Program
Plenary sessions
11 plenary talks will address major issues for the poultry sector as a whole and will take place on Monday, 8 August 2022 all day and Thursday, 11 August 2022 morning.
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Sessions
| Session_titre | Titre_intervention | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Breeding and nutritional strategies for sustainable poultry production schemes | Opportunities offered by genomic selection to breed for diverse production systems | Jack DEKKERS (US ) |
| Breeding and nutritional strategies for sustainable poultry production schemes | How far can we go with enhancing the environmental sustainability of poultry systems? | Ilias KYRIAZAKIS (UK) |
| Economy and sustainability of the poultry production chain | Mitigating the environmental impacts of poultry production | Ermias KEBREAB (US ) |
| Economy and sustainability of the poultry production chain | Global challenges for the economy of the poultry sector | Peter VAN HORNE (NL) |
| New frontiers in poultry science | Epigenetics, domestication, feralisation and adaptation | Dominic WRIGHT (SE) |
| New frontiers in poultry science | PGC & Genome Editing : from laboratory to practice | Jae Yong HAN (KR) |
| New frontiers in poultry science | Ethical issues of biotechnologies in animal production | Thomas HEAMS (FR) |
| One health - One Welfare | Avian Influenza in a One Health Framework | David SWAYNE (US ) |
| One health - One Welfare | Assessing and Improving Poultry Welfare beyond Compliance, a Multistakeholder Initiative | Karen SCHWEAN-LARDNER (CA) & Anne-Marie NEETESON (NL) |
| The bird and its microbiota | Highlights from studies on poultry microbiome: what is missing to turn research into innovation | Alessandra DE CESARE (IT) |
| The bird and its microbiota | The intestinal microbiota, a central actor in the developement of the immune response | Bernd KASPERS (DE) |
Peter VAN HORNE
Peter van Horne is a senior researcher at Wageningen Economic Research (WECR). WECR is part of Wageningen University and Research (WUR) in the Netherlands. He got his degree in farm economics at the Wageningen University in 1984. Since than he is working at the WUR. From 1987 till 2001 van Horne was stationed as a economist at the Centre for Poultry Research ‘het Spelderholt’ in Beekbergen. Later his office was moved to the city of Wageningen. Van Horne is full time occupied with poultry research projects for the national government, EU, European Parliament, international organisations and industry. Main topics the last years have been the economics of animal welfare, environmental protection, animal health and international competition. As all his research is dealing with economics and poultry his position can be summarized by ‘poultry economist’. Mr van Horne has a long standing experience with leading international projects related to the poultry sector. Besides EU countries these projects relate to Brazil, Argentina, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia. Recently his focus is on projects in Africa to improve efficiency within the poultry chain in Ghana, Gambia and South Africa. Mr Van Horne is involved in several international networks. To mention two: he is economic analyst for the International Egg Commission (IEC) in London and chairman of working group 1 (economics) of the European Federation of the World Poultry Science Association (WPSA). Being a chairman of working group1 he organised in total seven round table symposia in different European countries. Since 1992 he has visited many World Poultry Conferences, mostly as an invited speaker (such as Beijing, Brisbane and Istanbul).
Ermias KEBREAB
Dr. Ermias Kebreab is Associate Dean of Global Engagement and Director of World Food Center at University of California, Davis. He also holds the Sesnon Endowed Chair in Sustainable Agriculture. He conducts research in nutrition modeling and impact of livestock on the environment. He is contributing author to 2019 IPCC update, and chairs the feed additive committee of UN FAO. He has authored over 250 peer-reviewed articles and over 150 invited presentations globally. He received several awards including Excellence in Ruminant Nutrition and International Agriculture from American Society of Animal Science and Young Scientist Award from Canadian Society of Animal Science. Dr. Kebreab received BSc from University of Asmara, Eritrea, MSc and Ph.D. from University of Reading, UK.
