Tim Potter
Tim graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 2003 and then went on to complete a farm animal residency. After his residency Tim completed a PhD examining the optimisation of antimicrobial regimens for the treatment of Calf Pneumonia. Tim now works for Westpoint Farm Vets, part of VetPartners where he is part of the Farm Animal Executive Team. Tim’s clinical work is now solely focussed on calves and youngstock working providing proactive management advice and solutions to clinical issues for calf rearers across the UK.
He currently works closely with some of the largest integrated beef supply chains in UK managing around 40,000 Dairy-Bred Beef calves per year.
Anneke Talsma
Anneke Talsma joined Alta Genetics as an International Sales Manager in February 2016, responsible for Alta’s business developments in Eastern Europe, Turkey, and Africa. Since April 2021, she has been the sales team leader of the Alta International team which covers wholesale markets in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East Originally from the Netherlands, she grew up in Texas, USA where her family milks 4500 dairy cows. The herd started as Holsteins and now is primarily Jerseys.
Anneke obtained her Bachelors degree from Trinity University in San Antonio, TX studying International Business, Economics, and Spanish. To gain more knowledge about bovines, Anneke obtained the Dairy Certification through the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign. She also furthered her business acumen by obtaining a Masters in Business Administration from Texas Christian University.
Anneke has gained practical experience working various positions on large dairy farm operations throughout the US – Texas, Indiana, Idaho – youngstock, breeding, milking, feeding, transition cows, hospital – sick cows, and management of the total dairy operation. These farms ranged in size from 4000 milking cows to 26000 milking cows. She enjoys sharing this knowledge and experience to advise customers in how they can advance the genetics and management levels in their dairy farm operations to achieve profitable and sustainable success.
Mark van Roekel
Responsible for the marketing and sales of meat
3th generation (partial owner) within the family company
Titouan Chapelain
· Grew up on a beef farm in West of France
· BSc and MSc in Agricultural Engineering, majored in Animal Sciences, Angers, France (2017 – 2022)
· Internship at INRAe, France and Trouw Nutrition R&D, the Netherlands
· PhD student at University of Guelph, Canada (2023 – present)
· PhD supervisor: Dr. Michael Steele
· PhD topic: Effect of early life nutritional intervention on lifetime performance and carcass traits in dairy beef calves
· What’s next? Industry
Bailey Basiel
Bailey Basiel is a postdoctoral research fellow with the USDA Agricultural Research Service Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory. Basiel received their BS in Animal Science from the University of New Hampshire and their MS and PhD from the Pennsylvania State University. Their dissertation focused on the efficacy of beef x dairy mating strategies across dairy and beef production systems. Basiel’s current work examines the influence of advanced breeding strategies on the genetic progress of female dairy cattle in the US. Their broad research interests include developing applied cattle breeding and genetic strategies to enhance the sustainability of dairy production.
Marcio Duarte
Marcio Duarte was born in Viçosa, a college town located at southeast in Brazil. Marcio comes from Universidade Federal de Viçosa in Brazil where he was a three-time grad in Animal Science. His Masters and Ph.D was focused on Meat Science and Muscle Biology in ruminant animals. During his Ph.D he was a visiting scholar at the Nutrigenomics and Growth Biology Laboratory at Washington State University (2011-2012).
After his Ph.D, he joined the Department of Animal Sciences at Universidade Federal de Viçosa as a posdoctoral fellow. Upon completion of his postdoctoral fellowship, Marcio joined the same Department as Assistant Professor, where he stayed for seven years. He joined the Department of Animal Biosciences at University of Guelph in 2021 as Assistant Professor in Meat Science and Muscle Biology. His area of research focuses on skeletal muscle growth and metabolism both pre and post-natally and its overall impact on the quality of meat.
