Prof. Dr. Tamás Müller - 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. Tamás Müller is a professor at the Department of Freshwater Fish Ecology of the Institute of Aquaculture and Environmental Safety.
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
Kucska, B., Quyen, N.N., Havasi, M., Staszny, Á., Ivánovics, B., Vranovics, K., Griffits, J.D., Urbányi, B., Müller, T. (2024). Asellus aquaticus removal of unfertilized fish eggs and possible use in aquaculture as a biological control organism. Scientific Reports 14, 7295. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-57903-4
Müller, T., Ferincz, Á., Weiperth, A., Ivánovics, B., Tóth, B., Bógó, B., Horváth, J., Urbányi, B., Specziár, A. (2024). Uncommon life history and winter spawning of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) in a natural thermal spring, under temperate climate. Journal of Fish Physiology and Biochemistry https://doi.org/10.1007/s10695-024-01305-w
Müller, T., Horváth, L., Szabó, T., Ittzés, I., Bognár, A., Faidt, P., Ittzés, Á., Urbányi, B., Kucska, B. (2018). Novel method for induced propagation of fish: sperm injection in oviducts and ovary / ovarian lavage with sperm. Aquaculture 482, 124-129.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2017.09.025
Müller, T., Kucska, B., Horváth, L., Ittzés, Á., Urbányi, B., Blake, C., Guti, Cs., Csorbai, B., Kovács, B., Szabó, T. (2018). Successful, induced propagation of African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) by ovarian lavage with sperm and hormone mixture. Aquaculture 485, 197-200.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2017.11.051
Müller, T., Matsubara, H., Kubara, Y., Horváth, Á., Kolics, B., Taller, J., Stéger, V., Kovács, B., Horváth, L., Asturiano, J.F., Peñaranda, D.S., Urbányi, B. (2018). Testing cryopreserved European eel sperm for hybridization (A. japonica × A. anguilla). Theriogenology 113, 153-8.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.theriogenology.2018.02.021
Projects
NKFI Alap (NKFI_K_ 135824): Fish propagation by using sperm insemination into ovarian lobes (2020-2024)
There are difficulties to propagate several economically important or endangered fish species by using tradional method (based on gamete collection). In that case induced spawning/tank spawning, pen spawning the only way to reproduce them. Our newly developed method, which based on sperm insemination into ovarian by using catheter, allows targeted breeding work, which has so far been limited to induced spawning method. As a result, genetic diversity can be increased - in case of spawning fish, targeted crossings can be performed, insemination can be carried out with qualified or manipulated semen. A further result of the work is that we better understand the physiological features of the infertilized fish and the process of fertilization of the fish (possibly including the initial or complete process of embryogenesis), which provides answer for important evolutionary development. https://akvakultura.uni-mate.hu/en/projektek
NKFI (2020-1.2.4-TÉT-IPARI-2021-00011): Optimization and practical applications of new fish propagation methods for future of fish culture (2020-2024)
The new propagation methods developed by MATE researchers enable large-scale classical fish propagation procedures (e.g., controlled spawning, manipulated sperm) that were previously difficult or infeasible in induced spawning. The project partners guarantee the success of applying this new propagation method to economically important freshwater fish (pikeperch, African catfish) and marine fish (sea bass). This effort is supported by leading agricultural-focused universities (MATE and Akdeniz University), the research institute (MFRPTI), one of the most important fish processing and production companies in Hungary (V95 Ltd.), and the most significant aquaculture company in the Mediterranean (Kilic Holding). https://palyazatok.uni-mate.hu/web/mate-p%C3%A1ly%C3%A1zatok/2020-1.2.4-t%C3%A9t-ipari-2021-00011
MBZ Species Conservation Fund (No: 242533675). Captive breeding using new tools and methods as demonstrated by the Rakovitza rudd(2024-2025)
The main objectives of the project are the captive breeding of the critically endangered fish species and the maintaining of a population reserve in captivity, available for reintroduction in case of ecological restoration of their natural habitat.
