32nd Annual Australian Poultry Science Symposium

Dr. Maria Walsh holds degrees in Agricultural Science (BAgriSc) from the National University of Ireland (Dublin) and Purdue University, US (MSc and PhD). At Purdue her research focused on understanding the interplay between the gut microbiome, host physiology and feed in swine. Dr. Walsh has held Innovation scientist positions developing feed additive solutions for swine for the past 8 years. Having joined DSM in May 2018, Maria is now Global Innovation Lead for swine for DSM Animal Nutrition & Health and is focused on improving the efficiency and sustainability of swine production through improvements in nutrition and health.

Cristiano Is a veterinarian with Masters in Animal Science and PhD in Poultry Science from the University of Georgia. Currently, he is a Research Scientist at Jefo Nutrition.

Dr. Renema holds a Ph.D. in Animal Science (1997) from the University of Alberta, specializing in poultry growth, reproductive physiology, and management. He has studied the optimization of growth and reproductive processes in commercial poultry, as well as connections between maternal and offspring yield and efficiency traits in broiler breeders. His research has contributed to increased understanding of the impact of nutrient absorption, transport, distribution, and utilization on growth and reproduction of poultry.

He has been working for the Alberta Chicken Producers since 2014. There he works in the areas of broiler management, flock health and welfare, poultry research, and producer education. As part of this role, he works closely with researchers and industry partners to understand the impact genetic selection, bird physiology, and production requirements have on poultry management at the farm level, and on the sustainability of current management practices.

Dr. Renema has 67 refereed publications 2 books, 8 book chapters and 82 conference proceedings. He has an additional 44 tech transfer publications, 145 scientific conference abstracts and has done over 250 industry presentations.

Professor and Extension Specialist, Prestage Department of Poultry Science, North Carolina State University has been on faculty since 1990. Ken Anderson was raised on a poultry layer farm near Morris, IL. He received his BS in 1979 from Southern Illinois University- Carbondale in Animal and Agricultural Industries. Worked as the General Manager of State Line Egg Producers Cooperative, Inc., Beatrice, NE a Poultry Cooperative headquartered in Kansas for 3.5 years. In 1983 he accepted the Superintendents position at the T.B. Avery Poultry Research Unit with a research/teaching appointment in the Dept. of Animal Science at Kansas State University. Simultaneously, he completed his MS in 1987 and PhD. in 1990 in Poultry Management.
In 2018, he received the CAST Educational Materials Award, Certificate of Excellence for all of the authors efforts in creation of “Impact of Free-range Poultry Production Systems on Animal Health, Human Health, Productivity, Environment, Food Safety, and Animal Welfare Issues”. In 2019, he and his team received the NCACES Outstanding Subject Matter Program Team Award: Egg Industry Training Program on “Ventilation Shutdown Plus (VSD+) Training” and he received the USPOULTRY: Dr. Charles Beard Research Excellence Award, in recognition of outstanding Research for the Poultry Industry. This year, Dr. Anderson was inducted as a PSA Fellow and received the Evonik award for Achievements in Poultry Science.

Shemil is a Ph.D. student at the University of Sydney and his main concentrated area are protein digestive dynamics and amino acid requirements in poultry. He completed his bachelor's degree in Animal Science at Uva Wellassa University in Sri Lanka and a master's degree in Animal Nutrition (Monogastrics) at Chungnam National University in South Korea.

After working in pig production, and then as a senior nutritionist for Rivalea for 12 years, David joined Feedworks in 2003 as the Technical Services Manager developing nutritional solutions to enhance efficient growth and health of monogastrics. David completed a Masters and PhD at the University of New England, and has over 40 papers published in peer reviewed journals and over 60 papers in conference proceedings, in the areas of NSP fibre digestion, enzyme applications, amino acid nutrition and general digestive physiology.

Dr Moss is a postdoctoral fellow researching nutritional strategies to improve the efficiency and sustainability of chicken-meat production. Dr Moss’ current research projects include assessing the impact of variability in feed ingredients on diet formulation and profits, building a database of nutrient specifications for Australian feed ingredients, and exploring the precision feeding of broilers.