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N° 181 - May 2020 www.eaap.orgEuropean Federation of Animal Science
January
EDITORIAL BY THE SECRETARY GENERALThe importance of internet infrastructure
The 2020 EAAP Annual Meeting will be virtual. There are many aspects to properly
organizing a virtual conference but the infrastructure, mainly the internet connection,
has a key role. It is easy to say that the internet will be even more the main issue for
future activities of scientists, either to carry out research, to exchange views, or to partly
substitute scientific conferences.
In the last two months the internet is experiencing a large “stress test” for the increased use
of the network because of the strategies implemented to contain the pandemic. We think
that the current situation is not a problem but a great opportunity, as it will lead companies
and governments investing in network infrastructure. At the end of the emergency, the
network will be even more developed and robust. Likewise, scientific dissemination will rely
even more on internet connections. Our optimism, however, brings up another important
critical point, namely the impact of the digital divide. Many countries in recent years
have not made adequate investment in the internet and, even within countries, there is
large variation between areas with adequate connectivity and others, more peripheral,
sparsely populated and poorer with mediocre infrastructure.
We cannot expect support from the sector companies because they are not interested
in offering a minimum of quality and, in mutual agreement, avoiding being competitive
in unattractive areas, dividing the territory effectively. This is a potentially very disturbing
scenario as it will impede the full freedom of use making the internet such a valuable tool
for scientific dissemination. The risk is that researchers, living already at the margins of
digital evolution, will experience the natural consequence of further increasing the gap
not only digital, but also scientific. The stakes are related to the ‘utilization evolution’ of
what has fully become an essential resource.
Andrea Rosati
Main Topicsl News from EAAP pag. 1 -2l EAAP People Portrait pag. 2 - 3l Science and Innovation pag. 4l News from EU pag. 4l Industry and Organizations pag. 4 - 5l Job Offers pag. 5l Publications pag. 5 -6l Conferences, Workshops pag. 6
EDITORIAL
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EAAP 2020 Annual Meeting will go virtual!
As it is well known by now, the Porto EAAP 2020 Annual Meeting will not be held on-site in the traditional structure, but it will be virtual. The decision is due to the uncertainty about the COVID-19 pandemic and the difficulty in making plans about hosting a major International conference. EAAP cares about the safety of delegates, exhibitors, sponsors and hosts. We have however decided, given the evolving nature of the pandemic, to reach you wherever you are. EAAP Session will be virtual to arrive in your office, house or where you have your computer. We are currently planning the technical details for the organization of such an event. The current strategy is to keep a similar scientific structure as for the traditional on-site meeting to be organized in the last months of this year. The Book of Abstracts will be prepared as per usual. There will be virtual sessions with speakers and participants.This is a new virtual direction for the EAAP Annual Meeting to offer the animal science network the best opportunity to share their research in the most updated and scientifically advanced forum in the world. Everyone will receive in the next weeks, via the EAAP website and email notifications, detailed information about how to register, present researches and simply how to participate to the virtual event.
Animal open access
‘animal’ the monthly international journal of animal bioscience, is delighted to announce they have entered into a partnership with leading global publisher Elsevier, to move to a Gold Open Access model. This means that from the 1st January 2021 all future published articles and all archived articles, once re-digitised, will be shared worldwide. Read the full announcement here.
Insects New website
”EAAP Insects Study Commission new website online! We are proud to announce that the new website of EAAP Insects Study Commission is online! Keep yourself constantly updated about news and events from the world of Animal Science! Have a look here: http://insects.eaap.org/
News from EAAP
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• Letter of support by another EAAP individual member• (facultative) EAAP scholarships received
Please send the application to [email protected] by June 30th, 2020.
EAAP People Portrait
Marwa Shumo
Dr Marwa Shumo is an entomologist who gained a B.Sc. in Biotechnology (University of Nizwa, Oman), an MSc. in Environmental Sciences (University of Cologne, Germany) and a PhD in Agricultural Sciences (University of Bonn, Germany) and an International Doctorate in Development Studies (Center for Development Research/ZEF, Germany). Dr. Shumo conducted her doctoral field research in Kenya while being affiliated to the International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe).
EAAP Young Scientist award new deadline!
EAAP will assign the grant even if the 2020 Annual Meeting will be held in virtual form!
