August 2023 Newsletter

Volume 62, August 2023

Newsletter Editor: Prof Avigdor Cahaner

 

Note from the Editor

This is the second WPSA Newsletter in its new format, consisting of items provided by WPSA organizations and members (through branch secretaries). Each item has a brief description of updated internet sites of poultry-related scientific and professional materials, and the link to that site.

Content

News from the WPSA Board Federations and Working Groups World's Poultry Science Journal

WPSA Programmes Branch News Conferences, webinars and podcasts

Scientific Articles New Books Obituaries

 

News from the WPSA Board

Introduction from the Secretary General

Dear WPSA members!

It is a great honour for me to write my first message in this newsletter, after being elected last summer for the next four years (2022-2026). From the 1^st of January 2023 I have been involved in many activities of the WPSA Executive Committee and visited the IPPE Poultry show in Atlanta, the 2^nd Pan Africa poultry Conference in Togo and the round table of Working Group 1 on Economics In Helsinki, Finland. I want to meet many members and branches to learn about their views and objectives to further promote knowledge of poultry science and the poultry industry. For the year 2023 and 2024 I will combine being the Secretary General of WPSA with my position as poultry economist at Wageningen University & Research.

This year the working groups of the European Federation have their symposia. Please check the calendar. I want to mention that working groups 4 and 5 jointly organise a symposium on quality of eggs and egg products and quality of poultry meat in Krakow, Poland. The Board of WPSA will attend this symposium after two days of the annual Board meeting.

Later this year the Asian Pacific Poultry Conference (APPC) will be held. This meeting has been postponed because of Covid and will now be held on 31 October to 4 November 2023 in Nanjing, China. For the programme please go to the website.

Later on, I will represent WPSA at VIV MEA in Abu Dhabi (20–22 November 2023) with a booth to promote WPSA activities. For me this is another opportunity to meet with members and branches of countries in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia.

With my best regards

Peter van Horne, Secretary General

 

Federations and Working Groups

EggMeat Symposia 7-9 September 2023 Krakow, Poland	Combined meeting WG12 - Physiology and WG6 - Reproduction 18-20 September 2023 Woclaw, Poland	7th World Waterfowl Conference 20-22 September 2023 Jakarta, Indonesia

 

XII European Symposium on Poultry Genetics 8-10 November 2023 Hannover, Germany	12th Asian Pacific Poultry Conference 1-3 November 2023 Nanjing, China	XVI European Poultry Conference 24-28 June 2024 Valencia, Spain	24th European Symposium on Poultry Nutrition 23-26 June 2025 Maastricht, The Netherlands

 
The 12th Asia Pacific Poultry Conference (APPC 2023) will be held in Nanjing, China from November 1^st to 3^rd, 2023. It is co-organized by WPSA-Asia Pacific Federation (WPSA-APF) and the Chinese Association of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine (CAAV). For detailed information click here.

 

World's Poultry Science Journal

The online Journal is hosted on the Taylor & Francis website.

 

WPSA Programmes

• Travel Grant Programme (for young WPSA members and students (<40 years))
• Travel Grant Programme (for 'older' WPSA members from developing countries (>40 years))
• Speakers' Bureau Programme (for WPSA Branches/Working Groups organizing a WPSA meeting)
• Branch Development Proposals (for WPSA branches)

 

Branch News

• The Bangladesh branch elected its officers for the years 2023-24. The results of these elections, and information on branch activities, are presented in their website (Bangladesh)
  
  
• The UK branch conference was held on 29-30th March 2023. For detailed programme and future meetings, as well as other branch activities, see https://wpsa-uk.com/ (UK)
  
  
• The Italy branch organized the 23rd edition of European Symposium on Poultry Nutrition (ESPN) in Rimini (June 21-24, 2023). For detailed programme see  https://www.espn2023.eu/. PPT files of the ESPN keynote presentations will soon be posted in the website of the Italy branch https://www.wpsa.it/home/.
  Almost 1800 participants attended the meeting which was really fantastic. See video coverage (4min.) (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7079828769460355072/) (Italy)
  
  
• Japan Poultry Science Association (JPSA) welcomes the submission of original research articles and review papers to the Journal of Poultry Science (JPS) using the following website: https://jpn-psa.jp/en/jps-en/ (Japan)

 

Conferences, Webinars and Podcasts

Check the WPSA website for a list of upcoming WPSA conferences and webinars.

