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Session 3
Animal Biotechnology

Chair:
Agostino Macrì, Institute Superior of Health, Italy

Co-chairs:
Keith Campbell, University of Nottingham, UK
Ilaria Capua, IZSVe, Italy
Louis Charles Gasbarre, Bovine and Functional Genomic Laboratory – United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), USA

Keynote:
Keith Campbell, University of Nottingham, UK
– Biotechnological opportunities in veterinary interventions and challenges in their global adoption: the research perspective

Main Lectures:
Ilaria Capua, IZSVe, Italy
– Infections emerging from the animal reservoir - a neverending threat for human health

Kobus Eloff, University of Pretoria, South Africa
– Extracts or compounds from plants can be as effective as currently used antifungal agents in animal and plant production

Sam Thevasagayam, Pfizer, UK
– Biotechnological opportunities in veterinary interventions and challenges in their global adoption: the industrial perspective

Main lecture on a EU project:
Jim Scudamore, University of Liverpool, UK & FP7 EU project DISCONTOOLS
– The development of effective tools for the control of major infectious diseases of animals: The DISCONTOOLS project

Topics

• New products for preventive medicine
• Diagnostic tools
• Drug discovery
• Animal selection and cloning
• Industrial biotechnology in animal productions
• Regulatory aspects on the field of animal biotechnology