Renée Petri

Dr. Renée Petri is a research scientist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, specializing in gastrointestinal microbiomes. She is an expert in rumen microbiology and the influence of nutrition on gut health. Her doctoral research was among the first to apply deep 16S sequencing to characterize the full rumen microbial community with pioneering bioinformatic analysis to understand the non-culturable rumen microbes. Previously, Dr. Petri worked as a bioinformatician before leading the Feed-Gut Microbiome research group at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienn, Austria. Her current research emphasizes nutrition-related microbial dysbiosis, pathogen development and transmission, and antimicrobial resistance surveillance on farm, with the goal of improving animal health using both culturing and omics techniques. Dr. Petri has authored 63 peer-reviewed publications, with more than 2900 citations and an H-index of 27. She has secured over $4 million in research funding, and has provided guidance for the FAO in policy development for the maintenance of gut biodiversity and antibiotic resistance in livestock. She serves as associate editor for microbiology at the Canadian Journal of Animal Science, is the vice-president of the Canadian Society of Animal Sciences, and has been an invited speaker at more than a dozen international conferences.