In the new European research project 3D’omics, researchers aim to address major challenges in animal production by creating and optimising a technology to analyse animal-microbiota interactions at the microscale. The developed technology will be implemented in two production systems, namely poultry and swine. The project involves both university and industry partners and has received €10 million over the next four years from EU Horizon 2020.

Billions of farm animals provide food to humans worldwide. However, large-scale animal production also faces major challenges: Production of considerable amounts of waste, usage of antibiotics and harvest of enormous amounts of crops.

3D’omics, a new European project supported by EU Horizon 2020, aims to minimize the impact of those challenges by understanding the interactions between animals and microorganisms. The project is led by the University of Copenhagen, and the consortium includes scientists from eight European universities and research institutions, as well as five different companies from the private sector. The Structural Genomics group at the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico and the Centre for Genomic Regulation led by Marc A. Marti-Renom is one of the partners of 3D’omics.

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