PD Dr. med. vet. Harald Michael Hammon

hammon@fbn-dummerstorf.de

Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN)
Head of working group Metabolic Health
Wilhelm-Stahl-Allee 2
18196 Dummerstorf

Research interests

Metabolic and endocrine regulation of growth, development and energy metabolism in cattle
Dairy nutrition (calf, cow)

Curriculum Vitae

04/2004-present:
Senior Scientist and deputy head at the Institute of Nutritional Physiology (“Oskar-Kellner)”, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany; Head of the Endocrine Metabolic Regulation Unit
04/1998-03/2004: Scientist at the Division of Nutrition Pathology, Institute of Animal Breeding, University of Bern, Switzerland
12/2003: Habilitation in Animal Physiology at the University of Bern, Venia docendi for Animal Physiology
09/2001-05/2002: Residence at the Department of Animal Science, Purdue University, IN, US
01/1994-03/1998: Post Doc at the Division of Nutrition Pathology, Institute of Animal Breeding, University of Bern, Switzerland
02/1993-12/1993: Veterinary practice (large animals), Feuchtwangen, Germany
04/1991-12/1992: Doctoral Thesis at the Division of Nutrition Pathology, Institute of Animal Breeding, University of Bern, Switzerland
09.01.1991: Approbation as veterinary doctor
1985-1990: Study of veterinary medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich

Teaching

Physiology and anatomy in farm animals and metabolic performance at the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (AUF), University of Rostock

Publications

Veshkini, A.; Hammon, H. M.; Lazzari, B.; Vogel, L.; Gnott, M.; Tröscher, A.; Vendramin, V.; Sadri, H.; Sauerwein, H.; Ceciliani, F. (2022):

Investigating circulating miRNA in transition dairy cows: What miRNAomics tells about metabolic adaptation

Harald Michael Hammon

Frontiers in Genetics 13: 946211, 1-20

https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.946211

Riosa, R.; Ghaffari, M. H.; Hammon, H. M.; Süß, R.; Hoelker, M; Drillich, M.; Parys, C.; Guyader, J.; Sauerwein, H.; Iwersen, M. (2022):

Identification and characterization of dairy cows with different backfat thickness antepartum in relation to postpartum loss of backfat thickness: A cluster analytic approach

Harald Michael Hammon

Journal of Dairy Science 105 (7): 6327-6338

https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2021-21434

Liermann, W.; Wissing, K. L.; Reyer, H.; Trakooljul, N.; Dannenberger, D.; Tröscher, A.; Hammon, H. M. (2022):

Maternal Conjugated Linoleic Acid Supply in Combination With or Without Essential Fatty Acids During Late Pregnancy and Early Lactation: Investigations on Physico-Chemical Characteristics of the Jejunal Content and Jejunal Microbiota in Neonatal Calves

Wendy Liermann, Henry Reyer, Dirk Dannenberger, Harald Michael Hammon

Frontiers in Veterinary Science 9: 839860, 1-9

https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.839860

Nolte, W.; Weikard, R.; Albrecht, E.; Hammon, H. M.; Kühn, C. (2022):

Metabogenomic analysis to functionally annotate the regulatory role of long non-coding RNAs in the liver of cows with different nutrient partitioning phenotype

Elke Albrecht, Harald Michael Hammon

Genomics 114 (1): 202-214

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygeno.2021.12.004

Veshkini, A.; Hammon, H. M.; Sauerwein, H.; Tröscher, A.; Viala, D.; Delosière, M.; Ceciliani, F.; Déjean, S; Bonnet, M. (2022):

Longitudinal liver proteome profiling in dairy cows during the transition from gestation to lactation: Investigating metabolic adaptations and their interactions with fatty acids supplementation via repeated measurements ANOVA-simultaneous component analysis

Harald Michael Hammon

Journal of Proteomics 252: 104435, 1-15

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jprot.2021.104435

Veshkini, A.; Hammon, H. M.; Vogel, L.; Delosière, M.; Viala, D.; Déjean, S; Tröscher, A.; Ceciliani, F.; Sauerwein, H.; Bonnet, M. (2022):

