9:00 – 10:00 am – Opening Session - Great Hall

·         9:00 – 9:15:           Welcome from conference chairs

·         9:15 – 10:00:        A Systems-based Approach to Immunity and Health Resilience in Livestock
                                                Brian Aldridge, University of Illinois, USA

 10:00 – 10:30 am – Break

 10:30 am – 12:30 pm – Immunity, Microbiome, & Health Theme - Great Hall

·         10:30 – 11:10:      Use of Genomics and Immunology to Help Producers Control Viral Diseases in Pigs 
                                       Joan Lunney, USDA Agricultural Research Service, USA

·         11:10 – 11:50:      Understanding the Diet-Microbiota-Immunometabolic Axis in Gut Health
                                       Michael Kogut, USDA Agricultural Research Service, USA

·         11:50 – 12:05:      The influence of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis infection on selected biochemical
                                       blood parameters
                                       Jaka Hodnik, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

·         12:05 – 12:20:      Age of calves upon arrival at the veal farm: are older calves more robust?
                                       Francesca Marcato, University of Wageningen, The Netherlands

·         12:20 – 12:25:      Effects of Lactobacillus and Bacillus species supplementation on measures of gut integrity and
                                       health in pre-ruminant calves through weaning 
                                       Laman Mamedova, Michigan State University, USA

·         12:25 – 12:30:      Ecological and phylogenetic analyses of the uncultured bacterial group RFP12 revealed its
                                       possible contribution to fiber digestion in horse hindgut
                                       Rintaro Yano, Obihiro University, Japan

 12:30 – 2:00 pm – Lunch

 2:00 – 3:45 pm – Virology Theme (concurrent) - Multicultural Greek Council Room

·         2:00 – 2:45:           Genetic Modification of Pigs for Disease Resistance: Past, Present, and Future
                                         Bob Rowland, University of Illinois, USA

·         2:45 – 3:30:           Why Do Vaccines Fail? 
                                        Andrew Wargo, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, USA

·         3:30 – 3:45:          Antiviral effects of glycerol monolaurate on African Swine Fever Virus: towards pathogen
                                       mitigation and disease prevention
                                       Charles Elrod, Natural Biologics Inc., USA

 2:00 – 3:50 pm – Metabolism, Nutrition, and Reproduction Theme (concurrent) - Great Hall

·         2:00 – 2:40:           Early Postpartum Hyperketonemia –A Sign of High Production or Reason to Worry?
                                        Sabine Mann, Cornell University, USA

·         2:40 – 3:20:           What’s Food Got to Do With It: The Contrasting Functions of Nutrition on Reproduction in Dairy
                                        Cows
                                        Milo Wiltbank, University of Wisconsin, USA

·         3:20 – 3:35:          Lipolysis inhibition improves clinical outcomes in the treatment of ketosis in dairy cows: An                                                 individually randomized multigroup parallel controlled trial
                                       Miguel Chirivi, Michigan State University, USA

·         3:35 – 3:50:          Hyperketolactia effects on milk yield in early lactating dairy cows 
                                       Robert Vansaun, Penn State University, USA

 3:45 – 4:15 pm – Break

 4:15 – 5:00 pm – Fetal Programming Theme - Great Hall

·         4:15 – 5:00:           Stress Before Birth: Role of Glucocorticoids in Developmental Programming
                                        Alison Forhead, University of Cambridge, UK

  Thursday, June 16

8:00 – 10:00 am – Animal / Pathogenic Environment Theme - Great Hall

·         8:00 – 8:45:           Disturbed Milk Ejection at Machine Milking and the Issues Related to Oxytocin Injections in     
                                        Dairy Cows
                                        Rupert Bruckmaier, University of Bern, Switzerland

·         8:45 – 9:30:           Novel Antibiotic Alternative Approaches to Control Coccidiosis and Necrotic Enteritis (remote                                              presentation)
                                        Hyun Lillehoj, USDA Agricultural Research Service, USA

·         9:30 – 9:45:          Reduction of production diseases requires a change from an inductive to a deductive approach                                           Albert Sundrum, University of Kassel, Germany