David SWAYNE
Dr. David E. Swayne is the Laboratory Director (1994-present) of U.S. Department of Agriculture’s in house high biocontainment laboratory for poultry health research. He has a Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine (University of Missouri, 1984), M.Sc. in Veterinary Pathology (University of Missouri, 1984), a PhD in Veterinary Pathology (University of Georgia, 1987), and is a board certified in Veterinary Pathology and as a Poultry Veterinarian. For past 38 years, his personal research has focused on pathobiology and control of avian influenza in poultry. Dr. Swayne has served on World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) committees to update the Avian Influenza chapters in Terrestrial Animal Health Code and Manual and completed a 16 month sabbatical at OIE to study global highly pathogenic avian influenza control programs. He served as chair for the World Health Organization committee to update the Research Agenda for Zoonotic Influenza. He is past Chair of the Executive Committee for OFFLU, the joint OIE/FAO Animal Influenza Network. He has participated in missions or conferences on avian influenza control and biosafety/biosecurity in 51 countries during the past 28 years. He has published over 350 peer-reviewed papers and 116 book chapters on poultry health issues, principally avian influenza and other emerging viral diseases, and has given 333 invited presentations on poultry health issues. He is the editor of the textbook, Avian Influenza (Wiley, 2008); Associate Editor (11th & 12th editions) and Editor-in-Chief (13th & 14th editions) of Diseases of Poultry (Wiley, 2003, 2008, 2013 & 2020); Editor of Animal Influenza (Wiley, 2017), Avian Section Editor of Fenner’s Veterinary Virology (4th & 5th editions; 2011 & 2017); and Poultry Editor for Merck Veterinary Manual (2017-2024). He is on the editorial board of Avian Diseases and is an Associate Editor for Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses and Emerging and Infectious Diseases. Formerly, he served as a tenured faculty member in the College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University.
Anne-Marie NEETESON
Anne-Marie Neeteson is Global Vice President of Welfare, Sustainability and Compliance for Aviagen Group (chicken, turkey) since May 2011. She is a graduate from Wageningen University (majors in animal breeding and animal behaviour), The Netherlands. She chairs the International Poultry Council Health and Welfare Working Group and led the IPC prioritization of UN Sustainable Development Goals leading to the Declaration of São Paulo in 2019. She is a board member of the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Poultry & Eggs, and of the International Poultry Welfare Alliance. Anne-Marie is a PAACO welfare auditor. Before Aviagen, Anne-Marie has been setting up and running the European Forum of Farm Animal Breeders , representation organisation of the European animal breeding organisations (cattle, pigs, poultry, aquaculture) during 17 years. Aviagen is one of the members of EFFAB. She has also set up a patent watch, a Code of Good Practice for Animal Breeding Organisations (Code-EFABAR), an EU recognised technology platform on animal breeding (FABRE TP) and initiated the ‘Animal Task Force’ in Europe.
Karen SCHWEAN-LARDNER
Karen Schwean-Lardner completed her doctorate in poultry management and welfare from the University of Saskatchewan in 2012, studying the impact of lighting programs on broiler welfare and production. She joined the faculty at the University of Saskatchewan in the summer of 2014. Her work at the University encompasses a strong teaching portfolio, and a research program that focuses on the relationship between management practices and bird well-being, and includes research in broilers, turkeys and laying hens. She also serves on a number of international welfare advisory boards (including the Poultry Science Association and International Poultry Welfare Alliance) and is heavily involved in poultry extension internationally.
Alessandra DE CESARE
Alessandra De Cesare is Associate Professor at the Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Bologna (Italy). She obtained the Master Degree in Molecular Microbiology and the PhD in Food Sciences. She has been and is currently involved in many EU funded projects, as both researcher and evaluator. Her main research topics concern bacteria genotyping, metagenomic investigations of chicken gut and poultry meat, definition of risk assessment-based food safety criteria for the main foodborne bacteria pathogens. She teaches food safety and inspection of foods of animal origin in the courses of Veterinary Medicine and Food Science and Technology, is author of 117 peer reviewed papers and is vice-editor in chief of the Italian Journal of Food Safety. She 2018 she serves as Expert in the Biohaz panel of the European Food Safety Authority. Scopus author ID 56188134400; ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5216-6617.
