Aija Mālniece Academic position Assistant professor / Leading researcher PhD Field of research 1. Implementation of the "One Health" concept and species interaction studies in the context of climate change 4. Development and adaptation of technologies for obtaining high-value agricultural and forest products, as well as in veterinary medicine E-mail aija.malniece@lbtu.lv Telephone +37126331541 Aija Mālnice graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Latvian University of Life Sciences and Technologies in 2011. In 2014/2015 she completed an internship program at the Ruminant clinic of Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liege (Belgium), obtaining an additional Masters degree in ruminant medicine. At the end of 2018, she defended her PhD thesis on the topic Biointegration of innovative aortic prosthesis in canine abdominal aorta. After that, she was elected as Assistant Professor and researcher. In 2023 she started Europian residency studies at the European College of Small Ruminant Herd Health Management. Aija Malniece is actively involved in various research projects and activities. She is the author or co-author of 12 peer-reviewed publications indexed in SCOPUS, with an h-index of 4. The most important projects (2019-2025) Development of guidelines on the organization of animal health visits and implementation of a pilot project to evaluate the effectiveness of the developed guidelines, 2023 New feed ingredients from Latvia black peat – testing potassium humate in dairy cow nutrition, 2020 Application possibilities of Mycoplasma bovis autogenous vaccines for reducing antimicrobial resistance in dairy farming in Latvia, 2020 Low price bolus for monitoring rumen parameters and early detection of subacute rumen acidosis (SARA) in cows, 2018 The most important publications (2019-2025) I. Šematoviča, A. Mālniece, I. Dūrītis , (2024), Control of subacute ruminal acidosis in high-yielding dairy cow herd by measuring the rumen wall thickness, Agronomy Research, ISSN 1406-894X A. Mālniece , (2024), The herd-level prevalence of Fasciola hepatica infection in the goat population of Poland, Journal of Veterinary Research, ISSN 2450-8608 A. Mālniece , (2024), Herd-level true seroprevalence of caseous lymphadenitis and paratuberculosis in the goat population of Poland, Preventive Veterinary Medicine, ISSN 1873-1716 L. Kovaļčuka, A. Mālniece , (2024), Measurement of tear production and intraocular pressure in clinically conscious normal captive red deer (Cervus elaphus), Animals, ISSN 2076-2615 L. Kovaļčuka, A. Mālniece , (2024), Comparison of Tonovet® and Tonovet plus® tonometers for measuring intraocular pressure in dogs, cats, horses, cattle, and sheep, Veterinary World, ISSN 2231-0916 L. Kovaļčuka, A. Mālniece , (2023), Normal range for the Schirmer tear test and intraocular pressure in healthy Latvian darkhead lambs and ewes, Veterinary Sciences, ISSN 2306-7381 A. Mālniece , (2023), Application of Baltic pine (Pinus sylvestris) needle extract as a gut microbiota-modulating feed supplement for domestic chickens (Gallus gallus), Plants, ISSN 2223-7747 L. Kovaļčuka, A. Mālniece , (2021), Schirmer tear test and strip meniscometry in healthy cats, Open Veterinary Journal, ISSN 2218-6050
