NEWS FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE December 2023 93 Linn Anne Bjelland Brunborg (47) accepted the position of Director of Nofima’s Aquaculture Division. She arrives after leaving her position as General Manager of Orkla Ocean and will start as Division Director at the Norwegian food research institute Nofima on 1 January. “We are very happy that Linn Anne is joining our team. As an institute for applied research, close contact with industry is important. Before gaining solid experience as a leader in the private sector over the past 10-12 years, Linn Anne worked as a researcher,” said Bente Torstensen, CEO of Nofima. Linn Anne Bjelland Brunborg studied human nutrition at the University of Bergen and started her professional career as a researcher at Nifes in Bergen. She worked for Norgesmøllene before joining Orkla in 2012. There, she held several senior positions and worked as General Manager of Orkla Ocean for the past three years. “Both from my time as a researcher and from my time in the business sector, I know that there are many research results that can contribute to restructuring. Nofima has a vision of sustainable food for everyone, and here lies the core of what I want to achieve in my new job: We will contribute to and influence the restructuring that is needed in the food industry. We will contribute to innovations that make it possible,” said Bjelland Brunborg. Read more>> Linn Anne Brunborg to start as division director at Nofima on 1 January Linn Anne Bjelland Brunborg • Attachment to Pets Among Women with a History of Childhood Abuse - Researcher: Magdalena Żebrowska, Medical University of Vienna, Austria • Can Dogs Improve Students' Wellbeing Without Harming Their Own - Researcher: Tracy A. Doucette, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada Additionally, the livestock industry is plagued by bovine respiratory disease (BRD), an infectious condition that can spread through a herd and comprises an estimated 80% of antibiotic treatments. ICASA awarded Ergense Inc. and Kansas State University (K-State) grants to improve understanding of BRD and reduce excess antibiotic usage. FFAR awarded Thomas Darbonne from Ergense Inc. a $50,000 grant through ICASA to develop an acoustic monitoring technique to inform antibiotic treatment of cattle for BRD. The standard procedure for cattle arriving at a feedlot is to place each lot of cattle into a receiving pen for at least 24 hours to let them settle, and the livestock management workers decide whether the entire pen should receive antibiotic treatment based on various animal health factors. To reduce treatment subjectivity, Darbonne is developing an audio monitoring technique that uses machine learning to analyse the acoustic signatures of animal vocalisations to inform the BRD treatment decision. FFAR awarded Dr. Natalia Cernicchiaro and Dr. David Renter from K-State a $124,948 grant through ICASA to improve understanding of how feedlot cattle are classified based on BRD risk. These researchers are gathering information from industry stakeholders on current practices and knowledge gaps related to whole-pen antibiotic metaphylaxis administration for BRD. Read more>>
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