ResearchProjects

Research Projects

The FBN is involved in many renowned individual funding programmes and collaborative projects with high scientific and social relevance at national and EU level.

2025 - 2028
BioFeSt - Identification of Risk Factors and Establishment of Bioindicators for Piglet Mortality under Organic Husbandry Conditions in Different Pig Genotypes
Quentin Leon Sciascia Ph.D.
2025 - 2028
2025 - 2028
HenBiota - Investigating the complex interactions among Ascarids, host gut microbiota, Ascarids’ own microbiota, and diet in laying hens with implications for metabolism and immunity
Oyekunle John Oladosu PhD
2025 - 2028
2025 - 2029
Alg4Nut - Algae in ruminant feeding: Microbiological-functional principles, prebiotic effects and feasibility of algae cultivation in M-V
PD Dr. rer. nat. habil. Björn Kuhla
2025 - 2029
2025 - 2029
KI-Tierwohl - Animal Welfare Monitoring in Farm Animals
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Birger Puppe
2025 - 2029
2025 - 2029
AutoPasture - Digital Applications for Autonomous Herd and Pasture Management of Cattle
Dr. rer. nat. Jan Langbein
2025 - 2029
2024 - 2027
EpiHeat - Heat stress-induced epigenetic regulation of hepatic metabolism and immunity in Holstein dairy cows
Dr. rer. nat. Franziska Koch
2024 - 2027
2024 - 2027
PigBones - Improved Phosphorous Utilization and Increased Bone Stability in Pigs
Dr. troph. Michael Oster
2024 - 2027
2024 - 2030
Agroecology - European partnership on accelerating farming systems transition – agroecology living labs and research infrastructures
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Klaus Wimmers
2024 - 2030
2024 - 2028
T!Raum – One Health – Bringing animals to life, transfer workshop for farm animal husbandry (RealLab-OH)
Marianne Zenk Dipl.-Ing. agr.
2024 - 2028
2024 - 2030
European Partnership on Animal Health and Welfare (EUP AH&W or EUPAHW)
Dr. rer. nat. Jan Langbein
2024 - 2030
2024 - 2026
Establishment of specific sturegon cell lines for further industrial application
PD Dr. rer. nat. habil. Bianka Grunow
2024 - 2026
2024 - 2024
Improvement of fibre digestibility and energy retention for insects
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Cornelia Christiane Metges
2024 - 2024
2024 - 2024
Impact of Sorting Processes on Early Skeletal Development in Pikeperch Larvae
Dr. rer. nat George Philipp Franz
2024 - 2024
2024 - 2027
Memofish - Deciphering the heterogeneity of B lymphocytes during generation of humoral memory in a teleost fish
Dr. rer. nat. Alexander Rebl
2024 - 2027
2024 - 2026
Development of cell culture assays
Dr. rer. nat. Claudia Kalbe
2024 - 2026
2024 - 2027
Effects of transiently increased or decreased temperatures during embryonic development on epigenetic modifications and the heterogeneity of cell populations in the muscle tissue of day-old chicks from broiler and layer lines
PD Dr. sc. agr. habil. Siriluck Wimmers
2024 - 2027
2024 - 2027
Effects of temporarily increased or decreased temperatures during embryonic development on transcriptomic and metabolic features of day-old chicks from broiler and layer lines
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Klaus Wimmers
2024 - 2027
2023 - 2026
Development of technical requirements for weaning of dairy calves after adequate milk feeding
PD Dr. med. vet. Harald Michael Hammon
2023 - 2026
2023 - 2026
Sensorbasiertes Informationssystem zur Unterstützung des Managements von Schafherden in Weidehaltung

