NEWSLETTER January
2025
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federations and working groups
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
13th European Symposium on Poulry Genetics
8-10 October 2025
Gdansk, Poland
World’s Poultry Congress 2026
13-17 July 2026
Toronto, Canada
Branch News
WPSA Programmes
- The USA Branch of WPSA has elected new board members who began their 4-year term on January 1st. The current listing of WPSA-USA officers can be found at: https://poultryscience.org/about/usa-branch.
- The Italian Branch of WPSA is organizing the 59th edition of its annual meeting that will be held on February 28, 2025 in Lodi and it will deal with “State of the art and experiences on the use of chicken medium-slow growing genotypes”. This hot topic will be also explored thanks to the contributions of prestigious international speakers.
- Anses, INNOZH, INRAE, Institut Pasteur, and Santé Publique France, are organizing the 10th edition of the I3S Congress: International Symposium on Salmonella and Salmonellosis. This international scientific congress will take place in Saint-Malo, France, from June 23 to 25, 2025. Abstract submissions for posters are open until mid-March, and registration for the congress is already available on the website: https://i3scongress.innozh.fr/.
TRAVEL GRANT PROGRAMME
For young WPSA members and students (<40 years).
PhD student Research support PROGRAMME
For PhD students to support their research projects.
BRANCH DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS
For WPSA branches.
TRAVEL GRANT PROGRAMME
For ‘older’ WPSA members from developing countries (>40 years).
SPEAKERS’ BUREAU PROGRAMME
For WPSA Branches/Working Groups organizing a WPSA meeting.
Upcoming conferences
Check the WPSA website for a complete list of upcoming WPSA conferences.
- The 36th Annual Australian Poultry Science Symposium will be held in Sydney on 10-12 February, 2025
- The 1st World Native Poultry Conference, with the theme ‘Fighting Poverty with Native Poultry’, will be held on 12 March 2025 at VIV Asia Bangkok Thailand, organized by the Small-Scale Family Poultry Farming (SSFPF) Working Group of the WPSA Asia-Pacific Federation and Pakistan Branch.
- The next meeting of the UK branch of WPSA will be 12-13 March 2025, in Harrogate, UK. For more information, please see their website.
- On May 20-22, Colombia branch will be holding the first Poultry Incubation and Production Congress in the Caribbean city of Santa Marta, Colombia. We expect the participation of 500 professionals specializing in poultry incubation and production from across the Andean region, bringing together the most renowned experts from the industry and academia to share the latest advancements in technology and science on this important subject. Simultaneous English-Spanish translation will be available.
- Call for Abstracts for EggMeat2025 Symposium to be held in Zadar, Croatia, 14-17 September 2025. More info about the Symposium kindly find on the official web site www.eggmeat2025.com. In case of any additional help, information or service do not hesitate to contact us on e-mail in**@*********25.com.
- The 3rd Pan-African Poultry Conference (PPC3), with the main theme ‘Resilience and Sustainability of Poultry Value Chains in Challenging Environments in Africa’, is scheduled to be held on 22-23 September 2025 at the Future Africa, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
- The 13th European Symposium on Poultry Genetics, to be held October 8 -10, 2025 in Gdańsk (Poland), is organized by WG No. 3 (Breeding and Genetics) of the European Federation of WPSA and the Polish Branch of WPSA. Deadline for abstract submission March 31, 2025. For more details visit: espg2025.org.
- The 8th World Waterfowl Conference will be organized in Nantes, France, September 20-22 2027.
Webinars / podcasts
Check the WPSA website for a complete list of upcoming webinars.
- 4 February, 2025 – Rat snakes and poultry flocks
- 4 March 2025 – Backyard poultry production: General nutrition and mixing your own poultry feed
- 1 April 2025 – Sprouting grains for poultry diet
courses
- On February 22, Colombia branch will begin the second edition of the poultry nutrition course, which will be carried out virtually synchronously. Learn about topics and speakers that will be presented in this important academic activity by following the link: https://amevea.org/2024/11/05/ii-curso-de-nutricion-avicola/
- In April 2025, Colombia branch will hold a workshop on Ventilation Systems and Controlled Environments, taught by experts in the field from the University of Georgia and the industry. Learn details about this important event at: https://amevea.org/2024/11/06/taller-de-ventilacion-y-manejo-de-ambientes-controlados/.
- WVEPAH – MODULE I – Key disciplines in poultry health/reguation module WOAH (OIE) (Online)
- WVEPAH – MODULE II – Commercial layers (12-16 May 2025, Lima, Peru)
Scientific articles
Note from the editor
We are happy to have titles and links to 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 (av*************@**********ac.il).
Successful formation of sperm cells from transplanted primordial germ cells in sterile interspecific avian recipients (Hungary)
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Omics based technology application in poultry meat research (WG5)
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Gene ontology defines pre-post- hatch energy dynamics in the complexus muscle of broiler chickens (Israel)
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Association of keel bone morphometry with keel bone damage and skeletal quality in the laying hen (UK)
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Is oviposition time and oviposition interval associated with the deposition of cuticle on the hen’s egg? (UK)
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Transcriptomic Profiling Reveals Altered Expression of Genes Involved in Metabolic and Immune Processes in NDV-Infected Chicken Embryos (India)
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Trends and prospects of poultry value chains in Africa (Senegal)
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Chicken genome-wide CRISPR library screen identifies potential candidates associated with Avian influenza virus infection (China)
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Revealing in vivo broiler chicken growth state: Integrating CT imaging and deep learning for non-invasive reproductive phenotypic measurement (China)
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CircAGO3 facilitates NF-kappaB pathway-mediated inflammatory atrophy in chicken skeletal muscle via the miR-34b-5p/TRAF3 axis (China)
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Circular RNA WRNIP1 activates the PI3K-AKT and ERK1/2 signaling pathways by binding to miR-129-5p/IGF2 axis and facilitates ovarian follicle development in chickens (China)
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IGF2BP3 curbed by miR-15c-3p restores disrupted lipid storage and progesterone secretion in chicken granulosa cells under oxidative stress through AKT-Raf1-ERK1/2 signaling pathway (China)
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BMP2 is required for granulosa cell proliferation and primordial follicle activation in chicken (China)
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Genome-wide association study of myofiber type composition traits in a yellow-feather broiler population (China)
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Full-length transcriptome sequencing of seven tissues of GuShi chickens (China)
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Transcriptomic insight into the underlying mechanism of induced molting on reproductive remodeling, performance and egg quality in laying hen (China)
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Combined transcriptome and metabolome analysis of stable knockdown and overexpression of the CD8A gene in chicken T lymphocytes (China)
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