• Dr. Anna Rogiewicz
  • Assistant Professor, Animal Science

    University of Manitoba (Fort Garry campus)
    Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
    228 Animal Science/Entomology
    12 Dafoe Road
    Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada

    204-474-9527
    anna.rogiewicz@umanitoba.ca

Education

  • PhD Animal Science, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland
  • MSc Animal Science, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland

Teaching

  • NSC 7450/HNSC 7450 Energy and Carbohydrate Nutrition and Metabolism
  • ANSC 4550 Avian Production Systems
  • ANSC 0700 Poultry Production and Management

Research

Research interests

  • Nutritional biochemistry with focus on dietary fibre and its components
  • Chemical composition and nutritive characteristics of conventional and alternative feed ingredients
  • Enzyme technology towards improvement of the nutritive value of feedstuffs
  • Development of a new generation of enzyme supplements for animal feeds
  • Prebiotic properties of enzyme hydrolysis products and yeast bioactives
  • Utilization of canola feed ingredients for poultry and swine. Poultry nutrition.

Current research projects

  • Enhancement of the feeding value of feedstuffs using exogenous enzymes.
  • Effective use of novel canola feed ingredients
  • Development of a tool for rapid analysis of nutrient contents in feed ingredients (NIRS)
  • Enzyme hydrolysis products (prebiotics) as alternatives to antibiotics in poultry and swine nutrition
  • Impacts of canola meal on gut microbiota and potential prebiotic effect of enzymatically-released bioactive fibre components for monogastric animals
  • Novel bioactives of yeast: enzymatic release, identification and their prebiotic effects.

Publications

ORCID