4th Animal Gut Health & Nutrition Summit 2021

Arvind Kumar, Discovery Biology - Microbial Research, Global Research & Exploratory Development Elanco

German Plata, Research Scientist, Systems Biology Elanco

• Functional footprint of microbial communities in chicken feed four distinct types of AGPs

• Condition-specific metabolic modelling and analysis of the core cecum microbiome

• Untargeted metabolomics in support of specific mechanisms of improved bird performance

Kevin Bolek, Microbials Innovation Director Phibro Animal Health Corp.

• Discussing the variation in gut microbiome in response to multiple types of enteric infections

• Learning how the gut microbiome influences the immune response (locally and systemically) and affects resolution

• Benchmarking how host microbiome correlates to susceptibility or resistance to an enteric infection

This is your long-awaited opportunity to network with your peers! Take part to catch-up with old friends, meet new faces, and connect with those who can assist your R&D efforts.

Scott Carter, VP, Microbial Business Phibro Animal Health Corp.

• Effectively commercializing a new microbial product for microbiome impact is much ore than just a successful fermentation process, and is full of many pitfalls along the way

• Discussing more broadly, the problems and challenges you may encounter when scaling-up production

• Establishing a good framework for the variety of challenges you face when scaling-up production

Yemi Adesokan, CSO Gnubiotics; Jeff Henkes, Senior Director, Marketing Native Microbials; Anita Menconi, Technical Services Manager, Gut Health Evonik; Xandra Smith, Research Manager Arm and Hammer Animal Feed and Food Production; Ryan Honaker, Director, Microbiology NomNomNow

• What were the top 3 lessons that you learnt from commercializing your product?

• What role does understood mode of action play in communicating your product?

• How can education of veterinarians be improved to make them more aware of gut health and its importance?

Tom Rehberger, Director, Innovation & Product Development Arm & Hammer Animal Feed & Food Production; Scott Carter, VP, Microbial Business Phibro Animal Health Corp.; Marcos Rostagno, Director, Technical & Regulatory Services Phytobiotics North America LLC; Brenda de Rodas, Director, Swine Technical Innovation Purina Animal Nutrition

• How do you design your product into the systems that already exist?

• What needs are not being met by products currently on the market?

• What performance criteria do they have with regard to evaluating new products?

• What operational challenges do they have in bringing in new products to their systems?

Yemi Adesokan, CSO & Co-Founder Gnubiotics

• Identifying novel markers of pet obesity

• Discovering new species and strains that predict canine and feline obesity

• Developing novel consortia for obesity treatment

Damien Preveraud, Global Scientific Manager Adisseo France SAS

• Gut health is a very complex issue with the microbiota, diet and host response involved

• Not only disease, but ever more important intestinal integrity and inflammation are decreasing performance

• Some biomarkers are key to consider in the evaluation of health status of the animal

Michael Kogut, Research Microbiologist & Lead Scientist USDA-ARS

• Research should move away from descriptive, associative studies which have not established causality

• All gut health research geared towards restoring missing functions or eliminating harmful functions

• Regulating gut health directly affects tissue physiology other than the intestine

Katie Schoenberg, Senior Advisor, Next Generation Development & Chair, Global Diversity Equity & Inclusion Council Elanco

• How diverse perspectives positively influence science and innovation

• The diversity, equity and inclusion journey within our industry

• Actions that can be taken right now to improve diversity, equity and inclusion at an organization and individual level