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Stress, Poultry, Animal Welfare, Animal Physiology, Immunology, Comparative Endocrinology
Spain, Argentina, Sweden

Biography

My interest in physiological interactions started during my first years of College. I started working in Prof. Dr Raul Marin’s research group in 2006 as an “ad-honorem” intern. In 2009, I obtained the Biology degree (Honours) from UNC, Argentina, and was recognized with two awards Merit in Academic Performance Recognition of Academic Achievement and The Highest Grades of Natural Sciences Degree. The results of my thesis for the Degree in Biology were published in Stress were published as my first scientific publication as the first author. I was admitted (01/04/2010) to the PhD program in Biological Sciences at the UNC under the supervision of Profs. Marin and Correa (both CONICET Senior Researchers). During my PhD, I focused on “The potential existence of immune-neuroendocrine phenotypes in avian species and its modulation by chronic stress situations” (the National University of Córdoba and Biological and Technological Research Institute). In 2010 and 2013, I obtained two competitive Graduated fellowships from CONICET to support my PhD work. I worked in collaboration with Dr Ana Dalcero and Alejandra Magnoli from Universidad Nacional de Río IV, Cordoba, Argentina, deepening my knowledge on poultry physiological stressors. In 2012 I was granted an international fellowship from the program “Strengthening of the Institutional and International Dimension between Universidad Nacional de Cordoba - Universidad Complutense de Madrid”, from September 15th to December 16th. The stay was extended for two months due to the productive interaction with Prof. Inma Estevez at Neiker (Basque-Country) which led to two high impact scientific publications. On 01/04/2015, I was awarded the best postdoctoral fellowship granted by the Argentinian Government to be developed at the Centre of Clinical Biochemistry Research (CIBICI). My profile has led me to work in very competitive institutions in collaboration with recognized professionals: Prof. Silvia Correa CONICET-UNC (Cordoba, Argentina), Prof. Inma Estevez at Neiker (Vitoria, Basque Country), Dr Alfredo Toraño and Dr Mercedez Dominguez at Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Madrid, Spain) and Prof. Linda Keeling at The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Uppsala, Sweden). I have been awarded the best Argentinian research grants for a scientist my age. I have supervised four MSc projects with that founding. I am currently a co-supervisor for four ongoing PhDs Theses, one of which is in collaboration with Prof. Keeling. I have been invited to serve as a reviewer for 10 indexed journals and invited as a guest speaker to Conferences in well-known universities/institutes (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sweden), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Spain), National University of Saint Luis (Argentina), and Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto (Argentina)). I have always been interested in knowledge transfer. I have taught during the last 10 years at the National University of Cordoba, having obtained a tenured professor position in 2013. I have complementarily developed the Pedagogical path for teacher affiliation and have taken part in numerous events to bring science and its results closer to the public. I have developed a multifaceted experience portfolio, from physiology to molecular biology. My career has been multi-institutional, helping consolidate a solid national and international reputation.

Activities

Employment (6)

University of the Basque Country: Leioa, Alava, ES

2023-02-01 to present | Scientific Researcher - Project / Innovation Manager (Analytical chemistry and Zoology and Animal Cell Biology Faculty of Pharmacy)
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Franco Nicolas Nazar

CONICET Cordoba: Cordoba, Córdoba, AR

2016-10-01 to 2023-12-02 | Researcher - Project Manager (Biological and Technological Research Institute)
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Freelance Consultant - Animal physiology and welfare: Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava, ES

2021-11-01 to 2022-12-16 | Freelance Consultant -
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Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales: Cordoba, Córdoba, AR

2013-06-01 to 2022-09-02 | Professor (Animal Morphology - Ecology and Biological Diversity / Animal Welfare)
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NEIKER Instituto Vasco de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario SA: Vitoria-Gasteiz, País Vasco, ES

2019-12 to 2021-06-12 | Scientific Researcher - Postdoctoral (Animal Production)
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Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales: Cordoba, Córdoba, AR

2009-09-01 to 2012-03-01 | Helper Professor (Chemistry)
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Education and qualifications (4)

University of the Basque Country: Leioa, ES

2022-04-01 to present | PhD Equivalence
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Facultad de Ciencias Quimicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba: Cordoba, Cordoba, AR

2015-03-27 to 2016-09-30 | Post-Doc (Clinical Biochemistry)
Education
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Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales: Cordoba, Córdoba, AR

2011-02-01 to 2015-03-26 | PhD in Biological Sciences
Education
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Universidad Nacional de Córdoba: Cordoba, Córdoba, AR

2004-03-01 to 2009-12-19 | Biologist
Education
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Professional activities (1)

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences: Uppsala, SE

2017-10-01 to present | Associate PhD Supervisor (Department of Animal Environment and Health)
Invited position
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Funding (6)

Effect of the microbiota on the development of the intestinal immune response and general immunoneuroendocrine of birds of the species Coturnix coturnix.

