Presentation

The BIOEPAR Joint Research Unit (UMR) comes under 2 supervising institutions, Oniris and INRAE. At INRAE, the unit is attached to the Animal Health division.
Our research is part of the response to the following challenges:

•  Reducing the use of anti-infective drugs in animal production (cattle, pigs and fish),
•  Preventing disease at farm, regional and industry level,
•  Adapting animal health management to changes in farming systems.

Our objectives are to understand and act on the determinants and transmission of infectious diseases in farm animals, using a multidisciplinary, multi-scale approach.
These objectives can be broken down into four research questions:

•  Evaluating methods and strategies for disease control and animal health management,
•  Measuring health status and host reactions, and understanding how they are determined.
• Understanding the transmission and population dynamics of pathogens and vectors,
• Characterising the variability of pathogens and vectors.

The unit brings together scientists from a wide range of disciplines : epidemiology, modelling, artificial intelligence, parasitology, bacteriology, immunology, infectiology, pharmacology, genomics, ecology, evolutionary biology, economics and management sciences. This wealth of disciplines enables interdisciplinary research programmes to be developed.