FROM SCIENCE TO CATTLE PRODUCTION AND HEALTH
Dr. Guan’s group is one of the leading teams in animal functional genomics and microbiology.
Her research program is in the field of host-microbiome interaction and functional genomics in food producing animals, mainly cattle. Her research focuses on:
- Elucidation of the molecular mechanisms of host-microbiome interactions by characterization of bovine gut microbiome and its functions using metagenomics/metatranscriptomics/metabolomics approaches, and host gene expression using a functional genomics approach
- Association between gut microbial ecology and feed efficiency, methane emission and gut immunity development in beef and dairy cattle
- Understanding of the bovine transcriptome, proteome, and non-coding RNAs and their roles in economically important traits.
Her core competence relates to microbial genomics, microbiome metagenomics and metatranscriptomics, microbial ecology, transcriptomics, proteomics and non-coding RNAs, cattle physiology and metabolism.