Research Interests:
Animal nutrition, especially nutritional biochemistry. Effect of alternative feed resources - bioactive compounds, metabolism, feed utilization, absorption, interaction between feed intestinal microbiota and animal
Research Goal:
Gain understanding of how environmentally sustainable dietary feed will effect performance and welfare in monogastric animals and especially in fish. Increase the understanding of bioactive component effects on the animal, tissue and molecular level. Increase the knowledge about interactions between feed host and the commensal microbiota.
Research Skills:
Design, sampling, analysis, and interpretation of intensive in vivo and in vitro experiments. Feed formulation, cell culturing and biochemical analysis
Activity in the scientific society:
Long-term experience of pedagocic administration (director of studies 1996-2002, committee member of "Programnämnden husdjur" and the research school Feed and Food Safety) and teaching.
I have been responsible for several different courses in the field of biochemistry and animal nutrition at various levels. Examples of specific courses; Biochemistry, Life Sciences, Comparative nutrition and I'm also teaching in several others courses within the area of nutrition.
I have also been responsible and teaching in PhD-courses as Principles of Analytical Methods in nutrition and biology. These courses have been performed in Sweden, Lithuania and Vietnam.
On-going projects:
| Title | Project managers |
| Animal welfare in modern production systems for fish | Bo Algers, Anders Kiessling, Lotta Berg, Erik Sandblom, Kristina Sundell, Albin Gräns, Torbjörn Lundh |
| Use of different microorganisms as protein source in feed for farmed fish and it's effect on growth, welfare and health |
Anders Kiessling, Torbjörn Lundh, Matilda Olstorpe, Eva Brännäs, PhD student: Aleksandar Vidakovic |
| Feed safety and welfare implications when feeding microbes to farmed fish | Torbjörn Lundh, Anders Kiessling, Sofia Boqvist,
Richard Moccia, David Allen, PhD student: David Huyben |
| Bioactive components effect on absorption and metabolism of nutrients in fish |
Torbjörn Lundh, Anders Kiessling, Jana Pickova, PhD student: Andreas Nyman |
| Evaluation of using distilled brewer's yeast and microbe mixture to replace fish meal in diets for giant freshwater shrimp (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) and red tilapia (Oreochromis sp.) in recirculation water systems with and without algae. |
Anders Kiessling, Torbjörn Lundh, Matilda Olstorpe, Chau Thi Da, PhD student: Yen Nhi Nguyen Huu |
| Evaluation of using brewery yeast and other microbe mixture to replace fish meal in diets for Asian Seabass (Lates Calcarifer) |
Anders Kiessling, Torbjörn Lundh, Matilda Olstorpe, Jan Erik Lindberg, Chau Thi Da, PhD student: Sen Sorphea |
| Fish quality and metabolism as a response on different alternate feed sources to fish |
Jana Pickova, Sofia Trattner, Ali Moazzami, Anders Kiessling, Torbjörn Lundh, PhD student: Ken Cheng |
Supervisor and examiner of a large number of M.sc and Ph.D. theses