Animal Nutrition Group
We generate and transfer knowledge of the nutrition of animals to improve their production, health and welfare in a sustainable manner and improve the quality of life.
Staff
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prof.dr.ir. WJJ (Walter) Gerrits Chair holder
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prof.dr.ir. WH (Wouter) Hendriks Professor in Animal Nutrition
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dr.ir. J (Jan) Dijkstra Associate professor
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dr.ir. RP (Rene) Kwakkel Associate professor
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dr.ir. S (Sonja) de Vries Associate professor
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dr. WF (Wilbert) Pellikaan Assistant professor
Featured
Variation in efficacy of new feed supplement to reduce methane emissions identified
A novel methane inhibitor feed supplement, 3-nitrooxypropanol (3NOP), reduces methane emissions. The efficacy of 3NOP varies widely though, showing no methane emission reduction in some trials up to 85 percent reduction in others.
Read moreOur research
The Animal Nutrition (ANU) Group is one of the chair groups of the Department of Animal Sciences of Wageningen University & Research. In addition, ANU is the founding member of the Centre for Animal Nutrition; a collaboration between three internationally recognized animal nutrition groups in the Netherlands. The Centre develops fundamental and application-oriented expertise in animal nutrition and ensures the exchange and transfer of this expertise to government agencies, businesses, the primary animal nutrition sectors, societal institutions, NGOs and students.
Our research is focussed around the following areas:
- Resource efficiency
- Animal health, longevity and vitality
- Feed and pet food technology & quality
- Animal welfare
- Nutrigenomics
- Environmental issues related to animal nutrition
- Modelling of nutritional processes
Our news
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Cum laude PhD degree awarded to Allyson Ipema
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A mealworm for Mars
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"The Netherlands should continue to lead in agriculture"
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Power to the pellet: Challenges in the circular agriculture
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Sub-optimal growth performance in pigs under low sanitary conditions can be partly compensated by adjustments of the diet
Our latest publications
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Effect of whole foods on the microbial production of tryptophan-derived aryl hydrocarbon receptor agonists in growing pigs
Food Chemistry 416 (2023). - ISSN 0308-8146 -
Endogenous small intestinal microbiome determinants of transient colonisation efficiency by bacteria from fermented dairy products : a randomised controlled trial
Microbiome 11 (2023)1. - ISSN 2049-2618 -
Bioconversion of Different Waste Streams of Animal and Vegetal Origin and Manure by Black Soldier Fly Larvae Hermetia illucens L. (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)
Insects 14 (2023)2. - ISSN 2075-4450 - 19 p. -
Advanced omics techniques shed light on CD1d-mediated lipid antigen presentation to iNKT cells
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids 1868 (2023)5. - ISSN 1388-1981 - 12 p. -
Multi-country metabolic signature discovery for chicken health classification
Metabolomics 19 (2023)2. - ISSN 1573-3882 - 14 p.