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
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
2025 - 2028
2024 - 2027
EpiHeat - Heat stress-induced epigenetic regulation of hepatic metabolism and immunity in Holstein dairy cows
2024 - 2027
2024 - 2027
PigBones - Improved Phosphorous Utilization and Increased Bone Stability in Pigs
2024 - 2027
2024 - 2030
Agroecology - European partnership on accelerating farming systems transition – agroecology living labs and research infrastructures
2024 - 2030
2024 - 2028
T!Raum – One Health – Bringing animals to life, transfer workshop for farm animal husbandry (RealLab-OH)
2024 - 2028
2024 - 2030
European Partnership on Animal Health and Welfare (EUP AH&W or EUPAHW)
2024 - 2030
2024 - 2026
Establishment of specific sturegon cell lines for further industrial application
2024 - 2026
2024 - 2024
Improvement of fibre digestibility and energy retention for insects
2024 - 2024
2024 - 2024
Impact of Sorting Processes on Early Skeletal Development in Pikeperch Larvae
2024 - 2024
2024 - 2027
Memofish - Deciphering the heterogeneity of B lymphocytes during generation of humoral memory in a teleost fish
2024 - 2027
2024 - 2026
Development of cell culture assays
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
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
2024 - 2027
2023 - 2026
Development of technical requirements for weaning of dairy calves after adequate milk feeding
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
2023 - 2026
2023 - 2025
Ganzkörperanalysen zur Evaluierung der Nährstoffversorgung und -ausscheidung von Mastebern
2023 - 2025
2023 - 2025
EuroFAANG – A European infrastructure for farmed animal genotype to phenotype research
2023 - 2025
2023 - 2025
Studies on the expression of skeletal and muscle development genes during larval development of the herring
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)
2023 - 2026
2022 - 2022
Arbeitszeitdaten Schweinehaltung – Haltung von Schweinen mit unkupierten Schwänzen und Bewegungsbuchten im Abferkelbereich
2022 - 2022
2022 - 2025
Characterization of mineral utilisation by functional genomics in two contrasting high-yielding laying hen strains
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
2022 - 2025
2022 - 2025
ProFeed
2022 - 2025
2022 - 2025
Marine Polysialyltransferases for the Generation of Immunomodulatory Bioconjugates
2022 - 2025
2022 - 2023
Gene networks of phosphorus metabolism in fish and facultative anaerobic invertebrates
2022 - 2023
2022 - 2026
Animal Welfare Indicators at the Slaughterhouse (aWISH)
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)
2022 - 2024
2021 - 2023
MethAnLand
2021 - 2023
2021 - 2024
Programming effects of lactational stress
2021 - 2024
2021 - 2021
Innovations for healthy and "happy" cows (IGG)
2021 - 2021
2021 - 2021
Analysis of genetic factors influencing embryonal and larval growth during Transgression of Sander (S. lucioperca)
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
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
2021 - 2024
2021 - 2022
Genome analyses for the breeding of African catfish in the aquaculture of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
2021 - 2022
2020 - 2025
NFDI4Biodiversity – NFDI Consortium for Biodiversity, Ecology and Environmental Data
2020 - 2025
2020 - 2024
Investigation of muscular growth and differentiation processes to elucidate cellular signaling pathways
2020 - 2024
2020 -
Prosocial pigs: Behavioral and hormonal indicators of social relationships and cooperation in Domestic pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus)
2020 -
2020 - 2021
CELLZERO Meat – Innovative Lösungen zur Zell-basierten, Gentechnik- und Antibiotika-freien Erzeugung von hochwertigem tierischem Protein
2020 - 2021
2020 - 2023
Molecular mechanisms of phosphate homeostasis and osteoimmunological processes and their consequences for health and welfare
2020 - 2023
2020 - 2020
Molecular preliminary studies on adipose fin function in salmonids in aquaculture
2020 - 2020
2020 - 2023
LeakyCow – Heat stress-induced local and systemic immune responses in dairy cows with leaky gut syndrome
2020 - 2023
2020 - 2021
Gas emissions by Black Soldier Fly Larvae
2020 - 2021
2020 - 2023
Mitochondrial miRNAs (mitomiRs): Plausible key players of metabolic stress induced sub-fertility in high yielding cows
2020 - 2023
2020 - 2024
BioFiA - Bioindicators for the husbandry, health and product quality of fish in aquaculture
2020 - 2024
2019 - 2023
BovReg - Identification of functionally active genomic features relevant to phenotypic diversity and plasticity in cattle
2019 - 2023
2019 - 2022
Efficiency of recovered phosphorous for monogastric animals
2019 - 2022