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First Round of Abstract Submission Ends: Dec 30, 2025
Extended Early Bird Ends: May 20, 2025

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Francesco Feliziani
IZS Umbria e Marche, Italy
Title: To be confirmed.
Francesco Feliziani is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) with over thirty years of experience at the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale of Umbria and Marche 'Togo Rosati'. He currently serves as the Director of the Virology Department and heads the National Reference Laboratory for Swine Fever. As a senior researcher specializing in viral diseases of domestic animals, he is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in Animal Health, particularly in the surveillance and control of infectious diseases in livestock.

Dr. Feliziani has an extensive publication record at both national and international levels and has conducted numerous training activities in academic and institutional settings.
Prof. Martina Torricelli
IZSUM – Togo Rosati, Italy
Title: Emerging zoonotic pathogens in fish: pilot and prevalence study in Italy for management of water-borne diseases
Martina Torricelli is a Biotechnologist, with a Master degree (110/110 cum laude) in Medical Biotechnology, a PhD in Food Safety & Animal Health, a Master in Health Management and a School of Specialisation in Clinical Pathology and Clinical Biochemistry (in progress, 3rd year). She has worked in IZSUM since 2013, dealing with research about GMOs and Allergens in food&feed with experimental design and validation of biomolecular methods. Currently she works at the R&D Area in projects about nutrigenomic, zoonoses control and genetic resistance. Martina is skilled in Biotechnology, in Molecular Biology and basic Bioinformatic. She has 20 publications in international journals, several attendance at National and Intenational Congresses, also as invited speaker, and 60 experiences as peer reviewer in BMC and MDPI Journals."
Dr. Elizabeth Adkins
Hope Advanced Veterinary Center, USA
Title: Juvenile ocular abnormalities in a litter of black-footed ferrets
Dr. Elizabeth Adkins, a board-certified veterinary ophthalmologist, became the head of The Hope Center Ophthalmology Department in May of 2009. She joined The Hope Center after serving as a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin for two years. From 2004-2007 Dr. Adkins practiced in Massachusetts and Illinois. Dr. Adkins is a graduate of The University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine and returned there for her residency program after receiving a Master’s degree in Comparative Biomedical Sciences (concentration area: Pharmacology) from North Carolina State University. In addition to being a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association and the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists, Dr Adkins is also a member of National Shiba Club of America. Dr. Adkins has had seven Shiba Inus, including one from Midwest Shiba Inu Rescue. Dr. Adkins also consults at the National Zoo. Dr. Adkins is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists.
Prof. Charlotte DEZETTER
Ecole Supérieure des Agricultures, France
Title: Association between growth profiles according to age at first insemination of Holstein and Normande heifers and their longevity
I am an associate professor in Ecole Supérieure des Agricultures (Angers, France). During my PhD I focused on the interest to implement dairy crossbreeding in Holstein herds. My research focused on the abilities of animals, especially dairy cows, to adapt to health and reproductive management in a context of agroecological transition. Assessment of animal abilities to ensure productive, reproductive and health functions was made by simulation or database analysis.
Dr. Carmina Gallardo
Centre for Animal Health Research (CISA-INIA/CSIC), Spain
Title: African Swine Fever: Diagnostic strategies and control measures as cornerstones of Global Animal Health
Dr. Carmina Gallardo holds a PhD in Molecular Biology and is a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Animal Health Research (CISA-INIA/CSIC), where she coordinates the scientific activities of the EU Reference Laboratory and the FAO Reference Centre for African Swine Fever (ASF). Since 1999, she has dedicated her career to ASF, starting with her doctoral research on diagnostic methods and continuing with a postdoctoral stay at ILRI (Kenya), where she advanced molecular epidemiology and technology transfer for ASF surveillance in sub-Saharan Africa. She has authored over 290 publications, including 76 in peer-reviewed journals, coordinated more than 70 international training courses, and collaborated with over 40 reference laboratories worldwide. She has led six R&D projects and served on 32 scientific committees, including EU Veterinary Emergency Teams and FAO/WOAH ASF task forces. Her work has led to the development of reference diagnostic methods included in international manuals such as the WOAH and the FAO, four patents for diagnostic and vaccine on ASF, and two national awards for innovation. Since 2022, she has been ranked among the top 2% of scientists worldwide by Stanford University.
Prof. Ana Maria Munhoz
Lusófona University, Portugal
Title: Parasites in wild animals, a potential zoonotic problem?
Dr Ana Maria Munhoz is a professor and a member of the Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases Research Group at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Lusófona University in Portugal. She is a researcher specialising in parasitology, focusing her R&D activities on the epidemiology of parasitic infections in companion animals, livestock, and wild animals; integrated disease management; antiparasitic treatments; and parasitic zoonoses, in line with the one-health principle. She obtained a degree in Veterinary Medicine in 1985 from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. After starting her career in Brazil with the Ministry of Agriculture and the pharmaceutical industry, she moved to Portugal, where she continued to work in the pharmaceutical industry in Portugal and Spain. She obtained her PhD from the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain in 2014. She is a member of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology (WAAVP). She has also actively participated in a significant number of national and international scientific conferences. Furthermore, she has significant teaching experience, having taught at veterinary medicine universities at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and supervised several MSc students.
Dr. Sophie Lemosquet
PEGASE, INRAE, Institut Agro, France
Title: Sustainable Dairy Nutrition: Balancing Amino Acid Supply to Improve Nitrogen Efficiency and Protein Autonomy — Perspectives from the INRA (2018) Feeding System
Sophie Lemosquet is a dairy nutritionist who graduated with a PhD from the National School of Agronomy in Rennes (Institut Agro Rennes, France). She researches on nitrogen efficiency and protein autonomy in lactating dairy cows at INRAE (PEGASE research unit, Saint-Gilles, France). From 1998 to 2009, she analysed the effect of nutrients on glucose metabolism, developing quantitative methods to assess fluxes by combining stable isotopes and mammary gland metabolism. Until 2006, she studied the interaction between amino acid metabolism and energy supply. She is responsible for the Amino Acids Digestible in Intestine (AADI) system (supplies and requirements) within the INRA (2018) feeding system.
Dr. Paulo G. C. Wagner
Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, Brazil (IBAMA)
Title: Epidemiological analysis in endangered free-living wild specimens
Veterinarian graduated from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 1989. He has been an Environmental Analyst at the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama) since 2003, working at the IBAMA Superintendence in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. President of the Regional Council of Veterinary Medicine of the State of Paraíba, Brazil, between 2010 and 2011. Deputy Superintendent of Ibama in Rio Grande do Sul from 2017 to 2022. Head of the Technical Division of Ibama's Superintendence in Rio Grande do Sul from 2021 to 2022. Head of the Wild Animal Screening Center at Ibama in the state of Paraíba between 2005 and 2011 and at Ibama in the state of Rio Grande do Sul between 2011 and 2024. He has experience in veterinary medicine, management of animal inspection systems, environmental management and conservation medicine. Master in Veterinary Sciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. PhD in Veterinary Sciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.
Prof. Thomas Blaha
University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany
Title: The need for and the challenges of transforming the current livestock production toward sustainability and animal wellbeing
Graduation in Veterinary Medicine at the University of Leipzig in 1971 (then East Germany). Veterinary food animal practice until 1980, Junior and then Senior Researcher at the Institute of Bacterial Animal Diseases in Jena until 1991 (Ph.D. in 1983), Full Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover (Germany), and the College of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Minnesota (USA).

