PD Dr. rer. nat. habil. Bianka Grunow
Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN)
Head of Working group Fish Growth Physiology
Wilhelm-Stahl-Allee 2
18196 Dummerstorf
Head of Working group Fish Growth Physiology
Wilhelm-Stahl-Allee 2
18196 Dummerstorf
Research interests
Examination of skeletal muscles in fish
- Examination of the key processes in skeletal muscle development from embryo to adult fish
- Investigation of meat quality in economically important species
- Establishment of in vitro test systems from various tissues of different fish species
Professional Activities
Myogenesis in evolution: We will analyse possible similarities and differences of myogenesis in evolutionary diverse fish lineages.
Third-party projects:
- Use of automated video analytics to monitor and study fish in aquaculture
- Muscular growth and differentiation processes (in cooperation with the University Medicine Greifswald)
Fish flesh quality: Establishment of sensory, physico-chemical and chemical measurement techniques for the supervision and the comparison of fish fillet in local fish species.
Third-party projects:
- Improvement of the meat quality of pikeperch in domestic aquaculture
- Meat quality of fish in domestic aquaculture
Establishment of cell cultures from fish tissue e.g. for the investigation of the effects of climate change on cell physiology
Publications
Franz, G. P.; Lewerentz, L.; Grunow, B. (2021):
Observations of growth changes during the embryonic‐larval‐transition of pikeperch (Sander lucioperca) under near‐natural conditions. J Fish Biol 99 (2): 425-436
https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14734
Dannenberger, D.; Möller, R.; Westphal, L.; Moritz, T.; Dähne, M.; Grunow, B. (2020):
Fatty acid composition in blubber, liver, and muscle of marine mammals in the southern Baltic Sea. Animals-Basel 10: 1509, 1-12
https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10091509
Komolka, K.; Bochert, R.; Franz, G. P.; Kaya, Y.; Pfuhl, R.; Grunow, B. (2020):
Determination and comparison of physical meat quality parameters of Percidae and Salmonidae in aquaculture. Foods 9 (4): 388, 1-13
https://doi.org/10.3390/foods9040388
Bergmann, S. M.; Jin, Y.; Franzke, K.; Grunow, B.; Wang, Q.; Klafack, S. (2020):
Koi herpesvirus (KHV) and KHV disease (KHVD) – a recently updated overview. J Appl Microbiol 129 (1): 98-103
https://doi.org/10.1111/jam.14616
Wanka, H.; Lutze, P.; Staar, D.; Albers, A.; Bäumgen, I.; Grunow, B.; Peters, F. (2020):
Non-secretory renin reduces oxidative stress and increases cardiomyoblast survival during glucose and oxygen deprivation. Sci Rep-UK 10: 2329, 1-14
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59216-8
Hook, S.; Musa, S.; Ripley, D. M.; Hibbit, J.; Grunow, B.; Moritz, T.; Shiels, H. (2019):
Twins! Microsatellite analysis of two embryos within one egg case in oviparous elasmobranchs. Plos One 14 (12): e0224397
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224397
Hook, S.; McMurray, C.; Ripley, D.; Allen, N.; Moritz, T.; Grunow, B.; Shiels, H. (2019):
Recognition software successfully aids the identification of individual small-spotted catsharks Scyliorhinus canicula during their first year of life. J Fish Biol 95 (6): 1465-1470
https://doi.org/10.1111/jbf.14166
Wanka, H.; Lutze, P.; Staar, D.; Grunow, B.; Peters, B. S.; Peters, J. (2018):
An alternative renin isoform is cardioprotective by modulating mitochondrial metabolism. J. Cell. Mol. Med. 1-11
Hodgson, P.; Ireland, J.; Grunow, B. (2018):
Fish, the better model in human heart research? Zebrafish Heart aggregates as a 3D spontaneously cardiomyogenic in vitro model system. Prog Biophys Mol Bio 138: 132-141
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2018.04.009
Noguera, P. A.; Grunow, B.; Klinger, M.; Lester, K.; Collet, B.; Del-Pozo, J. (2017):
Atlantic salmon cardiac primary cultures: An in vitro model to study viral host pathogen interactions and pathogenesis. PLoS One 12: e0181058
Lutze, P.; Wanka, H.; Baumgen, I.; Staar, D.; Grunow, B.; Peters, J. (2017):
An Alternative Promoter in Intron1 of the Renin Gene is Regulated by Glucose Starvation via Serum Response Factor. Cell Physiol Biochem 42: 1447-1457
Grunow, B.; Kirchhoff, T.; Moritz, T. (2016):
Stem cell expression and development of trunk musculature of lesser-spotted dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula) reveal differences between sharks and teleosts. Acta Zool 98: 214-220
Grunow, B.; Mohamet, L.; Shiels, H. A. (2015):
Generating an in vitro 3D cell culture model from zebrafish larvae for heart research. J. Exp. Biol. 218: 1116-1121
Grunow, B.; Kirchhoff, T.; Lange, T.; Moritz, T.; S., H. (2015):
Histochemistry on vibratome sections of fish tissue: a comparison of fixation and embedding methods. . Aquat Biol 23: 251-263
Gebert, M.; Lüllwitz, L.; Grunow, B. (2014):
Neue Rohstoffe aus dem Bioreaktor- Fischzellkulturen für die Produktion von Fischmehl und Omega-3-Fettsäuren. . Foodlab 1: 16-19
Mehnert, J. M.; Brandenburger, M.; Grunow, B. (2013):
Electrophysiological characterization of spontaneously contracting cell aggregates obtained from rainbow trout larvae with multielectrode arrays. Cell Physiol Biochem 32: 1374-1385
Grunow, B.; Böhmert, B.; Fechner, K. (2013):
Specificity of antibodies established from mammals in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). . J. Appl. Ichthyol. 29: 1129-1133
Grunow, B. (2012):
Herzmodell: Herstellung von spontan kontrahierenden Kardiomyozytenverbände und deren Anwendung in der Herzforschung. . Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften AG Co. KG 1-144
Grunow, B.; Schmidt, M.; Klinger, M.; Kruse, C. (2012):
Development of an in vitro cultivated, spontaneously and long-term contracting 3D heart model as a robust test system. J Cell Sci Ther 3: 1000116