2020 Virtual Meeting
The EAAP Virtual Meeting was held in December 2020.
Recorded video presentations will be available as soon as possible.
Please come back to this page to find updates.
Sessions
Session 01: Plenary session – responsibility of animal productionon climate change
Session 02: Joint EAAP/ADSA/Interbull session: Breeding and genetics – ten years of genomic selection
Session 03: Genetic diversity
Session 04: PLF for saving feed
Session 05: Climate change impact on livestock health and welfare
Session 06: Energy and protein efficiency in pigs, from conception to slaughter
Session 07: Responsiveness of the dairy cattle industry to social needs
Session 08: Physiological basis of PLF technologies to infer on animal health, welfare and production efficiency in cattle
Session 09: Insects as feed and health effects for livestock
Session 10: Sustainable land use for healthy humans and a healthy planet
Session 11: Dairy sheep and goat systems: new research in genes, nutrition and management
Session 12: What livestock has to offer to biodiversity & healthy soils (ATF)
Session 13: Governance of the genetic resources
Session 14: Genetics free communications
Session 15: Fitting PLF to species and animal size, possibilities for sheep, goats, poultry, horses, pigs and ‘exotic’ animals
Session 16: ‘Net zero-carbon’ – how is it possible in livestock farming systems?
Session 17: Early career competition: stressing innovation in pig production
Session 18: Young Train: Innovative research and extension in cattle
Session 19: SMART NUTRITION – the role of nutrition in the circular economy: improving the use of feed not competitive with human nutrition
Session 20: Insect production: techniques, substrates and health issues
Session 21: Omics in animal nutrition and physiology (The European Joint Doctorate Program Molecular Animal Nutrition “MANNA”)
Session 22: Can you have your cake and eat it too – tools to get the most out of animal resilience and efficiency
Session 23: Breeding for improved animal health and welfare
Session 24: Data-based PLF solutions for the cattle sector: opportunities, challenges and pitfalls
Session 25: Feed production facing climate change (new feeds, alternative fibre sources)
Session 26: Early career competition: stressing innovation in pig production
Session 27: Integration of beef and dairy production
Session 28: Aquaculture Working Group
Session 29: Understanding and combatting antimicrobials and anthelmintics resistance
Session 30: Genetic evaluations and breeding programs in horses and their development
Session 31: Recent advances in livestock physiology: cellular, organoid and whole-organism studies
Session 32: Breeding for improved animal health and welfare
Session 33: Opportunities and risks in animal management applying AI, big data, data science tools, API economy and digital agriculture
Session 35: Modulating gut function and microbiome for resilient livestock production
Session 36: Housing of cattle
Session 37: Combining the diversity of resources and farming practices to ensure resilience at different scales
Session 38: Standardization of methods, parameters and terminology in insect research and socio-economic impact
Session 39: New perspectives and approaches in equidae production
Session 40: Dairy sheep and goat systems: new research in genes, nutrition and management
Session 41: Breeding programmes
Session 42: New technological challenges (including nanotechnology) facing future feeding industry – how to value?
Session 43: Impact of PLF and sensors on phenotyping, animal breeding, animal selection and animal genetics
Session 44: Dairy4Future project
Session 45: Modulating gut function and microbiome for resilient livestock production
Session 47: Combining the diversity of resources and farming practices to ensure resilience at different scales
Session 48: Insect genetics: opportunities and challenges
Session 49: New perspectives and approaches in equidae production
Session 50: Sheep and goat free communications
Session 51: Young Scientist session: jobs of the future
Session 52: Long-term selection and limits
Session 53: Free communications – cattle
Session 54: PLF as a tailor-made way to care for individuals within groups
Session 55: PLF and sensing animal health, welfare, physiological measures and behaviour of animals
Session 56: Pig, poultry and rabbit husbandry for improved product quality
Session 57: Lameness and metabolic aspects in cattle
Session 58: Neonatal nutrition/ early life programming
Session 59: Impact of different farming practices on animal health and welfare
Session 60: Horse registration, legal status of horses and its consequences
Session 61: SMARTER: small ruminants breeding for efficiency and resilience
Session 62: Livestock farming systems free communications
Session 63: Breeding, climate and sustainability
Session 64: Genomic evaluation
Session 65: PLF and sensing animal health, welfare, physiological measures and behaviour of animals
Session 67: Mineral and vitamin nutrition in pigs and poultry
Session 68: Collaborative international research related to beef quality
Session 69: Dietary methyl donor supplementation in dairy ruminants
Session 70: Applied animal behaviour
Session 71: Combating the increasingly negative consumer opinion on livestock’s contribution to climate change
Session 72: Resilient sheep and goats: breeding & management strategies to overcome disease and environmental challenges
Session 73: Innovative farm systems to meet societal demand