2^nd International Conference on Livestock Nutrition July 21-22, 2016 Brisbane, Australia

Dr Edir Silva graduated as a veterinarian from the Federal University in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in his home town Belo Horizonte, in 1972. He spent most of his academic years in a research training programme for undergraduate students on microbiology and poultry diseases. Following graduation, he joined the College of Veterinary Medicine (FMVZ) of the State University of Sao Paulo (USP) working as a microbiologist on the diseases of poultry where he was involved in research, teaching and extension programmes for the poultry sector. The Poultry Diagnostic Laboratory at the FMVZ-USP was one the most active labs in a steadily growing period in Brazil’s most important poultry producing state.

Poultry, Poultry Diseases

Bob Orskov has worked with many international organisations including FAO, IAEA, DFID EU and ILRI in project identification and evaluation in the area of feed resource management and rural development with emphasis on livestock nutrition. He worked for many years at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen and more recently in the James Hutton Institute Aberdeen.The International Feed Resource laboratory provided appropriate training to support the projects. He has worked in many countries in Asia, including Indonesia, Mongolia, China, India, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Syria, Iran and Turkey. In Africa including Egypt, Tunisia,Cameroon Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria and Ghana, in South America including Cuba, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Chile and also in Eastern Europe including Poland, Czeck Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. He has published 5 books and author or co-author of over 600 scientific papers and popular articles on nutrition and feed resource management.

Feed resource management and rural development, livestock nutrition.

Shashi Sharma currently engaged in establishing a Centre for Biosecurity and Food Security at Murdoch University. This Centre is unique in that no other research centre in the world has mandated biosecurity as an integral component of global food security.As such I have over 33 years of international experience as a scientist, research leader, coordinator, policy maker, and director of a diversity of national and international programs, all focused on enhancing food production, market access and trade.

plant biosecurity,food trade

A.Z.M. Salem had his PhD in 2002 from Faculty of Veterinary, Leon University, Spain. Now he is working as a Professor –Researcher at Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, Mexico. He is specialist in Ruminant Nutrition and working with using the tree leaves extracts, exogenous enzymes, yeasts, …. As feed additives in animal nutrition. Dr. Salem has a lot of research papers published in ELSEVIER, SpringerLink, Wiley, … with some text books as well as registered patents in his field of research. He is currently in the editorial board of two international indexed journals in the JCR with impact factor (Journal of Integrative agriculture and Animal Nutrition and Feed technology) and he is a reviewer in a lot of scientific international journals.

Animal Nutrition, Feed Technology

Kazim Sahin, male, nutritionist, graduated from School of Veterinary Medicine, Ankara University in 1990. He is a principal member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences and Diplomate of ECPVS. He is working for Firat University. His research focuses mainly on vitamin and mineral metabolism, cancer prevention, stress and obesity. He organized the First International Congress on Nutrition and Cancer in Antalya, Turkey in May 2008 and Fifth International Congress on Nutrition and Cancer in Elazig, Turkey in September 2012. He was also the first to report that dietary lycopene intake prevents leiomyoma and renal cancer in the Eker rats and Japanese quail in collaboration with medical researchers at Wayne State University, Detroit, USA. He has approximately 165 original papers in peer-reviewed international journals (Web of Science) and review articles.

vitamin and mineral metabolism

DraganÅ efer has completed his PhD in June 2002, at the age of 39, at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Nutrition and Botany of Belgrade University. Since February 2007 he became head of this Department and since December 2014 he has been engaged as a full professor. He published more than 150 papers in national and international journals (more than 10 in reputed journals) and two books (\\\\\\\"General nutrition\\\\\\\" and \\\\\\\"Feed safety for animals\\\\\\\") intended for the students at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.

Veterinary Nutrition, Veterinary Medicine

Prof.A.K.Thiruvenkadan completed his PhD in Animal Genetics and Breeding at the age of 40 years from Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India and actively involved in teaching and research in the field of Animal Production. He is the Professor and Head of Mecheri Sheep Research Station, Pottaneri, Tamil Nadu, India (afflicted to Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai) and involved in research activities related to animal nutrition and animal genetics. He presented several invited papers in the national and international conferences and has published more than 75 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of scientific journals.

Sheep Research, Animal Nutrition and Animal Genetics