2020-06 to 2022-05 | Grant
Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (Buenos Aires, AR)
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PICT-2018-03542,

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Franco Nicolas Nazar

The link between positive welfare and immunology and its application for the rearing of dairy calves

2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31 | Grant
Swedish Research Council for Environment Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (Stockholm, SE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 2016-00777_Formas
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Franco Nicolas Nazar via DimensionsWizard

Preparing for the challenges and opportunities of life: effects of early experience on adaptive plasticity in laying hens

2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31 | Grant
Swedish Research Council for Environment Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (Stockholm, SE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 2016-01761_Formas
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Franco Nicolas Nazar via DimensionsWizard

Determination of immuno-neuroendocrine phenotypes in avian species and its modulation by chronic stress situations.

2013-04 to 2015-03 | Award
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Buenos Aires, AR)
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Franco Nicolas Nazar

Institutional Strengthening of the International Dimension of the National University of Córdoba - Complutense University of Madrid.

2012-09 to 2012-12 | Grant
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, ES)
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Franco Nicolas Nazar

Determination of immuno-neuroendocrine phenotypes in avian species and its modulation by chronic stress situations.

2010-04 to 2013-03 | Grant
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Buenos Aires, AR)
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Franco Nicolas Nazar

Works (25)

Editorial: Avian senses, immunology, and welfare.

Frontiers in physiology
2024-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Nazar FN; Dalloul RA; Fernandez ME; Schneider ER; Niknafs S; Arsenault RJ; Roura E
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Franco Nicolas Nazar via Europe PubMed Central

Immune-neuroendocrine phenotypic expression changes through life inCoturnix japonicaquails

2024-01-29 | Preprint
Contributors: Antonela Marozzi; Silvia G. Correa; Rupert Palme; Veronica I. Cantarelli; Marina F. Ponzio; Raul H. Marin; F. Nicolas Nazar
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Ecological and life-history traits and their relationship with West Nile virus and Saint Louis Encephalitis virus exposure risk

2023-02-02 | Preprint
Contributors: O. Giayetto; A.P. Mansilla; F.N. Nazar; A. Diaz
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Network Analysis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research: Towards the Interactome

Journal of Crohn's and Colitis
2022-11-23 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1873-9946
Part of ISSN: 1876-4479
Contributors: M Emilia Fernandez; F Nicolas Nazar; Luciana B Moine; Cristian E Jaime; Jackelyn M Kembro; Silvia G Correa
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The immune-neuroendocrine system, a key aspect of poultry welfare and resilience

Poultry Science
2022-08 | Journal article
Contributors: F. Nicolas Nazar; Inma Estevez
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Increasing Environmental Complexity by Providing Different Types of Litter and Perches during Early Rearing Boosts Coping Abilities in Domestic Fowl Chicks

Animals
2022-08-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Franco Nicolas Nazar; Lena Skånberg; Kirste McCrea; Linda Jane Keeling
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Age matters: Differential effects of the exposure to elevated environmental temperatures on representative variables of the immune system in juvenile and adult female Japanese quail.

Journal of Thermal Biology
2022-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0306-4565
Contributors: Emiliano Ariel Videla; Stefano Tortone; Raul H. Marin; F. Nicolas Nazar
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Franco Nicolas Nazar

Animal Welfare Assessment: Quantifying Differences Among Commercial Medium and Fast Growth Broiler Flocks

Frontiers in Animal Science
2022-04-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2673-6225
Contributors: Xavier Averós; F. Nicolás Nazar; Inma Estevez
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Franco Nicolas Nazar

Dose dependence of susceptibility and transmission for an Argentinean West Nile virus strain in local Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae)

Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2021-09-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Octavio Giayetto; Mauricio D Beranek; Franco N Nazar; Adrián Diaz
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Start on the Right Foot: Choice in a Complex Early Environment Boosts Coping Abilities in the Domestic Fowl Chick

2021-06 | Preprint
Contributors: Nazar N; Skånberg L; McCrea K; Keeling L
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Franco Nicolas Nazar via Europe PubMed Central

