Our research
Our work focuses on how nutrition influences health, resilience, and brain development. We pursue these questions with controlled animal studies — primarily in pigs and poultry — applying methods that range from performance and gut-health measures to advanced neuroimaging and behavioral testing. The program is organized around two connected areas, with a primary emphasis on how early-life diet helps shape the microbiota-gut-brain axis.
Nutrition & Health
Feed ingredients, bioactive compounds, and dietary strategies that drive growth, gut function, immunity, and disease resilience in pigs and poultry.
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Nutrition & Neuroscience
The young pig as a model for the human infant — how early-life nutrition shapes brain development, myelination, and cognition.
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