Bernd KASPERS
Bernd Kaspers graduated in Veterinary Medicine in 1986 from the University of Munich and received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree in 1989. In 1991 and 1992 he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the United States Department of Agriculture in Beltsville, MD where he did research on the immune response to coccidosis before returning to Munich. Since 1997 he is a Professor for Animal Physiology at the University of Munich, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. He has more than 25 years of research experience in avian immunology which is documented by more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. He is co-editor of “Avian Immunology” published in a 2nd edition in 2014. He is actively involved in the Avian Immunology Research Group (AIRG) and has hosted the 2004 and 2016 AIRG symposia in Munich.His work involves research on both the innate and adaptive arms of the avian immune system with a particular focus on host-pathogen interaction, immune system maturation and mucosal immunity. Through this he has developed a broad range of tools for avian immunology research such as CD-markers, recombinant cytokines, bio-assays and technologies for functional in vivo studies which have been made available to the international avian research community. Prof Kaspers received funding from the European Union, the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the German Ministry for Education and Research. He also coordinated a DFG funded Graduate School at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Munich.
Jack DEKKERS
Jack grew up in the Netherlands and received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Wageningen Agricultural University and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in Animal Breeding. From 1989 to 1997 he was on faculty at the University of Guelph, working closely with the Canadian industry on genetic improvement of dairy cattle. He moved to Iowa State University in 1997, where he currently is a C.F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor and Leader of the Animal Breeding and Genetics group. Current research focuses on the genetic basis of feed efficiency and health in pigs and poultry, and on the integration of quantitative genetics and genomics in breeding programs.
Ilias KYRIAZAKIS
Ilias Kyriazakis is the Professor of Animal Science at the Institute for Global Food Security of Queen’s University Belfast. He is a veterinarian by training who specialises in the effects of animal management on their performance, the ability to cope with challenges, such as pathogens, and their environmental impact. He has worked with a variety of animal species ranging from mice to cows, but more recently his research has focused on pigs and poultry. His recent work in poultry addresses: 1) the effect on nutrition on the ability of birds to cope with pathogens, such as coccidian; 2) the use of alternative and home grown feeds in poultry systems and 3) the development of methods to assess the environmental impact of local and global poultry systems. His team was responsible for the assessment of the environmental impacts of the UK poultry systems and the identification of hotspots responsible for such impacts. Professor Kyriazakis is the recipient of several awards, including the Leroy Award by European Federation of Animal Sciences (EAAP) for International Excellence in Animal Science, and Fellow of national and International bodies.
Jae Yong HAN
Prof. Han, Jae Yong received his bachelor and master degrees in Seoul National University, Korea. Since his completion of Ph.D. degree in University of Minnesota in 1991, he appointed as a professor of Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University. His academic specialties are avian transgenesis, genome editing and germ cell biology. He has made outstanding achievements in his researches on production of avian germline chimera by germ cell manipulation and genome editing. Specifically, his laboratory developed in vitro long-term culture system of chicken primordial germ cells (PGCs) for subsequent genome modulation of the PGCs. More recently, he has expanded to his research to early embryo development of avian species for in depth understanding of germ cells as well as embryo itself. Up to date, he has published more than 200 research articles in the internationally prominent journals. Based on the his achievements, he was awarded 2012 World’s Poultry Science Association Award (Research), and now he runs the project “Center for Avian Germ Cell Modulation and Cloning” awarded by National Research Foundation of Korea.
Dominic WRIGHT
I am an evolutionary biologist, with my research group focusing on the genetic basis of domestication, feralisation and the behaviour. We are part of AVIAN, the Behavioural Genomics and Physiology group at Linköping University. My group uses the twin processes of domestication and feralisation to unravel the genetic basis of complex traits. Domestication is an incredibly central process throughout civilization, with widespread effects on the target animal populations. Species like the modern domesticated chicken have experienced enormous selection over the past 8 000 years for everything from size, to color, to anxiety behavior. In contrast, when domestic animals escape or are released into the wild, they will re-adapt to the natural environment whilst being subject to natural and sexual selection once again in a process known as feralisation. Both feralisation and domestication provide powerful tools for studying the effects of such selection.
Thomas HEAMS
Thomas Heams was trained in life sciences and agronomy at AgroParisTech from 1997 to 2000, followed by a Ph.D (2004) in molecular and cellular biology at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM). He became an Assistant Professor in Animal Functional Genomics in 2006 in the Life Science and Health division of AgroParisTech and at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE). He currently is the coordinator of a M2 Master program in Predictive and Integrative AniMal biology (PRIAM) for Paris-Saclay University and the French coordinator of the European Master in Animal Breeding and Genetics (EMABG). His research focuses on animal genomics and on philosophy of sciences, and he develops a critical epistemology of life engineering, in connection with interdisciplnary animal studies and evolutionary theory