The 28th International Symposium Animal Science Days goes online

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Executive Coordination Committee in accordance with the Organising board, have decided that the 28th International Symposium “Animal Science Days” (ASD2020 - Padova, Italy, 23-25 September 2020) will be held virtually.

Conference information

Deadlines

Paper submission: July 24, 2020

Registration: September 11, 2020 (specific information about the registration process are now available)

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Fees

There will be a manuscript handling fee of 50 Euro per accepted manuscript

Article publication

Accepted manuscripts will be published in Acta Fytotechnica et Zootechnica

Here the Monothematic Issue publischd in AFZ

New

Best Presentation Award

• Session "Feeding and Nutrition" - Paper "Effects of dietary fumonisins on nutrients digestibility in weanling pigs" by Zeebone, Kovács, Bóta, Halas

• Session "Breeding and Genetics" - Paper "Impact of Interbeef on national beef cattle evaluations" by Bonifazi, Vandenplas, ten Napel, Cromie, Veerkamp, Calus

• Session "Products and Quality" - Paper "Correlation between Longissimus thoracis muscle ageing extent, growth and carcass traits in Simmental bulls: preliminary results" by Leskovec, Voljč, Žgur

• Session "Livestock Systems" - Paper "Farming largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) with lettuce (Lactuca sativa) and radicchio (Cichorium intybus) in aquaponics: effects of stocking density on fish growth and quality, and vegetable production" by Bordignon, Birolo, Trocino, Maucieri, Nicoletto, Pascual, Zanin, Sambo, Borin, Xiccato

• Session "Health, Reproduction and Behaviour" - Paper "Prediction of pregnancy state from milk mid-infrared (MIR) spectroscopy in dairy cows" by Rienesl, Pfeiffer, Khayatzadeh, Köck, Dale, Werner, Grelet, Gengler, Auer, Egger-Danner, Leblois, Sölkner

Topics

Animal Science Days 2020 - Future Perspectives in Animal Production 

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Guidelines

Manuscript preparation

Accepted manuscripts will be published as original papers in a Monothematic Issue “Future Perspectives in Animal Production” in Acta Fytotechnica et Zootechnica.

Please, follow the journal guidelines for manuscript preparation and ensure 
that your paper is of high scientific quality and correct academic English. Original papers must not exceed 5,000 words, including Abstract, main text (Introduction, Material and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusions), References, tables and figures. A template to facilitate your work is available here.

Before submission, you need to register to the journal online system and set up your username and password.
Once registered, go to the login page, enter the online submission system, click on “New Submission”, select “Animal Science Days 2020” in Journal Section and go ahead with the submission process.
All papers will be peer-reviewed.

Please note that each author can be included in maximum 2 submitted papers and an author can be the presenting author of only one of them (not both).

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Instructions for presenting authors

• the Symposium will be held online via the ZOOM platform

• download and install ZOOM on your PC prior to the beginning of the Symposium

• on the day of the Symposium, follow the link that will be provided by e-mail before the beginning of each scientific session

• make sure you have a PowerPoint presentation (4:3, free template) as you will be asked to share your screen. Time: 10 min for presentation + 5 min for discussion

• make all possible efforts to have a good/stable Internet connection to avoid sudden interruptions during your presentation

• to ensure that all presentations will take place according to the scheduled program, you may choose to prepare a video recording of your speech (maximum 10 min) using ZOOM and send it to marco.birolo@unipd.it, within September, 22. The video will be used in case you will experience connection issues the day of your presentation. Alternatively, a co-author of your paper could be ready to replace you in case of connectivity problems. However, the previous two options are not mandatory.

Wednesday 23 September, 2020

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Welcome and Introduction......................................................09.00 - 09.30

Plenary session

• Insects as sustainable feed
  and food. Mancini...........................................................................09.30 - 10.00

• Promotion of alleles by genome
  editing in livestock breeding programs. Hickey.............................................................................10.00 - 10.30

• A new systemic approach to
  characterize agroecological ystems. Michaud................................................................................10.30 - 11.00​

Coffee break....................................................................................................................11.00 - 11.30

Plenary session

• Growth models and their application
  in precision feeding of monogastric
  farm animals. Halas, Dukhta...............................11.30 - 12.00

• The role of gut microbiome information in
  swine breeding. Tiezzi........................................................12.00 - 12.30​

Lunch break .....................................................................................................................12.30 - 14.00

Feeding and nutrition

Scientific Communications......................................................14.00 - 15.45

Coffee break ...................................................................................................................15.45 - 16.15

Breeding and genetics - genetic diversity I
Scientific Communications.......................................................16.15 - 17.30

Conference programme

Download detailed programme

Thursday 24 September, 2020

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Livestock systems

• Animal welfare strategies.
  De Briyne................................................................................................................09.00 - 09.30

• Scientific Communications....................................09.30 - 11.00​

Coffee break....................................................................................................................11.00 - 11.30

Health, reproduction and behaviour I

• Scientific Communications...................................11.30 - 12.30​​

Lunch break ....................................................................................................................12.30 - 14.00

Health, reproduction and behaviour II

• Scientific Communications....................................14.00 - 15.15

Coffee break .................................................................................................................15.15 - 15.45

Products and quality

• Scientific Communications....................................15.45 - 17.30​

Friday 25 September, 2020

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Breeding and genetics - genetic evaluation

• Scientific Communications....................................09.00 - 10.30​​

Coffee break....................................................................................................................10.30 - 11.00

Breeding and genetics - genetic diversity II

• Scientific Communications...................................11.00 - 12.30​

​Lunch break ......................................................................................................................12.30 - 14.30

Awards and Closing remarks..............................................14.30 - 15.30

Scientific Committee

Participating

Universities

University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Animal Science, Ljubljana, Slovenia

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagreb, Croatia

University J. J. Strossmayer, Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences Osijek, Osijek, Croatia

University of Kaposvár, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Kaposvár, Hungary

University of Padova, Padova, Italy

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Nitra, Slovakia

Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

permanent coordination

committee

Árpád Bokor, Hungary

Martino Cassandro, Italy
Gulio Cozzi, Italy
Ino Čurik, Croatia
Peter Dovč, Slovenia
Birgit Fürst-Waltl, Austria

Vesna Gantner, Croatia

Barbora Hofmanová, Czech Republic
Radovan Kasarda, Slovakia
Wilhelm Knaus, Austria
Goran Kušec, Croatia

Gabor Meszaros, Austria

Gábor Milisits, Hungary

István Nagy, Hungary

Krešimir Salajpal, Croatia

Johann Sölkner, Austria
Anna Trakovická, Slovakia
Luboš Vostrý, Czech Republic
Gerolamo Xiccato, Italy
Silvester Žgur, Slovenia

Executive coordination

committee

Martino Cassandro, Italy

István Nagy, Hungary

Luboš Vostrý, Czech Republic

Contacts

Martino Cassandro

Coordinator of the Executive Coordination Committee

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Mauro Penasa

Coordinator of the Scientific Committee

Aim of the symposium

Our aim is to create a platform for Central and Eastern European colleagues and for interested academics and professionals from around the globe in the field of Animal Sciences to exchange ideas and to enable efficient collaboration. We hope to see you at the ASD2020 virtual symposium “Future Perspectives in Animal Production”!

Partnership

Scientific associations

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Universities

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Departments

DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE

BIOMEDICINE AND FOOD SCIENCE

SPONSOrship