The virtual nature of the BSAS annual conference, has enabled the Society to reach further than ever before, to engage and secure the presence of animal science experts from all four corners of the globe.

Professor Morgan’s interests lie in how climate influences the epidemiology of parasitic infections in animals. Internal parasites, especially helminths (worms), strongly affect the health and fitness of domestic and wild animals, and often have life stages that live away from the main host and are exposed to external environmental conditions. Climate – and climate change – is therefore a key driver of infection patterns.  Management of parasites is further challenged by drug resistance, which undermines farming systems that rely on chemical use. Within his group and with his fellow collaborators, Eric tries to advance and apply knowledge of the ecology of parasite populations to meet these challenges with better adapted management strategies, through a combination of experiments on parasite biology, predictive computer modelling, and observations of field epidemiology. 

The work is global across farmed, companion and wild animal systems, including the troublesome issue of parasite and disease transmission across the wild-domestic interface.  The outcomes he seeks are more efficient and sustainable ways of managing parasite challenges to animal health, to support livelihoods, animal welfare and conservation in a rapidly changing world.

Prof Morgan will be presenting during the ‘Small Ruminant Health and Welfare’ session on the 14th April.

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The virtual nature of the BSAS annual conference, has enabled the Society to reach further than ever before, to engage and secure the presence of animal science experts from all four corners of the globe.

Isabel is the current President of the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP). She holds a PhD in Veterinary Sciences (University of Zaragoza, Spain, 1998) and is currently a Senior Researcher at the Animal Production and Health Unit in the Agri-Food Research Centre of Aragon (CITA, Zaragoza, Spain)

Her main research interests concern extensive ruminant production systems, with a holistic approach integrating the relationships between genotype, phenotype, nutrition, management, pasture use and animal physiology (growth, reproduction, welfare), within a socio economic and environmental sustainability context.

Her scientific activity has been developed within 100 research projects and thematic networks (30 as coordinator), of regional, national, international, and private funding.  She has directed four PhD theses and several MSc theses. She has authored more than 65 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals, and more than 100 technical papers and 250 communications in national and international scientific meetings.  She has also participated in a large number of extension courses and technical conferences, mainly related to livestock production systems in mountain areas, pasture management and organic farming.

Isabel is an active member of different Spanish scientific societies for the study of animal and pasture production, where she has undertaken research, development, and extension activities.  She is also engaged in transnational networks supported by FAO and CIHEAM (namely, on Mountain Pastures and Sheep and Goat Nutrition and Production Systems.)

Isabel will share her expertise as a member of the speaker panel for the ‘One World – One Animal Science’ session. This session looks at the ‘One World – One Animal Science’ perspective as seen from different global animal science societies, sharing, and discussing how they are tackling common issues and how greater links between societies and animal science around the world will be beneficial.

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The virtual nature of the BSAS annual conference, has enabled the Society to reach further than ever before, to engage and secure the presence of animal science experts from all four corners of the globe.

Jud Heinrichs, a native of Sullivan County New York, is Professor of Dairy Science at Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences. Jus has been with Penn State since 1982 working in the areas of dairy nutrition and management with an emphasis in replacements; as well as dairy forages with an emphasis on diet particle size and physically effective fibre.  Jud’s interest in the growth and management of dairy heifers has allowed him to work on several population studies of growth rates of dairy heifers as well as revise the Holstein weight tapes currently used worldwide.  He is also a co-inventor of the Penn State Forage and TMR Particle Size Separator.

Jud spent a sabbatical from 2008 to 2009 at the University of Bologna in Italy studying physically effective fibre needs of lactating cows.  During a previous sabbatical from 1991 to 1992 with the USDA, he was in charge of the National Dairy Evaluation Project.  He has authored over 135 journal articles and book chapters as well as many extension publications, primarily in the area of dairy replacements and forages.

Prof Heinrichs will be leading the ‘Young Stock’ conference session on the 14th April, which will be chaired by Dr Steven Morrison.

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