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Working Group Applied Epidemiology

The working group Applied Epidemiology has the following topics:

  • Planning, implementation, and analysis of epidemiological studies in animal populations, e.g. cross-sectional-studies, case-control-studies
  • Design of large epidemiological studies
  • Development of monitoring systems
  • Research on antibiotics use in livestock and on the selection and dissemination of bacteria with antibiotic resistance
Leader:
  • PD Dr. Roswitha Merle

Staff:

  • Dr. Charlotte Jensen
  • Nunzio Sarnino
  • Katharina Frenzer
  • Julia von Kiparski
  • Jenny Linstädt
  • Jasmin Fuggerer
  • Toni Engelke
  • Cassandra Becker
  • Lisa Müller
  • Daron Remien
  • Juliane Langnau
  • Xenia Katzurke

Projects:

  • ENVIRE: Interventions to control the dynamics of antimicrobial resistance from chickens through the environment. JPIAMR – Joint Transnational Call HARISSA; together with Institute for Animal and Environmental Hygiene, ATB Potsdam, ANSES France, University Wroclaw, Poland, University Kaunas, Lithuania, University Sousse, Tunisia. 2022 - 2025.
  • HKP-Mon: Monitoring of antibiotics use and antibiotic resistance in dogs, cats, and horses including an analysis system. Project to support decisions of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture in cooperation with the Institute for Microbiology and Animal Diseases and the Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology, 2021 - 2024.
  • AACTING Companion Animals: Network on quantification of veterinary antimicrobial consumption at herd level and analysis, communication and benchmarking to improve responsible use in companion animals.
  • Survey on the satisfaction of patient owners of ophthalmological patients. Dissertation project veterinarian Lisa Müller.
  • Work satisfaction in the small animal practice: doctoral thesis of Toni Engelke and Cassandra Becker.
  • Satisfaction of self-employed veterinarians in the field of curative small animal medicine in Germany. Dissertation project Daron Remien.
  • Teleconsultation as a means of relieving the burden on emergency service units using the example of Pfotendoctor. Doctoral thesis of Juliane Langnau.
  • Aggressive dogs in animal shelter; doctoral thesis of Xenia Katzurke in cooperation with Prof. Thöne-Reineke (Institute for Animal Welfare, Animal Behavior and Laboratory Animal Science)

  • Repr0|1: Integration of sensor data into an innovative management system based on HERDEplus® to increase reproduction in German dairy cows; research consortium with animal clinic for reproduction (project leader), Data Service Paretz GmbH (DSP) as well as the associated partner RinderAllianz GmbH; funded by the Federal ministry for agriculture and nutrition, Förderkennzeichen: 281C205A19, 2020 - 2023.
  • Effect of deflighting procedure on welfare of flamingos and pelicans; doctoral thesis in cooperation with Zoo Nuremberg and Prof. Thöne-Reineke (Institute for Animal Welfare, Animal Behavior and Laboratory Animal Science)
  • Strengths of integrated veterinary consultations in German dairy farms concerning aninmal health and animal welfare; doctoral thesis of Jenny Ries, 2022.
  • Consumer study on food safety and meat quality: doctoral thesis of Karoline Henke, 2021.
  • MolTypList: Molecular typing of Listeria monocytogenes in food and humans. Scientific project of Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Robert Koch-Institute and FU Berlin, funded by the National Research Platform for Zoonoses as well as the Federal Ministry of Health, 2017 - 2020.
  • Survey on measures to alleviate antimicrobial resistance in the G20 countries; funded by Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture; 2017
  • EsRAM: Development of integrated reduction measures for antbiotics resistant pathogens in poultry; research network incl. several institutes of FU, 4 public and 3 private partners; funded by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, 2016 - 2019
  • AACTING: Network on quantification of veterinary antimicrobial consumption at herd level and analysis, communication and benchmarking to improve responsible use; funded by the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance, Laufzeit: 2016 - 2018