HORIZON-CL6-2027-02-FARM2FORK-03: Microbiome for terrestrial livestock sustainability and health within a One Health approach

A joint team of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LSMU) seeks a partner role in consortia under HORIZON-CL6-2027-02-FARM2FORK-03. The team brings together the Large Animal Clinic, the HoloRuminant (H2020) group and the Institute for Digestive Research. We offer on-farm cohorts, clinical phenotyping, microbiome sampling and intervention trials.

What we bring:
– Longitudinal, well-phenotyped cohorts of transition and early-lactation cows on commercial Lithuanian farms
– Rumen, faecal and milk sampling linked to sensor, clinical and biomarker data (haematology, clinical biochemistry, acute phase proteins, NEFA, BHB, oxidative stress, bacteriology)
– Clinical expertise in subacute ruminal acidosis, ketosis, mastitis and calf health
– Intervention trials to reduce antimicrobial use, building on our ongoing study of Bacillus subtilis endospores in calves
– Multimodal longitudinal datasets and machine learning / explainable AI for early disease detection

Track record: partner in the H2020 project HoloRuminant (2021–2026) on ruminant microbiomes, 85+ Web of Science publications (45+ Q1), and collaborators in Austria, Germany, Poland, Latvia, Greece, the UK, Japan and South Korea.

Team: Prof. Dr. Ramūnas Antanaitis (lead), Prof. Dr. Arūnas Rutkauskas, Dr. Dovilė Malašauskienė, Dr. Mindaugas Televičius and six PhD candidates.

Contact: Jurgita Juknevičiūtė, International Project Manager, LSMU Research and Innovation Centre, on behalf of the team.