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Wageningen University & Research
Occupation: Senior scientist
Senior scientist at Wageningen UR Livestock Research in Lelystad, The Netherlands. He was employed from 1993 till 2003 by TNO (Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research) as scientist animal nutrition. Since 2003 he is working for WUR Livestock Research in Lelystad, The Netherlands as senior scientist animal
nutrition. His main areas of expertise are the nutritional evaluation of feed ingredients, digestive physiology in pigs, requirements and metabolism of
amino acids and nutrition and health in pigs and poultry.
Location: Gelderland, Netherlands
This member gave a presentation on May 16, 2024
At the following event:
Animal Nutrition Conference of Canada 2024
This member gave a presentation on July 20, 2021
At the following event:
Virtual 2021 PSA Annual Meeting
Article published the December 23, 2019
IntroductionFor economical reasons soybean meal (SBM) is commonly used as a protein source in animal feeds [1] but the increasing demand and price for SBM is stimulating interest in alternative sources of protein. Apart from the predicted nutritional properties of these novel protein sources, nothing is known about their potential effects on gut immunity and health. The effects of dietary protein ...
Article published the June 26, 2015
Traditionally the digestive tract of pigs has been considered in view of its primary function being the site where ingested nutrients are processed and enzymatically degraded or fermented and nutrients are absorbed from the lumen towards systemic organs and tissues. More recently the gut is also being considered more explicitly for its other functions, including its barrier fun ...
This member gave a presentation on June 11, 2015
At the following event:
Symposium: 'Nutrient requirements and animal health'
This member had joined Engormix
May 13, 2015