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Welcome to the first edition of the WPSA Membership Newsletter. The Board of the “World’s Poultry Science Association” met on March 7, 2007 in Bangkok, Thailand, to discuss the business of the Association and its programmes. One item of discussion was how to improve communication with the Association’s individual members, and this e-mail newsletter is an outcome of that discussion. WPSA communicates with its members through its routinely updated website (www.wpsa.com), and through the Association’s News and Calendar sections of the World’s Poultry Science Journal (WPSJ). Nevertheless, it was thought that direct e-mails to individual members might increase the membership’s knowledge of the Association and its activities. Routine updates about WPSA activities should arrive in your e-mail four times a year, roughly in between the four issues of the WPSJ. |
XXIII World’s Poultry Congress Brisbane, Australia June 29- July 4, 2008 |
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Reports, Discussions and Actions of the WPSA Board Meeting, Bangkok, Thailand, March, 2007 Report of the President: President Dr. Rüveyde Akbay spent most of her efforts over the past eight months on strengthening friendships and building relationships for the Association. She attended the European Poultry Congress in Verona where she helped lead the opening ceremony and had the honour of presenting the McDougal Medal for Outstanding Service over the past 25 years to the World’s Poultry Science Association to the Association’s Secretary Piet Simons. She also co-chaired the first plenary session of the EPC with Dr. Dietmar Flock, the then Chair of the European Federation of WPSA. Following the European Congress, she also represented the Association at the 7th Ukrainian International Poultry Conference in Alushta, Crimea, Ukraine; the 14th Baltic Poultry Conference in Vilnius, Lithuania; the New Zealand Poultry Industry Conference in Palmerston-North, New Zealand; U.S. Poultry and Egg Association’s International Poultry Exposition, in Atlanta, Georgia; the International Symposium on Influenza, Istanbul, Turkey; the 5th International Poultry Show & Seminar, Dhaka, Bangladesh, and the 8th Asian Pacific Poultry Conference that was held in Bangkok, Thailand in early March of this year. Numerous discussions were held during her travels with the leadership of the WPSA Branches she visited, as well as with individuals or groups who are interested in the possibility of developing new branches of WPSA in their countries. Report of the Secretary: Dr. Piet Simons reported that the number of WPSA Branches was at 73 on January 1, 2007. He is hoping to have 80 Branches by the end of 2008. Membership in WPSA has increased from 6,843 in 2005 to 7,358 in March, 2007. The WPSA Speakers Bureau provided speakers for six Conferences worldwide during 2005, and for three conferences during 2006. During 2005, those speakers included Dr. R.W.A.W. Mulder, the Netherlands, - the International Poultry Conference in Santiago, Chile, and the International Poultry Conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka; Prof.Dr. E. Decuypere, Belgium - the 3rd World’s Waterfowl Conference, Guangzhou, P.R.C.; Prof. H. Pingel, Germany - the 2nd Waterfowl Workshop, Bogor, Indonesia; Dr. Anagbesan, Belgium and Dr. Trefil, Czech Republic - the International Poultry Conference in Lagos, Nigeria; Prof. G. Mead, United Kingdom - the AM Conference and at the WPSA Seminar in Malaysia; and Dr. Gaylene Fasenko, Canada - Poultry Seminar in Bogota, Columbia. For 2006, speakers included: Ir. P.L.M. van Horne, The Netherlands - International Poultry Conference, Teheran, Iran; Dr. J.C.M. Dekkers, Iowa State University, USA - Poultry Conference in Croatia; and Dr. R.W.A.W. Mulder, The Netherlands - International Poultry Conference, Sri Lanka. Eighteen travel grants were approved by the WPSA Executive Committee during 2006, and 14 were actually utilized to support the travel of young scientists to meetings. Two individuals could not obtain a visa, 1 cancelled, and 1 decided not to attend. All of the travel grants were to the European Poultry Congress, and the recipients were from Chile (1), Egypt (2), India (5), Iran (4), Pakistan (2) and Sri Lanka (2). Dr. Simons represented the Association at the following meetings during 2006: USA (Atlanta, U.S. Poultry & Egg Exposition, and the Southern Poultry Science Meetings); Chile (International Poultry Conference), Canada (Poultry Science Annual Meetings) Finland (Cost Meeting), the United Kingdom (CUP Meeting), Italy (European Poultry Congress), Poland (International Poultry Conference), and China (VIV Asia). Report of the Treasurer Dr. Francine Bradley, WPSA Treasurer, reported that the Association is a very financially sound organization in which the leadership has the reserves to fund all of the programmes that support its Missions of Education, Organization and Research related to Poultry Science. Income for calendar year 2006 was up in most categories. The Association’s net worth increased considerably during 2006, mostly from unrealized gains on the Association’s investment portfolio. A committee suggested by the WPSA Executive Committee and approved by the Board reviews the