Dr. rer. nat. Anja Eggert
Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN)
Working Group Statistics in Genomics
Head of Data Service Centre
Wilhelm-Stahl-Allee 2
18196 Dummerstorf
Working Group Statistics in Genomics
Head of Data Service Centre
Wilhelm-Stahl-Allee 2
18196 Dummerstorf
Research interests
- Applied biological and ecological statistics
- Numerical modelling of ecosystems by using coupled physical-biogeochemical simulation models
- Adaptation of organisms to environmental stress, e.g. temperature
- Biogeography, chemotaxonomy and evolution of (marine) organisms
Curriculum Vitae
- 2025-present: Head of Data Service Centre at FBN Dummerstorf
- 2018-2024: Head of Service Group Statistical Consulting at FBN Dummerstorf
- 2009-2018: Research fellow in the Department Physical Oceanography and Instrumentation at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW)
- 2016: Research fellow at the Benthic Ecology group at the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean research Kiel (GEOMAR)
- 2002-2009: Research fellow at the Institute of Biological Sciences at the University of Rostock
- 1997-2001: PhD Thesis „Thermal ecotypes and genetic divergence in subtropical marine macrophytes” in the Department of Marine Biology at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- 1991-1997: Diplom in Biology at the University of Bremen
- 1994-1995: Exchange student at the University of Maryland, USA
- 1990-1991: Diplom in Biology at the University of Rostock
- 1990: Abitur at the Heinrich-Hertz Gymnasium, specialised in mathematics and natural sciences, Berlin
Professional Activities
- 2017-2018: EU-BONUS-Project: -Integrated carbon and trace gas monitoring for the Baltic Sea, INTEGRAL
- 2016-2017: BMBF-Project: Environmental monitoring for the delaboration of munition in the sea, UDEMM
- 2016: BMBF-Project: Biological impacts of ocean acidification, BIOACID
- 2009-2015: BMBF-Project: Geochemistry and Ecology of the Namibian Upwelling System, GENUS
- 2003-2009: DFG-Project (Principal investigator): Biodiversity and ecophysiology of ancestral red algae of the Baltic Sea
- 2002-2003: BMBF-Project: Entwicklung von leitbildorientierten Bewertungsgrundlagen für Übergangsgewässer nach der EU-Wasserrahmenrichtlinie: Innere Küstengewässer der deutschen Ostseeküste (ELBO)
Publications
Deutsch, J.; Lebing, S.; Eggert, A.; Nawroth, C. (2026):
Goats who stare at wolves - identifying natural response stimuli for an affect-driven attention bias test in small ruminants
Applied Animal Behaviour Science 300: 106989, 1-9
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2026.106989
Langbein, J.; Eggert, A.; Siebert, K. (2026):
The role of facial cues in identifying conspecifics in goats
Applied Animal Behaviour Science 299: 106953, 1-11
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2026.106953
Kalbe, C.; Eggert, A.; Dannenberger, D. (2026):
Limited effects of long-term n-3 or n-6 PUFA supplementation combined with varying dietary protein levels on five distinct fat depots in pigs
Frontiers in Animal Science 7: 1783668, 1-9
https://doi.org/10.3389/fanim.2026.1783668
Galow, A.-M.; Ohde, D.; Eggert, A.; Walz, C.; Zenk, M.; Umesh, C.; Bej, S.; Wolkenhauer, O.; Hoeflich, A. (2026):
Intertwining of the IGF system and animal welfare
Scientific Reports 16: 8259, 1-17
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-42315-3
Sciascia, Q. L.; De Leonardis, D.; Görs, S.; Vernunft, A.; Eggert, A.; Zentek, J.; Metges, C. C. (2025):
Effect of oral glutamine supplementation on growth and glutamine and glucose metabolism in suckling piglets
Journal of Animal Science 103: skaf201, 1-17
https://doi.org/10.1093/jas/skaf201
Pahl, A.; Rault, J. L.; McGetrick, J.; Eggert, A.; Nawroth, C.; Langbein, J. (2025):
Do goats exhibit prosocial motivation? Insights from a novel food-giving paradigm
Royal Society Open Science 12: 250556, 1-12
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250556
Langbein, J.; Eggert, A.; Siebert, K. (2025):
