Tryptophan in Animal Nutrition and Human Health

Dr.Yulong Yin is the member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and has been selected into the list of Highly Cited Researchers of Clarivate in 2022. Dr.Yulong Yin received his Bachelor degrees in Biology in 1978 from Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China. Then he attended Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China from 1979 to 1982 and Queens University of Belfast, Belfast, UK from 1994 to 1997, from which he obtained his Masters and Doctorate degrees in Animal Nutrition, respectively. He conducts research in animal production, animal feed, nutrition and physiology of amino acids and protein, gene expression and gene therapy, comparative animal nutrition, diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular complications, nutrition and metabolism and animal models of human diseases. Dr.Yulong Yin has made key contributions to the subject of ideal digestibility and made notable contribution to knowledge on the subject of development and standardization of ideal digestibility in pigs. He characterized virtually all the common Chinese feed ingredients used for pig feeding for their nutritive value and ileal digestibility contents. This has led to the development of up-to-date feed database used extensively in the Chinese feed industry. Apart from enhancing growth rate and profit margin in the pork industry, the development of the ileal digestibility methods and the use of ileal digestible values in feed formulation have added advantages of reducing nitrogen and phosphorus emission to the environment when used for feed formulation. In recent years, he studied the molecular mechanisms behind piglet diarrhoea and developed key technologies and a range of feed products that can reduce diarrheal incidence in piglets. Dr.Yulong Yin has played numerous leadership roles in the scientific community worldwide and has been serving on editorial boards of several prestigious journals such as Animal Nutrition, The Innovation, and Science China Life Sciences. Furthermore, Dr. Yin also received many prestigious awards and honours, among which are the prestigious German Max-planck Gesellschaft Scholarship in 1985 and 1995 and National Science and Technology Progress Prize of China in 1996, 1997 and 2008, among others. He has published a total of 777 scientific papers, which have greatly advanced the field of animal nutrition worldwide.

Dr. Sung Woo Kim is currently a WNR Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University. Since graduation with the Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois in 1999, Dr. Sung Woo Kim has developed a world-class and productive research program in monogastric nutrition. The results of his outstanding research have significantly advanced our knowledge about intestinal health and amino acid nutrition, and functional nutrients in monogastric animals. Together with his graduate students, visiting scholars, and collaborators, he has published over 260 peer reviewed papers, 22 book chapters, 76 papers in conference proceedings, 17 popular articles, 300 abstracts, and given over 265 invited talks in 23 countries. His publications have been extensively cited (over 21,000, h-index 76 and i10-index 201 by Mar, 2024). Dr. Kim has been servicing animal science community as Associate Editor for Journal of Animal Science, Animal Bioscience, Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology, Animal Nutrition, Frontiers in Veterinary Science, and Toxins. His research has been supported with over 13 million US dollar grant funding and cash donations educating 24 PhD and 30 master students as the advisor, 13 PhD and 7 master students as the committee member, 44 visiting scientists, and 5 postdoctoral research associates as the supervisor. In recognition of his seminal contributions to swine nutrition, Dr. Kim has received the AFIA Award in Nonruminant Nutrition Research, Early Career Achievement Award, and Outstanding Young Scientist Award from the American Society of Animal Science; The Vernon Young International Award for Amino Acid Research from the American Society of Nutrition; and Outstanding Research Award from the Association of Asian-Australasian Animal Production. He was recognized as University Faculty Scholar by the chancellor of North Carolina State University in 2013 and William Neal Reynold Distinguished Professor in 2024.

Dr. Xiongzhuo Tang received his PhD degree in Molecular Biology at the Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute from Stockholm University, Sweden, in 2018. Then he completed his postdoc training in Cell Biology at Yale Stem Cell Center from Yale University, USA, from 2019 to 2022. He has made important contributions to the subject of animal gut immunity and development. He characterized the novel function of the conserved POU transcription factor Nub in the regulation of Drosophila intestinal immune homeostasis and intestinal stem cell activities. Additionally, he conducted the pioneer research in studying the somatic function of Piwi in the maintenance of intestinal genome integrity and intestinal stem cell lineage development. These findings have been published on several prestigious journals including Stem Cell Reports, PLOS Pathogens and Genetics et.al. Currently, Dr. Xiongzhuo Tang is a professor at the College of Animal Science and Technology at Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, China and his research focus is to dissect the molecular function and mechanisms of Tryptophan nutrition in animal gut health and diseases prevention.

Dr. Yulong Yin 是中國工程院的成員，並於2022年入選Clarivate的高被引研究者名單。Dr. Yulong Yin於1978年在中國長沙的湖南師範大學獲得生物學學士學位。隨後，他於1979年至1982年就讀於中國武漢的華中農業大學，並於1994年至1997年在英國貝爾法斯特的貝爾法斯特女王大學獲得動物營養的碩士和博士學位。他的研究領域包括動物生產、動物飼料、氨基酸和蛋白質的營養與生理、基因表達和基因治療、比較動物營養、糖尿病、肥胖及心血管併發症、營養與代謝以及人類疾病的動物模型。Dr. Yulong Yin對理想消化率的研究做出了重要貢獻，並在豬隻理想消化率的發展和標準化方面做出了顯著貢獻。他幾乎對所有常見的中國豬飼料成分進行了營養價值和回腸消化率的特徵分析，這促成了在中國飼料行業廣泛使用的最新飼料數據庫的發展。除了提高豬肉產業的增長率和利潤率外，回腸消化率方法的發展及其在飼料配方中的應用，還有助於減少氮和磷對環境的排放。近年來，他研究了小豬腹瀉的分子機制，並開發了關鍵技術和一系列能減少小豬腹瀉發生率的飼料產品。Dr. Yulong Yin在全球科學界擔任多個領導角色，並在《Animal Nutrition》、《The Innovation》和《Science China Life Sciences》等多本知名期刊的編輯委員會中任職。此外，Dr. Yin還獲得了許多著名獎項和榮譽，其中包括1985年和1995年的德國馬克斯·普朗克學會獎學金，以及1996年、1997年和2008年的中國國家科技進步獎等。他共發表了777篇科學論文，極大地推進了全球動物營養領域的發展。

Dr. Sung Woo Kim 目前是北卡羅來納州立大學的WNR傑出教授。自1999年從伊利諾伊大學獲得博士學位以來，Dr. Sung Woo Kim已經發展出一個世界級且富有成效的單胃動物營養研究計劃。他卓越的研究成果顯著增進了我們對單胃動物腸道健康、氨基酸營養和功能性營養素的了解。與他的研究生、訪問學者和合作者一起，他已發表超過260篇同行評審的論文、22章書籍章節、76篇會議論文、17篇流行文章、300篇摘要，並在23個國家進行了超過265場的邀請演講。他的出版物被廣泛引用（截至2024年3月，引用次數超過21,000，h-index 76，i10-index 201）。Dr. Kim擔任《Journal of Animal Science》、《Animal Bioscience》、《Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology》、《Animal Nutrition》、《Frontiers in Veterinary Science》和《Toxins》的副編輯，為動物科學界服務。他的研究獲得了超過1300萬美元的資助和現金捐贈，作為導師培養了24名博士生和30名碩士生，作為委員會成員指導了13名博士生和7名碩士生，並監督了44名訪問科學家和5名博士後研究助理。因其在豬隻營養方面的開創性貢獻，Dr. Kim獲得了美國動物科學學會的AFIA非反芻動物營養研究獎、早期職業成就獎和傑出青年科學家獎。