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Dr Steve Little - Review: Water medication of growing pigs – sources of between-animal vari- ability in systemic exposure to antimicrobials.
Dr Kristy DiGiacomo - Review: Insect meal – a future source of protein feed for pigs?
Prof Robyn Warner - Review: The process, drivers and challenges for cell-based meat production.
Prof Mark Hutchinson - Symposium: What might be possible if we could quantify the ill- ness response?
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simulation of texture/ mouthfeel and flavour of animal-derived meat, the cost, and consumers’ acceptance of the tech- nology and chemical in- gredients used in culture media.
Prof Warner’s review discusses the process of cell-based meat produc- tion and summarises the significant challenges for appearance on retail shelves.
Prof Warner works in Meat Science at the University of Melbourne where she applies her meat science and muscle biochemistry training to problems confronting the meat industry, supervises postgraduate students and teaches Meat Science.
Prof Warner has pub- lished over 100 papers in refereed journals, has given invited lectures in countries around the globe and serves as an editor for the journals ‘Meat and Muscle Biology’, online Food journal and ‘Animal Production Science’.
She was the winner of the 2014 American Meat Science Association In- ternational Lectureship Award and has also re- ceived national and inter- national awards for her role on the Meat Standards Australia food grading scheme.
Prof Mark Hutchinson – Symposium: What might be possible if we could quantify the ill- ness response?
How do you know you are sick?
How does an animal know it is sick?
These may appear to be simple questions, yet it has taken more than 40 years for the fields of immu- nology and neuroscience to capture the potential impact of this mechanistic understanding.
Moreover, the under- standing of the bi-direc-
tional communication between the brain and pe- ripheral immune system has evolved to capture an understanding of how mood can alter immune function and vice versa.
These concepts are rap- idly evolving the field of psychiatry and medicine as a whole.
However, the advances in human medicine have not been capitalised upon yet in animal husbandry practice.
Of specific attention are the implications these bio- logical systems have for creating and maintaining heightened pain states.
Prof Hutchinson’s re- view will outline the key concepts of brain-immune communication and the immediate opportunities targeting this biology can have for husbandry prac- tices, with a specific focus on pain.
Prof Hutchinson is the director of the ARC Cen- tre of Excellence for Na- noscale BioPhotonics, a professor within the Ad- elaide Medical School, and an ARC Future Fel- low at the University of Adelaide.
Prof Hutchinson re- turned to the University of Adelaide in 2009 as an NHMRC CJ Martin Research Fellow and es- tablished the Neuroimmu- nopharmacology research laboratory.
From 2005 to 2009 he worked in the world-lead- ing laboratory of Prof Lin- da Watkins in the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Here he pioneered with Prof Watkins the research that has led to the discov- ery of novel drug activity at innate immune recep- tors.
Prof Hutchinson’s re- search has implicated the brain immune-like cells in the action of drugs of dependence and the nega- tive side effects of pain treatments.
His work has enabled the translation of com- pounds at the lab bench to clinical agents used at the bedside.
Prof Hutchinson has published over 160 papers in journals and refereed conference proceedings. Assistant Prof Tomas Norton – Symposium: Precision livestock technologies for the pork industry
Precision livestock farming is about mak- ing the most of farmers’ expertise by support- ing their processes with state-of-the-art informa- tion and communication technologies.
PLF is now in action on many farms across the world and farmers are be- ginning to trust the tech- nology.
However, many ques- tions still remain, such as will PLF drive the animal and human bond further apart?
Will PLF drive family farms out of existence?
And will PLF deterio- rate the skill of the future generation of farmers?
This presentation will discuss the state-of-the- art technologies in PLF and will give an opinion on where PLF sits with respect to the future of sustainable pig production.
Assistant Prof Norton is based in the Division of Animal and Human and Health Engineering (group of M3-BIORES) at the KU Leuven.
He holds a PhD in Bio- systems Engineering from University College Dublin, Ireland.
His current research fo- cus is on precision live- stock farming applications, focusing on real-time modelling and control of animal bio-responses.
He is PI and co-PI on collaborative national and international projects funded by the Belgium government, EU-H2020 and USDA, and is co- ordinator of courses on
Measuring, Modelling and Managing Bio-responses and Sustainable PLF, and Animal Production Engi- neering at the KU Leuven.
Since 2018, Assistant Prof Norton has been a member of the Flem- ish scientific team on air emissions from livestock buildings, Chair of Section 2 of International Com- mission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineer- ing and a member of the CIGR executive board. Mr Chris Piotrowski
– Symposium: The po- tential of portable near- infrared spectroscopy for assuring quality and authenticity in the food chain
Recent advances in min- iaturisation have led to
a significant number of hand-held near-infrared devices being developed, providing the freedom to use these devices at many different points along the supply chain, allowing de- cisions to be made earlier, significantly reducing time and costs.
Currently the most com- mon methods used for as- sessing meat quality and authenticity are laboratory analysis of the fatty-acid composition of melted subcutaneous fat using gas chromatography and DNA genetics checks.
This is reliant on get- ting a sample to the point of analysis, which can be some distance from the slaughterhouse, incurring considerable time delays
and meaning the carcasses could be processed before the results are available.
Mr Piotrowski will dis- cuss a study looking at the use of portable NIR in- struments to assess on-site quantitative (fatty acid pro- file) and qualitative (‘pre- mium’ and ‘non-premium’ categories) of individual Iberian pork carcasses at the slaughterhouse.
NIR calibrations for fatty acids and classification as premium or non-premium based on measuring the carcass fat in-situ were de- veloped using a portable NIR.
Mr Piotrowski is cur- rently a director at Aunir, a leading NIR calibration development company and part of AB Vista, and has
been working in the feed industry for 40 years.
An analytical chemist by training, Mr Piotrows- ki introduced the first NIR network in the UK in the 1980s.
He now leads the techni- cal development of near- infrared calibrations and applications at Aunir and has been instrumental in bringing innovative on- farm NIR applications to the animal nutrition mar- ket.
Mr Piotrowski is widely recognised globally for his contribution to the development of NIR cali- brations for agricultural applications, including many novel applications based on animal in-vivo studies.
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Mr Chris Piotrowski - Symposium: Assistant Prof Tomas Norton - The potential of portable near-infrared Symposium: Precision livestock tech- spectroscopy for assuring quality and
nologies for the pork industry. authenticity in the food chain.
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