Training and transfer test to study the referential understanding of conspecific photographs by goats
Animal Cognition 28: 22, 1-13
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-025-01945-2
Beck, A. J.; Gledhill, M.; Gräwe, U.; Kampmeier, M.; Eggert, A.; Schlosser, C.; Stamer, B.; Greinert, J.; Achterberg, E. P. (2025):
Widespread environmental contamination from relic munitions in the southwestern Baltic Sea
Chemosphere 372: 144115, 1-11
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2025.144115
Dannenberger, D.; Beyer, S.; Görs, S.; Becker, T.; Eggert, A. (2024):
Wagyu Rinder aus Deutschland - Untersuchungen zur Fett- und Aminosäurezusammensetzung des Rückenmuskels
Fleischwirtschaft 104 (08): 54-60
Deutsch, J.; Lebing, S.; Eggert, A.; Nawroth, C. (2024):
Goats who stare at video screens – assessing behavioural responses of goats towards images of familiar and unfamiliar con- and heterospecifics
Peer Community Journal 4: e94, 1-18
https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.473
Vanselow, J.; Wesenauer, C.; Eggert, A.; Sharma, A.; Becker, F. (2024):
Summer heat during spermatogenesis reduces in vitro blastocyst rates and affects sperm quality of next generation bulls
Andrology 12 (8): 1897-1906
https://doi.org/10.1111/andr.13627
Moscovice, L. R.; Eggert, A.; Manteuffel, C.; Rault, J.-L. (2023):
Spontaneous helping in pigs is mediated by helper's social attention and distress signals of individuals in need
Proceedings of the Royal Society. Biological Sciences 290 (2004): 20230665, 1-12
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0665
Schwerdtfeger, J.; Krause, A.; Kalbe, C.; Mazzuoli-Weber, G.; Eggert, A.; Puppe, B.; Kuhla, B.; Röttgen, V. (2023):
Endocannabinoid administration affects taste preference and the expression of cannabinoid and opioid receptors in the amygdala of early lactating cows
Scientific Reports 13: 4967, 1-13
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31724-3
Vernunft, A.; Eggert, A.; Brüssow, K.-P. (2022):
Ultrasonographic Monitoring of Fetal Growth and Fetal Weight Calculation in Sows during Gestation
Agriculture 13 (1): 16, 1-15
https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13010016
Schregel, J.; Schulze Holthausen, J.; Sciascia, Q. L.; Li, Z.; Görs, S.; Eggert, A.; Tuchscherer, A.; Zentek, J.; Metges, C. C. (2022):
Effects of oral glutamine supplementation on jejunal morphology, development, and amino acid profiles in male low birth weight suckling piglets
Plos One 17 (4): e0267357, 1-24
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267357
Moscovice, L. R.; Gimsa, U.; Otten, W.; Eggert, A. (2022):
Salivary Cortisol, but Not Oxytocin, Varies With Social Challenges in Domestic Pigs: Implications for Measuring Emotions
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 16: 899397, 1-15
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.899397
Dannenberger, D.; Eggert, A.; Kalbe, C.; Woitalla, A.; Schwudke, D. (2022):
Are n-3 PUFAs from Microalgae Incorporated into Membrane and Storage Lipids in Pig Muscle Tissues?─A Lipidomic Approach
ACS Omega 7 (28): 24785-24794
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.2c02476
Mbuthia, J. M.; Eggert, A.; Reinsch, N. (2022):
Cooling temperature humidity index-days as a heat load indicator for milk production traits
Frontiers in Animal Science 3: 946592, 1-9
https://doi.org/10.3389/fanim.2022.946592
Mbuthia, J. M.; Eggert, A.; Reinsch, N. (2022):
Comparison of high resolution observational and grid-interpolated weather data and application to thermal stress on herd average milk production traits in a temperate environment
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 322: 108923, 1-10
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.108923
Danesh-Mesgaran, S.; Eggert, A.; Höckels, P.; Derno, M.; Kuhla, B. (2020):
The use of milk Fourier transform mid-infrared spectra and milk yield to estimate heat production as a measure of efficiency of dairy cows. J Anim Sci Biotechno 11: 43, 1-9
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40104-020-00455-0