Name: The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Animals
Start: 2025-03-12T00:00:00
End: 2025-03-14T00:00:00

Program Overview

12 Morning	13 Morning	14 Morning
Session A. Sustainable animal nutrition	Session C. Sustainable animal physiology and reproduction Session F. Sustainability of products derived from animals	Session G. One health: Improve Disease Manifestation and Management in Animals, Humans, and the Environment
12 Afternoon	13 Afternoon	14 Afternoon
Session B. Animal genetics and genomics	Session D. Environmental challenges to animals and precision livestock farming	Session E. Sustainable animal welfare, ethics and human-animal interactions

IECA 2025 Program (DAY 1)

IECA 2025 Day 1

Session A. Sustainable animal nutrition

Date: 12 March 2025 (Wednesday)
Time: 9:00 (CET, Basel) | 03:00 (EST, New York) | 16:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time in CET	Speaker	Title
09:00-09:15	Prof. Dr. Clive J. C. Phillips Event Chair Prof. Dr. Michael Hässig Co-chair	Opening Speech
09:15-09:25	Dr. Elisabete Matos Session Chair	Welcome from the session chair
09:25-09:55	Prof. Ana Rita Cabrita Keynote Speaker	New Functional Protein Sources for Dog Foods: A Sustainable Approach
9:55-10:10	Qiujin Liu Selected Oral Speaker	Effects of the partial substitution of whole plant corn silage co-fermented with bacteria and enzymes on growth performance, slaughter performance and serum parameters in Taizhou geese
10:10-10:25	Marina Gálvez López Selected Oral Speaker	Including up to 15% pomegranate by-product in the diet does not affect physiological parameters in dairy goats
10:25-10:40	Reda El Boukhari Selected Oral Speaker	The Innovative Use of Lamiaceae Extracts in Animal Feeding-Stuffs and Nutritional Supplementations: A Patent-Based Analysis
10:40-10:55	Patricia Cavaleiro Diogo Selected Oral Speaker	New VitaBloom® products range: microalgae combined with probiotics for green water, rotifers nutrition and live feed enrichment
10:55-11:10	Marco Tulio Santos Siqueira Selected Oral Speaker	Effect of totally extruded diets with different roughage:concentrate ratios on the body performance of lambs
11:10-11:25	Karla Alves Oliveira Selected Oral Speaker	Energy metabolites and glycemic curve of sheep fed with different fiber levels in extruded roughage
11:25-11:40	Juan Sebastián Vittone Selected Oral Speaker	Performance of steers with finishing diets with r-zeta® additive to regulate intake
11:40-11:55	Aldo Fraijo-Valenzuela Selected Oral Speaker	Effect of cricket meal on transcriptional response of immune related genes of blue Tilapia (Oreochromis aureus)
11:55-14:00	BREAK

Session B. Animal genetics and genomics

Date: 12 March 2025 (Wednesday)
Time: 14:00 (CET, Basel) | 08:00 (EST, New York) | 21:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time in CET	Speaker	Title
14:00–14:10	Prof. Zissis Mamuris Session Chair	Welcome from the session chair
14:10-14:30	Dr. Marcello Mezzasalma Invited speaker	Chromosome diversification and karyotype evolution in squamate reptiles
14:30-14:50	Dr. Mónica Lopes-Marques Invited speaker	De Novo Variants and Gene Loss in Animals: Unconventional Models for Insights into Genetic Disease
14:50-15:10	Dr. Arianna Manunza Invited Speaker	Correlation Between Livestock Domestication and Human Migration Routes
15:10-15:25	Maria-Anna Kyrgiafini Selected Oral Speaker	Genetic Insights into Thermotolerance: Identifying miRNA Variants Linked to Heat Stress Resilience in Dairy Cows
15:25-15:40	Chiraz Ziadi Selected Oral Speaker	Genetic evaluation with major gene in the Tunisian Barbarine Sheep
15:40-15:55	Sabah Ahmed Abdelmaged Mohammed Selected Oral Speaker	Interspersed repeated elements analysis of Camelus dromedarius lactoferrin gene
15:55-16:10	Telma Esteves Selected Oral Speaker	Effects of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon benzo[k]fluoranthene at two temperatures in 3D-cultured rainbow trout RTL-W1 cells
16:10-16:25	Carlos Arbizu Selected Oral Speaker	Genomic profiling of production traits of the Arequipa fighting cattle in Peru
16:25-16:40	Nora Laseca Selected Oral Speaker	SNP-Based heritability of morphological traits in the Pura Raza Español Horse

