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SARA FAGGION
Position
Ricercatrice a tempo det. art. 24 c.3 lett. A L. 240/2010
Address
VIALE DELL'UNIVERSITA', 16 - LEGNARO PD
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Sara Faggion obtained a bachelor degree in Animal Science in 2011 and a master degree in Marine Biology in 2014. In 2019, she achieved a Ph.D. in Animal Science at the University of Padova.
Between 2017 and 2018, she was visiting researcher at the Institut Français de recherche pour l’exploitation de la mer (IFREMER). In 2019, after the achievement of the Ph.D degree, she went back to IFREMER, where she spent one year as a post-doctoral researcher.
From 2020 to 2021, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science of the University of Padova. From the begininnig of 2022, she works as a researcher (RtdA) at the same department.
She attended various training courses on the topics of animal selective breeding and genetic selection at the University of Padova and in France, and on disease challenge trials in aquaculture species at the Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU).
During her research activity, she was speaker at national and international conferences, and invited speker at international workshops. She is first author of several scientific papers published in top ranking international peer-reviewed journals.
Notices
Office hours
at Ufficio del docente presso Agripolis, Legnaro (Stecca 1 - Piano 1 - Dipartimento di Biomedicina Comparata e Alimentazione)
Il ricevimento può avvenire in qualsiasi giorno ed orario, ma deve essere concordato con il docente via e-mail (sara.faggion@unipd.it)
Publications
Sara Faggion is author of several scientific publications, including papers published in top ranking international peer-reviewed journals, abstracts published in international and national conference proceedings, and workshops/webinars.
The updated list of scientific publications can be find at the URL https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=uvMcrZYAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao
Research Area
The research activity of Sara Faggion involves the study of the genetic and genomic variability of important traits for breeding purposes of farmed fish and swine. In particular:
- study of nodavirus resistance in European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) and investigation of physiological and immunological parameters to be used as indirect traits for disease resistance;
- study of nodavirus resistance in gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata);
- study of boar taint compounds in intact male pigs and relationships between boar taint compounds and sexual behaviours;
- investigation of the potential and effectiveness of genomic tools in predicting the phenotype or pseudo-phenotypes using Bayesian methods or machine learning algorithms.
She was also involved in conservation and evolutionary genetics projects:
- study of the genetic architecture and population-specific evolution of the polygenic sex determination system of European sea bass in different environments;
- investigation of early sex-related growth trajectories using a combination of image analysis and a brand-new RFID technologies to tag 0.1 gr European sea bass larvae;
- genomically-assisted reconstruction of the ancestral sea bass Mediterranean lineage using local ancestry deconvolution and simulations of generations of selection.
