Email address
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DR. ALAMANDA CALVERT
Education
BS, Animal Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
MS, Animal Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
PhD, Animal and Poultry Science, Virginia Polytechnic State University, Blacksburg, Virginia
Background and Research Interests
Dr. Alamanda Calvert is a Risk Analyst on the Secure Food Systems team. Her current work focuses on biosecurity risk assessment, disease response planning, and continuity-of-business strategies for the commercial poultry industry during high-consequence animal disease outbreaks.
She has over a decade of experience working with the turkey and layer industries utilizing her expertise in monogastric nutrition, gastrointestinal systems, and probiotics and prebiotics. Alamanda has a research interest in the relationship of nutrition, disease and immunology and has previously used this knowledge to support poultry and swine producers with challenges both bacterial and protozoal (for example: Salmonella spp., E. coli, Clostridium perfringens, Riemerella anatipestifer and Eimeria spp.).