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Dr. Fan’s core expertise is in the area of gastrointestinal physiology, nutrition and metabolism in pigs. His research focuses on understanding how nutrients affect physiological functions, wellbeing and health. He is also looking at how nutrients are connected to and is actively engaging in development of novel enzyme biotechnologies to address the issues of environmental sustainability, such as excessive manure phosphorus excretion, greenhouse gas biogenesis and emission, pathogen and antimicrobial resistance concerns, as related to intensive food animal production as well as critical challenges facing food animal and human health management.
Dr. Fan has produced a number of papers published in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, research abstracts in peer-reviewed journals through conference presentations, conference and workshop presentations, and short-version extension publications. His most significant contributions to research and practical applications include the following:
Pioneered the development of novel methods for determining the gastrointestinal endogenous nutrient outputs; and how amino acids and minerals were truly digested and absorbed in the pig’s intestines from different types of feeds. These research activities have contributed to formulation of commercial compound feeds for pigs based on how digestible the ingredients are, and reduced feeding costs and the problem of excessive nutrient excretion in the manure from swine production.
Contributed to the development of the enviropig ™ in Guelph, Canada; and the recent multi-transgene pig in China. These research activities have demonstrated that transgenic domestic food-animal biotechnologies could potentially resolve critical issues of sustainability in food animal production on a global scale.
Identified specific amino acids and sugar transporters in the intestines of young pigs that support efficient nutrient digestion and growth. This has clarified the roles of these molecules in animals but also has applications for humans with conditions such as low-birth-weight infants with compromised intestinal function; and chronic bowel inflammation.
Shown that increasing luminal alkaline phosphatase function in early-weaned young pigs is an effective alternative to using feed antimicrobials to improve health and minimize morbidity and mortality. This is important as concerns about antimicrobial resistance increase.
Developed a novel method for measuring in vivo organ and tissue protein synthesis, to help understand factors affecting gene expression at the post-transcriptional level in growth and metabolism.
Demonstrated how the soluble fibre guar gum in the diet promotes gut health and reduces “bad” cholesterol in pigs fed a high-fat diet, and showed that crystalline cellulose is not effective because it is readily degraded in in the pig’s small and large bowel. This is has led to the discovery of new multi-functional processive cellulases from the pig’s gut microbiome with potential industrial biotechnology applications.
Dr. Fan’s core expertise is in the area of gastrointestinal physiology, nutrition and metabolism in pigs. His research focuses on understanding how nutrients affect physiological functions, wellbeing and health. He is also looking at how nutrients are connected to and is actively engaging in development of novel enzyme biotechnologies to address the issues of environmental sustainability, such as excessive manure phosphorus excretion, greenhouse gas biogenesis and emission, pathogen and antimicrobial resistance concerns, as related to intensive food animal production as well as critical challenges facing food animal and human health management.
Dr. Fan has produced a number of papers published in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, research abstracts in peer-reviewed journals through conference presentations, conference and workshop presentations, and short-version extension publications. His most significant contributions to research and practical applications include the following:
Pioneered the development of novel methods for determining the gastrointestinal endogenous nutrient outputs; and how amino acids and minerals were truly digested and absorbed in the pig’s intestines from different types of feeds. These research activities have contributed to formulation of commercial compound feeds for pigs based on how digestible the ingredients are, and reduced feeding costs and the problem of excessive nutrient excretion in the manure from swine production.
Contributed to the development of the enviropig ™ in Guelph, Canada; and the recent multi-transgene pig in China. These research activities have demonstrated that transgenic domestic food-animal biotechnologies could potentially resolve critical issues of sustainability in food animal production on a global scale.
Identified specific amino acids and sugar transporters in the intestines of young pigs that support efficient nutrient digestion and growth. This has clarified the roles of these molecules in animals but also has applications for humans with conditions such as low-birth-weight infants with compromised intestinal function; and chronic bowel inflammation.
Shown that increasing luminal alkaline phosphatase function in early-weaned young pigs is an effective alternative to using feed antimicrobials to improve health and minimize morbidity and mortality. This is important as concerns about antimicrobial resistance increase.
Developed a novel method for measuring in vivo organ and tissue protein synthesis, to help understand factors affecting gene expression at the post-transcriptional level in growth and metabolism.
Demonstrated how the soluble fibre guar gum in the diet promotes gut health and reduces “bad” cholesterol in pigs fed a high-fat diet, and showed that crystalline cellulose is not effective because it is readily degraded in in the pig’s small and large bowel. This is has led to the discovery of new multi-functional processive cellulases from the pig’s gut microbiome with potential industrial biotechnology applications.
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#Papers: 272
#Citation: 6048
H-Index: 41
G-Index: 71
Sociability: 7
Diversity: 0
Activity: 0
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