Yuna Min

　　 　　

1. Personal Information

Yuna Min, born in January 1976 in Weinan, Shaanxi province, Professor of Northwest A&F University, Doctoral advisor. She is also the head of Yangling Experimental Station of China Agriculture Research System of MOF and MARA ( laying hen special item), and post expert and secretary general of Shaanxi Poultry Industry Technology System, as well as Poultry Science, Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition and other periodicals reviewer expert.  

2. Education and Academic Experience

1994/09-1998/06  Bachelor degree, College of Animal Science and Technology, Southwest University

2002/09-2005/06  Master degree, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University

2005/09-2011/11  PhD degree, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University (Two years of co-training phD at University of Arkansas)

3. Research Focus

Poultry nutrition and intestinal health; Nutritional regulation mechanism of egg quality

4. Courses

Undergrate courses: Poultry Production, Animal Husbandry Industry Special Topic,  and Animal Husbandry Big Data Analysis, etc. graduate courses: Progress in Animal Nutrition research, and Efficient and Healthy Animal Breeding Techniques. Currently, there are 10 doctoral and master students in progress.

5. Academic Achievements

She has hosted and participated in more than 10 scientific research projects, won 3 provincial and ministerial science and technology achievement awards, published more than 70 papers in domestic and foreign academic journals (including more than 40 first/corresponding author), obtained 5 national invention patents, 10 computer software Copyrights, and participated in editing 4 books.  

Main Publications:

Lv J, Guo LJ, Chen BX, Hao KY, Ma H, Liu YL, Min YN*. Effects of different probiotic fermented feeds on production performance and intestinal health of laying hens. Poultry Science, 2021 (Accepted)

Guo LJ, Lv J, Liu YL, Ma H, Chen BX, Hao KY, Feng J, Min YN*. Effects of different fermented feeds on production performance, cecal microorganisms, and intestinal immunity of laying hens. Animals, 2021, DOI:10.3390/ani11102799

Min YN, Liu FX, Qi X, Ji S, Cui L, Wang, ZP, and Gao YP*. Effects of organic zinc on tibia quality, mineral deposit, and metallothionein expression level of aged hens. Poultry Science, 2019, 98(1): 366-372

Min YN, Liu FX, Qi X, Ji S, Ma SX, Liu X, Wang ZP, Gao YP* . Effects of methionine hydroxyl analog chelated zinc on laying performance, eggshell quality, eggshell mineral deposition, and activities of Zn-containing enzymes in aged laying hens. Poultry Science, 2018, 97(10): 3587-3593

Min YN, Niu ZY, Sun TT, Wang ZP, Jiao PX, Zi BB, Chen PP, Tian DL, Liu FZ*. Vitamin E and vitamin C supplementation improves antioxidant status and immune function in oxidative-stressed breeder roosters by up-regulating expression of GSH-Px gene. Poultry Science, 2018, 97(4): 1238-1244

Min YN, Liu SG, Qu ZX, Meng GH, Gao YP. Effects of dietary threonine levels on growth performance, serum biochemical indices, antioxidant capacities and gut morphology in broiler chickens. Poultry Science, 2017, 96(5):1290-1297

Min YN, Sun TT, Niu ZY, Liu FZ*. Vitamin C and vitamin E supplementation alleviates oxidative stress induced by dexamethasone and improves semen quality and antioxidative status of breeder roosters. Animal Reproduction Science, 2016, 171:1-6

Ji SY, Qi X, Ma SX, Liu X, Liu SG, Min YN*. A deficient or an excess of dietary threonine level affects intestinal mucosal integrity and barrier function in broiler chickens. Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition, 2019, DOI: 10.1111/jpn.13185

Qi X, Ji SY, Ma SX, Liu X, Wang ZP, Gao YP, Min YN*. Effects of the methionine hydroxyl analogue chelate zinc on antioxidants and liver metabolism using 1H-NMR-based metabolomics in aged laying hens. Animals, 2019, DOI:10.3390/ani9100739

6. Academic Award

Introduction and breeding of Roman layer improved breeds and promotion of supporting high-efficiency breeding technology, first prize of Shaanxi agricultural technology promotion achievement (7/19), 2007

Research on Key Technologies of laying hens efficient hybrid combination and health function egg production, second prize of Shaanxi science and Technology (2/9), 2010

Research and demonstration of key technologies for green egg production and development of low cholesterol egg products, third prize of science and technology of Shaanxi Province (5/9), 2011

7. Contact Information

Postal Address: College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China, 712100

E-mail: minyuna2003@163.com