Professor Andrea Piva graduated in 1990 cum laude at
Universita' Cattolica del S.Cuore, Piacenza, Italy in Agricultural
Science, for which he received the Georgofili Award by the italian
President of the Minister Council in 1991. He defended his PhD in
1993 in Molecular Biotecnology with a joint program at the
Biotechnology Research Center, Cremona, and at the Cell and
Molecular Biology Group, Dept. of Biochemistry, University College
Galway, Ireland. He was assigned the position of Assistant
Professor at Dept. of Morpho-Physiology and Animal Production
(DIMORFIPA), School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bologna
in 1992, Assistant Professor with tenure in 1995, Associate
Professor at DIMORFIPA in 2000 and since 2004 Full Professor in
animal nutrition at School of Veterinary Medicine, University of
Bologna.
He was visiting scientist at the Food Research Institute, Dept.
of Food Microbiology & Toxicology, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, from 1995 until 1999 as Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle
Ricerche scholar, as participant of the “Fulbright
Program", sponsored by the United States Department of State,
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and of the Program
“Short Term-Mobility 1998" of the Italian Consiglio
Nazionale delle Ricerche. He was then visiting scientist as
participant of the “Co-operative Research Programme:
Biological Resource Management for Sustainable Agricultural
Systems" with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD), at the Eastern Regional Research Center,
Agricultural Research Service, USDA in 1999-2000.
His research activities are related to the antimicrobial
activity of lactic acid bacteria, intestinal ecosystem and
metabolism, and diet and intestinal mucosa interactions in food
animals.
He is the research leader of projects co-sponsored by the
regional government and private companies in the field of
alternative strategies to antibiotic growth promoters and in the
field of food-born pathogens in the swine and poultry food chain as
well as projects sponsored by the Italian MIUR (Ministry of
Education, University and Research), relative to mycotoxins
contamination and preventive strategies.
Prof. Piva has served as reviewer for the following journals:
Livestock Production Science (Official Journal of the
European Association for Animal Production), British Journal of
Nutrition, Italian Journal of Animal Science,
Agricultural and Food Science, Canadian Journal of
Animal Science, Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal
Nutrition.
He is author of 277 publications, of which 99 in peer-review
journals, 5 book chapters, 2 editorships.