Immediate and transgenerational effects of thymol supplementation, inactivated Salmonella and chronic heat stress on representative immune variables of Japanese quail

Scientific Reports
2020-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2045-2322
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Franco Nicolas Nazar

Modulating offspring responses: concerted effects of stress and immunogenic challenge in the parental generation

Journal of Experimental Biology
2020-01-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Octavio Giayetto; Emiliano A. Videla; Pablo Chacana; Cristian Jaime; Raúl H. Marín; F. Nicolás Nazar
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Thymol supplementation effects on adrenocortical, immune and biochemical variables recovery in Japanese quail after exposure to chronic heat stress

animal
2019 | Journal article
Contributors: F.N. Nazar; E.A. Videla; R.H. Marin
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Environmental complexity: A buffer against stress in the domestic chick

PLOS ONE
2019-01-14 | Journal article
Contributors: Irene Campderrich; Arda Yildirim; Franco Nicolas Nazar; Anette Wichman; Raul Hector Marin; Inma Estevez; Linda J. Keeling
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Adrenocortical responses in Japanese quail classified by their permanence in proximity to either low or high density of conspecifics

Poultry Science
2018-11-01 | Journal article
Contributors: D A Guzmán; A Lèche; C B Contarde; F N Nazar; R H Marin
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A selective window after the food-intake period favors tolerance induction in mesenteric lymph nodes

Mucosal Immunology
2018-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1933-0219
Contributors: Bibiana E. Barrios; Lisa Maccio-Maretto; F. Nicolás Nazar; Silvia G. Correa
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Soy genistein administered in soluble chitosan microcapsules maintains antioxidant activity and limits intestinal inflammation

The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry
2018-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0955-2863
Contributors: Vanden Braber; Novotny Nuñez; L. Bohl; C. Porporatto; FN. Nazar; MA Montenegro; SG. Correa
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Insights into thermal stress in Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix): dynamics of immunoendocrine and biochemical responses during and after chronic exposure

Stress
2018-05-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Franco Nicolas Nazar; Emiliano Ariel Videla; Maria Emilia Fernandez; Maria Carla Labaque; Raul Hector Marin
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Stress Induced Polarization of Immune-Neuroendocrine Phenotypes in Gallus gallus

Scientific Reports
2017-08-14 | Journal article
Contributors: F. Nicolas Nazar; Inma Estevez; Silvia G. Correa; Raul H. Marin
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Immune neuroendocrine phenotypes in Coturnix coturnix: Do avian species show LEWIS/FISCHER-like profiles?

PLoS ONE
2015 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84925617958

Contributors: Nazar, F.N.; Barrios, B.E.; Kaiser, P.; Marin, R.H.; Correa, S.G.
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Franco Nicolas Nazar via Scopus - Elsevier

Manipulation of the phenotypic appearance of individuals in groups of laying hens: Effects on stress and immune-related variables

Stress
2015 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84947028340

Contributors: Nazar, F.N.; Marin, R.H.; Liste, G.; Campderrich, I.; Estevez, I.
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Franco Nicolas Nazar via Scopus - Elsevier

Combined effects of aflatoxin B 1 and corticosterone treatment on selected performance indices and liver histopathology in Japanese quail

Poultry Science
2012 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84855963025

Contributors: Magnoli, A.P.; Monge, M.P.; Nazar, F.N.; Magnoli, C.E.; Cavaglieri, L.R.; Bagnis, G.; Dalcero, A.M.; Marin, R.H.
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Effect of feed contamination with aflatoxin b 1 and administration of exogenous corticosterone on japanese quail biochemical and immunological parameters

Poultry Science
2012 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-83755195874

Contributors: Nazar, F.N.; Magnoli, A.P.; Dalcero, A.M.; Marin, R.H.
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Franco Nicolas Nazar via Scopus - Elsevier

Chronic stress and environmental enrichment as opposite factors affecting the immune response in Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica)

Stress
2011 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-79551645011

Contributors: Nazar, F.N.; Marin, R.H.
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Franco Nicolas Nazar via Scopus - Elsevier

Ontogeny of copulatory behaviour in male Japanese quail classified by their T-maze performance as hatchlings

British Poultry Science
2008 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-49649107468

Contributors: Lábaque, M.C.; Kembro, J.M.; Guzmán, D.A.; Nazar, F.N.; Marin, R.H.
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Peer review (2 reviews for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for Comparative biochemistry and physiology. (2)