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Prof Alison Van Eenennaam (@BioBeef) @BioBeef

Animal 🐄 biotechnology/genetics, Uni of CA Davis, Mom, Consumer, Ag Science, 🇦🇺🇺🇸 Melbourne Uni, Food Evolution biobeef.faculty.ucdavis.edu

Joined September 2010
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Love this @NatureNews graphic from Research integrity: Don't let transparency damage science nature.com/news/research-int…
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Pam Kan-Rice@UCANRpam
Jun 13
CRISPR has become a widely used tool across medicine, research and agriculture. “Nature is basically gene editing all the time,” Alison Van Eenennaam @BioBeef tells @foodtank foodtank.com/news/2026/06/fo…

Food Tank Explains: CRISPR – Food Tank

CRISPR is a gene-editing technology that researchers are are using to study disease, develop crops, and modify livestock.

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My absolute favorite day of the year is graduation day with PhD students at @ucdavis @ucdavisCAES @UCDavisGrad #GradStudies #OurUCDavis #UCDavisGrad #ClassOf2026 #Commencement I don’t envy the announcer with these two complicated last names!! 🤣Congratulations @Visionphemy
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Had some delicious seedless, thornless gene 🧬edited blackberries from #pairwise in Colombia 🇨🇴 they have more compact architecture that allows higher yields - they were delicious 😋
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New member joined the lab today 🤩⁦@ucdavis⁩ 🧬🐑
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Beautuful start to #AGBTAg26 in Phoenix, AZ this morning - looking forward to women’s networking breakfast this morning 💃
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Here comes New World Screwworm to 🇺🇸 coming up from Central America and Mexico after a break in the sterile fly buffer that gad effectively controlled it for decades #AASV2026 #AASV
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The most @UCDavis photos of all time - turkeys visiting Meyer Hall 🦃
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Prof Alison Van Eenennaam (@BioBeef) retweeted
Joost Van Kasteren@joostvkasteren
11 Dec 2025
The FDA has approved the use of these gene-edited pigs for the U.S. market.
Prof Alison Van Eenennaam (@BioBeef)@BioBeef
11 Dec 2025
Interesting paper - the environmental footprint of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) -negative pigs on North American farms is 4–6% lower than industry average, and 9–17% lower than PRRSV-positive farms (Not sure why there is cat ⬇️🐷) frontiersin.org/journals/vet…
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Interesting paper - the environmental footprint of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) -negative pigs on North American farms is 4–6% lower than industry average, and 9–17% lower than PRRSV-positive farms (Not sure why there is cat ⬇️🐷) frontiersin.org/journals/vet…

Frontiers | The effects of PRRS on the environmental impact of pig production: a life cycle...

The Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) is a viral pig disease that increases mortality rates and reduces (re)production performance. This w...

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Speaking today at the First International Meeting on Genome 🧬 Editing in Aquaculture in beautiful Puerto Varas - lots of great research being done in disease resistance in salmon - let’s hope these disease resistant alleles can be introduced into commercial breeding programs
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ISBRSymposium@ISBRSymposium
5 Nov 2025
#ISBR2025 Dr @BioBeef is up presenting on the global status of gene edited food animals and their products.
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ISBRSymposium@ISBRSymposium
4 Nov 2025
#ISBR2025 Last speaker for this session is Dr Reinhilde Schoonjans. She takes us through the regulatory risk assessment and food innovation in Europe.
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Nice to see animal biotechnology on the main stage #ISBR2025 great talk on PRRS-resistant pigs 🐖
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We grew the purple GMO tomatoes at our home in Davis #ISBR2025
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Visited colleagues @EFSA_EU today in Parma, Italy 🇮🇹 en route to #ISBR2025 beautiful city and amazing 🤩 food!!
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Developing nations outpace Canada on gene-editing livestock - Farmtario - farmtario.com/livestock/deve…

Developing nations outpace Canada on gene-editing livestock | Farmtario

Canada may want to gauge how Argentina and other countries have approached gene editing in livestock and what that has meant for local innovation in developing countries.

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Prof Alison Van Eenennaam (@BioBeef) retweeted
Martin Smith
@martinalexsmith
14 Oct 2025
Keynote #2 undeway: Prof Alison Van Ennennaam @BioBeef #AGTA2025 "Despite 40 years of genetic engineering in animals, only 2 commercially available products". Showcases a meal prepared using purely GMO foods.
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Speaking at AGTA meeting in beautiful Sydney today on Scaling Gene 🧬 Editing to Livestock Breeding Programs - hard to beat the weather and the view at Coogee beach - great to be back in 🇦🇺 Oi Oi Oi
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