Jamie Ahloy Dallaire
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.
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Anik Boileau
Doctoral Candidate 2020 - present
Validation of a welfare assessment protocol of humpback and fin whales found in the Gulf of St-Lawrence, Sept-Îles area
Anik Boileau is whale researcher and animal welfare scientist that specialized on the use of infrared thermography in the emotional assessment of pigs engaged in agonistic behaviours. Her current research focuses on the validation of animal base welfare indicators to assess free range whales, including physical, physiological and behavioural indicators.
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gwendoline karoui
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.
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DOROTHÉE BLANCHET-BROCHU
Master's Student 2021 - present
Relationships between play and animal welfare in farmed piglets
Dorothée Blanchet-Brochu completed a bachelor's degree in agronomy, which allowed her to undertake internships in different areas, including dairy and vegetable production.
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Nicoletta Patamia
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.
[ nicoletta.patamia.1 at ulaval.ca ]Azzedine Chebahi
Doctoral Student 2021 - present
Study on the relationships between animal play and animal welfare
CHEBAHI Azzedine is a veterinarian who also obtained a master's in cellular physiology and physiopathology from the Faculty of Biology of the University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene. He has worked on zoonotic diseases, especially tuberculosis on which he has led studies in animals (ruminants) and humans. His experience has given him a global vision of health represented by the triad: Human health - Animal health - Environmental health. He has always been interested in the relationships between humans and animals, and this is what motivated him to pursue doctoral studies in animal science and to do research on animal behaviour.
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Pablo Dodoo
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.
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Luis Andrés Gonzalez Gracia
Doctoral Candidate 2022 - present
Analysis of social behaviour of pigs using automated data collection
Luis Andrés Gonzalez Gracia is a veterinarian with a specialization in Public Health and Preventative Medicine at the University of Buenos Aires, where he was part of the Animal Behaviour and Welfare Lab’s first members. During his Masters in Agroecosystems (Federal University of Santa Catarina) he studied social behavior in dairy cows, having the opportunity to work at the UBC Dairy Centre as an Emergent Leader in the Americas Program scholar. He is interested in animal cognition, social behaviour, and the use of technology to aid to improve the welfare of farmed animals.
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Anne Marthe Sophie Ngo Bibinbe
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.
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Former team members
Sophie Brajon
Postdoctoral Researcher 2018 - 2020 (primary supervisor: Frédéric Guay)
Welfare and productivity of sows housed in large groups: impact of genetics and hierarchical social status
Sophie Brajon is an ethologist specialised on the impact of living conditions on the behaviour and welfare of domestic animals, mainly pigs, mice and horses. Her research focuses on human-animal relationship, cognition and emotions, environmental enrichment, social behaviour, prenatal stress and perinatal mortality.
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CATHERINE GIRARD
Research intern 2021
Professionnal internship in agronomy (undergraduate)
Catherine Girard provided assistance with research projects, mainly on pigs and cows. She worked on a comparison of different accelerometers attached to cows' legs and participated in two projects focused on the nutrition of growing pigs and nursery piglets.
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Vicki Clouet-Côté
Introduction to research in animal science 2021
Studying agronomy - animal production (undergraduate)
Vicki Clouet-Côté joined the lab by taking the Introduction to research in animal science class. She worked on the characteristics and quantification of interactions between piglets and an unrelated sow in group housing during lactation. Joining the research group allowed her to further develop her scientific knowledge in perparation for undertaking graduate studies.
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