Incubation & Fertility
(WG 6)

Year
Chairperson
1998 - 2009
Dr Glenn Baggott
2009 - 2012
Dr Nick French
2012 - 2020
Marleen Boerjan
2020 - 2025
Ampay Nangsuay
2025 -
Roos Molenaar

The name of the group was the Incubation Research Group (IRG) up to 1995 when it was decided toexpand the remit of the group to include fertility and so the name was changed to the Incubation and Fertility Research Group (IFRG). In 1998, an association was made between the World’s Poultry Science Association when the IFRG adopted the European Branches’ Working Group 6 – Reproduction. In 2023 the name of WG 6 changed to Incubation and Fertility.

annual meetings

Each annual meeting has had a local organizer. Meeting dates, locations and organizers are given below.

2021

14-15 October
Leiden, The Netherlands (Virtual meeting)

2017

30 August - 1 September
Wageningen, The Netherlands

2016

4-6 December
Brugge, Belgium

2019

28-30 August
Tours, France
Combined with Working Group 12

2014

29 - 30 September
Lunteren, The Netherlands
Organised by Marleen Boerjan

2013

30 September - 1 October

Gottingen, Germany
Organised by Marleen Boerjan

2018

4-5 October
Edinburgh, Scotland

2011

30-31 August

Ede, the Netherlands
Organised by Nick French

2015

1-4 September
Berlin, Germany
Combined with Working Group 12
Organised by Marleen Boerjan (WG 6) and Shlomo Yahav (WG12)

2010

23 August

Tours, France
Organised by Nick French

2012

13-15 June
Pisa, Italy
Organised by Margherita Marzoni and Annelisse Castillo

2008

3-4 September

Moorfields Hospital, London, UK
Organised by Victoria Maltby

2009

7-8 July
University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Organised by Victoria Hurst

2005

6-7 September

University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
Organised by Charles Deeming

2007

24-25 July
University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
Organised by Victoria Maltby

2004

6-7 September

St Edmund’s Hall, University of Oxford, UK
Organised by Charles Deeming

2006

7-8 September

University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
Organised by Charles Deeming

2002

12-13 September

St Edmund’s Hall, University of Oxford, UK
Organised by Charles Deeming

2003

4-5 September
University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
Organised by Charles Deeming

2001

17-18 September

St Edmund’s Hall, University of Oxford, UK
Organised by Charles Deeming

2000

11-12 September

St Edmund’s Hall, University of Oxford, UK
Organised by Charles Deeming

1999

21 September

Vinci Conference Centre, Tours, France
Organised by Jean-Pierre Brillard

1998

15-16 September

University of Warwick, UK
Organised by Glenn Baggott

more information

Further details of Working Group 6 can be obtained from the website www.ifrg.be or by contacting the current Chairman:

Mrs Roos Molenaar (The Netherlands)

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