Assistant Professor

Prior to arriving at Université Laval in 2018, Jamie Ahloy-Dallaire worked with various farm and lab animals, primarily mink and mice. His research has touched on abnormal behaviour, juvenile play, pain assessment, validity of biomedical animal models, and development of automated research and monitoring tools.

Doctoral Candidate 2021 - present

Robustness of emotion welfare in swine: development and validation of an automated measurement tool to facilitate genetic selection

Gwendoline Karoui completed a master's in human and animal behaviour at Université de Rennes, including research projects on aggression in pigs and on dam rearing of dairy calves. She is primarily interested in farm mammal welfare.

Doctoral Candidate 2021 - present

Characterising and promoting positive social dynamics to make piglets more resilient to infectious disease

Nicoletta Patamia earned a specialisation in applied ethology and animal welfare and a bachelor's in animal science at the University of Milan. Her professional experience in contact with farmers has greatly enriched her knowledge of the zootechnic sector, in which she has worked with cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, and poultry. She has additionally worked on prevention of undesirable behaviours in dogs, as well as bite prevention in children.

Master's Student 2021 - present

Effects of rye supplementation on welfare of sows and piglets

Pablo Dodoo is an agronomist engineer in animal production and biotechnology. He completed his professional master's at the Faculty of Agronomic Science at the University of Abomey-Calavi (Benin, West Africa). During his university studies, he has worked in zootechnics and animal nutrition, notably on pigs, fish and poultry. He is interesting in improving food animal production techniques and processes to improve human nutrition, while caring for the environment and other aspects including the welfare of the animals in question.

Doctoral Student 2022 - present (primary supervisor: Éric Paquet)

Animal tracking and behaviour recognition using computer vision

NGO BIBINBE Anne Marthe Sophie is a computer engineer graduated from Polytechnique Yaoundé with a specialisation in data science from the University of Clermont Auvergne, where she developed a passion for artificial intelligence. She is currently specialised in computer vision, notably in multiple object tracking and event recognition.