Our work focuses on how nutrition influences health, resilience and brain development. We approach these questions with controlled animal studies, primarily in pigs, and apply methods ranging from traditional performance metrics to advanced imaging and behavioral testing.
The sections below summarize our main areas of activity.
Nutrition and Health
We evaluate diets and feed additives that influence growth, efficiency and robustness in pigs and other non-ruminant species. This includes ingredient characterization, digestibility studies, immune and inflammatory challenge models, and performance trials that capture practical outcomes for producers and industry partners.
Nutrition and Neuroscience
We use the young pig as a model of human infant development to study how nutrition shapes the brain. MRI-based structural and diffusion imaging, histology, and behavioral tasks such as novel object recognition allow us to quantify changes in myelination, connectivity and cognitive function in response to defined dietary interventions.