Program

Sessions topics and keynote speakers

Program

Sessions topics and keynote speakers

Rostock-Warnemünde, Germany

2025

Sept 15 – 18

Schedule of Scientific Sessions and SOCIAL EVENTS 

Date / Time 

Monday, 15.9.2025 

Tuesday, 16.9.2025 

Wednesday, 17.9.2025 

Thursday, 18.9.2025 

Hall 

Bernstein 

SEESTERN 

Bernstein 

SEESTERN 

Bernstein 

SEESTERN 

Bernstein 

SEESTERN 

7.00 – 9.00 

 

HOTEL NEPTUN RESTAURANT 

Breakfast with Professors (invited) 

 

 

9.00 – 10.30 

Opening Session  

 

Chairs: Pinotti / Metges 

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SESSION 1 cont. Protein and energy metabolism in ruminants 

Chairs: Steinhoff-Wagner /  Larsen 

SESSION 5 

Feed processing and additives for sustainable and resilient production 

Chairs: Harmon / Remus 

SESSION 4 Nutrient x gene interaction and epigenetics in farm animals 

Chairs:  Reyer / Swanson 

SESSION 6 Methods and technologies for research in the field of sustainable livestock farming 

Chairs: Seifert / Gerrits 

SESSION 8 Micronutrient nutrition and metabolism 

Chairs: Wilkens / Nieto 

SESSION 2 cont. Protein and energy metabolism in non-ruminants 

Chairs: Fernández-Figares / van Milgen 

11.00 – 12.30 

 

 

 

 

SESSION 1 

Protein and energy metabolism in ruminants  

Chairs: Hanigan / Hammon 

SESSION 2 

Protein and energy metabolism in non-ruminants 

Chairs: Zentek / Katsumata 

SESSION 3 Reducing environmental impact of livestock farming 

Chairs: Oltjen / Hales 

CLOSING CEREMONY 

 

13.30 – 16.00 

SESSION 5 cont. Feed processing and additives for sustainable and resilient production 

Chairs: Ouellet / Vandaele 

SESSION 3 cont. Reducing environmental impact of livestock farming  

Chairs: Daş / Kuhla 

SESSION 6 cont. Methods and technologies for research in the field of sustainable livestock farming 

Chairs: van Milgen / Gorka 

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16.00 – 17.45 

SESSION 1 cont. Protein and energy metabolism in ruminants  

Chairs: Steinhoff-Wagner /  Larsen 

SESSION 2 cont. 

Protein and energy metabolism in non-ruminants  

Chairs: Fernández-Figares / Everaert 

SESSION 7 

Taste, diet selection and behavior in livestock 

Chairs: Kuhla / Bee 

SESSION 9 

Fresh from the lab (late breaking abstracts) 

Chairs: Räisänen / Sciascia 

18.00 – 19.30 

KURHAUS WARNEMÜNDE 

Welcome Evening (registration) 

 

 

 

19.00 – 22.00 

 

KURHAUS Warnemünde – Restaurant Wellenrausch & Paulo Scutarro 

Awards / Social Dinner (registration) 

 

Coffee breaks: 10.30 – 11.00 h and 15.30 – 16.00 h (except Wednesday: 15.30 – 16.15); Lunch: 12.30 – 13.30 

Session

Name

Institution

Working title

Opening lecture

Ashild Krogdahl

Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Norway
Roles of Nutrients, Antinutrients, and Functional Ingredients in Health and Disease: Insights from Studies on Humans, Terrestrial Animals, and Fish
Protein and energy metabolism in ruminants
Mike Steele
University of Guelph, Canada
Protein and energy metabolism in early life of ruminants
Protein and energy metabolism in non-ruminants  
Sam Millet
Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (EV ILVO), Belgium
Optimizing Health and Performance in Newly Weaned Piglets: Finding the Ideal Balance of Amino Acids, Energy, and Protein
Reducing environmental impact
Ermias Kebreab
University of California, Davis, Department Animal Science, USA
Animal production, nutrition, circularity and LCA
Nutrient x gene interaction and epigenetics in farm animals
Maria Siwek
University of Technology and Life Sciences in Bydgoszcz, Poland
Livestock nutrition and epigenetics
Feed processing and additives for sustainable and resilient productivity
Marta Lourenço
Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (EV ILVO), Belgium
Use of side streams and by-products as ingredients in livestock feed
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
From organoids to organ-on-chips: novel in vitro tools to study farm animal biology
Taste, diet selection and behavior in livestock  
Cécile Ginane
French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), France
Taste perception and feed selection in livestock
Micronutrient nutrition and metabolism
Michael Oster
Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Germany
Vit. D and mineral metabolism in monogastric species