Nabeel Alnahhas

Nabeel Alnahhas is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences of Université Laval, Canada. His research focuses on animal growth, nutrition, and welfare, particularly in poultry production systems.

• Email: nabeel.alnahhas@fsaa.ulaval.ca
• Address: Paul-Comtois Pavilion, 2425 rue de l'Agriculture, Local 4131, Université Laval

Research Interests: Dr. Alnahhas investigates:

• Mechanisms of heat stress adaptation in broiler chickens
• Nutritional strategies for optimizing protein efficiency
• Development of biomarkers for fertility prediction
• Intestinal microbiome programming for reduced antimicrobial use
• Pathophysiology of breast muscle myopathies

Article Trends: Recent publications emphasize thermal stress mitigation, low-protein diets, in ovo feeding, and muscle myopathy mechanisms in broiler chickens, with multidisciplinary approaches spanning physiology, genetics, and food science.

Funding Highlights: Actively leading grants from prestigious organizations including:

• Génome Québec (2024-2026, 2022-2025)
• Ministère de l'agriculture, des pêcheries et de l'alimentation (2024-2027, 2022-2024, 2022-2024)
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (2022-2027)
• MITACS Inc. (2024-2025)

Trainee Supervision: Currently mentoring four graduate students in Animal Sciences while having successfully guided three recent graduates in the last five years.