Astra Ārne Academic position Associated Professor / Leading researcher PhD Field of research 4. Development and adaptation of technologies for obtaining high-value agricultural and forest products, as well as in veterinary medicine E-mail astra.arne@lbtu.lv Telephone +37129497142 Assistant Professor,PhD, animal anatomist with, 13 years of experience. Dissertation defended in 2022, research interest in the morphology of the digestive tract in mammals. She is the author or co-author of peer-reviewed publications indexed in SCOPUS, with an h-index of 2. The most important publications (2019-2025) A. Ilgaža , (2021), Prebiotic and synbiotic effect on rumen papilla length development and rumen pH in 12-week-old calves, Veterinary World, ISSN 2231-0916 A. Ārne, A. Ilgaža , (2021), Ghrelin immunoreactive cell amounts in the abomasum in 4-month-old calves by feeding different amounts of prebiotics and new synbiotics, Veterinary Medicine International, ISSN 2090-8113