Diamond V Co-Sponsors Symposium: 'Nutrient requirements and animal health'

The International nutritional health company Diamond V and the Wageningen University are organizing a symposium on the ‘interface’ of nutrition and health of pigs and poultry entitled ‘Nutrient requirements and animal health’. This will be held in Wageningen, The Netherlands, on June 11, 2015. 

Experts will be gathering at this symposium to address some questions like How does the health status of pigs and poultry affect their nutrient requirements? and How do disease challenges impact nutrient partitioning for the immune system, body maintenance, and growth?

Speakers include:

• Dr. Benjamin Bass, Diamond V (US)
• Prof. David Eckersall, University of Glasgow (UK)
• Dr. Alfons Jansman, Wageningen UR (NL)
• Ir. Esther Kampman – van de Hoek, Wageningen UR (NL)
• Dr. Michael T. Kidd, University of Arkansas (US)
• Dr. Nathalie Le Floc'h, INRA (France)
• Dr. Panos Sakkas, Wageningen UR (NL) and University of Newcastle (UK)

Dr. Benjamin Bass from Diamond V will be speaking on 'Gut Health: The Interface of Immune Function and the Microbiome'. 

Dr. Bass joined Diamond V in 2012 when he was a post-doctoral researcher at the U.S. National Animal Disease Center (NADC) in Ames, Iowa. The NADC mission included research to reduce economic losses from infectious, genetic, and metabolic diseases to the livestock and poultry industries and to reduce or eliminate pre-harvest contamination or infection of livestock and poultry with food-borne human pathogens. In 2014, Dr. Bass became Scientist, Swine Research and Technical Support at Diamond V.

The organizers suggest that pig and poultry diets can be optimized taking into account the animals’ health status. This approach has the potential to provide improve nutritional support under a variety of health conditions. It also can contribute to an overall improvement of nutrient utilization and feed efficiency as well as reduced nutrient excretion.