Bianca Cuccaro

Self-presentation:

Bianca Cuccaro is a zootechnician currently associated with the Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Productions, Naples. Her research focus is on infectious diseases of livestock and the application of in vitro models for the analysis for tumour development.

Project:

Anatomo-histo-pathological and genetic features of sheep mastitis.

The increasing demand for sheep dairy products from organic farming systems highlights the need for mastitis prevention. This disease negatively impacts milk production and quality and poses potential risks to public health. It has been shown that the likelihood of dairy breeds to develop mastitis is also connected to their genetic susceptibility to pathogens. My project, focused on ovine mastitis, aims to identify genetic factors predisposing to mastitis and to correlate these factors with the severity of mammary lesions, contributing to improved animal health and welfare, food safety and livestock breeding environmental impact.

Supervisior:

Prof. Brunella Restucci,
Section of Veterinary General Pathology and Pathological Anatomy,
GSD: 07/MVET-02, SSD: MVET-02/A,
Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Production

Prof. Sara Albarella,
Section of Livestock Systems,
Animal breeding and Genetics,
GSD 07/AGRI-09, SSD: AGRI-09/A,
Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Production