Javier Martín-Tereso
Javier Martín-Tereso (Madrid, 1974) studied Agricultural Engineering in Madrid, where he specialised in Animal Science. In 2010, he obtained a PhD degree from Wageningen University in the Netherlands with a thesis on dairy cattle nutrition. In his studies he included academic years in Ohio (USA) and in Ancona (Italy).
His professional career started in education, teaching science in Madrid and Spanish in Minnesota during college. In 2000 he moved to the Netherlands to join Nutreco Research & Development, where through the years he has held different functions. His research has mainly focused on ruminal health and efficiency in beef and dairy animals, and also on mineral nutrition across farm animal species, including modelling supply and requirements, trace element homeostasis, and milk fever prevention in dairy cattle. Beyond research, he held technical manager positions for feed additives, and also provided nutritional consulting for feed companies in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Since 2012, he leads the Ruminant Research Centre of Trouw Nutrition, a team dedicated to dairy, beef and calf nutrition innovation.
His curriculum vitae includes scientific and technical publications, co-supervisions of Master and PhD students from various universities, participations in scientific and professional international conferences, and several products developed for the feed industry, including a number of patents.
Anne Fabritz
Anne Fabrittz, 2002 Study of veterinary medicin university of Leipzig. 2019 Study of agriculture FH Kiel (M.Sc. agr), focus calves management, calves healthy, calves feeding (Master thesis: analysis of abomasum of fattening calves and discussion of management, feeding, healthy and protection of animal Act) Since 2019 Employee Hamburger Leistungsfutter GmbH expert advice calves, field service north of Germany (Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Sachsen-Anhalt) , optimize management, feeding, focus the increase of calves during the first 3 month of live, identify acidose, claw healthy etc., getting the weight of calves during their upgrowth Clients are dairy cattle farm and also fattening farms (veal and beef)
Nathalie Bareille
After qualifying as a veterinarian, Nathalie Bareille chose to be a teacher at the National School of Veterinarians in Nantes (Oniris) in 1991. Currently, she teaches classes on herd management and population medicine applied to various cattle production systems. She is an epidemiologist working in production diseases in cattle herds in various farming systems. The main research projects which she is involved with aim to describe disease prevalence (and welfare impairments), assess the preventive effects of control actions, quantify the effects of the disease on animal performance and understand the role of advisors in health management strategies. She has supervised 14 doctoral students and has published 70 peer-reviewed international articles. She is the deputy director of the Oniris-INRAE BIOEPAR research unit, biology, epidemiology and animal health risk analysis (https://www6.angers-nantes.inrae.fr/bioepar_eng/Organisation-of-the-unit/Directory / Unit -members-files / Bareille-Nathalie).
Sonia Martí
Dr. Sonia Marti is a Research Scientist in the Department of Ruminant Production at Institut de Recerca i Tenologia Agroalimentaries de Catalunya, Spain. After completing the BAgrE, MSc and PhD in animal production (2012), Sonia completed an NSERC Postdoctoral fellowship at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Lethbridge (2013-2016) and the University of Calgary, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (2016-2018) conducting studies on painful procedures, the evaluation of chronic stress, as well as beef cattle lameness and transportation. Dr. Marti’s current research focuses on evaluating management practices of unweaned dairy calves reared for meat with a focus on health, productivity, welfare, and pre-slaughter factors to improve welfare and meat quality
Nicky Byrne
Dr. Nicky Byrne is a livestock systems research officer at the Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Center, Teagasc, Grange, Dunsany, Co. Meath, Ireland, responsible for beef production. His focus is on optimizing the system through a combination of improved prairie genetics, health, and nutrition. Current projects explore the effects of using age-divergent dairy cow genotypes in slaughter, carcass weight, and conformation, as well as identifying management strategies that allow animals to express their full genetic potential. Nicky’s research aims to achieve greater integration between the needs of beef and dairy producers, improving the social, environmental and economic sustainability of livestock production systems. Nicky holds a degree in Agricultural Science from University College Dublin (2014) and a PhD in Prairie Science from Queen’s University Belfast (2019).
