NEWSLETTER January 2024

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federations and working groups

XVI EUROPEAN POULTRY CONFERENCE

24-28 june 2024
Valencia, Spain

24th European Symposium on Poultry Nutrition

23-26 June 2025
Maastricht, The Netherlands

XXVI European Symposium on the Quality of Poultry Meat and XX European Symposium on the Quality of Eggs and Egg Products

15-17 September 2025
Zadar, Croatia

World’s Poultry Congress 2026

13-17 July 2026
Toronto, Canada

branch news

WPSA Programmes

  • Japan Poultry Science Association (JPSA) will have the 2024 Spring Zoom Meeting. on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. JPSA is welcoming a wide participation over the globe.
  • Japan Poultry Science Association (JPSA) welcomes the submission of original research articles and review papers to the Journal of Poultry Science (JPS) using the this website. Free access to download the full-published articles in the JPS is available on J-Stage, which provides an excellent opportunity for all to access the full published articles.
  • JPSA would like to contribute to Poultry Science in Japan and globally by enhancing international activities with members from different countries. Thus, JPSA has a membership category “Special International Member”. JPSA invariably welcomes new members from all over the world. Visit JPSA website for further information.
TRAVEL GRANT PROGRAMME

For young WPSA members and students (<40 years).

SPEAKERS’ BUREAU PROGRAMME

For WPSA Branches/Working Groups organizing a WPSA meeting.

TRAVEL GRANT PROGRAMME

For ‘older’ WPSA members from developing countries (>40 years).

BRANCH DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS

For WPSA branches.

Recent conferences: Proceedings and presentations

  • The Argentinean Branch of WPSA sponsored one lecture for the 14th International Seminar on Poultry Science, November 8-10, 2023. The speaker was Dr. Marcela Uhart, UC Davis (USA), with the topic ‘Ecoepidemiology of Avian Influenza Virus’. More information about this conference. (Spanish)
  • The Argentinean Branch of WPSA was one of the sponsors of the webinar 14th Poultry Conference, November 29, 2023. The presentations are available here. (Spanish)
  • The Argentinean Branch of WPSA organized a Poultry Production Webinar on 5/12/2023, with two speakers: Ariel Magnani (Ventilation management in a controlled environment for broilers) and Luciano Ortiz (Animal welfare in poultry slaughterhouse). The presentations are available here. (Spanish)
  • On the website of the XII European Symposium on Poultry Genetics you can download the Proceedings with abstracts of all talks and posters, and the presentation files of most of them.
  • The Indonesia branch organized the 7 World Waterfowl Conference, 20-22 September 2023 in Jakarta, Indonesia. You can download the Book of Abstracts from the WPSA website.

Upcoming conferences

Check the WPSA website for a complete list of upcoming WPSA conferences.
  • The WPSA South African Branch will organize the 40th Scientific Symposium on 5-6 March 2024 in Pretoria, South Africa. (South Africa)
  • The next conference of the WPSA-UK branch will be held in Belfast on 9-11th April 2024. To look at the draft programme, and to register for the conference, please visit the website. (UK)
  • The WPSA Turkish Branch will host an international congress jointly with Bursa Uludağ University, with the theme ‘Strategic Approaches for a Sustainable Poultry Meat and Egg Production’, on 8-11 May 2024 in Bursa. (Turkey)

Webinars / podcasts

Check the WPSA website for a complete list of upcoming webinars.

courses

WVEPAH – MODULE I – Key disciplines in poultry health/reguation module WOAH (OIE) (Online)

WVEPAH – MODULE II – Specialization commercial layers (3-7 June 2024)

Scientific articles

Note from the editor

We are happy to have titles and links to more than 40 scientific articles covering a very wide range of poultry science topics. You are encouraged to use the search function to search for words of interest to you (e.g., broiler, duck, egg, meat, genome, mRNA, virus, etc.)

Individual members are encouraged to send links of their papers to the Newsletter Editor.

Effects of hatching system on chick quality, welfare and health of young breeder flock offspring. (The Netherlands)
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Group level and individual activity of broiler chickens hatched in 3 different systems. (The Netherlands)
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Comparison between Standardized and Modified EZ- Drip Loss Determination Methods in Chicken Breast Meat. (Croatia)
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Comparative analysis of physical, morphological, and mechanical characteristics of eggs from three pheasant subspecies (Croatia)
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Vertical transmission of gut bacteria in commercial chickens is limited. (Israel)
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Virulence evaluation of Israeli Marek’s disease virus isolates from commercial poultry using their meq gene sequence. (Israel)
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Rapid and sensitive detection of Mycoplasma synoviae using RPA combined with Pyrococcus furiosus Argonaute. (China)
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RRM2 promotes the proliferation of chicken myoblasts, inhibits their differentiation and muscle regeneration. (China)
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LncEDCH1 g.1703613 T>C regulates chicken carcass traits by targeting miR-196-2-3p (China)
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Effects of various selenium-enriched yeasts, selenomethionine, and nanoselenium on production performance, quality, and antioxidant capacity in laying hens. (China)
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Effects of dietary methionine supplementation on the growth performance, immune responses, antioxidant capacity, and subsequent development of layer chicks. (China)
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Fecal microbiota transplantation revealed the function of folic acid on reducing abdominal fat deposition in broiler chickens mediated by gut microbiota. (China)
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Study on changing disciplinarian of beak colors in ducks and the regulation network based on transcriptome sequencing. (China)
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Isolation, identification, molecular and pathogenicity characteristics of an infectious laryngotracheitis virus from Hubei province, China. (China)
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Analysis of circRNA-miRNA-mRNA regulatory network of embryonic gonadal development in Mulard duck. (China)
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The signal pathway of melatonin mediates the monochromatic light-induced T-lymphocyte apoptosis in chicken thymus. (China)
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Weighted single-step GWAS identified candidate genes associated with carcass traits in a Chinese yellow-feathered chicken population. (China)
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