XI INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DIGESTIVE PHYSIOLOGY OF PIGS, Hotel Termes de Montbrió. Costa Daurada, Spain, 20th - 22nd May 2009
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
Tuesday, May 19
14:30-20:00 REGISTRATION AND POSTER SET-UP
15.15-20:15 Pre-Symposium Workshop: “Physiological basis of voluntary feed intake in swine. Pre and post-absorptive regulation”
Wednesday, May 20
08:00-20:00 REGISTRATION AND POSTER SET-UP
09:15 Welcome
SESSION I: “Methodologies to study GIT function and application of pig models”
09:30 Keynote lecture: C. Metges. Classical and post-genomic methods to study GIT function with emphasis on the pig.
10:20 Short communication 1 and 2
11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 Short communication 3 to 5
12:30 END OF SESSION I
13:00 LUNCH
15:00-16:00 POSTER SESSION
SESSION II: Theme: “Modulation and relevance of GIT microbiota”
16:00 Keynote lecture: A. van Kessel. Commensal microbiota and gastrointestinal development in the (gnotobiotic) pig.
16:50 Short communication 1 and 2
17:30 COFFEE BREAK
18:00 Short communication 3 to 5
19:00 END OF SESSION II
20:30 DINNER
Thursday, May 21
08:00-09:00 POSTER SESSION
SESSION III: Theme: “Digestive function and nutrient absorption”
09:00 Keynote lecture: G. Breves. Luminal and endocrine factors for regulation of intestinal monosaccharide and Ca++ transport.
09:50 Short communication 1 and 2
10:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 Short communication 3 to 5
12:00 END OF SESSION III
12:00-13:30 In this session participants are invited for an open discussion within the specific topics indicated below. Each topic session will be opened with a short introduction to initiate discussions. Participants can bring max. one overhead with results, stimulating opinions, questions etc. to support the discussion.
Three or four topics will be selected according to participants´ interest indicated at registration.
1- Liquid feeding systems, implications for digestion and gut health.
2- Competition for energy sources, can gut physiologists help? DDGS, digestion of fibre.
3- Mineral digestibility and environmental issues. Efficacy of phytases.
4- Interactions between feed additives at GIT level.
5- Digestive function particularities in non-conventional pig production systems.
6- Others??? (Please suggest a topic you think may be of interest).
13:30 LUNCH
15:00-19:00 GUIDED VISITS TO REUS AND TARRAGONA
20:30 SYMPOSIUM DINNER
Friday, May 22
08:30-09:30 POSTER SESSION
SESSION IV: “The digestive tract as a barrier to maintain pig health”
09:30 Keynote lecture: A. Blikslager. Restoration of barrier function in porcine injured mucosa.
10:20 Short communication 1 and 2
11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 Short communication 3 to 5
12:30 END OF SESSION IV
13:00 LUNCH
SESSION V: “Applied aspects of digestive physiology”
15:00 Keynote lecture: C.F.M. de Lange. Strategic use of feed ingredients and feed additives to stimulate gut health and development in young pigs.
15:50 Short communication 1 and 2
16:30 COFFEE BREAK
17:00 Short communication 3 to 5
18:00 END OF SESSION V
18:00 Concluding remarks
Pre-symposium Workshop
14:30-20:00 Tuesday 19th May 2009 (15:15-20:00 h).
Title: “Physiological basis of voluntary feed intake in swine. Pre and post-absorptive regulation”
The workshop will be a half-day seminar offering an update on feed intake regulation in pigs through a few of the global experts on the matter. The Workshop will include a program with disciplines such as peripheral sensing, gut-born intermediary messengers or central mechanisms orchestrating voluntary feed intake. Delegates attending the workshop will be provided a book with the presentations of the workshop. This book will be completed with additional chapters by other authors, who have accepted to write about other very relevant topics such as the effects of genetics, environment, feed manufacturing, or pig behaviour, etc… on feed intake in pigs.
To register to the workshop please use the symposium´s on-line registration form.
PRE-SYMPOSIUM WORKSHOP PROGRAMME
Physiological basis of voluntary feed intake in swine. Pre and post-absorptive regulation
Tuesday, May 19
14:30-20:00 REGISTRATION
15.15 Welcome and Introduction.
15:30 J.M. Forbes, UK. Pre-absorptive and post-absorptive events in feed intake regulation.
16:00 K.C. Klasing, USA. Taste biology receptors in farm animals.
16:30 E. Roura, Spain. Decoding the nutrient code of appetite in pigs.
17:00 A. Sbarbati, Italy. The diffused chemosensory system.
17:30 COFFEE BREAK
18:00 J. Carroll, USA. Hormonal control of feed intake in swine.
18:30 J. Black, Australia. Metabolic regulation and modelling of feed intake.
19:00 D. Torrallardona, Spain. Nutritional and sensorial evaluation of feedstuffs in pigs.
19:30 I. Kiriazakis, UK. Feed intake regulation in disease.
20:00 Concluding remarks.
20:15 END OF WORKSHOP
Dr. John L Black, Adjunct Professor in Veterinary Science, University of Sydney and Director of John L Black Consulting, Australia
Dr. Jeff Carroll, Research Leader for the USDA-Agricultural Research Service´s Livestock Issues Research Unit, Lubbock, Texas, USA
Emeritus Professor J. Michael Forbes, Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology, former Professor in the Departments of Agriculture, Animal Physiology and Nutrition, University of Leeds, UK.
Dr. Kirk C. Klasing, Professor of the Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis, USA
Professor Ilias Kyriazakis, Professor and Chair of Animal Nutrition, Husbandry and Behaviour at the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Thessaloniky, Greece.
Dr. Eugeni Roura, D.V.M., R & D Manager, Feed Additives Lucta SA, Barcelona, Spain.
Professor Andrea Sbarbati, Professor of Human Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Verona, Italy.
Dr. David Torrallardona, D.V.M, swine nutrition researcher at IRTA (Spain) and current vice-president of the Pig Production Commission of the European Association of Animal Science (EAAP)