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Systemic modeling applied to ruminants

MoSAR

MoSAR is a mixed research unit (UMR) between INRAE and AgroParisTech, located in the new campus Agro Paris Saclay (Palaiseau, France), with an experimental facility at Grignon (78850).  It is attached to the INRAE center of Ile-de-France Versailles-Saclay.  MoSAR came into being on the 1st January 2010, prior to this the unit was called “Physiologie de la Nutrition et Alimentation”.  The unit has a long-standing expertise in ruminant nutritional physiology and feed evaluation, applied to dairy goats, as well as in systemic modelling of animal physiology and biology.  Since becoming MoSAR, the scientific objectives of the research unit have evolved to give the systemic modelling a more central role, together with a clearer focus on the characterisation of phenotypic variation in the acquisition, transformation and allocation of nutrients to different life functions.  Nicolas Friggens and Christine Duvaux-Ponter have been director and deputy director of the UMR from the 1^st January 2010 until 31^st May 2018.  Maryline Boval became director on 1^st June 2018. Since January 2023, Laurence Puillet is the head of the lab, with a team of 3 deputies, Christelle Loncke, Rafael Munoz-Tamayo and Masoomeh Taghipoor.