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N° 206 - Sep 2021
 European Federation of Animal Science www.eaap.org

 January

Main Topics
l News from EAAP
 pag. 1 - 4
l EAAP People Portrait
 pag. 4
l Science and Innovation
 pag. 4 -5
l News from EU
 pag. 5
l Industry and Organizations
 pag. 5
l Job Offers
 pag. 5 -6
l Publications
 pag. 6
l Conferences, Workshops
 pag. 6 -7

 EDITORIAL
 EDITORIAL BY THE SECRETARY GENERAL
 Is Animal science fully accepted?

 During the plenary session of the last EAAP annual meeting (available on the EAAP YouTube
 channel), Anne Mottet (FAO) clearly showed that animal production must grow to support
 the future needs of humanity. Still animal production is under general accusation mainly for
 environmental and ethical reasons. Although production demands will have to increase,
 animal husbandry in Western countries could have difficulties imposed by rules requested
 by a public opinion that considers it negative for environmental and ethical reasons.
 Consequently, the sciences dealing with animal production are denigrated by public
 opinion and often considered, at best, only “opinions” and not appreciated for resolving
 future crises.
 However, science in general is highly regarded and it is widely believed that science and
 its methods have something special. In fact, when we say that a reasoning is “scientific”,
 we want to give it a very special trustworthiness and authority. But what’s so special about
 science? Surely scientific knowledge is authoritative and reliable because it is proven
 knowledge, that is, it’s theories derive from empirical facts acquired through observation
 and experimentation. It should be very easy to distinguish science from pseudo-science
 (such as astrology for example) and non-science (such as art). In fact, this reasoning brings
 us back to the scientific method as defined and spread widely, starting with Kepler and
 Galileo. But then why do the animal sciences not seem to have the same scientific aura of
 other sciences, such as physics? Why is it not recognized that thanks to new technologies
 farmed animals often live with better welfare and produce less GHG in countries with
 advanced animal husbandry than in developing countries? Maybe because animal
 husbandry creates primary goods that have always been part of our life and to which we
 are often historically and idealistically linked, and the modern style animal husbandry that
 our science advocates clashes with this. In fact, while everyone would prefer to be treated
 by a doctor of 2221 rather than by a doctor of 2021 and would never want to be treated by
 a doctor of 1821, the prospect of eating products of the past continues to be very tempting.

 Andrea Rosati

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 News from EAAP
Good-bye Davos

The 72nd EAAP-Meeting in Davos is over. It was
a great meeting and Davos seemed to be the
ideal site under these special conditions. For the
first time EAAP held a fully hybrid meeting. More
than 800 participants have been on site and
over 400 have taken part virtually. In 11 parallel
sessions science and knowledge was exchanged.
Participants on site enjoyed meeting old friends
and extending their network during the coffee Local organizing committee and EAAP representatives
breaks and lunchtime in the great Davos Congress From left to right: A.Rosati – A.Hofer – I.Casasus - J.Gearing - L.von
Center, as well as during both social events and Tavel – S.Probst – E.Azzaro – B.Bapst – V.Maurer – L.Casanova –
on the technical tours on Friday. We hope that all A.Aebi – B. Ronchi
participants keep good memories of this event and
took back many new ideas for their own work. This Honorary Membership to Matthias Gauly
was possible because all involved parties worked
together. By name these were the people of the During its 72nd Annual Meeting, the General
EAAP secretariat in Rome, the local organizing Assembly of EAAP, the European Federation of
committee of Switzerland supported by many Animal Science, offered to Prof. Matthias Gauly
helpers and Davos Congress with the hospital the prestigious Honorary Membership of the
of Davos. But without all our sponsors, which organization. Prof. Gauly served EAAP as President
supported the meeting despite all uncertainties, for 4 years and had been Council member for
such a meeting would not have been possible. So another 4 years plus other successful activities
thank you all so much! within the scientific groups of the organization. The
 EAAP thrived during his Presidency, providing many
 new services to its members and strengthening
 the existing ones, increasing the financial reserves
 and enlarging the number of individual members,
 amongst other achievements. Offering to Prof.

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Gauly the EAAP membership was a reasonable University & Research (the Netherlands) as new
consequence of the several years he committed to Vice-President for Scientific affairs.
serve the organization and its members. EAAP has
currently seven Honorary Members: P. Chemineau,
P. Cunningham, J. Flanagan, M. Gauly, A. Nardone,
A. Roos, K. Sejrsen and M. Zjalic.

