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Researcher
Geert Opsomer
- Keywords:cattle, veterinary medicine, herd health management
- Disciplines:Biochemistry and metabolism not elsewhere classified, Veterinary genetics, Energy metabolism, Veterinary neurology, Veterinary embryology, Veterinary oncology, Regulation of metabolism, Veterinary ophthalmology, Veterinary reproduction and obstetrics, Veterinary internal medicine and pathophysiology, Veterinary surgery, Zoological medicine, Veterinary anaesthesiology, analgesia, and intensive care, Veterinary medical imaging, Veterinary immunology, Animal welfare science, Veterinary herd health management
Affiliations
- Academy for Veterinary Medicine (Administrative office)
Responsible
From1 Oct 2024 → Today - Academy for Veterinary Medicine (Administrative office)
Member
From1 Oct 2024 → Today - Department of Internal Medicine, Reproduction and Population Medicine (Department)
Member
From1 Jan 1993 → Today
Projects
1 - 10 of 18
- Prenatal programming and its role in postnatal growth, health, reproductive capacity, performance and longevity in dairy cowsFrom1 Oct 2025 → TodayFunding: BOF - mobility
- Lameness in cattle: identifying and solving the problem - King Baudouin Foundation - Animal Welfare FundFrom24 Feb 2025 → TodayFunding: Foundations, funds and other with scientific goal
- The canine vaginal microbiome in health, disease and around conception: towards responsible antibiotic use in veterinary practiceFrom1 Nov 2024 → TodayFunding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
- Research project to optimize the herd health management of modern cattle herds with a special interest in the fertility and claw health.From1 Jan 2024 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- Development and strategic basic research towards an innovative biomarker for productive longevity in high-yielding dairy cattle.From1 Nov 2023 → 28 Feb 2025Funding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
- Exploring the seminal microbiome in dogs will deliver seminal knowledge on semen quality and dog fertilityFrom1 Oct 2023 → 31 Oct 2024Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Innovative ways to boost a healthy start in young calves: working on improved colostrum quality and transfer of passive immunity.From1 Apr 2023 → 30 Apr 2023Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Innovative tools to improve preventive and curative claw care in dairy cattleFrom1 Jan 2020 → 31 Dec 2023Funding: IWT / VLAIO - Agricultural research
- Long-term effects of signaling molecules during bovine oocyte maturation in vitro: from research to clinical practiceFrom15 Nov 2019 → 13 Apr 2025Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- The transition period as a monitoring window for the nutritional and metabolic resilience of high-yielding dairy cattleFrom1 Oct 2018 → 31 Mar 2023Funding: IWT / VLAIO - Agricultural research
Publications
1 - 10 of 267
- Toward standardized methods in canine vaginal microbiome research : evaluation of storage, host DNA depletion, and database selection(2025)Published in: MICROBIOLOGY SPECTRUMISSN: 2165-0497Issue: 8Volume: 13
- Telomere length in newborn, 'small-for-gestational-age' dairy calves(2025)Published in: VLAAMS DIERGENEESKUNDIG TIJDSCHRIFTISSN: 0303-9021Issue: 4Volume: 94Pages: 203 - 208
- Invited review : udder cleft dermatitis in dairy cows(2025)Published in: JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCEISSN: 1525-3198Issue: 1Volume: 108Pages: 59 - 72
- Blood total calcium concentrations in the fourth week postpartum of dairy cows continue to play a key role in uterine involution(2025)Published in: THERIOGENOLOGYISSN: 1879-3231Volume: 245
- Telomere length in neonatal dairy calves in relation to lifetime parameters(2025)Published in: ANIMALSISSN: 2076-2615Issue: 1Volume: 15
- Shotgun metagenomic composition, microbial interactions and functional insights into the uterine microbiome of postpartum dairy cows with clinical and subclinical endometritis(2025)Published in: SCIENTIFIC REPORTSISSN: 2045-2322Issue: 1Volume: 15
- Exploring the influence of endometritis diagnostic criteria on uterine involution, milk yield and fertility in dairy cows(2025)Published in: BMC VETERINARY RESEARCHISSN: 1746-6148Issue: 1Volume: 21
- Association of artificial intelligence-predicted milk yield residuals to behavioral patterns and transition success in multiparous dairy cows(2025)Published in: JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCEISSN: 1525-3198Issue: 8Volume: 108Pages: 8859 - 8876
- Perspectives in cattle reproduction for the next 20 years : a European context(2025)Published in: THERIOGENOLOGYISSN: 1879-3231Volume: 233Pages: 8 - 23
- Artificial intelligence outperforms humans in morphology-based oocyte selection in cattle(2025)Published in: SCIENTIFIC REPORTSISSN: 2045-2322Issue: 1Volume: 15