Dubrovnik 2018

Book of Abstract: Book of Abstract Dubrovnik 2018

Sessions

• Session 01. Added value of local breeds
• Session 02. Effects of nutrition and risk factors in early life on later performance and health
• Session 03. Optimization of a genomic breeding program for small sized cattle populations (with Interbull)
• Session 04. Farm to fork influences on product quality in sheep and goat meat and milk (with H2020 Project iSAGE)
• Session 05. Free communications in animal nutrition: pigs
• Session 06. Introducing the SMARTCOW infrastructure project
• Session 07. Entire male pigs and immunocastration as alternatives to surgical castration of male piglets: opportunities and drawbacks (part 1) (with COST Action IPEMA)
• Session 08. Pig and rabbit welfare
• Session 09. Genetic diversity and conservation
• Session 10. Hepatic, intestinal and mammary adaptive reactions: (patho-) physiology and biomarkers
• Session 11. Young Train: Dairy innovative research and extension (in cooperation with Young Scientists Club; includes NOVUS award)
• Session 12. Cow and large population genotyping for genomic selection, management and marketing in cattle (in cooperation with INTERBULL)
• Session 13. Microbiability and heritability: how microbiome, nutrition, and genetics are related
• Session 14. Postpartum key factors associated with better lamb and kid survival
• Session 15. Nutrition, inflammation and oxidative stress
• Session 16. Balancing production / consumption – animal farming in Europe vs human and planetary health?
• Session 17. Entire male pigs and immunocastration as alternatives to surgical castration of male piglets: opportunities and drawbacks (part 2) (with COST Action IPEMA)
• Session 18. Ruminant health
• Session 19. Options for sustainable livestock in Europe
• Session 20. Plenary Session and Leroy lecture
• Session 21. What the hell is resilience and efficiency?
• Session 22. Physiological diversity between individuals: do we need ‘personalized farming’?
• Session 23. Dairy and meat products: from traditional to novel quality traits
• Session 24. Novel traits (health/quality related traits) based on images or sensors (in cooperation with ICAR)
• Session 25. Perspectives in sustainable aquaculture
• Session 26. Genetics & Genomics – connectedness and application of breeding schemes for sheep & goats
• Session 27. Free communications in animal nutrition
• Session 28. Welfare and behaviour in animal training
• Session 29. Variability in the pig production chain – problems and opportunities
• Session 30. Role of livestock in sustainable landuse and resource uses
• Session 31. Unravelling genetic architecture of complex traits using multiomics approaches
• Session 32. Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) in nutrition, genetics, and in physiology
• Session 33. Improving carcass and meat quality (in cooperation with Cattle Network WG, InterBeef & International Meat Secretariat)
• Session 34. Innovation in cattle husbandry – research, techniques and dissemination methods, regional customisation
• Session 35. How can animal breeding contribute to sustainable and global animal production
• Session 36. Cost effective insect production and high quality insects for feed
• Session 37. How to design your career for the livestock industry?
• Session 38. Sustainable control of production diseases in pigs and poultry, with emphasis on early survival
• Session 39. Opportunities (or agendas) for international collaboration in equine research
• Session 40. Interactive workshop on behavioural measurements
• Session 41. New insights into efficiency
• Session 42. Development of methods to analyse complex data
• Session 43. Pig behaviour and/or machine learning
• Session 44. Resilient Dairy Farming – economic, environmental and social sustainability of (European) dairy farming (in cooperation with EuroDairy project)
• Session 45. Improving management practices and feed efficiency in cattle
• Session 46. Free communications: animal genetics
• Session 47. Safety, regulatory issues and effects of insects in animal feed
• Session 48. New technologies to improve feed efficiency
• Session 49. High quality pig production with local breeds (with H2020 project TREASURE)
• Session 50. Importance and stakes of the horse industry at the European level
• Session 51. Sheep & Goat breeding and free communications
• Session 52. The contribution of livestock farming to the provision of ecosystem services
• Session 53. Breeding programs
• Session 54. Towards an integrated system from (PLF/farm/lengthwise the chain/big) data to a solution or decision
• Session 55. Heat stress / Functional traits in cattle
• Session 56. Multidisciplinary approaches for improving sustainable livestock production: research needs, opportunities and difficulties
• Session 57. Overcoming technological barriers in sheep and goat production and breeding
• Session 58. Non-invasive biomarkers in nutritional studies
• Session 59. Genetics of local pig breeds (with H2020 project TREASURE)
• Session 60. Ethical questions in equine research/training
• Session 61. Diseases control in poultry and pig farming: current strategies and future alternatives
• Session 62. Free communications LFS
• Session 63. Genotype by environment interaction, non-additivity and robustness
• Session 64. Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) and communication in poultry, pigs, red-deer and rabbits
• Session 65. Practices and prospects for adapting to a challenging Mediterranean environment
• Session 66. Free communications: animal genetics
• Session 67. Multidisciplinary approaches for improving sustainable livestock production: user application needs
• Session 68. Free communications in cattle
• Session 69. Nutritional and feeding strategies to face consequences of climate change
• Session 70. Large litters discussion and free communications pigs
• Session 71. Genetics and genomics in horse production