Meet the Team

CFH-Team
Name Expertise ORCID

Publications (Selection)

Maliheh Vahidinasab, Lisa Thewes, Bahar Abrishamchi, Lars Lilge, Susanne Reiße, Elvio Henrique Benatto Perino & Rudolf Hausman (2024). In Vivo Quantification of Surfactin Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetase Complexes in Bacillus subtilis. Microorganisms 2024, 12(11), 2381.
Li, Y. N., Chen, C. W., Trinh-Minh, T., Zhu, H., Matei, A. E., Györfi, A. H., Hubel, P., ... Pfannstiel, J. & Distler,J.H. (2022). Dynamic changes in O-GlcNAcylation regulate osteoclast differentiation and bone loss via nucleoporin 153. Bone Research, 10(1), 51.
Zimmermann, J., Hubel, P., Pfannstiel, J., Afzal, M., Longin, C. F. H., Hitzmann, B., ... & Bischoff, S. C. (2021). Comprehensive proteome analysis of bread deciphering the allergenic potential of bread wheat, spelt and rye. Journal of Proteomics, 247, 104318.
Milyaev, A., Kofler, J., Klaiber, I., Czemmel, S., Pfannstiel, J., Flachowsky, H., ... & Wünsche, J. N. (2021). Toward systematic understanding of flower bud induction in apple: a multi-omics approach. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12, 604810.
Schardon, K., Hohl, M., Graff, L., Pfannstiel, J., Schulze, W., Stintzi, A., & Schaller, A. (2016). Precursor processing for plant peptide hormone maturation by subtilisin-like serine proteinases. Science, 354(6319), 1594-1597.
Simon, O., Klaiber, I., Huber, A., & Pfannstiel, J. (2014). Comprehensive proteome analysis of the response of Pseudomonas putida KT2440 to the flavor compound vanillin. Journal of Proteomics, 109, 212-227.
Lilge, L., Ersig, N., Hubel, P., Aschern, M., Pillai, E., Klausmann, P., ... & Hausmann, R. (2022). Surfactin shows relatively low antimicrobial activity against Bacillus subtilis and other bacterial model organisms in the absence of synergistic metabolites. Microorganisms, 10(4), 779.
Schweikert, K. (2022). Oracle Efficient Estimation of Structural Breaks in Cointegrating Regressions. Journal of Time Series Analysis, 43(1), 83-104.
Seeburger, V. C., D’Alvise, P., Shaaban, B., Schweikert, K.., Lohaus, G., Schroeder, A., & Hasselmann, M. (2020). The trisaccharide melezitose impacts honey bees and their intestinal microbiota. PLoS One, 15(4), e0230871.
Becker, M., Pfeifer, G., & Schweikert, K. (2021). Price Effects of the Austrian Fuel Price Fixing Act: A Synthetic Control Study. Energy Economics, 97, 105207.

Our Heritage

Historic image of the CFH building

The CFH has a longstanding expertise and experience in analysing agricultural products and foodstuff for their nutritional value, going back to its founding year 1865.

In 2016, the former State Institute for Agricultural Chemistry has been reorganized and integrated into the CFH at the University of Hohenheim, being established as the university’s central research laboratory and analytical service unit. Given the university’s strong background in agricultural sciences and life sciences, the CFH continues its tradition to provide a wide and growing range of parameters for the quantification of nutritional values of a broad spectrum of matrices. Our service spectrum does not only cover the identification and quantification of various macro- and micronutrients, but also vast methods for the sample preparation of sensitive and challenging matrices.

In 2019, we processd and analysed roughly 50.000 samples for macro- and micronutrients, ingredients, trace elements, undesired substances, metabolites, and other relevant substances. The processed samples included plants and plant products (cereals, vegetables, fruit, pulses, root vegetables, oils), animal products (dairy products, yoghurts, eggs, meat, fish, honey), oils, soil etc.