Diplomate of the European College of Porcine Health Management (ECPHM) and the European College of Veterinary Public Health (ECVPH). Member of the Executive Board of the German Association of Veterinarians for Animal Welfare. Multiple times tutor for the EU Training Course for Official Veterinarians “Better Training for Safer Food” BTSF.

More than 250 peer-reviewed scientific articles. Co-Editor of the Springer Nature book “Intensive Livestock Production in Transition”.
Sandrine Mignon
INRAE, France
Title: Using feeding behavior to improve feed efficiency of poultry
Sandrine Mignon has been a senior scientist in the Poultry Biology and Aviculture Unit at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE) since 1995. She obtained her PhD on the genetics of sexual dimorphism in poultry and its implications for breeding strategies. Her current research lies at the intersection of poultry genetics, nutrition, and production systems, with a particular focus on genotype–environment interactions. Her overarching objective is to contribute to the development of more sustainable and efficient poultry systems, both in terms of breeding practices and production management. Notably, she demonstrated that digestive efficiency in poultry is partly under genetic control and associated with serum color. She also designed and implemented an electronic feeding station that continuously records individual feed intake and body weight in chickens. This innovative tool enables a refined analysis of feed efficiency and provides access to novel phenotypes, such as feeding behavior, thereby offering new perspectives on the regulation of feed intake.