Association’s books annually. Due to the early date of the 2007 Board Meeting, only the Review of the 2005 books was available. The Committee found the books to be appropriately maintained, easy to access, and complete. The 2006 books will be reviewed this summer. A detailed financial report for the Association is available to any member upon request. XXII World’s Poultry Congress, Brisbane, Australia: Dr. Bob Pym, WPC 2008 Chair reported that preparations for the 2008 World’s Poultry Congress (www.WPC2008.com) are progressing on schedule. The Congress will run from Sunday 29 June to the afternoon of Friday 4 July. The Opening Ceremony and Welcome Reception will be held on the afternoon/evening of Monday 30 June and the Congress dinner will be held on the evening of Thursday 3 July. Plans for the scientific and technical programme are well underway, and abstracts are currently being accepted (see below). The programme s being organized under the following general themes: Welfare, Husbandry and the Environment; Nutrition and Feed Technologies; Bird Health and Disease; Processing and Product Safety; Economics and Marketing; Education and Extension; Genetics and Breeding; Physiology and Reproduction; Egg Processing and Egg Products; Alternative Management Systems (including family poultry farming); and Other Species. Plenary sessions with keynote speakers will be held each morning, to morning tea, followed by concurrent symposia and poster sessions. Abstracts will be received from January 2007 to September 2007 via the WPC2008 Congress website. These will be reviewed by the scientific and technical programme committee to determine the session for presentation. Information on abstract submission is provided on the above website. To maximize participation of delegates from Australia and the Asian Pacific region, and to maximize sponsorship and exhibitors, the triennial Australian Poultry Convention and the annual Australian Poultry Science Symposium, have been subsumed into WPC2008. Additionally, three concurrent meetings have been included under the umbrella of WPC2008. These include the 6th Asian Pacific Poultry Health Conference, the 4th International Ratite Science Symposium, and the 2008 Australian Poultry Information Exchange (PIX, an Australian biennial producer-focused meeting) which will run concurrently with the Congress. All of these meetings will be closely integrated within the Congress programme. Inclusion of PIX under the umbrella of WPC2008 was seen as a very important factor in avoiding dilution of regional delegate attendance, sponsorship and exhibitors. The Congress programme has been closely integrated with these affiliations, with AP6 primarily covering the Bird Health and Disease stream. Additional to this, satellite meetings include: the 10th Avian Immunology Research Group’s Meeting to be held from 26 to 29 of June immediately before the Congress; and the 8th International Marek’s Disease Symposium to be held in Townsville from 6 to 10 of July, immediately following the Congress. World’s Poultry Science Journal (WPSJ) The World’s Poultry Science Journal has been available to institutional subscribers on-line for the past several years. As a result of the change in our publishing partners, the on-line edition has become available from Cambridge University Press (CUP) instead of CABI. The WPSJ has been published electronically and marketed by CABI from 2004 until July 1, 2006 when it was acquired by Cambridge University Press. Transfer of the WPSJ to Cambridge Journals On-Line took place on January 1, 2007. Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) was one of the first publishers to develop its own electronic platform back in 1997. The latest generation of CJO was launched in August 2005, and has been widely praised as being equal to the best sites in the business. Through the work of a sub-committee of the Board appointed by President Akbay, members now have the option of receiving the World’s Poultry Science Journal on-line, instead of the print edition. The print version will continue to be the normal method of receiving the Journal. If you wish to receive the on-line version instead of the printed version, you must indicate that you want the on-line version by completing the form on the website www.wpsa.com. The CUP system has been upgraded to permit reference searches, tracing of citations, etc. Members should have received a communication from WPSA requesting that they make this choice. The following Items have been agreed upon concerning the On-Line version of WPSJ for Members between the WPSA Board’s Committee and Cambridge University Press (CUP)