 Klemen Potocnik

 Plenary Session available on EAAP YouTube
 Channel

 The 2021 Plenary Session dedicated to “The multiple
 roles of livestock in sustainable development” is now
 Prof. Matthias Gauly
 available on the EAAP YouTube Channel. There will
Important changes in the EAAP Council be very interesting presentations from the Plenary
 Session presented by Anne Mottet (FAO), Frederic
At the General Assembly held in Davos, during Leroy (University of Brussels) and Jack Britt (North
the 2021 Annual Meeting, a new Council member Carolina State University) including the discussion
was elected: Klemen Potocnik from University of with questions from the audience. Furthermore,
Ljubljana (Slovenia). Klemen replaced Johann there will be the presentation by the local organizers
Sölkner from BOKU University (Austria) who ended (Adrian Aebi) on “Demands on the livestock sector
his four years terms of office within the EAAP - Engagement of the Swiss Government” and
Council where he also served as Vice-President for two Leroy Awardees: the 2020, Giovanni Bittante
Scientific affairs. Many thanks for the committed (University of Padova) about “Environmental
and important activities to Johann. The Council responsibility of animal production: some answers
also elected Hans Spoolder from Wageningen to questions from society” and finally, “Linearity,

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circularity, control, and robustness in biology and 14:00, will be instead organized on September 28th
livestock production system” presented by the at 13:30. The speakers and the program will be
2021 Leroy Awardee, Jaap Van Milgen (INRAE). In available soon, please stay tuned with the EAAP
the EAAP YouTube channel you can also watch the socials (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram).
“Plenary Sessions” held during the Annual Meetings
of the previous years. 2nd Amino Acid Academy Workshop will be
 held in October!
Porto 73rd EAAP Annual Meeting

Davos Annual Meeting has just finished with great
satisfaction by the participants! We just got home
from the beautiful alpine landscape of Davos, and
we are already looking at the next one, the 73rd EAAP
Annual Meeting, that will be held in Porto (Portugal).
The event, that was already planned in 2020 and
cancelled because of the COVID pandemic, will
be held on-site in the northern Portuguese city in
September from 5th to 9th 2022. Save the date on
your agenda!
 The industry workshop jointly organized by EAAP and
Change of webinar schedule Metex – NoovistaGo titled “the value of amino acids
 for sustainable animal farming” will be organized
The EAAP webinar “How is animal nutrition 21st and 22nd October 2021 at the prestigious and
changing?” is postponed by two weeks. The historical location of Grand Amphitheatre of the
webinar, originally planned on September 14th at National Museum of Natural History in Paris (France).

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It will be the same location where the 1st edition on physiological parameter, performance and
of the Amino Acid Academy was held few years behavioral traits in dairy cows’. During the early PhD
ago. The registration for both on-site and virtual phase in 2013, she had her first EAAP conference
participation is open. For program and registration attendance in Nantes and could present first results
visit the website. during the poster session. After finishing the PhD in
 2015 Stefanie moved to Switzerland and worked as

 EAAP People Portrait
 researcher at the Department of Animal Sciences
 at the research institute of organic agriculture
 (FiBL) in Frick. During the years at FiBL she could
 Stefanie Ammer further expand on her knowledge in animal welfare
 sciences in different animal species under organic
 conditions and the Swiss agriculture – characterized
 by a particular emphasis on high welfare standards.
 Currently, Stefanie works at the Department of
 Animal Sciences at the University of Göttingen
 in the division of livestock systems. Her research
 focuses on the effects on animal welfare, behavior
 and health with a special focus on external effects
 as climatic or housing conditions. Since the EAAP
 conference in Nantes in 2013, she was attending
 the congress regularly! Especially the multiplied
 activities of the young EAAP Club attracted her
 particularly and gave her the great opportunity
 starting to build an international network among
 the young scientists! That’s why she also decided
 in 2019 to apply for a secretary position in the
 health and welfare commission, which Stefanie is
 supporting since then. During her free time, Stefanie
Stefanie was born in 1987 in the middle east enjoys to spend the time outside – on the bike or
of Germany and grew up in a small village in hiking – or with friends and a good glass of wine! 
an agricultural surrounding with some family
members working in agriculture. Thus, she always From Science and Innovation
had a connection to agricultural production and
farm practices. In 2006 she started her studies in Wageningen University & Research best university
agricultural sciences at the Georg-August-University in the field of agricultural sciences
Göttingen in Germany. During some months of
work experience on a dairy farm and a pig farm For the fifth time in a row, Wageningen University
Stefanies’ interest in Livestock developed and she & Research is the best university in the field of
was more and more fascinated by the manifold agricultural sciences, according to the 2021 edition
fields, challenges and knowledge around the of the Shanghai Ranking. Wageningen University
housing of farm animals. Both during her Bachelor is ranked globally: 1 in agricultural science, 2 in
as well as her Master-Studies she specialized in geography, 3 in food science & technology and
Animal Sciences with a growing interest in animal 4 in ecology. The Academic Ranking of World
welfare, behavior and health. Already during her Universities (ARWU), also known as the Shanghai
Master thesis she was involved in a joint project on Ranking, is one of the annual publications of world
climate impact and adaptation research in Lower university rankings, based on the quality of scientific
Saxony with a focus on dairy cattle. Accordingly, research at those institutions. The list is headed
she got the great opportunity to do her PhD within by Harvard University from the United States.
this project on: ‘Effects of climatic conditions

