Biography
Karwan Y. Kareem was born in the 8th February 1982 at Erbil city, Kurdistan-Iraq.
In year 2002, he enrolled in University of Salah al-Din, Erbil, Iraq to pursue his first degree. In year 2005, he obtained Bachelor degree in Animal Resources, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Salah al-Din, Erbil, Iraq. He joined the Department of Animal resources as a demonstrator the same year.
In 2008, he started his Masters’ degree in Poultry Management from Department of Animal Resources, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Salah al-Din, Erbil, Iraq and finished in 2010. After graduation, he was employed at the same university as an assistant Lecturer in 2010.
In 2011, he was awarded a scholarship by the Ministry of Higher Education, Kurdistan to pursue a Doctoral degree which brought him to Malaysia in 2012 for his PhD program at University Putra Malaysia. He finished his PhD program in poultry production in 2016. His area of research interest is poultry production, management, Poultry behavior and welfare, nutrition and feed additives. He studied Postdoc in Poland, Warsaw University of Life Science at 17/1/2022 till 16/1/2023. He published several papers in international journals which has high impact factor (IF). He is Assistant Professor and lecturer in Animal Science Dept. in college of Agriculture Engineering science, Salahaddin University, Erbil.
Research Interest
Poultry science, Poultry Production, Poultry management, feed additives, Postbiotics, Probiotics, Prebiotics and Gene expression.
Publications
Kareem, K. Y., Foo, H. L., Loh, T. C., Ooi, M. F., & Samsudin, A. A. (2014). Inhibitory activity of postbiotic produced by strains of Lactobacillus plantarum using reconstituted media supplemented with inulin. Gut Pathogens 2014, 6:23.
Kareem, K.Y., Loh, T. C., Foo, H. L., Asmara, S. A., Akit, H., Abdulla, N. R., & Ooi, M. F. (2015). Carcass, meat and bone quality of broiler chickens fed with postbiotic and prebiotic combinations. International Journal of Probiotics and prebiotics, 10(1):23-30.
Kareem, K.Y., Loh, T. C., Foo, H. L., Akit, H., & Asmara, S. A. (2016a). Effects of dietary postbiotic and inulin on growth performance, IGF-I and GHR mRNA expression, faecal microbiota and volatile fatty acids in broilers. BMC Veterinary Research.12:163.
Kareem, K.Y., Loh, T. C., Foo, H. L., Asmara, S. A. & Akit, H. (2016b). Influence of Postbiotic RG14 and Inulin combination on Caecal Microbiota, Organic Acid concentration and Cytokine expression in Broiler Chickens. Poultry Science.0:1-10. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.3382/ps/pew362.
Abdulla, N. R., Mohd Zamri, A. N., Sabow, A. B., Kareem, K. Y., Nurhazirah, S., Ling, F. H., Sazili, A. Q. & Chwen Loh, T. (2015). Physico-chemical properties of breast muscle in broiler chickens fed probiotics, antibiotics or antibiotic–probiotic mix. Journal of Applied Animal Research, 2015 1-7.
Abdulla, N. R., Loh T. C., Henny A., Awis Q. Sazili., Foo, H. L., Kareem, K. Y., Rosfarizan M. and Raha A. R., (2016). Effects of dietary oil sources, calicium and phosphorus levels on growth performance, carcass charasteristics and bone quality of broiletr chickens. Journal of applied Animal Research, DOI: 10.1080/09712119.2016.1206903.
Kareem, K.Y., N., Abdulla, N. R., Foo, H. L., Zamri, A. Shazali, N., Loh, T. C. & Alshelmani M. I. (2018) Effect of feeding larvae meal in the diets on growth performance, digestibility and meat quality in broiler chickens. Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 88 (10): 1180-1185.
Hamad, K. M., & Kareem, K. Y. (2019). Growth performance, carcass quality, and economics of production of Japanese quails fed with pomegranate peel powder. Int. Trans. J. Eng. Manag. Appl. Sci. Technol, 10, 2228-9860.
Khatun, J., Loh, T. C., Akit, H., Foo, H. L., Mohamad, R., & Kareem, K. Y. (2020). Dietary supplementation with L-arginine and combinations of different oil sources beneficially regulates body fat deposition, lipogenic gene expression, growth performance and carcass yield in broiler chickens. Animal Production Science, 60(11), 1409-1417.
