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Department of Ruminant Physiology of Nutrition

Head:

  • Prof. Tadeusz Michałowski, PhD, DSc

 

Scientific staff:

  • Prof. Marian Czauderna, PhD, DSc
  • Prof. Jan Kowalczyk, PhD, DSc
  • Prof. Tadeusz Michałowski, PhD, DSc
  • Janusz J. Pająk, PhD, DSc;
  • Grzegorz Bełżecki, PhD;
  • Anna Kasperowicz PhD;
  • Barbara Kowalik, PhD;
  • Renata Miltko, PhD

 

Research subjects:

  • Digestion and metabolism of nu­trients in forestomachs and in the small intestine
  • Recycling of nitrogen compounds in the digestive tract and their me­tabolism in the body
  • Metabolism of fatty acids, includ­ing CLA isomers, metabolism in the rumen and animal body
  • Role of rumen ciliates and bacte­ria in digestion and metabolism of structural and storage polysaccharides of plant and microbial origin
  • Phylogenesis of the symbiotic pro­tozoa inhabiting in the digestive tract of herbivore mammals