Research

Funding: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover (TIB); FKZ 56000016-39/TiHo, 3.505 EUR

Project Details:
The topic of "mobile slaughtering" is currently moving into the focus of the meat industry, as this particularly meets the aspects of regionality and animal welfare. It can be assumed that animals are subjected to more stress during conventional slaughtering, especially during transport to the slaughterhouse, than when they are gently stunned and slaughtered in their usual environment. So-called "mobile slaughtering" is subject to special and partly new legal backgrounds with associated official approval procedures. Within the framework of the project, a teaching unit for veterinary students on the subject of "mobile slaughtering" is to be created as a supplement to and comparison with conventional slaughtering. The teaching unit will address legal backgrounds, animal welfare as well as food quality and safety. In addition, further teaching material (presentations, legal texts, etc.) will be created, prepared and made available to the students on the TiHo-Moodle learning platform together with the teaching unit. The teaching unit can be used by all students of veterinary medicine in the German-speaking countries via the portal twillo. In addition, it is tangential to the field of agriculture (agrarian sector), the butcher and butchery sector, as well as other veterinarians who are already active in the public veterinary sector and come into contact with the associated licensing procedures. Likewise, the teaching unit enables the interested consumer community to gain insight into this field.

Funding: EU Commission, Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety, 724.000 EUR

Project Details:
Finanzielle Zuwendung für die Arbeiten am EU Referenzlabor für Klassische Schweinepest
(Work program according to Annex IV of the Council Directive 2001/89/EC)

Cooperation Partners:

Dr. Christoph Staubach (FLI Riems)

Funding: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, 119.900 EUR

Project Details:
Im Rahmen dieses Projektes werden Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler mit verschiedenen Interessensgruppen in den Diskurs treten, um die Akzeptanz potentieller Alternativen zu herkömmlichen Proteinquellen zu erfragen, da diese für den späteren Einsatz als Lebensmittel von entscheidender Bedeutung ist. Der Fokus wird hierbei auf Insekten liegen, da deren Verzehr wahrscheinlich eine größere Herausforderung darstellt als der pflanzlicher Proteine. Ziel des Projekts ist es, die Verbraucherwünsche und -erwartungen sowie die Einstellungen gegenüber neuartigen Lebensmitteln besser zu verstehen und einzuordnen.

Funding: BMBF, 114.582 EUR

Project Details:
Obwohl auf Genomebene in Fledertieren eine Vielzahl von Viren nachgewiesen wurden, gibt es nur eine geringe Zahl, die in Form infektiöser Virusisolate vorliegen. Da der Nachweis von Fledertierviren sehr häufig aus Kotproben erfolgt, sollten differenzierte Darmzellen die Zielzellen vieler dieser Viren sein, weshalb sie für die Isolierung von Fledertierviren aus Kotproben besonders geeignet erscheinen.
Ziel des Projektes ist die Etablierung eines Kultursystems bestehend aus intestinalen Organoiden von Fledermäusen, mit dem es ermöglicht werden soll, Fledermausviren zu isolieren und ihre Vermehrungseigenschaften sowie ihr zoonotisches Potential näher zu charakterisieren.

Results:

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.03098-22

Funding: COVID 19 Forschungsnetzwerk Niedersachsen COFONI, 48.638 EUR

Project Details:
Early detection of individuals with a SARS-CoV-2 infection remains the most important tool to interrupt the chain of infection. Several studies have already proven canines’ extraordinary olfactory acuity to detect SARS-CoV-2-infected individuals. However, with increasing knowledge about the virus, the variety and chronicity of the disease expression and an increase in the number of people that are vaccinated, some questions have not yet been answered. We will test a variety of hypotheses to further explore the use of detection dogs as a screening method for SARS-CoV-2-infections.

