Research
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Latest papers
The inflammation saga: Breakthrough nutritional insights for poultry.
Poultry science · 2026
Systematic profiling of the chicken gut microbiome reveals dietary supplementation with antibiotics alters expression of multiple microbial pathways with minimal impact on community structure.
Microbiome · 2022
Latest funding
- $500,000
Increasing laying hen skeletal health and eggshell quality through phytase and plant-based vitamin D metabolite supplementation
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $152,134
Vitamin D supplementation to improve laying hen robustness, longevity, and egg quality
NSERC · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $149,956
Producing punicic acid in yeast and evaluating its application in reducing antibiotic use in poultry via synthetic biology and broiler trial
NSERC · 2020 · Co-investigator
2 publications.
The inflammation saga: Breakthrough nutritional insights for poultry.
Jha R, Korver D, Kim WK, Marchal L, Gibbs K, Halley J
Systematic profiling of the chicken gut microbiome reveals dietary supplementation with antibiotics alters expression of multiple microbial pathways with minimal impact on community structure.
Zou A, Nadeau K, Xiong X, Wang PW, Copeland JK, Lee JY, Pierre JS, Ty M, Taj B, Brumell JH, Guttman DS, Sharif S, Korver D, Parkinson J
Increasing laying hen skeletal health and eggshell quality through phytase and plant-based vitamin D metabolite supplementation
Principal investigators: Korver, Douglas
Keywords: Animal production and animal primary products; Agriculture and primary food production
Vitamin D supplementation to improve laying hen robustness, longevity, and egg quality
Principal investigators: Létourneau Montminy, Marie-Pierre MP
Keywords: bone; calcium; egg; immunity; laying hens; long cycle; longevity; phosphorus; productivity; vitamin d
Producing punicic acid in yeast and evaluating its application in reducing antibiotic use in poultry via synthetic biology and broiler trial
Principal investigators: Chen, Guanqun G
Keywords: broiler nutrition; broiler performance; broiler productivity and health; growth promoter; lipid; metabolic engineering; punicic acid; synthetic biology; yeast
Engineering probiotics to detect and target microbial pathogens
Principal investigators: Stuart, David
Keywords: Synthetic biology Probiotics biotherapeutics inflammation microbiota poultry necrotic enteritis
Prairie Poultry Research Collaboration Meeting
Principal investigators: Korver, Douglas
The relationship between cold-weather broiler chicken transport conditions and flock mortality
Principal investigators: Korver, Douglas
Effects of pullet rearing environment on bone biology, behaviour, productivity and welfare of laying hens in enriched cages
Principal investigators: Widowski, Tina
Bone metabolism and inflammation in modern and random-bred meat- and egg-type domestic fowl
Principal investigators: Korver, Douglas
Bone metabolism and inflammation in slow- and fast-growing domestic fowl
Principal investigators: Korver, Douglas
Protein metabolism during the acute phase inflammatory response in the domestic fowl
Principal investigators: Korver, Douglas
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- John Parkinson and David Guttman: 22 shared papers
- John Brumell and John Parkinson: 16 shared papers
- John Brumell and David Guttman: 16 shared papers
- John Brumell and Doug Korver: 1 shared paper
- John Parkinson and Doug Korver: 1 shared paper
- David Guttman and Doug Korver: 1 shared paper
- Department of Cell & Systems Biology
- Department of Molecular Genetics
- Department of Biochemistry
- Other
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