Kareem, K. Y. (2020). Effect of different levels of postbiotic on growth performance, intestinal microbiota count and volatile fatty acids on quail. Plant Arch, 20, 2885-2887.
Mirza, R. A., Muhammad, S. D., & Kareem, K. Y. (2020). Effect of commercial baker’s yeast supplementation (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) in diet and drinking water on productive performance, carcass traits, hematology, and microbiological characteristics of local quails. Zanco J Pure Appl Sci, 32, 200-205.
Kareem, K. Y., Loh, T. C., & Foo, H. L. (2021). Effect of new feed additive on growth performance and immunoglobulin of broilers. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (Vol. 761, No. 1, p. 012110). IOP Publishing.
Taha, K. M., Khdr, D. M., & Kareem, K. Y. (2021). Identification and differentiation of poultry meat and products using PCR-RFLP technique. Mesopotamia Journal of Agriculture, 49(1), 34-42.
Bendowski, W., Michalczuk, M., Jóźwik, A., Kareem, K. Y., Łozicki, A., Karwacki, J., & Bień, D. (2022). Using milk thistle (Silybum marianum) extract to improve the welfare, growth performance and meat quality of broiler chicken. Animals, 12(9), 1085.
Mohammed, M. Y., & Kareem, K. Y. (2022). A comparison study of probiotic, postbiotic and prebiotic on performance and meat quality of broilers. Tikrit Journal for Agricultural Sciences, 22(4), 24-32.
Doski, J. M. M., & Kareem, K. Y. (2023). Effects of Combinations of Postbiotics and Phytobiotics on Growth Performance, Meat Quality, Gut Morphology, and Tibia Bone Characteristics in Broiler Chickens. Iranian Journal of Applied Animal Science, 13(4), 743-754.
Doski, J. M. M., & Kareem, K. Y. (2023). Effect of Different Levels of Postbiotic and Phytobiotic Combination as on Growth Performance, Economic Production, and Immune Response of Broiler Chickens. Polytechnic Journal, 14(1), 1.
Doski, J. M. M., & Kareem, K. Y. (2023). The effects of different levels of postbiotic and phytobiotic combination as feed additives on carcass, lipid profile, meat quality, and tibia bone in broiler chickens. Journal For Agricultural Sciences, 227, 241.
Mahmoud Doski, J. M., & Kareem, K. Y. (2024). The Influence of Different Levels of Postbiotic and Phytobiotic Combinations as Feed Additives on Growth Performance, Gut Morphology, and Faecal Bacteria In Broiler Chickens. Poultry Science Journal, 12(1).
Urban, J., Kareem, K. Y., Atanasov, A. G., Matuszewski, A., Bień, D., Ciborowska, P., ... & Michalczuk, M. (2024). Postbiotics, a natural feed additive for growth performance, gut microbiota and quality of poultry products. Current Research in Biotechnology, 100247.
Ciborowska, P., Bień, D., Żbikowski, A., Pawłowski, K., Urban, J., Zalewska, A., ... & Michalczuk, M. (2025). The impact of relaxation music (Weightless by Marconi Union) on production performance, welfare, and hematological and biochemical blood parameters in broiler chickens. Poultry Science, 104(1), 104555.
Ahmed, L., Mohammed, D. A., Kareem, K. Y., & Sabir, P. S. (2025). GH and IGF1 gene variation and carcass yield characteristics in three Kurdish quail lines. Journal of Wildlife and Biodiversity, 9(X), 134-152.
Aziz, H. I., Mirza, R. A., Karim, K. Y., Sabir, P. S., & Khidhr, A. M. (2024). Modulation of Intestinal Histology and Immune Functions Using Different Level of Salvia Indica Supplementations with Stocking Density in Local Quails. Zanco Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences, 36(4), 55-62.
Teaching
Bachelor students: Turkey and aquatic fowl production, Supervising final year seminar, Poultry Project, Animal Production, Poultry Management, Poultry Nutrition, Poultry Production and Technology, Academic Skills.
Master and PhD students: Advance poultry production, Advance poultry products technology.