The award is granted to an early career scientist who demonstrated outstanding research performance with a European dimension and perspective. The winner will receive the award next year and will be invited to present a paper at the Annual Meeting in Davos 2021 for which free registration will be granted. Moreover, this year, because of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the application deadline has been delayed to June 30th, 2020. To be eligible for the award you must fulfil the following criteria:
• Born after September 1st, 1982• EAAP individual member• Demonstrated outstanding research performance with the European dimension and perspective
Your application should include:
• Curriculum Vitae• European Experience (if not in CV) such as participation in EU projects or benefiting EU grants• List of scientific publications and products (e.g. patents)• List of eventual presentations at the EAAP Annual Meetings
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the Southeast Asian Regional Centre for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) and the Food Security Center (FSC) of the University of Hohenheim in Germany and funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) under the Higher Education Excellence in Development Cooperation (EXCEED) program. Since January 2020, Dr Shumo assumed a new role as an R & D in the Insect Technology Center of Germany’s first insect as feed mass producing company, Hermetia Baruth GmbH where she is responsible for the company’s contributions to project SUSINCHAIN, an EU H2020 funded project that aims to increase the economic viability of the insect market by overcoming existing obstacles to scaling up the insect value chain in the EU. Dr. Shumo joined the EAAP in the year 2018 and was recently elected a Young Scientist board member in the EAAP Study Commission on Insects. Apart from her avid interest in insects, Dr. Shumo is a science communicator, slammer and blogger. You can take a look at her research and travels blog diary at the following link https://blog.zef.de/?author_name=marwa and watch her latest video communicating her research at the following link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph4guRPDjP8. In her free time, Dr Shumo enjoys organizing art workshops by mixing elements of Arabic calligraphy with contemporary abstract painting. A visit to the Hamamm is her most prioritized get into the weekend ritual. While, she enjoys travelling to new places and learning about new cultures, her home Muscat, Oman remains to be the place she’s whole heartily connected to.
During her doctoral research, she was a working member of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) funded project EntoNUTRI and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) funded project INSFEED. For her excellent work during her doctoral research, she received magna cum laude from the examination committee, one of the members being Emeritus Professor Arnold van Huis of Wageningen University, undoubtedly the ‘father’ of the insects for feed and food school. Her research interests and expertise focus on the use of insects as food and feed as well as in the bioconversion of organic waste. She is also interested in alternative and urban agricultural production systems especially in the developing world. Marwa’s work has already attracted substantial national and international recognition as she appeared in numerous international meetings, workshops, conferences, wrote blog post after blog post, gave speeches at innumerous events, even made President Frank-Walter Steinmeier publicly taste insects. For instance, she was selected by the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings to attend the 70th Interdisciplinary Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (27 June – 2 July 2021) and by the Falling Walls Foundation to give a presentation on her research at the Falling Walls Lab Finale in Berlin (08 November 2016). She taught a group of international PhD scholars a module entitled “Edible Insects – The Future of Food” within the agenda of the 2019 summer school “Transformative Changes in Agriculture and Food Systems” that took place in Los Baños, Philippines and was jointly organized by
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From EU (policies and projects)
SmartCow 4th Newsletter is now available!
The 4th SmartCow newsletter is now available! Enjoy your reading here! For receiving the future issues please sign up here.
GENE-SWitCH 1st Newsletter is now available!
The 1st newsletter of the GENE-SWitCH project is now available! Enjoy your reading here! For receiving the future issues please subscribe to the mailing list. .
From Industry, Governments and International Organizations
Dairy cow supplement for milk with a lower carbon profile
Adding 1% or less of a dried supplement of the red seaweed Asparagopsis armata to the diet of dairy cows, can reduce their methane emissions by up to 90%, research suggests. For dairy farmers this could mean producing milk with a lower carbon profile. Read the full article on DairyGlobal.
Are we optimising labour enough on pig farms?
In every company, there is a clear division of tasks. Most people know exactly what their job is and how to do it. On pig farms, proper job management is more important than is often acknowledged. Why is it so important to think about this? And which questions matter? Welfare
From Science and Innovation
Important announcement: IBNA: International online short course “Genomic approaches with Random Regression Models” & 16th edition of the International Symposium of Animal Biology and Nutrition
14th – 16th September 2020 & 23th – 24th September 2021, Balotesti, Romania
Due to the current COVID-19 situation IBNA Institute has taken the following decisions:
• the course “Genomic approaches with Random Regression Models” will be online with the same dates: 14th – 16th September 2020. For more information contact Mr. Horia Grosu ([email protected]).• To postpone the 16th edition of the International Symposium of Animal Biology and Nutrition. The Symposium will take place on 23rd – 24th September 2021 and it will be organized by the National Institute for Research Development in Biology and Animal Nutrition. More information is available on IBNA symposium webpage.