The Secretary’s Office is endeavouring to obtain the e-mail addresses of individual members. Members must provide their current e-mail addresses to WPSA in order to take advantage of this Newsletter and/or the new on-line version of the journal. Please remind your fellow members that they must go to the WPSA website (www.wpsa.com) to sign up for the Newsletter and/or the on-line version of the journal. Volume 62 (2006) of the World’s Poultry Science Journal was published on schedule with a total of 764 pages (Vol. 61, 753 pages). The contents of Volume 62 included 34 main review papers and 5 regional reports. Volume 63, No. 1 (March, 2007) has also been published on schedule, and it included 9 review articles plus a 20 page special edition on “Small-scale Family Poultry Production.’ The latter is a cooperative project between WPSA and FAO’s International Network for Family Poultry Development (INFPD), and it will be published twice each year in the March and September editions. The average time from submission to acceptance of papers in WPSJ is just under 4 months. WPSJ Archives: The current on-line journal subscription for institutions includes free access to the Archive back to volume 60 (2004). Transfer of the Archive from Ingenta to the CUP Platform is in its final stages and when complete will comprise volumes 1-59 (1945-2003) This Archive is currently available as a perpetual sale for a one-time fee of US$995, plus an annual maintenance fee for non-subscribers. There will be a considerably lower, subscription rate to current subscribers only. In 1928, in order to improve the way in which it achieved one of its primary objectives – the dissemination of knowledge – the organization now known as the World’s Poultry Science Association (then known as the International Association of Poultry Instructors) began publication of its own journal. That journal was named the International Review of Poultry Science (IRPS), and it was published biannually in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Thirteen volumes of the IRPS were published from 1928 to 1940. The editors were Dr. B.J.C. te Hennepe (The Netherlands) and Dr. Gustave Heuser (USA). Publication of the IRPS was suspended during World War II, but was resumed in the spring of 1945 under the current name, the World’s Poultry Science Journal. Unfortunately, the WPSA office in Beekbergen has only one edition of the IRPS (i.e., Tome 5, no 3/4, 1933). The Association is, therefore, asking individual members to search their personal and/or university libraries to see if they locate copies of this these journal, and if found, to find out whether or not they could either be donated to WPSA or loaned for electronic copying. If all or some of the copies can be found, especially for copying, then the International Review of Poultry Science will be added to the WPSJ Archives. If you or someone you know can make these journals available to the Association, please contact Dr. Piet Simons, WPSA, PO Box 31, 7360 AA Beekbergen, The Netherlands, E-mail wpsa@xs4all.nl.
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Nominations for Membership on the WPSA Board
A Nominating Advisory Committee (NAC) has been formed by the Executive Board of WPSA to develop a potential list of nominees to be considered for service on the WPSA Board from 2008 - 2012, i.e. from the time of the election that will be held during the meeting of the Official WPSA Branch Delegates (or Counsellors) that will be held in Brisbane during the 2008 World’s Poultry Congress until the time of the XXIV World Congress that will be held in Salvador, Brazil in 2012. A letter has been sent by WPSA Secretary Piet Simons to all Branch Secretaries that provides the names of the NAC Members. Please contact your Branch Secretary if you would like to nominate someone (with the individuals permission to do so) to be considered as a potential WPSA Board Member. Individual Branches are urged to also consider submitting nominations to the WPSA NAC. Branch Secretaries have the information on how to submit nominations.
WPSA Scholarship Awards to be Presented at WPC2008 Three major Scholarship Awards are available to members of the World's Poultry Science Association from a trust fund that was set up by the Netherlands Branch of WPSA. They are presented at each of the World Poultry Congresses in three categories - Education, Organization and Research - which coincide with the wording on the WPSA logo. Recipients of the three Scholarships are chosen by an internationally representative committee, and the committee’s selections are based on the following. Research Award: The WPSA Research Award is presented to an outstanding scientist in recognition of research achievement related to the poultry industry. Individuals who have been members of the World's Poultry Science Association for at least two years immediately preceding the Congress at which the award is to be made are eligible. The award consists of a suitably inscribed certificate or plaque and € 11,000 (currently about US $13,000). Education Award: The WPSA Education Award is presented at each World's Poultry Congress to an individual or group of individuals who, has/have made a major contribution to poultry management education in a five year period immediately preceding the current World's Poultry Congress. Nominees, or leaders of groups in the case of joint nominations, must have been members of the World's Poultry Science Association for at least two years immediately preceding the Congress at which the award is made. The award will consists of a suitably inscribed certificate or plaque and € 11,000. Industry/Organization Award: The WPSA Industry/Organization Award is presented to an individual or organization who/which has made an outstanding contribution to the development and/or success of the poultry industry in a five-year period immediately preceding a World's