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Theatre Sessions
Monday, 12 April 2010
12:00 Registration Whitla Hall
(Students Union cash bar open for sandwiches, light lunch)
Whitla Hall
PRESIDENT'S SESSION - A VISION FOR 2020
Session 13:30 - 15:00 hours
Chair: Dr Sinclair Mayne
13:30 PS1 Challenges and opportunities for European Agriculture
M Dempsey, Farmers' Journal, Ireland
14:00 PS2 Meeting the challenge of prioritising land use- the role of agricultural science
L Firbank, BBSRC, UK
14:30 PS3 Harnessing scientific developments in practice
A Carson, AFBINI, UK
SDH (Room adjacent to Whitla Hall)
15:00 Tea/coffee and Highlights - discussions commence at 15:15
SDH (ADJACENT TO WHITLA HALL)
15:15- 16:00 HIGHLIGHTS - DISCUSSION SESSION
GENETICS AND HEALTH
Session 16:00 - 17:30 hours
Chair: Professor Rainer Roehe
16:00 1 Genetic associations between tuberculosis and economically important performance traits in Irish
Holstein Friesian dairy cows
M L Bermingham, S J More, M Good, A R Cromie, I M Higgins, D P Berry
16:15 2 Determining the genetic susceptibility or resistance to bovine digital dermatitis in cattle
R A Scholey, W E R Ollier, R W Blowey, R D Murray, S D Carter
16:30 3 Genetic association between direct and indirect measures of body energy in dairy cows
G. Banos, M P Coffey
16:45 4 Genetic and non-genetic factors influencing Ostertagia ostertagi antibodies in UK H-F cattle
C Hayhurst, A Bradley, K Hunter, A B Forbes, M D Royal
17:00 5 Nutritional sensitivity of correlations between estimated breeding values for faecal egg counts and
resistance to parasites in periparturient ewes
A Kidane, P Sakkas, J G M Houdijk, B J Tolkamp, S Athanasiadou, I Kyriazakis
17:15 6 Performance of Suffolk and Texel sheep grazing pastures with contrasting levels of gastrointestinal
nematode parasite challenge
J P Hanrahan, B Good
19:30 Conference Dinner - City Hall
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