Liver proteome profiling in dairy cows during the transition from gestation to lactation: Effects of supplementation with essential fatty acids and conjugated linoleic acids as explored by PLS-DA

Harald Michael Hammon

Journal of Proteomics 252: 104436, 1-14

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jprot.2021.104436

Revskij, D.; Haubold, S. S.; Plinski, C.; Viergutz, T.; Tuchscherer, A.; Kröger-Koch, C.; Albrecht, E.; Günther, J.; Tröscher, A.; Hammon, H. M.; Schuberth, H.-J.; Mielenz, M. (2022):

Cellular detection of the chemokine receptor CXCR4 in bovine mammary glands and its distribution and regulation on bovine leukocytes

Elke Albrecht, Juliane Günther, Harald Michael Hammon, Manfred Mielenz

Journal of Dairy Science 105 (1): 866-876

https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2021-20799

Liermann, W.; Uken, K. L.; Schäff, C. T.; Vogel, L.; Gnott, M.; Tuchscherer, A.; Trevisi, E.; Stefaniak, T.; Sauerwein, H.; Tröscher, A.; Hammon, H. M. (2021):

Effects of a Maternal Essential Fatty Acid and Conjugated Linoleic Acid Supplementation during Late Pregnancy and Early Lactation on Hematologic and Immunological Traits and the Oxidative and Anti-Oxidative Status in Blood Plasma of Neonatal Calves

Wendy Liermann, Harald Michael Hammon

Animals 11 (8): 2168, 1-23

https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11082168

Uken, K. L.; Vogel, L.; Gnott, M.; Görs, S.; Schäff, C. T.; Tuchscherer, A.; Hoeflich, A.; Weitzel, J. M.; Kanitz, E.; Tröscher, A.; Sauerwein, H.; Zitnan, R.; Bruckmaier, R. M.; Gross, J.; Liermann, W.; Hammon, H. M. (2021):

Effect of maternal supplementation with essential fatty acids and conjugated linoleic acid on metabolic and endocrine development of neonatal calves

Solvig Görs, Andreas Höflich, Joachim Weitzel, Wendy Liermann, Harald Michael Hammon

Journal of Dairy Science 104 (6): 7295-7314

https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2020-20039

Sadri, H.; Ghaffari, M. H.; Steinhoff-Wagner, J.; Görs, S.; Hammon, H. M.; Sauerwein, H. (2021):

Expression of specific signaling components related to muscle protein turnover and of branched-chain amino acid catabolic enzymes in muscle and adipose tissue of preterm and term calves

Morteza Hosseini Ghaffari, Solvig Görs, Harald Michael Hammon

Journal of Dairy Science 104 (10): 11291-11305

https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2021-20527

Koch, F.; Derno, M.; Langhammer, M.; Tuchscherer, A.; Hammon, H. M.; Mielenz, M.; Metges, C. C.; Kuhla, B. (2021):

A high-protein diet containing inulin/oligofructose supports body weight gain associated with lower energy expenditure and carbohydrate oxidation, and alters faecal microbiota in C57BL/6 mice

Franziska Koch, Harald Michael Hammon, Manfred Mielenz, Cornelia Christiane Metges, Björn Kuhla

Journal of Nutritional Science 10: e50, 1-10

https://doi.org/10.1017/jns.2021.42

Kennedy, K. M.; Becker, D.; Hammon, H. M.; Kuhla, B. (2021):

Differences in net fat oxidation, heat production and liver mitochondrial DNA copy number between high and low feed efficient dairy cows

Frank Becker, Harald Michael Hammon, Björn Kuhla

Journal of Dairy Science 104 (8): 9287-9303

https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2020-20031

Ghaffari, M. H.; Sadri, H.; Steinhoff-Wagner, J.; Hammon, H. M.; Sauerwein, H. (2021):

