Host Pillar Research Team
Host Pillar Leadership Committee
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
Email : mf@sund.ku.dk
Anna Schönherz
Researcher
Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences
Aarhus University
Email: anna.schonherz@anivet.au.dk
Jens Peter Nielsen
Professor
Institute of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
University of Copenhagen
Claus B. Jørgensen
Associate Professor
Institute of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
University of Copenhagen
Henrik Elvang Jensen
Professor, Dr.med.vet., Dipl. ECVP
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
University of Copenhagen
Email: Elvang@sund.ku.dk
Michiel Kleerebezem
Professor
Host-Microbes Interactomics
Wageningen University & Research
Peter Karlskov-Mortensen
Associate Professor, Coordinator - Scenarios for Sustainable Animal Production in the Future
Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences
Animal Genetics & Breeding
University of Copenhagen
Email: pkm@sund.ku.dk
Hauke Smidt
Personal Chair ‘Complex Microbial Ecosystems’ at the Laboratory of Microbiology
Coordinator, UNLOCK research infrastructure
Wageningen University & Research
Email: hauke.smidt@wur.nl
Jan Gorodkin
Professor
Preclinical Disease Biology
University of Copenhagen
Nuria Canibe
Senior Researcher
Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences
Aarhus University
Email: nuria.canibe@anivet.au.dk
Early Career Researchers
Cecilie Brandt Becker
DVM, PhD student and ECVP resident
Department for Special Pathology, Veterinary and Animal Sciences
University of Copenhagen
Research Topic: Pathological characterization of the interaction between the intestinal barrier and the microbiome in order to distinguish the robust and the non-robust (susceptible) pigs with regard to post-weaning diarrhea
Email: cebb@sund.ku.dk
Ulia Renfelia Baysi
PhD student
Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences
Aarhus University
Email: urb@anivet.au.dk
Malene Kjelin Morsing
Post Doc
University of Copenhagen
Jiahong Sun
PhD student
Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
University of Copenhagen
Research Topic: Omics studies in the pig aimed at identifying microbiome- and host factors of importance to sustainable breeding and intestinal health in pigs
Email: jiahong.sun@sund.ku.dk
Emil Ibragimov
Post Doc
Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
University of Copenhagen
Email: emib@sund.ku.dk
Martin Peter Rydal
Post Doc
University of Copenhagen
Mohak Gujare
PhD student
Host Microbe Interactomics Lab, Department of Animal Sciences
Wageningen University & Research
Reserach Topic: Development of prognostic microbiome biomarker to predict post-weaning diarrhea before diarrhea development in young piglets using multivariate statistical modelling and machine learning approaches
Email: mohak.gujare@wur.nl