Research programme
Animal Sciences
We perform multidisciplinary research at molecular, cellular, and organismal levels of animal biology to increase fundamental understanding of health and disease.
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- Annemarie Meijer
The Animal Sciences cluster fosters collaboration between researchers with expertise in molecular cell biology, immunology, physiology, behavioural biology, and evo-devo research. As detailed under the links on this page, Animal Sciences participates in all of the institute wide-research themes: Bioactive Molecules, Development & Disease, Evolution & Biodiversity, and Host-Microbe Interactions. In brief, Animal Sciences contributes in the following ways:
Bioactive Molecules
Study bioactive compounds to identify drug candidates and to elucidate biological mechanisms associated with immune-related diseases, including infections, inflammation, metabolic disorders and cancer.
Development & Disease
Elucidate how genetic changes in developmental mechanisms drive the evolution of new functions and phenotypes and how genetic and environmental factors determine disease processes.
Evolution & Biodiversity
Gain insight into genome evolution and the proximate and ultimate factors underlying animal behaviour and cognition, and the consequences of anthropogenic changes in the environment on physiology and behaviour.
Host-Microbe Interactions
Increase understanding of interactions between animal hosts and pathogenic microbes or beneficial bacterial species in the genome.
Related research
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Animal Sciences
- Zebrafish: a new engraft model to study Ewing sarcoma progression
- Role of Chemokine Gradient Sensing in Ewing Sarcoma Progression, Angiogenesis and Immune Targeting
- Segments and rules: a comparative study on linguistic rule learning mechanisms
- Glucocorticoids in zebrafish
- Single gold nanorods in live cells
- Glucocorticoid modulation of the immune response
- Neurogenomics of vocal learning
- Perception of multidimensional speech sounds in humans and songbirds
- The serosa: an evolutionary novelty in insect eggs
- Using zebrafish to target the Achilles’ heel of cancer
- Why not sing? Reconstructing the evolution of female and male bird song
- ZF-HEALTH - Zebrafish Regulomics for Human Health
- High-throughput screening for developmental and reproductive toxicity
- Imaging of biomaterial-associated inflammation and infection using zebrafish
- The quest for new medicines against tuberculosis
- Chemokine signaling in Tuberculosis and Salmonella infection
- Innate immune defence against intracellular pathogens
- Nitric oxide in defence against mycobacterial infection
- Evolution and development of bitterling fish
- Development of an in vitro vascular network using zebrafish embryonic cells
- The role of zebrafish (Danio rerio) larvae in developing new drug candidates for treating anxiety, from natural sources
- PROPER: ‘Near-patient’ prostate cancer models for the assessment of disease prognosis and therapy
- Endocannabinoids in health and stress
- Screening of animal venoms for antimicrobial compounds
- Snake genomes and toxin evolution
- Smartmix: A new generation of efficient biomedical research
- ZF-CANCER - Developing high-throughput bioassays for human cancers in zebrafish
- Zebrafish personality, stress physiology and behaviour in the context of sound exposure
- Urban ecology and avian acoustics: Function and evolution of birdsong in a changing world
- Role of leukocytes in metastasis formation in a zebrafish
- The comparative biology of language learning
- Staphylomics: Identifying host factors involved in staphylococcal infection
- Inflammafish: Cross-talk between inflammation and autophagy in tuberculosis
- A PCAD-model for fish to study the impact of airgun sound exposure on free-ranging cod
- Novel immunomodulatory drugs for tuberculosis treatment
- FishForPharma: Training network on zebrafish infection models for pharmaceutical screens
- The eel, a swimming paradox