Andreas Baumler (University of Carlifornia, USA)
Andreas Baumler is a Professor at the University of California, Dept. Med. Microbiol. & Immunol., School of Medicine. He is also Editor in Chief for “Infection and Immunity”. Andreas’ expertise lies in interaction of enteric pathogens (Salmonella, E. coli, Citrobacter) with the host and its microbiota.
Andreas’ presentation will focus on “Salmonella and the microbiome”.
Evy Goossens (Ghent, Belgium)
Evy Goossens studied Biochemistry and Biotechnology at the Ghent University (Belgium). After obtaining her Msc in 2010, she completed her PhD working on C. perfringens associated necro-haemorrhagic enteritis in veal calves, at the lab of prof. Van Immerseel. Since 2016, Evy works as a post-doctoral researcher focussing on gut health in livestock production. Furthermore, the work on C. perfringens associated enteric diseases in poultry and cattle is still ongoing. She supervises multiple PhD students and works in collaboration with industrial partners. Her interests centre on host-pathogen and host-microbiome interactions, and how these influence health and disease. Methods employed reach from anaerobic microbiology to microbial engineering, NGS sequencing (microbiome sequencing, whole genome sequencing, RNAseq), bioinformatics and measurements of host-pathogen interactions.
Evy’s presentation will focus on “One pathogen, many faces: C. perfringens virulence factors along the road to necrotic enteritis in chickens”.
Michael Kogut (USDA, US)
Dr. Kogut is a Research Microbiologist and Lead Scientist within the Food and Feed Safety research Unit at the Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center, College Station, TX, USA. Dr. Kogut has published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers,11 book chapters, and has received 5 patents. Dr. Kogut’s research is centered on gut health of poultry and alternatives to antibiotics to control disease and increase production. Specifically, Dr. Kogut’s research has concentrated on the development of cost-effective immunological interventions to improve gut health by studying the role of the microbiota in immunity to infection; the role of dietary metabolites in promoting immune regulation and immune responses to pathogens; tissue specific regulatory responses to infection; characterizing novel molecular targets that mediate the actions of dietary compounds and botanicals in inflammation and immunity; investigating how diet modulates the gut microbiome and mucosal immune responses; and understanding the integration of central metabolic pathways and nutrient sensing with antimicrobial immunity and how it alters cellular energy homeostasis and contributes to the prevention or resolution of infectious diseases.
Andy Butterworth (Bristol, UK)
Andy was a practitioner in mixed veterinary practice in the UK (1992-98), and then moved from veterinary practice to carry out research in Clinical Veterinary Science, at the University of Bristol Vet School (1998-2019).
Andy is recognised at a national and international level for his work on poultry health and welfare, animal health, animal welfare, disease and production systems.
He is part of the international training business AWT Animal Welfare Training.
Andy was a member of the EFSA Animal Health and Welfare Panel 2015-18, and is a current member of the Defra AWC committee, which advises government on Animal Health and Welfare. He has over 250 Book, Scientific and Trade publications.
Doug R. Korver (Alberta, CA)
Doug Korver received a Ph. D. in nutrition from the University of California, Davis. Doug’s research program has a strong applied research focus; relevance to the poultry industry remains an important consideration in his approach to research. In addition to practical research on feedstuff quality and dietary supplement evaluation in poultry diets, Doug’s work focuses on nutrition-immune function interactions and bone biology in meat- and egg-type poultry. Doug currently teaches introductory animal nutrition and poultry nutrition courses at the undergraduate level, and is a co-instructor for a graduate-level course in advanced animal nutrition and metabolism. In addition, he has conducted field research trials in commercial poultry facilities in Canada, Colombia and Ecuador. In 2016, he spent a 6-month sabbatical in Colombia, working with a major broiler integrator. He is currently part of the National Research Council’s committee to revise and update the 1994 Nutrient Requirements of Poultry.
Randall Singer (University of Minnesota, United States)
Randall Singer is a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine. He received his DVM and MPVM from UC Davis in 1995. He received his PhD in Epidemiology from UC Davis in 1999 studying E. coli cellulitis of broiler chickens. Dr. Singer’s research and educational program has focused on predicting the emergence, spread and persistence of infectious diseases. In 2000 he was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers by President Clinton for his work on antibiotic resistance. Since that time, he has devoted most of his research program to this topic. Between 2006 and 2010 he served on the U.S. Delegation to the Codex Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance and is now serving again on the U.S. Delegation to this renewed Task Force that held its third meeting in December 2019. He has spoken twice to the U.S. House of Representatives on this topic and served as a voting member of the U.S. Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria from 2015 to 2019.
H. David Chapman (University Professor, University of Arkansas, USA)
David Chapman is a University Professor emeritus from the Department of Poultry Science, University of Arkansas, USA. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at Imperial Chemical Industries and a Principal Scientific Officer at the Houghton Poultry Research Station in the UK. His career has involved research into the disease coccidiosis in poultry for which he has published numerous book chapters, reviews, and manuscripts. He taught protozoan diseases at the Royal Veterinary College in the UK, and courses in parasitology and digestive physiology at the University of Arkansas. His overall focus concerns the development of improved methods for the control of coccidiosis in poultry utilizing drugs and vaccines.
Antonio J. Piantino Ferreira (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
The research lines of Prof. Piantino Ferreira are focused on avian diseases which compromise poultry performance and their diagnosis. His group studies enteric viruses and their interactions with the chicken, amongst which parvovirus, ANV, astrovirus, reovirus, adenovirus, and others. In addition, his group is working with respiratory viruses (IBV and ILTV), and some immunosuppressive viruses (CAV, REV, Marek´s disease, and others) and their interactions in chicken production. The constant monitoring in chicken infection diseases is a goal of the laboratory.
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