Edinburgh Presentations

DAY 1, Tuesday 10th November
Introduction
10.30 – 10.40 Welcome to Scotland. Uel Morton, Chief Executive of QMS
10.40 – 10.55 Welcome to the RuminOmics project. Kevin Shingfield, IBERS, Aberystwyth
10.55 – 11.30 Global View of Environmental Impact of Ruminant Livestock Production. Cledwyn Thomas, EAAP

Challenges and Future Perspectives
11.30 – 12.00 Ruminant Feed Industry. Nicolas Martin, FEFAC
12.00 – 12.30 Netherlands / Belgium / Northern France. Erwin Koenen, CRV
12.30 – 13.00 Ireland. Brendan Horan, Teagasc
14.00 – 14.30 UK – Dairy Industry. David Keiley, SRUC
14.30 – 15.00 UK – Red Meat Sector. Jimmy Hyslop, SRUC
15.00 – 15.45 RuminOmics Outputs. Kevin Shingfield

DAY 2, Wednesday 11th November
Technical solutions to the meet the Challenge
09.00 – 09.45 Rumen Microbial Ecology. Ilma Tapio
09.45 – 10.30 Nutrition, efficiency and emissions. Pekka Huhtanen
11.00 – 11.45 Does the host animal control the activity and composition of its gut microbes? Ilma Tapio
11.45 – 12.30 Tools for rapid analysis of Phenotypes and the Microbiome. Kevin Shingfield
13.30 – 14.15 From genotype to phenotype. Johanna Vilkki
14.15 – 15.00 Field-scale study of rumen function, efficiency and emissions in dairy cows ‘The 1000 cow study’. Phil Garnsworthy