Optimal gut function in monogastric livestock

The project will study microbial colonisation of the gut and gut function in livestock prior to birth and/or in the early neonatalRelating to newborn individual. period, aiming to identify innovative technologies and tools to support resilience pigs and chickens and consequently minimise veterinary interventions.

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A Year of Chances and Challenges

ESR blog Tobias Kettrukat About one year ago, I was just settling into my new flat in Aarhus, a small city in Denmark, located charmingly...
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Experiencing Ireland as a visiting scholar

ESR7 Secondment blog Kevin Jerez Bogota “A traveller’s chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the...
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ESR9 – An Eventful First Year!

ESR blog Shiv Vasa Last spring, I moved to Ireland to start my PhD at Teagasc as a part of the MonoGutHealth project. I found...
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A Fruitful Secondment

ESR4 Secondment blog Modou Mangan One fundamental goal of the MonoGutHealth project is to ensure that all the 11 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) working on...
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Congratulations Oyekunle John!

GEroNIMOHacathon winners We are proud of Oyekunle John Oladosu (ESR6) who was part of the winning team of final GEroNIMOHackathon John’s team proposed multi-omics tools...
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Gut microbiome and why it is important for a sustainable production of monogastrics

ESR blog Shiv Vasa, Ramesha Wishna-Kadawarage, Pauline Lichou The term microbiomeThe diverse consortium of bacteria, archaea, fungi, protozoa, viruses, and their collective genome f... describes...
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ESR4 – The beginning of a Journey

ESR blog Modou Mangan Long-standing interest in Poultry Science coupled with the desire to experience other cultures were the reasons that motivated me to apply...
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ESR5 – The keyword is improvement

ESR blog Daria De Leonardis After my graduation, I decided to apply for a position as an Early-Stage Researcher in the European Project. I had...
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What are IUGR pigs and why we need to care about them?

ESR blog Roberta Ruggeri, Oyekunle John Oladosu The desire of pig farmers is efficiency and productivity, so sows with more piglets – also called prolific...
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First MonoGutHealth Training School

ESR blog Oyekunle John Oladosu, Tobias Kettrukat Training school is one of the core ideas of the MonoGutHealth (MGH) research training program. Our first training school held...
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