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 cope with future challenges. Read the full article on
Broiler feed colour put to the test
 DairyGlobal.
Birds, including chickens, can see in a broad
range of the colour spectrum, and some colours
can be stimulatory. A recent study in the US
set out to determine whether colouring feed
could stimulate broiler chickens to consume
more. Read the full article on AllAboutFeed.

 Vitamin A price remains steady

 This week’s feed additives and ingredients
 update reviews the developments in the Vitamin
 Photo: Joseph Gulizia A market and highlights a new feed ingredient,
 insect meal. Last week, we wrote about the force
 majeure issued by BASF in response to the fire at
Automated stimulation of milk let-down a factory in Ludwigshafen, impacting the supply
 of intermediates for the production of several key
Results from a study in New York state will hopefully ingredients including Vitamin A. Read the full article
encourage dairy farmers reap the benefits of using on AllAboutFeed.
automated systems. If cows are prepared properly
before milking (called pre-milking stimulation, or
PS), there are many benefits. Read the full article on
DairyGlobal.

 Job offers
 Two available positions at Wageningen
 University, The Netherlands

 From Industry, Governments and The following positions are available at Wageningen
 International Organizations University:

Augmented reality: The future of precision dairy 1. PhD Position - Genetic differences in feed
farming digestibility of dairy cows. Deadline: 20th September
 2021.
With the foreseeable increase of the world’s 2. Research Assistant. Deadline: 24th September
population and the expected rise of dairy 2021.
consumption in the future, there will be an inevitable
need for precision dairy technologies that will help

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A postdoc position at Aarhus University, October 21st – 22nd 2021, Paris, France
Denmark
 2nd Amino acid Academy Workshop
At the Department of Animal Science, Aarhus
University a three-year postdoc position in studies The 2nd Amino Acid Academy, organized by EAAP
on relationship between participants in the livestock and METEX NØØVISTAGO will take place on the
production chain and interactions between humans 21st and 22nd October 2021 in Paris, France. The
and animals is available starting December 2021. location will be the Grand Amphitheatre of the
Deadline: 29th October 2021. For more information National Museum of Natural History. The program
and application read the job vacancy. and all registration details are available in the
 attached flyer and on the website.

 Publications
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• Animal consortium (BSAS, EAAP, INRAE) – Elsevier
Animal: Volume 15- Issue 9 – September 2021
Article of the month: “Chemical analysis of materials November 27th – 28th 2021, Turkey
used in pig housing with respect to the safety of
products of animal origin” 3rd international and 12th National Animal
 Science Online Conference

 Conferences and workshops The 3rd international and 12th National Animal
 Science Conference, organized by Uludağ Animal
EAAP invites you to check the validity of the dates Science Association with Bursa Uludag University
for every single event published below and in the Faculty of Agriculture Department of Animal
Calendar of the website, due to the state of sanitary Science and the Animal Science Federation will
emergency that World is currently dealing with. take place virtually on 27th – 28th November
 2021. In the Congress, all stages from producing to
September 30th - October 1st 2021 in Balotesti, consuming animal products will be discussed. For
Romania mor information and registration visit the website.

16th Edition of the International Symposium of
Animal Biology and Nutrition ---
50 years of Research in Biology and Animal
Nutrition at IBNA
 July 3rd – 8th 2022, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The Symposium is organised every two years by the
National Research and Development Institute for 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to
Animal Biology and Nutrition Balotești. The event will Livestock Production (WCGALP)
gather experts and scientists in Biology and Animal
Nutrition, both European and worldwide, who will The 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to
present their most recent research focusing on current Livestock Production will be held in Rotterdam (The
scientific trends. More details on Symposium and Netherlands) from 3rd - 8th July 2022! Registration
registration can be found on the Symposium page and call for abstract are open and the deadline
and in the attached flyer. for submission of abstracts is January 12th, 2022.
 Our website contains more & more information, so
 please keep an eye on that. Because of the privacy

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