The International Forum on Pig Nutrition, with the aim of "condensing global scientific research strength and driving innovative thinking in the pig industry", invites world-class experts and scholars to strive to create a platform for high-end people in the industry to learn and communicate.
The 6th (2022) International Forum on Swine Nutrition, with the theme of "Looking Forward to the Application of Nutrition Technology to Help the Sustainability of the Pig Industry", invited well-known experts and scholars in the field of animal nutrition in the world to conduct zero-distance dialogue. This will be an international, authoritative, cutting-edge international academic event on pig nutrition, and it will also be a feast of industry leaders!
Expert introduction
Research interests: Applied research on pig nutrition and management; pork product quality and safety; manure management and reduction of pig house odor; dry alcohol residue solubles (DDGS).
Areas of expansion: DDGS quality and feed safety; effect of distiller's lees by-products on indirect land-use change; effects of feeding diets containing DDGS on pork quality; relative economic value and feed nutritional value of distilled corn by-products; application of distilled lees by-products in livestock and poultry feed.
Honors and Awards: Outstanding Teacher Award, Agricultural University, Food and Environmental Sciences Student Union, 1999; Outstanding Extension Expert Award, ASAS/ADSA Midwest, 1995.
Nicolai has a comprehensive background in livestock management and research on porcine intestinal diseases, having worked as a swine veterinary practitioner in the Danish pig industry and as a researcher at the University of Copenhagen. In 2017, Nicolai completed his doctoral thesis "Complexity of intestinal diseases in nursery pigs, with a special focus on the cautious use of antimicrobials". Nicolai is a senior specialist at the SEGES Danish Swine Research Centre, whose main research topics are the discreet use of antimicrobials and alternatives to zinc oxide. A collaborative project with Danish swine veterinary practitioners is currently under way to gather knowledge and field experience on practical methods of not using high levels of feed zinc oxide and low antimicrobials in the rearing of weaned piglets.
Dr. Mike Tokach is one of the 50 most influential people in the field of swine over the past 50 years, a researcher and extension specialist in animal science and industry at Kansas State University. He joined Kansas State University in 1991 and was named a Distinguished Professor of the University in 2013 and Chaired of the Distinguished Professors Team from 2015-2016. Tokach has also served on the board of directors of the Kansas Research Foundation and the American Society for Animal Sciences (ASAS) and has received three awards from ASAS for promotion, animal management, and AFIA non-ruminant nutrition research. He has published more than 420 articles, 11 book chapters, and more than 1,100 generalized and non-reviewed articles in scientific journals.
Research Interests: Member of the Kansas State University Feed Safety Research Group, which includes veterinarians, swine nutritionists, and feed scientists. The team's goal is to conduct feed biosafety studies, focusing on economically significant swine diseases such as porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) and African swine fever virus (ASFV).
Affiliations: American Society of Animal Sciences, American Swine Veterinary Association, American Veterinary Association.
Invited Reports: Invited to participate in presentations around the world to discuss research and methods for implementing biosafety improvements in pig feed production systems.
Dr. Peter Kappel Theil is a professor in the Department of Molecular Nutrition and Reproduction at Aarhus University in Denmark, where he focuses on the field of sow nutrition and physiology, including the quantitative metabolism of energy and nutrients in sows and piglets at the beginning, during and after lactation, as well as the regulation of breast and muscle growth. Experiments include cage collection experiments, calorific measurements and telemetry in respiratory chambers, estimation of milk intake using isotopes, milk production and calorific production, and quantification of gene and protein expression.
Dr. Chris Chase is a professor in the Department of Veterinary Sciences at South Dakota State University (Brooking). He is board certified by the American College of Veterinary Microbiology (Virology/Immunology). Dr. Chase's research and diagnostic interests include immunology, respiratory disease pathogenesis, emerging diseases in contact with wildlife, and vaccine development. He is a past chair of the American College of Veterinary Microbiology and a former chair of the Disease Workers Symposium on Animal Disease Research. Dr. Chase co-authored the immunology chapter in the latest edition of Swine Disease.