- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
- Biosensors and Analytical Detection
- Food Supply Chain Traceability
- Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
- Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Smart Agriculture and AI
- Electrochemical sensors and biosensors
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Animal Nutrition and Physiology
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- 3D Printing in Biomedical Research
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
- Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
- Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications
- Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis
- Food composition and properties
- Analytical Chemistry and Sensors
- Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
- Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies
Dalhousie University
2023-2025
University of Waterloo
2024
Wageningen University & Research
2020-2023
Canadian Bioethics Society
2023
University of Guelph
2012-2019
Global Hospitals
2019
Madras Medical College
2019
Stanley Medical College
2019
General Electric (Israel)
2019
Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital
2017
Biosensors, as an application for animal health management, are emerging market that is quickly gaining recognition in the global market. Globally, a number of sensors being produced management at various stages commercialization. Some technologies producing accurate status and disease diagnosis applicable only humans, with few modifications or testing models. Now, these innovative considered their future use livestock development welfare. Precision farming techniques, which include wide...
Ever since man began domesticating animals several thousand years ago, we have always relied on our intuition, collective knowledge, and sensory signals to make effective animal production decisions. So far, this has helped us significant gains in husbandry farming. Together the growing demand for food advancement sensing technology potential farming more centralized, large scale efficient. It change as know it. At a broader level, paper explores challenges opportunities that sensor...
Current methods for testing treatments veterinary surgical site infections can successfully emulate elements of a chronic wound, but these are time consuming and costly, requiring specialized laboratory equipment considerable space to house study animals. Microfluidic devices however, be coated with collagen maintained at basal body temperature, providing more cost-effective space-saving model wound. Our assesses the applicability new microfluidic by activity DispersinB against biofilms...
As the global human population increases, livestock agriculture must adapt to provide more products and with improved efficiency while also addressing concerns about animal welfare, environmental sustainability, public health. The purpose of this paper is critically review current state art in digitalizing Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) technologies, specifically biometric sensors, big data, blockchain technology. Biometric sensors include either noninvasive or invasive that monitor an...
The automatic detection, counting and tracking of individual flocked chickens in the poultry industry is paramount to enhance farming productivity animal welfare. Due methodological difficulties, such as complex background images, varying lighting conditions, occlusions from e.g., feeding stations, water nipple stations barriers chicken rearing production floor, it a challenging task automatically recognize track birds using computer software. Here, deep learning model based on You Only Look...
Abstract In the wake of rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and sensor technologies, a new horizon possibilities has emerged across diverse sectors. Livestock farming, domain often sidelined conventional AI discussions, stands at cusp this transformative wave. This paper delves into profound potential innovations reshaping animal welfare livestock with pronounced emphasis on human-centric paradigm. Central to our discourse is symbiotic interplay between cutting-edge technology...
The emergence of precision and digital livestock farming presents an opportunity for sustainable animal practices that enhance welfare health. However, this transformation modern through technology has several implications the technological, social, economic, environmental aspects farming. It is crucial to analyze ethical considerations associated with digitalization farming, particularly in context human–animal relationships potential objectification. This analysis can help develop...
A sensitive and specific immunosensor for the detection of hormones cortisol lactate in human or animal biological fluids, such as sweat saliva, was devised using label-free electrochemical chronoamperometric technique. By these fluids instead blood, biosensor becomes noninvasive is less stressful to end user, who may be a small child farm animal. Electroreduced graphene oxide (e-RGO) used synergistic platform signal amplification template bioconjugation sensing mechanism on screen-printed...
Abstract Nanomaterials without chemical linkers or physical interactions that reside on a two-dimensional surface are attractive because of their electronic, optical and catalytic properties. An in situ method has been developed to fabricate gold nanoparticle (Au NP) films different substrates, regardless whether they hydrophilic hydrophobic surfaces, including glass, 96-well polystyrene plates, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). A mixture sodium formate (HCOONa) chloroauric acid (HAuCl 4 )...
The risks associated with the presence of hidden allergens in food have increased need for rapid, sensitive, and reliable methods tracing commodities. Conventional enzyme immunosorbent assay (ELISA) has usually been performed a centralized lab, requiring considerable time sample/reagent consumption expensive detection instruments. In this study, microfluidic ELISA platform combined custom-designed optical sensor was developed quantitative analysis proteins wheat gluten Ara h 1. biosensor...