-ear spotted pig hybrid combinations”, he has published more than 20 articles and applied for more than 10 patents.