Sherbrooke Research and Development Centre
The Sherbrooke Research and Development Centre (Sherbrooke RDC) located in Sherbrooke, Québec was established in 1914. It is one of the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's (AAFC) network of 20 research and development centres.
Areas of Research
Research at Sherbrooke RDC focuses on developing cost-effective and environmentally friendly dairy and swine production techniques that provide Canadians with high-quality agricultural products.
The Sherbrooke RDC is the only AAFC research centre that is dedicated exclusively to dairy and swine production. Specializing in a number of different disciplines in the areas of animal science such as husbandry, nutrition, functional genomics, agro-environmental processes, behaviour study and meat quality, the centre’s research teams are able to conduct both fundamental and applied research to gain insight into and develop solutions to issues related to livestock production.
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Sector Needs
The Sherbrooke RDC supports innovative research, development, technology and knowledge transfer activities related to the following AAFC Science Sector Strategies:
Meet our Scientists
Find out more about the scientists at Sherbrooke Research and Development Centre through their profiles below.
You can also visit the Fields of Science campaign featuring 11 Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada scientists from coast to coast. Discover why they chose to pursue a career in agriculture and learn more about their research.

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Publications
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2021 Marete, A. and N. Bissonnette. SnpRecode: A Versatile and Fast Genotype Recoding and Correlation Function. Research Square.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-95704/v3.
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Vanacker, N., R. Blouin, and P. Lacasse. 2021. Effect of intravenous lipid infusion on blood metabolite concentrations and immune functions of dairy cows. Journal of Dairy Science Vol. 104, Suppl. 1: 19
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Deacon, A.-M., R. Blouin, and P. Lacasse. 2021. Modulation of mammary gland secretory activity and prolactin signaling by incomplete milking. Journal of Dairy Science Vol. 104, Suppl. 1: 172
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Lacasse, P., Petitclerc, D. (2021). Effect of photoperiod before and during first gestation on milk production and prolactin concentration in dairy heifers. Journal of Dairy Science (JDS), [online] 104(4), 4991-4998. http://dx.doi.org/10.3168/jds.2020-19514
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Ariel, O., Brouard, J.S., Marete, A., Miglior, F., Ibeagha-Awemu, E., Bissonnette, N. (2021). Genome-wide association analysis identified both RNA-seq and DNA variants associated to paratuberculosis in Canadian Holstein cattle ‘in vitro’ experimentally infected macrophages. BMC Genomics, [online] 22(1), http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-021-07487-4
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Oladokun, S., Koehler, A., MacIsaac, J., Ibeagha-Awemu, E.M., Adewole, D.I. (2021). Bacillus subtilis delivery route: effect on growth performance, intestinal morphology, cecal short-chain fatty acid concentration, and cecal microbiota in broiler chickens. Poultry Science, [online] 100(3), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2020.10.063
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Are some cows genetically susceptible to Johne’s Disease?
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Wang, M., and Ibeagha-Awemu, E.M. (2021). Impacts of Epigenetic Processes on the Health and Productivity of Livestock. Frontiers in Genetics 11, 1812.
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Peters, S.O., Kızılkaya, K., Ibeagha-Awemu, E.M., Sinecen, M., Zhao, X. (2021). Comparative accuracies of genetic values predicted for economically important milk traits, genome-wide association, and linkage disequilibrium patterns of Canadian Holstein cows. Journal of Dairy Science (JDS), [online] 104(2), 1900-1916. http://dx.doi.org/10.3168/jds.2020-18489
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