Mogens Vestergaard
Mogens Vestergaard has 35 years of experience within cattle research at Aarhus University, formerly at the Danish Institue of Animal Science. He is currently holding a dual-position as senior scientist at Aarhus University in Foulum and as a chief scientist/advisor at SEGES in Aarhus. At Aarhus University he works in the Nutrition group in the Department of Animal Science with research within unweaned as well as transition calves, rearing of replacement heifers but most of all with any type of veal and beef production system. So, he has performed research with intensively-fed rosé veal calves, grazing young bulls, organically-reared beef x dairy cattle, and finish feeding of cull dairy cows. He studies nutrition-system interactions, animal performance, health-related aspects, carcass value and quality aspects. He has experience in use of sensors for assessing animal eating and ruminating behavior, automated milk-feeders and Insentec feed bins for recording individual feed intake. Besides that he teach and supervise PhD-, MSc- and BSc-students. At SEGES, he works in the team of Health and Production, and lead more applied projects which includes performing trials at private slaughter calf operations on subjects of immediate relevance for the veal and beef farmers. Recent projects included: Effects of extra water supply to calves; Effects of adjusting milk feeding level before and after shipping calves to beef producers; Effects of natural vitamin E in calf starter concentrates to assure vitamin E levels in blood post-weaning; Transition feed rations for rosé veal calves; Probiotics for unweaned and newly weaned calves; Improve colostrum feeding of calves
Ajmal Khan
Dr. Muhammad Ajmal Khan earned his PhD in Animal Nutrition from Faisalabad University of Agriculture, Pakistan. His graduate work was focused on enhancing the nutritional worth of low-quality fibrous feed for ruminants. Dr Khan has spent the last 15 years in Animal Science research, teaching and extension at the Seoul National University, National Institute of Animal Science, South Korea, the University of British Columbia, Canada and at AgResearch, New Zealand where he has advanced his career from a post-doctoral fellow to a Senior Scientist. The primary research interest of Dr. Khan is physiology and nutrition of ruminants. Dr. Khan is interested in using early-life interventions to influence the development and functions of the gastrointestinal tract, mammary gland, and immune system in young animals to improve lifetime health and performance of dairy and dairy-beef cattle. In his career, he has conducted many metabolic, nutrition and production studies where he has used state of the art methods to study physiology and performance traits of ruminants. Dr. Khan developed a step-down weaning system for calves, evaluated the effects of starch sources, forages and feed additives on gastrointestinal tract development and investigated the effects of a variety of liquid feeds on the health performance of young animals. Dr Khan is currently leading calf and dairy cattle nutrition research at AgResearch, New Zealand. Dr Khan has co-authored 87 manuscripts, 47 conference abstracts and presentations, 25 project reports and 1 book chapter. Dr. Khan research output has received> 3300 citations (Google Scholar) and 28 h-index. He has also published 14 outreach articles and serving as a reviewer on 10 leading journals in animal and dairy science (Publons).
Dave Renaud
Dr. Dave Renaud is an Assistant Professor at the University of Guelph. He received his DVM from the Ontario Veterinary College and a PhD in epidemiology from the Department of Population Medicine at the University of Guelph. His research focus is on identifying factors associated with calf health, specifically in the veal sector. He also works on identifying alternative management strategies to reduce the level of antimicrobial use in calves. Dave is a practicing veterinarian working with dairy and veal producers around the Guelph area. He focuses on preventative medicine to improve the health and welfare of dairy cows and calves.
Marcos Marcondes
Obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Animal Science at the Federal University of Viçosa (Brazil) and obtained his masters (2007) and doctorate (2010) at the same university. He also has postdoctoral period at the University of Florida in 2018-2019. In his career, he has published over 140 peer reviewed papers and 183 conference abstracts, have given move than 37 presentations in conferences, published 13 books and 22 book chapters, and received 6 awards and recognitions. The overall focuses of the Marcondes Lab are feed evaluation, management strategies, nutrient requirements, and economics of dairy operations. His research interest also includes the use of alternative feedstuffs to cattle, supplementation of replacement heifers on pasture and feedlots, and calf nutrition and development. His research program uses an integrated approach by collaborating dairy cattle nutrition, reproduction and behavior. Lastly, he seeks to understand the impact of all those strategies in dairy systems by using modeling tools and evaluating economic outcomes.
