The PIG-PARADIGM Steering Committee
Charlotte Lauridsen
Principal Investigator (PI), Chair of Steering Committee
Head of Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences (2021-), Aarhus University
Professor in Nutritional Immunology, Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Aarhus University (2018-)
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Professor in Experimental Nutrition, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University (2020-2021)
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Head of research section for Immunology and Microbiology, Department of Animal Sciences, Aarhus University (2012-2019)
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Member and WP-leader of PigGutHealth (‘European network on the factors affecting the gastro-intestinal microbial balance and the impact on the health status of pig’; EU-Cost-action http://www.pigutnet.eu/)
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President of the Pig Commission, European Association of Animal Production (EAAP) (2013-2016).
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Research areas: Nutrition, immunology, infection biology, inflammation, metabolism and biomarkers; Pig gut health and diseases, i.e., infectious and non-infectious post weaning diarrhea; Animal models and experimentation, including E. coli infection models and porcine models for inflammatory bowel diseases
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https://pure.au.dk/portal/da/persons/charlotte-lauridsen(892b1da6-ebd2-456b-b88e-0d709e529b1c).html.
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ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7428-7433
Merete Fredholm
Co-PI, Chair of Host Pillar
Professor, DVM, PhD, Dr.Vet.Sci., Institute of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen
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PhD in Animal Genetics from the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark and post.doc at The Scripps Research Institute, California, USA
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Areas of expertise are animal genetics and genomics
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Board engagement in disease genetics and genomics with focus on identification of molecular components involved in traits of importance to welfare and sustainability
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Has published over 200 papers in refereed journals
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ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3563-7648
Email : mf@sund.ku.dk
Hauke Smidt
Co-PI, Chair of Microbiome Pillar
Personal Chair ‘Complex Microbial Ecosystems’ at the Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University & Research
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Coordinator, UNLOCK research infrastructure (https://m-unlock.nl)
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Research in his group aims to identify, understand and predict structure, dynamics and functionality of diverse natural and man-made microbial ecosystems, notably including the intestinal tract of humans and farm animals.
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Research increasingly follows a OneHealth philosophy that links environmental, human and animal health
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ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6138-5026
Email: hauke.smidt@wur.nl
Maria Marco
Co-PI, Chair of Nutrition Pillar
Professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology and Chair of the Food Science Graduate Group at the University of California, Davis
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Ph.D. in Plant and Microbial Biology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002
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Investigates probiotics, prebiotics, and the gut microbiome for prevention and treatment of disease, with specific emphasis on lactic acid bacteria.
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Website: https://marcolab.ucdavis.edu/
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ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3643-9766
Email: mmarco@ucdavis.edu
Manimozhiyan Arumugam
Co-PI, Chair of Data Integration Pillar
Group Leader and Associate Professor at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen
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Leads the “Microbiome Systems Biology” research group that investigates how health and diseases are influenced by our gut microbiome; how the gut microbiome interacts with the host and environmental factors; and how we can therapeutically modulate the gut microbiome to improve health.
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His group takes interdisciplinary approaches combining multi-omics microbiome data to study host-microbial crosstalk.
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An inter-disciplinary background with biology, computer science and bioinformatics, with >15 years’ experience studying the human microbiome.
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Was listed as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2018, 2019 and 2020 by Clarivate Analytics.
Email: arumugam@sund.ku.dk