• The USA and Canadian Branches of the WPSA hosted the WPSA Lecture at the PSA Annual meeting (July 2023), entitled 'Towards a Humane and Sustainable Solution: A Genetic Model to Eliminate Male Chicks Culling in the Egg Industry' by Dr Y. Cinnamon, Israel (USA)
  
  
• At the PSA Annual meeting, Prof. M. Petracci (Italy) presented a keynote talk entitled 'Biophysical Basis of Breast Muscle Myopathies in Broilers' (Italy)
  
  
• The Colombia Branch is announcing their second international seminar on poultry production (Colombia)
  
  
• Members of the Ratite working group will be presenting research results at the upcoming All-Africa Conference on Animal Agriculture, to be held in Botswana during September 2023 (Ratite WG)
  
  
• Two prominent scientists (Stefaan De Smet and Sonia Ventanas Canillas) working on poultry meat quality will be involved in plenary and parallel sessions at EPC2024 (WG5)
  
  
• Nutrition and Feed Colloquium: Training Workshop on Feed Formulation (Rawalpindi-Pakistan, 29-30 August, 2023)The final program is given here (Pakistan)
  
  
• Japan Poultry Science Association (JPSA) will have the 2023 Autumn Meeting on Thursday, September 21, 2023. (Japan)
  
  
• The Turkish Branch is organizing an International Poultry Congress (Strategic Approach for Sustainable Poultry Meat and Egg Production) in adjunction with Bursa Uludağ University, 8-11 May 2024 (Turkey)

 

Scientific Articles

• Ostrich (Struthio camelus) feather production and research: an historic overview (https://doi.org/10.1080/00439339.2023.2225794) (South Africa, Ratite working group)
  
  
• Effect of storage periods and conditions on embryonic mortalities and hatchability of artificially incubated ostrich eggs (https://doi.org/10.1080/00071668.2023.2237931) (South Africa, Ratite working group)
  
  
• Avian reovirus in Israel, variants and vaccines - a review (https://doi.org/10.1637/aviandiseases-D-22-99996) (Israel)
  
  
• The history of highly-pathogenic Avian Influenza in Israel (H5-subtypes): from 2006 to 2023 (https://www.ijvm.org.il/sites/default/files/avian_influenza.pdf) (Israel)
  
  
• Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals mechanisms of restriction feeding on lipid metabolism in ducks (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2023.102963) (China)
  
  
• The improving effect of soybean isoflavones on ovarian function in older laying hens (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2023.102944) (China)
  
  
• Effects of green tea powder on production performance, egg quality, and blood biochemical parameters in laying hens (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2023.102924) (China)
  
  
• Effects of linseed oil supplementation duration on fatty acid profile and fatty acid metabolism-related genes in the muscles of Chinese crested white ducks (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2023.102896) (China)
  
  
• High dietary energy decreased reproductive performance through increasing lipid deposition in Yangzhou geese at late laying stage (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2023.102915) (China)
  
  
• Evaluation of the selection of key individuals for genotype imputation in Chinese yellow-feathered chicken (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2023.102901) (China)
  
  
• HOXB8 overexpression induces morphological changes in chicken mandibular skin: an RNA-seq analysis (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2023.102971) (China)
  
  
• Research on Chinese consumers’ shell egg consumption preferences and the egg quality of functional eggs (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2023.103007) (China)
  
  
• Several models combined with ultrasound techniques to predict breast muscle weight in broilers (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2023.102911) (China)
  
  
• Free access to download the articles in Japan's Journal of Poultry Science (JPS) is available on J-Stage (https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jpsa) (Japan)

 

New Books

• The 'Science of Poultry and Meat Processing' is a free textbook by Dr Shai Barbut from University of Guelph, Canada. The book is available for download here (WG5)
  
  

• The Poultry Grading Picture Series edited by USDA illustrates various defects described in the official U.S. Classes, Standards, and Grades for Poultry (WG5)

 

Obituaries

• Sergey V. Cherepanov (Russia), 10 October 1952 - 29 May 2023
• Mian Jan Mohammad Javaid (Pakistan), 1 March 1958 - 13 August 2023