Language

English

Target Audience

Nutritionists, Veterinarians and Livestock Technicians, working for Food Groups, Breeders, Complementary Feed Companies. Generally male user, between 35-45 years old.

Short Description

Intestinal health is essential for the health of the body since the gastro-intestinal mucosa is the main site of interaction with the external environment, diet, and microbiota. Many challenging factors including dietary changes, environmental stress,and microbial infections can disrupt intestinal health, leading to loss of productivity of livestock and lower economic performance. In this talk, Vetagro technical team will explore the advantage of using botanical feed additives to support the intestinal health of both monogastric and ruminants, reducing the negative effects of challenge factors and maximizing animal production efficiency.

Speaker's Biography

• Benedetta Tugnoli studied at the University of Bologna (Italy) where she received her Bachelor degree in Biotechnology in 2008 and her Master degree in Animal Biotechnology cum laude in 2010, major in animal nutrition. She defended her PhD in Veterinary Science in 2014 at the University of Bologna, title of the dissertation “Effects of different nutritional strategies on intestinal inflammation in pigs”. She was visiting scientist at the North Carolina State University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, USA (in 2012) and at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Poland (in 2013). In the period 2014-2016 she was Research Assistant at the University of Bologna and she was involved in projects on the relationship between diet, microflora, intestinal inflammation and productivity of livestock species such as pigs and poultry. She is co-author of 83 publications, of which 24 in peer-review journals, including Poultry Science, Animals, Microorganisms. Since 2016 she has been working for Vetagro S.p.A. (Reggio Emilia, Italy) in R&D unit, specialized in microbiology and development of products for monogastrics. Her current position is Global Technical Innovation Manager.

• Richard Paratte is a Dairy Cow Nutritionist with worldwide experience in nutritional formulation and management. Richard received his degree in Animal Science and PhD in animal nutrition from the State University in Milan, Italy.He had experience at Cornell University as Visiting Fellow working on liver metabolism with Prof. Tom Overton. 20 year’s experience in microencapsulated products application in ruminants. He joined Vetagro in 2011 as technical ruminant support, activity that brought him worldwide, allowing a 360 degrees view of the ruminant and dairy cow planet.