Profile

Professional career

• since 01/2010
  Professor in the Institute of Animal Nutrition, Nutrition Diseases and Dietetics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Leipzig UniversityAuthority for continuing education in "Animal Nutrition and Dietetics"
• 01/2001 - 12/2009
  Postdoctoral lecture qualification ("habilitation"), title of the thesis: “Food properties affecting starch digestion by healthy horses as measured by glycaemic and insulinaemic responses”
• 09/1997 - 05/2006
  Scientist at the Institute of Animal Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation

Education

• 06/1998 - 05/2003
  Specialization in Animal Nutrition and Dietetics, Institute of Animal Nutrition and Dietetcis, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation
• 05/1996 - 08/1998
  Doctoral degree at the Institute of Animal Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, title of the doctoral thesis: “Effects of oral supplementation of glucose or electrolytes on energy metabolism in horses"
• 10/1989 - 05/1995
  Study of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin

My research is focused on ´civilisation diseases´ in livestocks with a key focus on the equine. Main research topics include obesity, gastric ulcers and feed intake behaviour.

Due to my successful fundraising, my research group is currently working on molecular changes in adipose and liver tissue during the course of excessive energy intake or during inflammation in horses and ponies.

Another topic of my research focuses on the impact of feed on the gastric mucosa and on dental abbreviations in the equine and calves. We aim to develop nutritional strategies for preventing gastric ulcers. Currently, my research group is also integrated in the excellence cluster nutriCARD. In cooperation with the research focus ´Civilisation diseases, Infection, Consumer protection, Nutrition and Animal welfare (= ZIVET)´ nutriCARD aims to produce safe foods with respect to cardiovascular health in humans.

According to the reduced availability of forages in horses due to climatic changes we investigate the mechanism of selection of poisoning plants in hay in a current project.

• Effects of green-tea and curcumin oral supplementation on lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation in horses and ponies

  Vervuert, Ingrid

  Duration: 01/2017 – 07/2019

  Funded by: Wirtschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Tierernährung und Ernährungsschäden
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• Pyrrolizidine alkaloids in commercial feedstuffs for horses

  Vervuert, Ingrid

  Duration: 01/2017 – 10/2018

  Funded by: Fördergesellschaften

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Tierernährung und Ernährungsschäden
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• Einfluss der Körpergewichtszunahme auf den Narkoseverlauf bei anästhesierten Pferden

  Gittel, Claudia

  Duration: 10/2015 – ongoing

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Großtierchirurgie
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• Quantifizierung von Sand im Magendarmtrakt von gesunden Ponys – Vergleich Computertomographie und Kotuntersuchung

  Berner, Dagmar

  Duration: 09/2015 – 12/2018

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Klinik für Pferde; Verwaltung/Veterinärmedizinische Fakultät
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• Comparative effects of diet on inflammatory responses of subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue and liver in ponies and horses

  Vervuert, Ingrid

  Duration: 06/2015 – 09/2019

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Institut für Tierernährung, Ernährungsschäden und Diätetik; Tierernährung und Ernährungsschäden
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more projects

• Scharner, D.; Gittel, C.; Böttcher, D.; Winter, K.; Blaue, D. D.; Schedlbauer, C.; Vervuert, I.; Brehm, W.

  Sonographie der Linea alba vor und nach der Laparotomie beim Warmblutpferd

  Pferdeheilkunde. 2019. 35 (1). pp. 34–40.

  DOI: 10.21836/PEM20190105
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• Wilhelmsson, M.; Olson, M.; Vervuert, I.; Lancaster, B.; Ellis, A.

  Observations on digestive and ingestive parameters in 6 performance horses when moved from a traditional, high concentrate diet (TD) to a high forage (HF) diet - A field study

  2018. p. 42.

  ISBN: 978-91-576-9584-0
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more publications

Since many years, I am teaching with great engagement and dedication. The teaching concepts are practice-oriented and tailored to first day competence for students studying veterinary medicine. Furthermore, I am strongly involved in the postgraduate education for veterinarians. I have a special degree in didactics which is embedded in the “Zertifikationsprogramm” of Leipzig University.