2023 - 2026
2023 - 2026
Lasst mich raus! Proximate Faktoren, die helfendes Verhalten bei Schweinen vermitteln
Liza Rose Moscovice Ph.D.
2023 - 2026
2023 - 2025
Ganzkörperanalysen zur Evaluierung der Nährstoffversorgung und -ausscheidung von Mastebern
Prof. Dr. agr. habil. Steffen Maak
2023 - 2025
2023 - 2025
EuroFAANG – A European infrastructure for farmed animal genotype to phenotype research
Tina Hartwig
2023 - 2025
2023 - 2025
Studies on the expression of skeletal and muscle development genes during larval development of the herring
PD Dr. rer. nat. habil. Bianka Grunow
2023 - 2025
2023 - 2026
MediHerb - Multilevel molecular analysis of the hepatoprotective effect of medicinal herbs extracts in prevention of liver dysfunction caused by aflatoxin B1 in pig as an animal model (in-vivo), and hepatocyte cell culture analysis in human and pig (in-vitro)
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Klaus Wimmers
2023 - 2026
2022 - 2022
Arbeitszeitdaten Schweinehaltung – Haltung von Schweinen mit unkupierten Schwänzen und Bewegungsbuchten im Abferkelbereich
Marianne Zenk Dipl.-Ing. agr.
2022 - 2022
2022 - 2025
Characterization of mineral utilisation by functional genomics in two contrasting high-yielding laying hen strains
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Klaus Wimmers
2022 - 2025
2022 - 2025
Epigenetics, molecular pathways, and data integration to derive biological networks related to myo-inositol and P utilization in two contrasting high-yielding laying hen strains
PD Dr. sc. agr. habil. Siriluck Wimmers
2022 - 2025
2022 - 2025
ProFeed
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Cornelia Christiane Metges
2022 - 2025
2022 - 2025
Marine Polysialyltransferases for the Generation of Immunomodulatory Bioconjugates
PD Dr. biol. hom. habil. Sebastian Peter Galuska
2022 - 2025
2022 - 2023
Gene networks of phosphorus metabolism in fish and facultative anaerobic invertebrates
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Tom Goldammer
2022 - 2023
2022 - 2026
Animal Welfare Indicators at the Slaughterhouse (aWISH)
Dr. agr. Christian Manteuffel
2022 - 2026
2022 - 2024
Cultivation of industrial hemp as a catch crop to reduce nitrate inputs and greenhouse gas emissions from arable soils and dairy cow husbandry (OG ZwiHanf)
PD Dr. rer. nat. habil. Björn Kuhla
2022 - 2024
2022 - 2027
AgroServ
PD Dr. rer. nat. habil. Björn Kuhla
2022 - 2027
2021 - 2023
MethAnLand
PD Dr. rer. nat. habil. Björn Kuhla
2021 - 2023
2021 - 2024
Programming effects of lactational stress
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Ulrike Gimsa
2021 - 2024
2021 - 2021
Innovations for healthy and "happy" cows (IGG)
Prof. Dr. med. vet. Lisa Bachmann
2021 - 2021
2021 - 2021
Analysis of genetic factors influencing embryonal and larval growth during Transgression of Sander (S. lucioperca)
PD Dr. rer. nat. habil. Bianka Grunow
2021 - 2021
2021 - 2024
MonoGutHealth-CHICKEN – Investigations on nematode-induced alterations in metabolite profiles of chickens to seek for novel metabolic proxies with key roles in exchange between immune defence and performance parameters
Dr. sc. agr. Gürbüz Daş
2021 - 2024
2021 - 2024
MonoGutHealth-PIG -The role of neonatal supplementation of glutamine in modulating growth, gut functional development, and antioxidative status in neonatal piglets
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Cornelia Christiane Metges
2021 - 2024
2021 - 2022
Genome analyses for the breeding of African catfish in the aquaculture of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Tom Goldammer
2021 - 2022
2020 - 2025
NFDI4Biodiversity – NFDI Consortium for Biodiversity, Ecology and Environmental Data
Sarah Oranna Fischer
2020 - 2025
2020 - 2024
Investigation of muscular growth and differentiation processes to elucidate cellular signaling pathways
PD Dr. rer. nat. habil. Bianka Grunow
2020 - 2024
2020 -
Prosocial pigs: Behavioral and hormonal indicators of social relationships and cooperation in Domestic pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus)
Liza Rose Moscovice Ph.D.
2020 -
2020 - 2021
CELLZERO Meat – Innovative Lösungen zur Zell-basierten, Gentechnik- und Antibiotika-freien Erzeugung von hochwertigem tierischem Protein
PD Dr. med. vet. habil. Monika Röntgen
2020 - 2021
2020 - 2023
Molecular mechanisms of phosphate homeostasis and osteoimmunological processes and their consequences for health and welfare
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Klaus Wimmers
2020 - 2023
2020 - 2020
Molecular preliminary studies on adipose fin function in salmonids in aquaculture
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Tom Goldammer
2020 - 2020
2020 - 2023
LeakyCow – Heat stress-induced local and systemic immune responses in dairy cows with leaky gut syndrome
Dr. rer. nat. Franziska Koch
2020 - 2023
2020 - 2021
Gas emissions by Black Soldier Fly Larvae
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Cornelia Christiane Metges
2020 - 2021
2020 - 2023
Mitochondrial miRNAs (mitomiRs): Plausible key players of metabolic stress induced sub-fertility in high yielding cows
Vijay Simha Baddela Ph.D.
2020 - 2023
2020 - 2024
BioFiA - Bioindicators for the husbandry, health and product quality of fish in aquaculture
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Tom Goldammer
2020 - 2024
2019 - 2023
BovReg - Identification of functionally active genomic features relevant to phenotypic diversity and plasticity in cattle
PD Dr. rer. nat. habil. Jens Vanselow
2019 - 2023
2019 - 2022
Efficiency of recovered phosphorous for monogastric animals
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Cornelia Christiane Metges
2019 - 2022