Prof. Dr. Károly Dublecz - MATE Research
Overview
Prof. Dr Károly Dublecz PhD is a full-time professor of the Institute of Physiology and Nutrition. He serves as chair of the Department of Animal Nutrition and Nutritional Physiology in Keszthely. His research is focusing on several aspects of poultry nutrition, including energy and protein evaluation of poultry feeds, evaluating the effects of different feed additives, to get more understanding on the interactions of poultry nutrition and poultry health, studying the multifactorial effects of gut microbiota and its interactions with the animals, how to improve the animal product quality with nutritional tools, finding and evaluating new feedstuffs, secondary cereals, industrial by-products and alternative protein sources.
Prof. Dublecz has diversificated, intensive contact with several Hungarian and European industrial partners, including poultry farmers and feed manufacture companies and exerts intensive advisory work. He is a regular speaker of workshops, and conferences in Hungary and abroad.
He is the president of the Hungarian Branch of the World’s Poultry Science Association (WPSA) and works also as the Hungarian delegate of the nutritional working group of the European WPSA. As a member of this working group, he has been the member of the organizing and scientific committees of several European Conferences. He was the chair of the organizing committee of the European Symposium on Poultry Nutrition in Balatonfüred, Hungary in 2005.
He has been active leaded or participated in several national and international research projects and has successfully applied for research grants nationally and internationally. He authored and co-authored 96 peer reviewed research articles in high-impact scientific journals. He is the member of the editorial boards of the Hungarian Journal of Animal Husbandry and Animal Nutrition and the Journal of Central European Agriculture.
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Publications
Molnár, A.; Such, N.; Farkas, V.; Pál, L.; Menyhárt, L.; Wágner, L.; Husvéth, F.; Dublecz, K. Effects of Wheat Bran and Clostridium butyricum Supplementation on Cecal Microbiota, Short-Chain Fatty Acid Concentration, pH and Histomorphometry in Broiler Chickens. Animals 2020, 10, 2230. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10122230
Such, N.; Farkas, V.; Csitári, G.; Pál, L.; Márton, A.; Menyhárt, L.; Dublecz, K. Relative Effects of Dietary Administration of a Competitive Exclusion Culture and a Synbiotic Product, Age and Sampling Site on Intestinal Microbiota Maturation in Broiler Chickens. Vet. Sci. 2021, 8, 187. https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci8090187
Such N, Mezőlaki A., Tewelde KG, Pál L, Horváth B, Poór J and Dublecz K. Feeding sunflower meal with pullets and laying hens even at a 30% inclusion rate does not impair the ileal digestibility of most amino acids. Front. Vet. Sci. 2024. 11:1347374. https://doi.com/10.3389/fvets.2024.1347374
Dardabou, L.; Martínez Á., José C.; Schmidt, M. W.; Dublecz, K.; Schwarz, C.; Ibáñez, M. A.; Gierus, M. Near-Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopy as an Alternative for Predicting n-Alkane Concentration in Excreta of Laying Hens: NIR-Generated Data for Dietary Composition Estimation. Animals. 2024. 14:806. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14050806
Strifler, P.; Horváth, B.; Such, N.; Dublecz, K.; Pál, L. Effects of different dietary threonine and glycine supplies in broilers fed low-protein diets. Front. Vet. Sci. 2024. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2024.1373348
Projects
Evaluating the nutritional value of abiotic stress resistant oats and barley varieties
In cooperation with the academic Agricultural Research Centre in Martonvásár a 3-year long project was carried out to evaluate the nutritive value of the most promising selected oats and barley genotypes. The characteristics of the grains were evaluated according laboratory analysis and also with in vivo trials. The results have been published in a PhD dissertation and in several research papers.
Festetics Imre Centre of Excellence Bioinnovation and Strategic Research Development Project Workhouse
In the frame of this 4-year long project genomic evaluation of the different digestive tract parts of broiler chickens was carried out using new generation sequencing methods. The effects of probiotics, prebiotics, and different alternative feedstuffs were evaluated. The results were the bases of a PhD dissertation and several articles in high-ranking journals.
Centre of Poultry Innovation (CEPI)
A six-year long bilateral cross-border project was carried out with the Poultry Clinic of the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna. In the frame of the project common research was carried out on the fields of poultry nutrition and poultry health. Beside the scientific part, student and expert exchanges and summer schools were organized.
