33rd Annual Australian Poultry Science Symposium

Ian Godwin / The University Of Queensland

Reza Barekatain / SARDI

 

Dr. Reza Barekatain is a Research Scientist within the SARDI Pigs and Poultry research program and an affiliate Senior Lecturer with the University of Adelaide. Reza holds a PhD in poultry nutrition from the University of New England, Australia. Reza has so far published around 36 peer-reviewed journal papers in addition to several papers in conference proceedings and a book chapter. His research interests and expertise are at the interface of nutrition and gut health with special focus on intestinal barrier function and digestive physiology aiming to improve performance, productivity and disease resilience in poultry.

Mehdi Toghyani / Poultry Research Foundation, The University of Sydney

 

Dr Toghyani is a research fellow in poultry nutrition at Sydney University, and has over 10 years of experience in poultry nutrition research and practical feed formulation. His current research interests are evaluation and optimization of energy and amino acids requirements in both meat chicken and layer hens, and nutritional evaluation of alternative feed ingredients and trace minerals to improve efficiency and sustainability of poultry production.

Mingan Choct / University of New England, Australia

 

Choct is a professor of animal nutrition at the University of New England in Australia. His academic interests include carbohydrate chemistry and nutrition, feed enzymes, necrotic enteritis and net energy. He published over 350 papers and supervised more than 50 postgraduate students to date. He has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including Australian Animal Production Society’s Young Scientist Award (1990), World’s Poultry Science Association’s “Syd Wilkins Prize” (1991), Australian Poultry Award (2004), Alltech Global Excellence Medal (2005), UK Animal Science Society’s “Fraser Gordon Medal” (2008) and UK Feed Industry Association’s “Poultry Nutrition Research Award” (2015).

Xavière Rousseau / AB Vista

 

Xavière Rousseau is Global technical support manager in AB Vista based in France. She joined the company 8 years ago after completed her PhD working on minerals optimisation in poultry and swine with INRA (France) and Agriculture Canada. During this time, she built a good knowledge on animal physiology and on the interactions between calcium, phosphorus and animal physiology before joining AB Vista team where she has developed her expertise on enzymes and how-to bring enzymes value to reach the different production objectives. Her last area of interest is to look at the dietary fibre fraction and how to better characterize this substrate as looking at the tools to analyse and at the different strategies to optimize their use that would make sense for monogastrics nutritionists.

Friedrich Petranyi / Central Queensland University

 

Friedrich Petraniy is a Master Student at Central Queensland University. Fred has years of experience as a poultry veterinarian and nutritionist working mostly with layers.

Dana Stanley / Central Queensland University

 

Dana Stanley - was awarded a PhD in Molecular Microbiology from Victoria University, Melbourne, 2009. Following graduation, she started a postdoctoral position in CSIRO’s Animal Health Laboratories (AAHL), in poultry intestinal health research. Dana specialised in gut microbiota and genetics during her time at AAHL. She moved to Central Queensland University in 2013 and is now a leader of the Molecular Microbiology and Poultry Health research cluster in the Institute for Future Farming Systems, focusing on human and livestock intestinal health and nutrition, probiotics, next-generation antibiotics development and pathogen control. Dana is also investigating the ways to reduce and control antimicrobial resistance on farms. She recently started working on pigs’ microbiota as well. Several of Dana’s projects are running directly on farms under full production conditions. Majority of her publications are in the world’s top 10% journals and among 10% most cited in the world. Dana is very passionate about nature conservation, animal ethics, exercise and nutrition.