Results:

Dogs can distinguish SARS-CoV-2-infections from other viral infections. However, compared to earlier studies our scent dogs achieved lower diagnostic sensitivities. To deploy COVID-19 detection dogs as a reliable screening method it is therefore mandatory to include a variety of samples from different viral respiratory tract infections in dog training to ensure a successful discrimination process.

https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2021.749588

Cooperation Partners:

Medizinische Hochschule Hannover

Funding: Niedersächsische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, 1.225.000 EUR

Project Details:
Auf das Coronavirus trainierte Spürhunde werden in diesem Herbst bei mehreren Musikveranstaltungen eingesetzt und mit Antigen- und rtRT-PCR-Tests verglichen. Dies wird weitere Erkenntnisse darüber liefern, wie Corona-Spürhunde am besten bei der Detektion infizierten Menschen eingesetzt werden können.

Results:

www.backtoculture.de

Cooperation Partners:

Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover,

Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf,

Hannover Concerts,

Proevent,

Awias Aviation Services

Funding: Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur (MWK) Niedersachsen, 127.000 EUR

Project Details:
Basis_SOUVER@N supports the joint project SOUVER@N through accompanying measures. The project aims to strengthen the cooperation of experts and to identify the heterogeneous technical and organizational framework conditions of the universities participating in the SOUVER@N joint project and to promote their compatibility.

Results:

An der Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule (TiHo) wurden im Rahmen des Verbundprojektes u.a. technische Voraussetzungen für die digitale Lehre erweitert sowie Dozierende beim digitalen Lehren und Studierende beim digitalen Lernen unterstützt. Anleitungen zur digitalen Lehre und zu digitalen Lerntechnologien wurden neu erstellt oder überarbeitet. Für Studierende wurde ein neues virtuelles Mikroskop für das Selbststudium geschaffen. Lehrveranstaltungsräume wurden mit Technik für die hybride Lehre bzw. für Vorlesungsaufzeichnungen ausgestattet, das Lernmanagementsystem Moodle, welches an der TiHo eingesetzt wird, wurde erweitert.

Cooperation Partners:

1) Universität Osnabrück

2) Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

3) Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

4) Technische Universität Clausthal

5) Stiftung Universität Hildesheim

6) Universität Vechta

7) Medizinische Hochschule Hannover

8) ELAN e.V.

Funding: QS-Wissenschaftsfonds, 30.000 EUR

Project Details:
The aim of this study is to determine the sound level in pigs' nursery compartments and to detect the effects of animal behaviour and barn technology on the sound level.
In addition, occupational safety will be considered in the study by identifying particular sound events to which both, animals and humans are exposed, and quantifying them with regard to the sound pressure level. The aim is to generate representative data on noise pollution in today's piglet rearing in Germany, to determine the origin of noise pollution and - if necessary - to identify potential for improvement in terms of animal welfare and occupational safety.

Results:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.livsci.2024.105410

Funding: MWK über UMG Göttingen, 34.750 EUR

Project Details:
SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Type 2) is the causative agent of COVID-19. The course of the COVID-19 pandemic so far has emphatically shown that a coordinated bundling of interdisciplinary and complementary expertise is necessary in order to decode the diverse aspects of the biology, pathology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 and to use the knowledge gained clinically for the treatment of patients as well as for modeling the course of infection in the population. In order to be able to provide and implement such a holistic approach, the federal state of Lower Saxony offers ideal conditions with its internationally renowned science locations. We are therefore applying for financial support for collaborative research to set up a COVID-19 research network in the state of Lower Saxony (COFONI).

Funding: MWK über UMG Göttingen, 41.000 EUR

Project Details:
SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Type 2) is the causative agent of COVID-19. The course of the COVID-19 pandemic so far has emphatically shown that a coordinated bundling of interdisciplinary and complementary expertise is necessary in order to decode the diverse aspects of the biology, pathology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 and to use the knowledge gained clinically for the treatment of patients as well as for modeling the course of infection in the population. In order to be able to provide and implement such a holistic approach, the federal state of Lower Saxony offers ideal conditions with its internationally renowned science locations. We are therefore applying for financial support for collaborative research to set up a COVID-19 research network in the state of Lower Saxony (COFONI).