Projects
An overview of the projects at the professorship for animal and pathogenetics:
Current Projects
Molecular genetic analysis of the trait of short-leggedness and diversity in the German chicken breed Krüper (Creeper)
Funding by: Association for the Promotion of Young Scientists in Breed Poultry Research (JUWIRA); Duration: 10/24-10/27
Investigations on scrapie resistance in Icelandic sheep
Funding by: Working group "New solutions for the scrapie problem", Iceland
Duration: 08/21-12/26
Investigations on prion variants in Icelandic sheep
Funding by: University of Iceland, Keldur; Duration: 01/22-12/25
Polled intersex syndrome in the goat - Studies on reproduction in genetically hornless goats
Funding by: Käserei Stift Schlierbach GMBH&CO KG and Bio-Genossenschaft Schlierbach reg.Gen.mbH; Duration: 11/18-10/25
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Study on genetic, epigenetic, transcriptomic and proteomic mechanisms modulating sheep resistance to small ruminant lentivirus
Funding by: German Research Foundation (DFG); Duration: 05/22-04/25
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Completed Projects
Evaluation of the possibility to breed for resistance to the maedi visna virus in the breed Rauwolliges Pommersches Landschaf
Funding by: Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE), commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture; Duration: 06/23-07/24
Practical strategies for population and health management using the Thuringian Forest goat as a model
Funding by: Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE), commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture; Duration: 04/21-04/24
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Molecular genetic characterisation of the diversity of alpaca populations in German-speaking countries
Funding by: Association for the Promotion of Research in the Health Sector of Llamas and Alpacas e.V.; Duration: 08/21-12/23
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Study on genetic factors controlling liver copper concentration in sheep
Funding by: German Research Foundation (DFG); Duration: 09/19-08/22
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Horn status in sheep - Development of a genetic test to detect genetic horn status in sheep
Funding by: Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank (LR); Duration: 05/17-12/19
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Introduction to molecular analysis of health and breeding relevant traits in the alpaca
Funding by: Association for the Promotion of Research in the Health Sector of Llamas and Alpacas e.V.; Duration: 10/18-10/20
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