75th EAAP Annual Meeting

1/5 September 2024 - Florence, Italy

Proposed sessions

Genetics

  • 1 - Integrating mitigation and adaptation breeding strategies
  • 2 - Breeding scheme optimization: balancing breeding goal(s), genetic progress and diversity
  • 15 - Role of bioinformatics applied to livestock data – Exploiting structural variation and pangenome-based techniques for livestock
  • 16 - Genomic selection tools for within- and across- herd management in livestock species
  • 30 - Relationships between environmental efficiency traits – an interdisciplinary approach
  • 31 - Breeding schemes for development of small populations
  • 43 - Digital phenotyping, sensors, ‘omics’ and genetics in enhanced sustainability
  • 44 - Genetics of food quality
  • 58 - The role of breeding and genetics in the sustainable transformation of the livestock sector
  • 71 - Genetic evaluations: new methods, new species, new proxies
  • 72 - Methods in prediction of genetic merit and assessment of genetic diversity
  • 85 - Genetics of novel health and welfare traits

Cattle

  • 3 - N, P and C efficient use and circularity in dairy farms – high utilization, minimal losses
  • 4 - Research on young stock care: the journey of calves from gestation onwards 
  • 17 - Global quality of animal products in 2024: stakeholders’ perceptions, desires, and priorities in a changing world
  • 18 - Sustainable and smart integration of the dairy and beef sectors in EU
  • 32 - The role of marbling in beef quality – development, importance, measurement; harmonisation
  • 33 - Mediterranean buffalo farming for sustainable milk and meat production
  • 45 - Indicators, hi-tech solutions, and tools to effectively manage cattle
  • 46 - Viable future dairy farming systems and products from production, feeding, environmental and consumer viewpoint, Part 1
  • 59 - Milk properties for the valorization of dairy (by-products) manufacturing
  • 60 - Viable future dairy farming systems and products from production, feeding, environmental and consumer viewpoint, Part 2
  • 73 - Targeting ecosystem services provision by grasslands and protein self-sufficiency in cattle production
  • 87 - Dairy herd management
  • 88 - How the dairy sector copes with EU-Green deal

Nutrition

  • 5 - Innovative and emerging feed and forage resources 
  • 6 - Advances in ruminant nutrition, Part 1
  • 19 - Nutritional Models development and applications in livestock farming
  • 20 - Functional feed additives in poultry nutrition
  • 34 - Nutrition management to reduce methane emission and environmental impact, Part 1
  • 35 - Advances in non-ruminant nutrition, Part 1
  • 47 - Nutrition management to reduce methane emission and environmental impact, Part 2
  • 49 - Nutrition in health and welfare of ruminants
  • 61 - Advances in fish nutrition
  • 62 - Feeding for improving the nutritional, safety and organoleptic characteristics of animal-derived foods
  • 75 - Advances in non ruminant nutrition, Part 2
  • 76 - Advances in ruminant nutrition, Part 2
  • 89 - Free communications in animal nutrion
  • 90 - Nutrition and feeding in the circular economy
  • 98 - Nutrition in health and welfare in monogastric animals

Horse

  • 7 - Emerging practices and tools in horse production
  • 48 - Horse genetics and genomics
  • 57 - Socio-economic approaches to address the contemporary issues of the horse industry
  • 74 - From horse welfare to social license to operate

Pig

  • 8 - Innovative approaches to pig and poultry production
  • 21 - Heat stress in pig and poultry production: consequences and strategies to cope with the consequence of the global warming  
  • 22 - Innovation in pig genetics
  • 36 - Slow-growing meat-type and dual purpose genotypes for conventional and alternative farming systems in the EU
  • 37 - Rethink the transition from suckling to weaning to prevent negative consequences of the stress on pig health
  • 50 - Sustainable solutions to support and sustain gut health in monogastric livestock (with project MONOGUTHEALTH), Part 1
  • 64 - Sustainable solutions to support and sustain gut health in monogastric livestock (with project MONOGUTHEALTH), Part 2
  • 78 - Collaboration in experimental research for sustainable pig production (with PIGWEB).
  • 86 - Tailored housing and management strategies from incubation to slaughter house, for poultry
  • 92 - Good practices in experimental research for sustainable pig production (with PIGWEB)

