News of the Animal Nutrition Group
News
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Cum laude PhD degree awarded to Allyson Ipema
- On the 13th of January Allyson Ipema from the Adaptation Physiology group successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Fly in the coop –... -
A mealworm for Mars
- When humans are going to live on Mars they will have to eat. It only makes sense that future human Martians will grow their own crops, so that they... -
"The Netherlands should continue to lead in agriculture"
- The nitrogen crisis may give the impression that Dutch agriculture is under pressure. And that is strange, says professor by special appointment Leo... -
Power to the pellet: Challenges in the circular agriculture
- To replace cereals in animal feed with less sticky co-products from circular agriculture, there is an urgent need to find out how animal feed pellets... -
Sub-optimal growth performance in pigs under low sanitary conditions can be partly compensated by adjustments of the diet
- Growing-finishing pigs kept under low sanitary conditions (LSC) eat and grow less than pigs kept under high sanitary conditions (HSC). Researchers at... -
Kelly Nichols receives Pieter Walstra Award
- Research scientist Kelly Nichols of Wageningen University & Research has won the Pieter Walstra Award. The purpose of this prestigious award is to... -
How zinc influences gut health and immune competence of pigs
- High concentration of zinc (as zinc oxide) in diets in the post-weaning period of piglets potentially modulate the animal’s intestinal... -
New methods to predict methane emissions of dairy cattle
- Methane emissions of dairy cattle can be predicted using both milk fatty acids and milk infrared spectra. This has been demonstrated by researchers at... -
EM-SANF enrolment doubled for 2016/2017
- This academic year a large new cohort of EM-SANF students launched off for their international degree programme. EM-SANF stands for European Master in... -
Walter Gerrits appointed as personal professor
- Because of his outstanding achievements in teaching and research, the executive board of Wageningen University & Research appointed Walter Gerrits...