Andrea Serra

Location: VIA DEL BORGHETTO, 80, 56124 PISA

Email: andrea.serra@unipi.it

Phone: 050 2218949

Profile

Position: Professore Associato

Unit: Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Agro-ambientali

Scientific-disciplinary sector: Zootecnia Generale e Miglioramento Genetico AGRI-09/A

Positions

  • Direttore Centri Interdip. - Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca "Nutraceutica e Alimentazione per la Salute"
  • Vice Coordinatore - Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Agro-ambientali


Associate Professor of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, teaches “Food and physiology of human nutrition” and “general husbandry”. He deals with the study of the effect of the genetic and nutritional factors on the quality of products from bovine, ovine, goats and swines and in particular on the nutritional quality of lipid fraction of milk and meat, and derived products: fatty acids and their effect on human health, unsaponifiable matter (cholesterol, liposoluble vitamins); fatty acids oxidation; cholesterol oxidation; aromatic compounds (organoleptic characteristics, protection from the lipid oxidation, and traceability of food). Since 2005 is an Ordinary member of ASPA (Animal Science and Production Association). Co-author of 150 scientific publications 71 of which are published in ISI journals. Since November 2017 he is the president of the master's degree courses of "Food biosafety and quality" and "Plant and microbe biotechnologies"


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Mode of office hours: Il mercoledì dalle ore 9 e 30 alle ore 12 e 30. Per appuntamento, tramite mail, tutti gli altri giorni.

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