Health and Welfare

  • 9 - Alternative production systems and free communications in animal behaviour and welfare
  • 23 - Management measures to reduce production disease
  • 38 - Best-practice in addressing pig welfare on-farm
  • 51 - Genetic progress vs animal welfare?
  • 63 - Improving animal welfare by optimising nutrition/feeding behaviour, Part 1
  • 65 - PLF for health, behaviour and welfare, Part 2
  • 77 - Improving animal welfare by optimising nutrition/feeding behaviour, Part 2
  • 79 - Welfare issues for small ruminants
  • 93 - Preventive approaches to livestock diseases to reduce drug resistance

Livestock Farming System

  • 10 - Livestock are more than food, Part 1
  • 24 - Livestock are more than food, Part 2
  • 39 - Building quality into animal products to improve the sustainability of farming systems for the future
  • 52 - Redesigning the trajectory: the contribution of research to the development of resilient Livestock Farming Systems and their role to climate change and biodiversity
    The aim of the session is to explore the concept of resilient livestock farming systems as affected and impacted by climate change and the role of animal efficiency and biodiversity in shaping a new environment in livestock and food production. This can be achieved at different scales: i) animal, ii) farm and iii) system level. Work is sought that focuses on the use of agroecological approaches and/or the use of indicators, on feed use, animal effectiveness, smart technologies and the role of interdisciplinarity in tackling climate impacts and promoting sustainable livestock farming systems. The session will present output from European projects that address resilience and sustainability of LFS with different approaches and will accept submission of studies on adaptation and mitigation strategies.
  • 66 - The current and future role of pasture production systems in the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change impacts in livestock farming systems
  • 80 - Technologies for GHG emission mitigation on farm: options, opportunities and challenges
  • 94 - Living labs and demonstration farms: approaches to improve sustainability of LFS globally

Insects

  • 11 - Insect nutrition
  • 25 - Project session ADVAGROMED
  • 53 - Insect genetics, reproduction, physiology and behaviour
  • 67 - Innovative insect application and technologies
  • 81 - Safety, sustainability and welfare in the insect
  • 95 - Insects as food & feed

Sheep and Goat

  • 12 - Effectiveness of breeding programs for local breeds in the Mediterranean region and other harsh environments
  • 26 - Production potential and adaptation of camelid species to extensive, semi-intensive and intensive production systems in arid and semi-arid environments
  • 40 - Zooarchaeological research lessons for contemporary livestock management, conservation and genetics
  • 54 - Sustainable sheep and goat high-yield production systems: Management, nutrition, mechanization, health, and welfare aspects
  • 68 - Small ruminant health and welfare aspects
  • 82 - Optimization of pasture forage and by-product resources to improve sheep and goat production
  • 96 - Optimization of technical, economic, and environmental efficiency in sheep and goat production systems

Physiology

  • 13 - Sensing Physiology: Tools towards optimising livestock husbandry
  • 27 - Physiology of resilience and adaptation to climate change
  • 41 - Optimising reproductive physiology of livestock
  • 55 - Host physiology/genetics and microbiome interactions – The holobiont concept
  • 69 - Epigenetics, adaptation and intergenerational transmission
  • 83 - Early life nutrition and its latent impact on growth, lactational and reproductive physiology
  • 97 - Biological mechanisms regulating inflammatory and energy metabolism in livestock species

Precision Livestock Farming

  • 14 - Integration of PLF and context data to improve decision making
  • 28 - EU-LI-PHE: Livestock phenomics, incl free communications on livestock phenotyping and phenomics
  • 42 - Digital technologies for management
  • 56 - PLF for health, behaviour and welfare, Part 1
  • 70 - RES4LIVE: (renewable) energy for livestock, incl free communications on energy and sensors for thermal comfort of livestock
  • 84 - PLF systems to face climate change and increase sustainability

Other sessions

  • 29 - Reassessing our relationship with farmed animals
  • 91 - Young EAAP session. Project writing: tools, opportunities and experiences