Ruminant Feed Innovation Team

DIAO Qiyu

Emeritus Professor

Dr. Qiyu Diao, Professor, the special allowance expert of the State Council, specializes in Animal Nutrition and Feed Science. He is an expert in nutrition and physiology and breeding of young ruminants, and also the editor of national nutrient requirements of meat-type sheep and goats. He received PhD degree in Animal Physiology and Nutrition from University of Göttingen in Germany. He is a doctoral supervisor in Institute of Feed Research of CAAS and in Lanzhou University, an academic advisor of “Light of West China” visiting scholar, director of Functional Laboratory of Nutrition and Feed in National Meat-type Sheep and Goats Technology System, and Beijing Key Laboratory of Dairy Nutrition chairman of Scientific and Technology Innovation Alliance for Healthy Production of Herbivores, and Beijing Low Carbon Agriculture Association, and director of Ruminant Committee in Animal Nutrition Branch of Chinese Association of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine.

TU Yan

Chief Scientist

Yan Tu, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, Director of the Ruminant Feed Innovation Team. She is mainly engaged in the research on theories and practical production technologies in the discipline of ruminant nutrition and feed, with a focus on nutritional regulation technologies for calves and replacement heifers, development of roughage for ruminants, and low-carbon emission reduction technologies. In the field of technology and product R&D, she is one of the inventors of China's first milk replacers for calves and lambs. The milk replacers she developed have laid a material foundation for the successful rearing of calves and lambs in China. She serves as a member of the Expert Steering Group for Comprehensive Utilization of Crop Straw under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Standing Director of the Animal Nutrition Branch of the Chinese Association of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Deputy Director of the Ruminant Professional Committee, Director of the Beijing Key Laboratory of Dairy Cow Nutrition, Vice Chairman of the Feed Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance, and Chinese Director of the Sino-US Research Center for Ruminant and Young Animal Nutritional Metabolism. Furthermore, she has published more than 100 SCI papers, holds 22 authorized national invention patents, including 3 China Patent Excellence Award, and has formulated and revised 14 national and industrial standards.

Team Members

Key scientific researchers: MA Tao  Executive Chief , ZHANG Naifeng Professor , DING Hongbiao Professor ,

BI Yanling Professor , DONG Lifeng    Associate Professor , LIU Yunlong    Research Assistant