33rd Annual Australian Poultry Science Symposium

Susan Watkins / University of Arkansas

 

Emeritus Distinguished Professor, who retired from the University of Arkansas System’s Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service in 2017. Dr. Watkins earned her PhD in poultry nutrition in 1996 and worked as an extension specialist with a primary focus on live production challenges. Dr. Watkins is a leading expert on evaluating and improving drinking water quality for livestock production. She has assisted operations all over the world with developing their water programs and she continues to provide advice and technical training. Her research team developed inexpensive methods for evaluating efficacy of sanitation products. In 2006, she was named a Top Gun Poultry Industry Problem Solver by Watt’s Publishing Company. Dr. Watkins mentored graduate students, taught poultry production, managed the internship program and assisted students with securing employment.

Laura Shiromi David / Massey University

 

Laura has completed her PhD at Massey University in September 2021 and her PhD research work was on the measurement of calcium digestibility in feed ingredients for poultry and the digestible calcium and phosphorous requirements in broiler chickens. Laura has twelve years of academic and research background in Animal Science.

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.

Amir Ghane / Danisco Animal Nutrition-IFF

 

Dr. Ghane started his studies in Veterinary Medicine, later obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Poultry Science (Avian Physiology and Nutrition, and Ethology) from University of Guelph, Canada. His early career was at Maple Leaf Farms in Canada, subsequent experience included Operations Manager at Cargill Canada, then Cherkizovo Group in Russia as Chief Operations Officer. Later joined Cargill Animal Protein, as Global Technical & Scientific Advisor (China, Canada, and Russia). He joined Devenish Nutrition as Senior International Executive in charge of business expansion in international markets. Currently, Amir holds the position of Senior Technical Director with Danisco Animal Nutrition -IFF.

Carla Castro / The University of Queensland

 

Carla Castro is a first year PhD student at the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) of the The University of Queensland. Her PhD project focuses on dietary fibre and gut nutrient sensing in broiler chickens.

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.

Matthew Bekker / Novus International

 

Matt Bekker is the Technical Manager for Novus International in the Oceania region. Matt holds a Master’s Degree in Agriculture from the University of New England majoring in nutrition and physiology and is a registered animal scientist with the American Society of Animal Scientists. He has extensive experience in the poultry, swine, beef and dairy industries working in both practical and research capacities. Matt has published work on breast meat health in broiler chickens, feed digestibility and gut health in the presence of protease and the role of copper for broiler intestinal integrity and performance.

Lane Pineda / Trouw Nutrition R&D

 

Dr. Sandra van Kuijk is researcher product validation at Trouw Nutrition R&D since 2016. In her current job, she tests a large variety of products such as feed additives, including trace minerals, and complete feeds in all species including broiler chickens. The aim of the research can be Salmonella control, growth performance or improving carcass quality. Before starting at Trouw Nutrition R&D, she finished her PhD at Wageningen University, in the Animal Nutrition Group.

Lihong Zhang / Adisseo Asia Pacific Pte Ltd

 

Dr Lihong joined Adisseo as NIRs expert. She is now responsible for technical support, laboratory, NIRs and PNE analytical services in Adisseo Asia Pacific. She also coordinates projects to build up and enrich NIRs database of alternative or new feed ingredients. Her current interests are raw materials quality control, feed formulation, nutritional properties and digestive utilization of feed ingredients.

Behnam Saremi / CJ Europe GmbH

 

Dr. Behnam Saremi received his PhD in nutritional physiology at the University of Bonn (Germany). In January 2013, he started working as manager animal physiology research in Animal Nutrition Research Department in Evonik Nutrition & Care GmbH. In June 2016, he was promoted to senior manager nutritional physiology research and in 1st July 2017, he was promoted to Head of Animal Nutrition Research Department in Evonik Nutrition & Care GmbH. Starting 1st September 2018, Dr. Behnam Saremi moved to CJ Europe GmbH (Part of CJ CheilJedang BIO) where his main responsibility is “Director of Technical Center”.

Natalie Morgan / University of New England

 

Dr Natalie Morgan is a Research Fellow in Poultry Nutrition and Lecturer in Animal Science at the University of New England. She completed a BSc (Hons) in Animal Biology and PhD in Poultry Nutrition at Nottingham Trent University, England. Her current research interest is enzymes and prebiotic oligosaccharides in poultry.

Thi Hiep Dao / University Of New England

 

Dr. Hiep Thi Dao is a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England. Her research topics focus on poultry nutrition, management, and production system.

Andrew Wallace / University Of New England

 

• Completed a science degree majoring in Chemistry in 2005 at University of New England (UNE)
• Completed a Chemistry honours at UNE in 2006. Thesis title- “Preparation and evaluation of low molecular weight polyacrylic acids as calcium scale inhibitors”
• Worked as a technical officer in chemistry at UNE from 2007 to 2020
• Started at PhD at UNE (Supervisor Dr Natalie Morgan) in 2021. Thesis title “Preparation and Evaluation of Prebiotics in Poultry”.

Maamer Jlali / Adisseo France SAS

 

Since graduation with the Ph.D. degree from the University of François Rabelais in 2012, Maamer Jlali joined Adisseo France SAS as a Researcher in animal nutrition. He has a strong background in nurition, physiology, digestibility, exogenous enzymes, pigments, and meat quality.