As part of the initiative for applied excellence research in Mecklenburg Western-Pomerania, we are working with 8 partners from 5 institutions in the joint project "Alg4Nut" to investigate the influence of marine algae that can be cultivated in the Baltic Sea region on animal nutrition. In our group, we want to elucidate the physiological functions of microorganisms in the rumen for the degradation of algal polysaccharides. To this end, we carry out meta-proteome analyses of samples from feeding trials to characterise the rumen proteome.

Project speaker: Prof. Dr Mirko Basen

Duration: 01.04.2025-31.03.2029

This project was funded by the Federal State Mecklenburg-Pomerania with funds of the European Social Fund (ESF) as part of the Excellence-Initiative Federal State Mecklenburg-Pomerania from January 2017 to March 2021. Thereby our group was cooperating with 13 partners from the University of Greifswald, University Medicine Greifswald, Friedrich-Loeffler- Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, and University Medicine of Rostock.

In frame of this projects our group focused on the establishment, optimization, and application of Ms-based analysis of ubiquitination.

Further information on the project can be found here.

Three institutes in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern:

            the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute – Insel Riems,

            the Institute for Microbiology of the University of Greifswald

            and the Leibnitz Institute for Farm Animal Biology Dummerstorf 

worked together in the development of a new system for the vaccination of fish. These vaccines could be adapted to the respective fish species (salmon and trout, carp or perch) and the corresponding pathogens. At the same time, the vaccine is made safer by combining important parts of bacteria and viruses in non-reproducible carriers. Further, the uptake of the vaccine by the fish will be tested. This will result in precise rules for the fish farmers for the application of the oral vaccine in the industry.

The project was funded by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) and the state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern from July 2017 to July 2020.

Further information on the project can be found here.