Spain: workshop on voluntary swine feed intake

The workshop, set up by the DPP organising committee and Spanish feed additive manufacturer Lucta, have announced a series of international speakers, who will give presentations around the theme ‘Physiological basis of voluntary feed intake in swine. Pre and post-absorptive regulation’.

Dr John L. Black, adjunct professor in Veterinary Science, University of Sydney and Director of John L Black Consulting, Australia.
Dr Jeff Carroll, research leader for the USDA-Agricultural Research Service’s Livestock Issues Research Unit, Lubbock, TX, USA
Em Prof J. Michael Forbes, Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology, former professor in the Departments of Agriculture, Animal Physiology and Nutrition, University of Leeds, UK
Dr Kirk C. Klasing, professor of the Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis, USA
Prof Ilias Kyriazakis, professor and chair of Animal Nutrition, Husbandry and Behaviour at the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Dr Eugeni Roura, DVM, R&D manager, Feed Additives Lucta SA, Barcelona, Spain
Prof Andrea Sbarbati, professor of Human Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Verona, Italy
Dr David Torrallardona, DVM, swine nutrition researcher at IRTA (Spain) and current vice-president of the Pig Production Commission of the European Association of Animal Science (EAAP)

Related websites:
Ninth International Symposium on Digestive Physiology of Pigs (DPP)  
Lucta