Chicken study probes resistance to Campylobacter
Transplanting gut microbes from chickens that are relatively resistant to Campylobacter bacteria into chickens that are susceptible does not improve resistance, a study by The Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh has shown. Read the full article on PoultryWorld.
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31st May 2020. For more info and application read the attached document.
Publications
1. Cambridge University Press
Animal: Volume 14- Issue 5 – May 2020Article of the month “Effect of altering ruminal pH by dietary buffer supplementation on methane emissions from sheep fed forage rape”
Advances in Animal Biosciences: Volume 11 - Special Issue 1 - April 2020Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science 30 March – 1 April 2020, Nottingham, UK
and housing expert Vivi Aarestrup Moustsen explains below. Read the full article on PigProgress. . Read the full article on PoultryWorld.
Job offers
2 available positions at INRAE, France.
The following positions are available at INRAE:
1. Director to manage the INRAE experimental farm in Bourges. French language is mandatory. Deadline: 1st June 2020. For more information read the job vacancy (available in French).
2. Post-doctoral position in “Modelling the rumen microbiome”. Deadline: 30th June 2020. For more information read the job vacancy.
Post-doctoral position at INRAE within SmartCow project
A Post-doctoral position is available within SmartCow project at INRAE Clermont-Ferrand/Theix, France: “Refining methods for nutrient use efficiency measurement in cattle”. Deadline for application: 30th May 2020. For more information and application read the job vacancy.
Postdoctoral opportunity in Evolutionary Genomics/Bioinformatics, at University of Uppsala, Sweden
The University of Uppsala, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, is looking for a highly motivated post-doctoral fellow in Evolutionary Genomics/Bioinformatics for a two-year position in Prof. Leif Andersson’s research group. Deadline:
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The 8th World Deer Congress 2020 planned to be hosted at the Hotel Grand Jasna, Slovakia, from 11th - 16th October 2020 is delayed indefinitely. For all information and registration visit the conference website.
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CHANGE DATE: October 27th – 28th, 2020 in Frankfurt, Germany
7th International Akademie Fresenius - Feed Conference
The Feed Conference “Feed Additives, Animal Nutrition, Gut Health, Antimicrobial Resistance” organized by Die Akademie Fresenius, has been postponed and will take place on 27th - 28th October 2020 in Frankfurt, Germany. The complete program is available here. For more information visit the Akademie Fresenius website.
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November 23rd – 24th, 2020 in Paris, France
2nd Aminoacid Academy Workshop
The 2nd Aminoacid Academy workshop, organized by EAAP and Ajinomoto, will be held in Paris on November 23rd and 24th 2020. The workshop will have three sessions: “environment”, “health & welfare” and “nutritional strategies”. A specific website with the scientific program, detailed practical info and registration procedure will be published soon.
More conferences and workshops are available on EAAP website.
2. CABI Asking Animals: An Introduction to Animal Behaviour Testing. B. L. Nielsen. April 2020 (available for purchase)
Conferences and workshops
EAAP invites you to check the validity of the dates for every single event published below and in the Calendar of the website, due to the state of sanitary emergency that World is currently dealing with.
71st Annual Meeting of European Federation of Animal Science The on-site Porto 2020 EAAP Annual Meeting is cancelled due to the COVID-19. This year the EAAP Annual Meeting will be virtual! More information coming soon. Stay tuned!
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September 28th – 30th, 2020 in Bled, Slovenia
Joint meeting EAAP Mountain Livestock Farming & FAO-CIHEAM Mountain Pasture
The Joint Meeting of EAAP Mountain Livestock Farming Working Group & FAO-CIHEAM Mountain Pasture Sub-Network “Mountains are agroecosystems for people” to be hosted by the University of Ljubljana in Bled (Slovenia) and planned on September 28th - 30th, 2020 will be delayed to next year. The correct timing still has to be decided. The original announcement of the workshop can be found in this document and to register visit the website.
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October 11th – 16th, 2020 in Jasna, Slovakia
8th World Deer Congress 2020
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