The 8th EAAP International Symposium on Energy and Protein Metabolism and Nutrition
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Rostock-Warnemünde, Germany
2025
Sept 15 – 18
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Opening lecture
Ashild Krogdahl
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Norway
Åshild Krogdahl was educated in human nutrition with a PhD addressing effects of legume protease inhibitors on digestive functions. Thereafter, as researcher, associate and full professor in animal nutrition, her focus, besides teaching, has been monogastric animal nutrition, with an emphasis on physiological and health impacts of antinutrients, new feedstuffs, and additives. In recent years salmon has been the main species of investigation. Of the many research projects she has led, the most comprehensive was the management of the Gut Health unit of the Aquaculture Protein Centre, a CoE. She has served as member and leader of committees at NMBU, under the Norwegian Research Council, and two periods as leader of the Steering Committee of the Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety.
Protein and energy metabolism in ruminants
Mike Steele
University of Guelph, Canada
Michael Steele completed his PhD in Animal Science at the University of Guelph and worked for Nutreco Canada AgResearch as Research Scientist in Technology Transfer before returning to academia at the University of Alberta and the University of Guelph, where he is now a Full Professor of Animal Physiology and Nutrition (NSERC Industrial Research Chair). His research specialization is on ruminant physiology and nutrition, molecular Biology and microbiology. He has been awarded several prestigious honors, including the CSAS Young Scientist Award, the American Society of Animal Science Early Researcher Award, and the ADSA Foundation Scholar Award. His current research focuses on the mechanisms that control gastrointestinal health and development in cattle, and he has published over 150 manuscripts throughout his career.
Protein and energy metabolism in non-ruminants
Sam Millet
Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (EV ILVO), Belgium
Sam Millet graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Ghent University and went on to earn a PhD in Veterinary Sciences, specializing in animal nutrition. After a brief research period at the University of California, Davis, he joined ILVO (Flanders’ Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food), where he is currently a senior researcher in the “pig husbandry” group. He also holds a position as visiting professor in pig nutrition at Ghent University. While his research spans various aspects of pig husbandry, his primary focus is on improving protein efficiency and amino acid nutrition in pigs. Additionally, he serves as the president of the Pig Study Commission of the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP).
Reducing environmental impact
Ermias Kebreab
University of California, Davis, Department Animal Science, USA
Ermias Kebreab is a Professor of Animal Science and Associate Dean at the University of California, Davis, holding the Sesnon Endowed Chair in Sustainable Agriculture. His research focuses on climate-smart animal production and food security. An expert in enteric methane emissions, he contributed to the 2019 IPCC report and co-chaired United Nations FAO committees on feed additives and methane. He has over 250 peer-reviewed articles and numerous national and international awards, including Innovator of the Year and Global Engagement awards. Dr. Kebreab is a renowned speaker, having delivered a TED talk on climate solutions and was listed among the top 30 global leaders working toward climate solutions in 2023 by Business Insider.
Nutrient x gene interaction and epigenetics in farm animals
Maria Siwek
University of Technology and Life Sciences in Bydgoszcz, Poland
Maria Siwek completed her master’s degree at the Poznań University of Life Sciences and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Agricultural Sciences at Wageningen University, Netherlands, for her work on the genetic bases of immune responses in laying hens. She received a postdoctoral degree and is a full professor at the Faculty of Animal Breeding and Biology at the University of Technology and Life Sciences in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Previously, she worked at the Institute of Zootechnics in Zakrzewo near Poznan, Wageningen University in the Netherlands, the Institute of Pig Genetics in the Netherlands, and the University of Palermo, Italy. Maria Siwek’s research interests are mainly related to the structural and functional genetics of animals. Her research work is carried out in national and international cooperation within the framework of research projects funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, National Science Center, and National Center for Research and Development and the European Commission. Maria Siwek is a two-time winner of the Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship awarded by the European Commission.
Feed processing and additives for sustainable and resilient productivity
Marta Lourenço
Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (EV ILVO), Belgium
Marta Lourenço completed her studies of Veterinary Medicine in Lisbon, Portugal. After she moved to Belgium, she obtained her PhD degree in Applied Biological Sciences of Ghent University and worked subsequently as a post-doc at the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Ghent University, focusing on rumen metabolism. Later she moved to animal nutrition research of production and companion animals. In 2017 she joined ILVO as a senior researcher in poultry nutrition and husbandry. Her research focuses on alternative ingredients for poultry feeds, their nutritional value and their processing and incorporation into feeds. She works with both conventional and organic production systems, and with broilers and laying hens.
Methods and technologies for research in the field of sustainable livestock farming
Martin Beaumont
French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), France
Martin Beaumont conducted his PhD research on the effects of high-protein diets and bacterial metabolites derived from amino acids on gut health, at INRAE-AgroParisTech in Paris, France. He then joined UCLouvain (Brussels, Belgium) and focused his postdoctoral research on the hepatic effects of indole, a metabolite produced by the gut microbiota from tryptophan. Since 2018, he is researcher at INRAE-GenPhySE (Toulouse, France). Using a combination of omics technologies and intestinal organoid cultures in vitro, he studies the role of gut microbiota-derived metabolites on epithelial barrier function in young mammals.
Taste, diet selection and behavior in livestock
Cécile Ginane
French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), France
Cécile Ginane obtained a master’s degree in evolutionary biology and ecology from the University of Montpellier. She then completed her PhD in ethology at the French National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA). After a post-doctoral fellowship at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute in Scotland, she obtained in 2002 a position as a research scientist at INRA. She is currently a researcher at the Joint Research Unit on Herbivores. She is interested in the behaviour and welfare of farmed ruminants in low-input grazing systems and studies their responses to environmental challenges to understand their needs, learning capacities and motivations in these complex systems. Her focus is on feeding behaviour, both as one of the primary behaviours for animal production, and as a means of adaptation and welfare (diet learning, self-medication, hedonism).
Micronutrient nutrition and metabolism
Michael Oster
Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Germany
Michael Oster graduated from the University of Jena, Germany, and obtained his PhD degree in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Bonn, Germany. He is a senior scientist in the working group ‘Physiological Genomics’ at the Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN). The research activities of the working group include studies on the physiology and genetic architecture of mineral utilization. His current research focusses on the interaction of the vitamin D system and mineral metabolism in pigs and poultry, combining endocrine and transcriptional profiles. The research topics include feeding strategies to improve in particular the efficient utilization of phosphorus in line with a sustainable agri-food cycle.
