MAIN THEMES OF THE SYMPOSIUM

June 4, Sunday evening

Opening Lecture

• Professor Wolfgang Pittroff, Samarkand State University
  Presenting: Keystone Issues in Ruminant Science

June 5, Monday morning

SESSION 1

Ecological Nutrition of Herbivores

• Professor Marcus Clauss, University of Zurich
  Presenting: Evolutionary trajectories in mammalian herbivory: washing, chewing, microbe farming

Reconciling productivity, needs and demands with nutritional ecology

• Dr. Emilio Ungerfeld, Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias - INIA
  Presenting: Biological consequences of the inhibition of rumen methanogenesis
• Professor Dahlanuddin, University of Mataram
  Presenting: Leucaena based cattle feeding systems for improved nutrition, livelihoods, and landscapes in eastern Indonesia
• Professor Pablo Soca, Universidad de la República de Uruguay
• Dr. Bryan Thompson, AgResearch
  Presenting: Matching grazing behaviour to landscape - a foraging syndrome framework for livestock

June 5, Monday afternoon

SESSION 2

Optimal Nourishing of Herbivores

• Professor Juan Villalba, Utah State University
  Presenting: Herbivory and the power on nourishing for health

Dietary taxonomical and biochemical diversity… optimal nourishment?

• Dr. Anita Fleming, Lincoln University
  Presenting: A vade-mecum for grazing and health
• Professor Tommy Boland, University College Dublin
  Presenting: The role of dietary diversity in delivering multiple dividends in pasture based livestock production
• Professor Dario Colombatto, Universidad de Buenos Aires &
  Professor Alejandro Relling, The Ohio State University
  Presenting: Intersection between perfect nutrition and practical application in beef cattle nutrition

June 6, Tuesday morning

SESSION 3

Linking herbivores to Ecosystem Services

• Professor Jude Capper, Harper Adams University
  Presenting: Herbivore nutrition, ecosystems and nature-based solutions - what are the sustainability opportunities and trade-offs?

Ecosystem Services and nutrition: a. Provision; b. Regulating; c. Cultural and Supporting

• Professor Yingjun ZHANG, China Agricultural University
  Presenting: The status of grass-based animal husbandry and the innovative grazing maximizing ecosystem multifunctionality at the improved natural grasslands.
• Dr. Hayley Norman, CSIRO
  Presenting: Domestication of shrubs to enhance livestock profitability and ecosystem services.
• Dr. Maryline Boval, INRA
  Presenting: What management options to increase animal nutrition and ecosystemic services?
• Dr. Pablo Manzano, Helsinki University & Ikerbasque Foundation of Science
  Presenting: Earth needs much herbivory, but the right way: implications for livestock management.

June 6, Tuesday afternoon

Poster presentations

Parallel Workshops

• Grazing ecology: from science to practice
  Organized by Prof. Paulo César de Faccio Carvalho
  Speakers:
  • Professor Iain Gordon, Australian National University & Lincoln University
    Presenting: Herding the literature: trends in large mammalian herbivore grazing and foraging ecology research over the past three decades.
  • Professor Pablo Gregorini, Lincoln University
    Presenting: Lincoln University Integral Health Dairy Farm: a dairy farm designed for nutritional and environmental health.
  • Professor Paulo de Faccio Carvalho, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
    Presenting: From bite to farm: grazing ecology in practice.
• Contribution of energy efficiency determinations on the design of profitable and environmentally sustainable ruminant production systems
  Organized by Prof. Pablo Chilibroste
  Speakers:
  • Dr. Daniel Talmón, Universidad de la República
    Presenting: Feeding strategy and Holstein strain affect the energy efficiency of lactating dairy cows.
  • Professor Mariana Carriquiry, Universidad de la República
    Presenting: Energy efficiency of beef cattle in grazing production systems: I. Effect of selection for residual feed intake & II. Effect of herbage allowance on cow-calf systems.
  • Dr. Ignacio De Barbieri, National Institute of Agricultural Research of Uruguay - INIA
    Presenting: Breeding for improved feed efficiency and decreased methane emissions in sheep.
• Animal welfare: nutritional implications for herbivores
  Organized by Prof. Luiz Carlos Pinheiro Machado Filho
  Speakers:
  • Pilar Sepulveda Varas
    Presenting: Blood analytes in the assessment of metabolic and nutritional disorders in transition dairy cows: how can it improve their welfare?
  • Ruan Rolnei Daros
    Presenting: Increased pasture biodiversity and its relation to ruminants' welfare.
  • João Cardoso Costa
    Presenting: Feeding the individual, not the group: utilizing behavioral and nutritional data to improve the welfare of ruminants.

Satellite Event - Sponsors presentation

• Dr. Juan Tricarico, Senior Vice President - Environmental Research
  Presenting: Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy
• Professor Paulo de Faccio Carvalho - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Director of the Aliança SIPA/ ICLS Alliance
  Presenting: Aliança SIPA

June 7, Wednesday

Local tours

June 8, Thursday morning

SESSION 4

Applied nutrition and herbivory in the age of big data and technology

• Professor Cameron Clark, University of Sydney
  Presenting: Capturing and understanding animal production diversity across extensive environments to optimise the nutrition of herbivores.

Applied Nutrition and modelling: We can measure a lot, but… How can we use it? Are we using it? Can we model it?

• Professor Jennifer Ellis, University of Guelph
  Presenting: Drowning in data, thirsting for knowledge.
• Professor Antonello Cannas, Università di Sassari
  Presenting: Improving sheep and goat applied nutritional models in the age of big data and technology: what can we currently do?
• Dr. Robin White, Virginia Tech
  Presenting: Data for Decisions: Objectives and approaches for data analytics to improve and inform herbivore nutrition
• Dr. Anthony Whitbread & Dr. Cesar Patino, International Livestock Research Institute
  Presenting: The central role of livestock in smallholder production systems in Africa and Asia: resilience, nutrition, income and sustainability.

June 8, Thursday afternoon

SESSION 5

What is the role of the herbivore in Future food systems

• Dr. Alexandre Berndt, EMBRAPA
  Presenting: What is the role of the herbivore in future food systems.

What to harvest? What to eat, what to feed?

• Dr. Fábio Montossi, Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias - INIA
  Presenting: Livestock ruminant production systems and value chains contributing towards a more sustainable world: opportunities and challenges.
• Dr. Stephan van Vliet, Utah State University
  Presenting: You are what you eat eats: linking plant, animal, and human health in livestock systems.
• Dr. Juan Tricarico enior Vice President - Environmental Research Dairy Management Inc
  Presenting: What is the role of the herbivore in Future food systems? Perspectives from the dairy value chain.

Tributes

• Profs. Pablo Chilibroste and Jan Dijkstra

• Prof. Luiz Carlos Pinheiro Machado Filho

• Prof. Antonello Cannas

• Dr. Maryline Boval and Dr. Christelle Loncke

• Dr. Juan Carlos Ku-Vera

Closing Session: Where to now?

• Profs. Pablo Gregorini and Paulo César de Faccio Carvalho