Michel Duclos

### <a name="_Toc486320665"></a><a name="_Toc485886539"></a>Dr Michel J. DUCLOS Biologie des Oiseau et Aviculture, UMR 0083 INRAE – Université de Tours **Overall presentation** Michel DUCLOS is research director (1st class) at *INRAE (previously INRA* where he led the Avian Research Unit (*Unité de Recherches Avicoles*) from 2008 to 2016 (about 50 *INRA* holders). Since 2017, he is the coordinator of the Feed and Breeding System team (*AliSé*) in this unit, now called Avian Biology and Poultry Research (BOA). He is also co-responsible of the UMT BIRD ASTER project, a collaboration program between *INRAE* and the Technical Institutes (*ITAVI*, *SYSAAF* and *ITAB*) under the auspice of the French Ministry of Agriculture. He is also responsible of the *Groupe Filières Avicoles* of *INRAE*. Graduate of the National Veterinary School of Lyon (2005), DVM (1990), PhD of the *Université Paris-6* (1990, speciality “Animal Physiology”), holder of a habilitation to direct research (HDR) of the *University of Tours*, Dr. Michel Duclos has written numerous articles on the physiology and genetics of poultry. He has also given numerous lectures in France and abroad on these subjects, and has led the scientific organization of international congresses in the field of poultry science (European Poultry Conference, 2010) and, more specifically, the quality of poultry meat (Eggmeat 2015). He is presently the Secretary of the French branch of the World Poultry Science Association. He has also been active at the European Federation of WPSA Branches and has led the European Working Group "Poultry Meat Quality "from 2010 to 2014. He is currently chairman of the scientific committee of the 26th World’s Poultry Congress to be held in Paris, 2022, <https://wpcparis2022.com/> He is also deputy secretary of section 3 “Animal productions” of the French Academy of Agriculture <https://www.academie-agriculture.fr/academie/presentation/english-presentation> **Recent scientific output** Michel Duclos is author and co-author of more than 70 publications in international Scientific Journals and has been invited to attend about twenty symposia or international congresses, as a speaker or chairman of session. <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9305-3982>