Poultry Congress. The development of trade organizations, promotional or information programmes, or the invention of new processes or products relevant to the poultry industry will form the basis of the award. Nominees (or leaders of nominated organizations) must have been members of the World's Poultry Science Association for at least two years immediately preceding the Congress at which the award is made. The award consists of a suitably inscribed certificate or plaque and € 11,000. See the WPSA Website for details concerning nomination procedures for these Awards International Poultry Hall of Fame The International Poultry Hall of Fame (IPHF) was established by action of the WPSA Executive Committee on August 10, 1984, for the purpose of recognizing individuals who have contributed above and beyond the call of duty to the world-wide poultry industry. Recognitions are made based on the individual’s contributions to the international poultry sector. Any person with any educational background, in any country is eligible for nomination and possible election to the IPHF, and those selected are inducted during the World Congresses. A letter has been forwarded to all Branch Secretaries calling for the nomination of individuals for the IPHF who will be inducted during the XXIII Congress in Brisbane, Australia. All Branches of WPSA may nominate an individual for consideration for this honour (Branches with over 100 members can nominate 2 individuals). No more than 5 individuals, living or deceased, will be inducted at any one Congress, and those honoured will receive a citation, a plaque, and their citation and photograph will be published in the WPSJ. Please contact your Branch Secretary, if you have someone whom you want to nominate. Details concerning the nomination and selection process are available on the WPSA website. Nominations are due before December 31, 2007. Completed nominations must be sent to the WPSA Secretary, Piet Simons. Bids for the XXV World Poultry Congress to be held in 2016 Bids for the hosting of the XXV World’s Poultry Congress that will be held in mid-2016 are being sought. The bidding process is described on the WPSA Website. Bids for the Congress must come from the Countries WPSA Branch, with support from the countries government. Please contact WPSA Secretary Piet Simons, if your Branch is interested in bidding to host that congress. Nomination of Official Branch Delegates to the XXIII World Congress in Brisbane, Australia WPSA Branch Officers will be receiving a request for a list of official Branch delegates (Counsellors) to the XXIII World Congress in December 2007. Those delegates will be officially recognized as the voting representatives for their Branch, and will be expected to participate in a brief training session, and in the WPSA Council Meeting that will be held during the Brisbane Congress. They will be asked to cast ballots on behalf of the Branch for the election of new WPSA Board members for the period of 2008-2012, on any business items that are brought before the Council, and on the location of the 2016 World Congress. |
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WPSA Sponsored and Other Poultry Related Symposia and Conferences
Numerous WPSA sponsored ad other poultry meetings have been planned for the remainder of 2007 (See the WPSA Website for contact and registration information), including:
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VIV Russia 2007, 21-23 May, 2007, Moscow, Russia
4th International Symposium on Turkey Production, 21-23 June, 2007, Berlin, Germany
VIV Turkey 2007, 28-30 June 2007, Istanbul, Turkey
29th Poultry Science Symposium - Biology of Breeding Poultry, 23-25 July, Edinburgh, Scotland
12th International Conference of the Association for Tropical Veterinary Medicine (AITVM), 20-23 August, Montpellier, France
Poultry Science Association Annual Meeting, 8-12 July 2007, San Antonio Texas (Joint Meeting with the American Society of Animal Science and the American Dairy Science Association – see www.poultryscience.org for programme and registration information) 16th European Symposium on Poultry Nutrition, 26-30 August 2007, Strasbourg, France |
XVIII European Symposium on the Quality of Poultry Meat; and, the XII European Symposium on the Quality of Eggs and Egg Products, 2-5 September 2007, Prague, Czech Republic
XX Latin American Poultry Congress, 25-28 September 2007, Porto Alegre, Brazil
5th European Poultry Genetic Symposium, 26-28 September 2007, Braedstrup-Horsens, Denmark 15th WPSA Baltics and Finland Poultry Conference, 4-5 October 2007, Riga, Lativa 3rd Combined Workshop: Fundamental Physiology of the European Working Group on Physiology and Workgroup on Prenatal Development, 5-8 October 2007, Berlin, Germany.
2nd South Asian Regional Poultry Conference & Exhibition, 15-17 October, Pune, India
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We hope that many of you will consider participating in one or more of these poultry educational meetings. See the WPSA website (www.wpsa.com ) for details and registration information. |
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WPSA Secretariat:
Dr Piet Simons, PO Box 31, 7360 AA Beekbergen, The Netherlands |
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