Rebecca Knab, PhD

Rebecca Knab, PhD
Guest Researcher
Rebecca Knab, PhD
Guest Researcher

Rebecca Knab is a veterinarian with experience in animal-based infection research as well as in development and application of alternative in vitro models. She has just earned her PhD in the program “Veterinary Research and Animal Biology” at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hannover and is currently finishing a master’s in “Philosophy of Science” at Leibniz University. At CELLS Rebecca works as a research fellow with a focus on the philosophy of animal experimentation.

Main Areas of Research and Teaching

 

  • philosophy of animal experimentation
  • animal ethics

Teaching

 

Publications

Knab, Rebecca; Petersen, Henning; Lin, Hsuen-Ju; Meixner, Martin; Rautenschlein, Silke; Jung, Arne (2019): In vitro characterization and genetic diversity of Bordetella avium field strains. In Avian Pathology. DOI: 10.1080/03079457.2019.1660305 (eprint)

Knab, Rebecca; Petersen, Henning; Rautenschlein, Silke; Jung, Arne (2018): Establishment of a Bordetella avium challenge model in turkeys. In Avian Pathology 47 (3), pp. 227–237. DOI: 10.1080/03079457.2017.1408895