Effects of colostrum feeding on the mRNA abundance of genes related to toll-like receptors, key antimicrobial defense molecules, and tight junctions in the small intestine of neonatal dairy calves

Morteza Hosseini Ghaffari, Harald Michael Hammon

Journal of Dairy Science 104 (9): 10363-10373

https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2021-20386

Daddam, J.; Hammon, H. M.; Tröscher, A.; Vogel, L.; Gnott, M.; Kra, G.; Levin, Y.; Sauerwein, H.; Zachut, M. (2021):

Phosphoproteomic Analysis of Subcutaneous and Omental Adipose Tissue Reveals Increased Lipid Turnover in Dairy Cows Supplemented with Conjugated Linoleic Acid

Harald Michael Hammon

International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22: 3227, 1-25

https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22063227

Vogel, L.; Gnott, M.; Kröger-Koch, C.; Görs, S.; Weitzel, J. M.; Kanitz, E.; Hoeflich, A.; Tuchscherer, A.; Tröscher, A.; Gross, J.; Bruckmaier, R. M.; Starke, S.; Bachmann, L.; Hammon, H. M. (2021):

Glucose metabolism and the somatotropic axis in dairy cows after abomasal infusion of essential fatty acids together with conjugated linoleic acid during late gestation and early lactation

Solvig Görs, Joachim Weitzel, Andreas Höflich, Lisa Bachmann, Harald Michael Hammon

Journal of Dairy Science 104: 3646-3664

https://doi.org//10.3168/jds.2020-19321

Uken, K. L.; Schäff, C. T.; Vogel, L.; Gnott, M.; Dannenberger, D.; Görs, S.; Tuchscherer, A.; Tröscher, A.; Liermann, W.; Hammon, H. M. (2021):

Modulation of colostrum composition and fatty acid status in neonatal calves by maternal supplementation with essential fatty acids and conjugated linoleic acid starting in late lactation

Dirk Dannenberger, Solvig Görs, Wendy Liermann, Harald Michael Hammon

Journal of Dairy Science 104 (4): 4950-4969

https://doi.org//10.3168/jds.2020-19627

Ghaffari, M. H.; Hammon, H. M.; Frieten, D.; Gerbert, C.; Dusel, G.; Koch, C. (2020):

Effects of milk replacer (MR) meal size on feed intake, growth performance, and blood metabolites and hormones of calves fed MR with or without butyrate ad libitum: A cluster-analytic approach

Morteza Hosseini Ghaffari, Harald Michael Hammon

Journal of Dairy Science 104 (4): 4650-4664

https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2020-18626

Sadri, H.; Getachew, B.; Ghaffari, M. H.; Hammon, H. M.; Steinhoff-Wagner, J.; Sauerwein, H. (2020):

Short Communication: Plasma concentration and tissue mRNA expression of haptoglobin in neonatal calves. J Dairy Sci 103 (7): 6684-6691

Harald Michael Hammon

https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2020-18218

Ghaffari, M. H.; Sadri, H.; Hammon, H. M.; Steinhoff-Wagner, J.; Hensch, N.; Sauerwein, H. (2020):

Colostrum versus formula: Effects on mRNA expression of genes related to branched-chain amino acid metabolism in neonatal dairy calves

Morteza Hosseini Ghaffari, Harald Michael Hammon

Journal of Dairy Science 103 (10): 9656-9666

https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2020-18429

Haubold, S. S.; Kröger-Koch, C.; Tuchscherer, A.; Kanitz, E.; Weitzel, J. M.; Hoeflich, A.; Starke, S.; Tröscher, A.; Sauerwein, H.; Hammon, H. M. (2020):

Effects of a combined essential fatty acid and conjugated linoleic acid abomasal infusion on metabolic and endocrine traits, including the somatotropic axis, in dairy cows

Joachim Weitzel, Andreas Höflich, Harald Michael Hammon

Journal of Dairy Science 103 (12): 12069-12082

https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2020-18569