Projects and publications by Wageningen Livestock Research
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Current projects
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AquaServ
April 1, 2024 - The overarching objectives of AQUASERV are to bring together, enhance, integrate and customise aquaculture related Research Infrastructure facilities through the provision of transnational access (TNA), to significantly further scientific advance and promote and facilitate the implementation of European Common Fisheries Policy, the Farm to Fork Strategy, the Sustainable Blue Economy and the European Green Deal. -
HeatSense: Data-driven climate change adaptation in poultry
January 1, 2024 - Climate change, especially heat waves, can negatively impact poultry, now and in the future. This project investigates short- and long-term data-driven solutions for climate adaptation, through the development of an automated cooling system based on bird behaviour and investigation of between-individual heat stress response differences, to assess potential for breeding for heat tolerance. -
Sex and Age in eel using DNA methylation
January 1, 2024 - The main eel-WOT task is to provide the EU with an estimation of Silver eels reaching the Sea. EU-DG MARE uses this estimation for validating ‘how well’ each national Eel management plan (‘aalbeheerplan’) is performing in reducing eel mortality. To estimate silver eel escapement a sex specific age based model is used which translates the yellow eel abundance into numbers of migrating silver eel. -
A common WUR Data Infrastructure Building Blocks Framework
September 1, 2023 - The aim of the project is to develop the data sharing 9-block framework (Innopay/iShare) into a practical guideline for data sharing infrastructures at the WUR, using the projects funded in this call as use-cases. The result of the project is the development of a best practice guideline for the application of the data sharing 9-block framework of Innopay/iShare in projects that are typical for the area of life sciences at WUR. -
WLR FAIR
September 1, 2023 - Within WLR, heterogeneous data from different sources are collected and utilised in research projects. The aim of this project is to develop and integrate a new approach within WLR, where FAIR data storage is an integral part of research projects from the outset. Additionally, existing databases will be linked to iRODS to automate the provision of data for research projects, including metadata. This integration will build upon the existing WLR data infrastructure, and data stored in iRODS will be searchable to showcase its capabilities. -
CRYOCHICK - Innovative cryopreservation methods for chicken germplasm
April 10, 2023 - Poultry genetic improvement towards climate adaptation and sustainable farming requires maintainance of the existing genetic diversity within and between breeds. Gene banks can assist in conserving this diversity and reintroducing important traits into current poultry lines. CRYOCHICK focuses on the development of effective cryopreservation methods for ex-situ of male and female chicken germplasm. -
Breeding Black Soldier Fly for healthier and sustainable aquaculture feed
April 1, 2023 - The aim of this project is to understand the genetic variation of Black Soldier Fly (BSF) and use this knowledge to breed a healthy, efficient, high performing population and improve the production and nutritional quality of BSF. -
BRIDGE + : Building Rural Income through Inclusive Dairy Growth in Ethiopia
January 1, 2023 - BRIDGE+ aims to support ‘take off’ for the dairy value chain, supporting the introduced innovations to create systemic transformation. -
Implementation of organoids in animal breeding and nutrition research
January 1, 2023 - Organoids are a key innovative technology to replace animal testing and measure complex traits. The main goals of this public-private-partnership (PPP) project are to 1) validate the already developed organoid-based Transwell membrane system for nutritional research, particular used to study absorption and test different functional ingredients, 2) develop co-culturing of pig intestinal organoids and immune cells, and 3) develop gene editing in intestinal organoids from pigs. -
Low Carbon Dairy: working together on a 50% reduction of the footprint of milk
January 1, 2023 - Wageningen University & Research is working to achieve a 50% reduction in the carbon footprint of milk by 2030 through the four-year Low Carbon Dairy public-private partnership (PPP). We are doing this in partnership with Unilever’s dairy supply chains involving Ben & Jerry’s and CONO Cheesemakers, and Nestlé with Vreugdenhil Dairy Foods. Feed companies (Agrifirm, ForFarmers and De Heus) and Duynie (supplier of co-products), Lely (robots and data systems for dairy farms), and Rabobank are also participating.
Recent publications
Via Staff Publications it is possible to search for most recently added publications of Wageningen Livestock Research.