Roberta Rostellato

A biotechnologist in the world of animal breeding. After a bachelor’s degree in “Biotecnologie Sanitarie“, I obtained my master’s degree in “Biotecnologie per l’Alimentazione” in 2011. After my academic studies, I moved my research interest from biotechnology to animal sciences. My scientific interests are in the use of genetic and genomic information to improve selective breeding in livestock. In 2012 I started my PhD at BCA department (University of Padova). The main objectives of my PhD thesis were to provide increase knowledge about new traits, relevant for heavy pig farming, and to investigate new statistical models and genetic evaluation procedures to improve the prediction of breeding values for carcass and ham quality traits. After a two-years postdoc, I moved to France to work at INRAE where I was involved in different projects focused on quantitative genetics and animal breeding in dairy cattle and dairy goats. At present, I work as quantitative geneticist at the French Genetic Evaluation Centre (GenEval, France).