·         9:45 – 10:00:        Dibutyl phthalate induces disruption of spermatogenesis in the testes of Japanese quail                                                       (Coturnix coturnix japonica)
                                        Musa Zakariah, University of Maiduguri, Nigeria

 10:00 – 10:30 am – Break

 10:30 am – 12:30 pm – Animal / Pathogenic Environment Theme - Great Hall

·         10:30 – 11:15:      Next Generation Biosecurity for Animal Agriculture: The Swine Industry Model 
                                       Scott Dee, Pipestone Veterinary Services, USA

·         11:15 – 12:00:      Animal Health, Welfare and Environment – Complex Interactions with Room for Optimization
                                       Nicole Kemper, University of Veterinary Medicine, Hanover, Germany

 12:30 – 2:00 pm – Lunch

 2:00 – 3:45 pm – Prudent Antibiotic Use Theme (concurrent) - Great Hall

·         2:00 – 2:40:           Pathways to Prudent Antibiotic Use - Tools and Challenges
                                        Dolf Kümmerlen, University of Zurich, Switzerland

·         2:40 – 3:20:          Immune Modulation by Antimicrobials and Innate Immune Agonists in Bovine Respiratory                                                   Disease Management
                                       Steven Dow, Colorado State University, USA

·         3:20 – 3:35:          VCPR.ORG - an open internet-based system for managing veterinary treatment protocols in                                                practice and research
                                       James Ehrlich, Dairy Veterinarians Group, USA

·         3:35 – 3:40:          Cell culture and in vivo examination of the mechanism of Victrio, A DNA-liposome-based innate
                                       immune agonist 
                                       Mark Parcells, University of Delaware, USA

 2:00 – 3:45 pm – Heat Stress & Disease Theme (concurrent) - Multicultural Greek Council Room

·         2:00 – 2:45:           Heat Stress Impact on Health and Production in Broiler Chickens
                                        Carl Schmidt, University of Delaware, USA

·         2:45 – 3:30:           Heat Stress Impact on Immune Responses of Dairy Ruminants
                                        Mariangela Caroprese, University of Foggia, Italy

·         3:30 – 3:45:          Heat stress effects on the mucosa-associated and digesta microbiome in the jejunum of                                                     primiparous dairy cows
                                       Franziska Koch, Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Germany

 3:45 – 4:15 pm – Break

 4:15 – 5:15 pm – Locomotion Theme - Great Hall

·         4:15 – 5:00:           The Vicious Cycle of Claw Horn Disease, Causes and Interventions (remote presentation)
                                        Jon Huxley, Massey University, New Zealand

·         5:00 – 5:15:          Lameness and its impacts on dairy herds: the welfare sub-module in the Ruminant Farm                                                     Systems model 
                                       Tadeu Da Silva, University of Wisconsin, USA

 Friday, June 17

9:00 – 10:00 am – Poster Session (all themes) - Multicultural Greek Council Room

10:00 am – 12:00 pm – Precision Livestock Farming Theme - Great Hall

·         10:00 – 10:45:      Precision Livestock Farming: A Misnomer or the Silver Bullet?
                                       Thomas Norton, KU Leuven, Belgium

·         10:45 – 11:30:      Leveraging Big Data Analytics to Improve Disease Surveillance and Welfare in Livestock
                                       Guilherme J M Rosa, University of Wisconsin, USA

·         11:30 – 11:45:      Evaluation of dairy cow health at a cow-individual and at herd level using milk MIR-spectra                                                  based estimates
                                      Josef Gross, University of Bern, Switzerland

·         11:45 – 12:00:      Effect of health and estrous expression detected by an automated activity monitoring system on                                         reproductive performance in transition dairy cows
                                       Lukas Bretzinger, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany

 12:00 – 12:15 pm – Closing Comments and Announcement of 19^th ICPD Location

 1:00 - 4:00 pm - Site Visit Emmons Blaine Dairy Farm – Group tour of University of Wisconsin research facilities