IECA 2025 Program (DAY 2)

IECA 2025 Day 2

Session C. Sustainable animal physiology and reproduction

Date: 13 March 2025 (Thursday)
Time: 9:00 (CET, Basel) | 03:00 (EST, New York) | 16:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time in CET	Speaker	Title
9:00–9:10	Dr. Claudia Giannetto Session Chair	Welcome from the session chair
9:10–9:40	Dr. Nucharin Songsasen Keynote speaker	Roles of Reproductive Sciences in Species Conservation
9:40-10:00	Dr. Robert K. Browne Invited speaker	Reproductive and Advanced Biotechnologies, Intergenerational Justice, and Humanities Future
10:00-10:15	Godswill Arinzechukwu Iwuchukwu Selected Oral Speaker	Effect of Light Color during Incubation on Post-hatch Serotonin and Corticosterone Concentration in Gerze Turkish Indigenous Chickens
10:15-10:30	Tariq Sohail Selected Oral Speaker	Single Prostaglandin F2α Injection in Barbari Goats: Ovarian Dynamics and Alterations in the Relationship of Estradiol-17β and Progesterone with Standing Estrus, Preovulatory Follicles, and Ovulation
10:30-10:45	Huan Yang Selected Oral Speaker	Modelling of Mechanistic Systems to Predict and Monitor Animal Health and Production: Case Study of Laying Hens

Session F. Sustainability of products derived from animals

Date: 13 March 2025 (Thursday)
Time: 10:45 (CET, Basel) | 04:45 (EST, New York) | 17:45 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time in CET	Speaker	Title
10:45-10:55	Prof. Dr. Clive J. C. Phillips Event Chair	Welcome from the conference chair
10:55-11:10	Dilek GÖKÇEK Selected Oral Speaker	Gender Effect on Carcass and Meat Quality Characteristics in Gerze Native Chickens
11:10-11:25	Clara Naccari Selected Oral Speaker	Study of toxic and essential metals in honey apiculture and consumers safety
11:25-11:40	Anna Kasprzyk Selected Oral Speaker	Meat quality of red deer (Cervus elaphus) farmed in the organic system
11:40-14:00	Break

Session D. Environmental challenges to animals and precision livestock farming

Date: 13 March 2025 (Thursday)
Time: 14:00 (CET, Basel) | 08:00 (EST, New York) | 21:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time in CET	Speaker	Title
14:00–14:10	Dr. Andrea Pezzuolo Session Chair	Welcome from the session chair
14:10-14:30	Prof. Dr. Thomas Banhazi Invited speaker	The utilisation of smart PLF technologies on commercial livestock farms to record environmental and other relevant parameters for improved management options
14:30-14:50	Prof. Alberto Finzi Invited speaker	Daily trends of emissions and air quality in pig houses with different floor types
14:50-15:10	Dr. Mullakkalparambil Velayudhan Silpa Invited speaker	Skin based NGS approaches to assess climate resilience in goats
15:10-15:25	Chiraz Ziadi Selected Oral Speaker	Comparison of mathematical functions in modelling lactation curves based on automatic milking system records in the Spanish Florida dairy goat
15:25-15:40	Amira A. Goma Selected Oral Speaker	Climate Resilience in Livestock Farming: Egypt Model
15:40-15:55	Karolini de Sousa Selected Oral Speaker	Daily Mean Temperature Humidity Index drives water intake but not visits or duration at water-trough in beef cattle
15:55-16:10	Isis Oliveira Selected Oral Speaker	A neural network to identify the usage of mechanical brushes by dairy cows
16:10-16:25	Andreea Mădălina Ciucă Selected Oral Speaker	Microplastics contamination in European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) from the Romanian Black Sea coast—an emerging environmental threat

IECA 2025 Program (DAY 3)

IECA 2025 Day 3

Session G. One health: Improve Disease Manifestation and Management in Animals, Humans, and the Environment

Date: 14 March 2025 (Friday)
Time: 9:00 (CET, Basel) | 03:00 (EST, New York) | 16:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time in CET	Speaker	Title
09:00-09:10	Prof. Dr. Michael Hässig Session Chair	Welcome from the session chair
09:10–09:40	Dr. Jacques Cabaret Keynote Speaker	Parasites of animal, human and plants: A one health perspective evidenced by dictionary text analysis
09:40-10:00	Dr. Silvia Preziuso Invited speaker	The need for One Health approach for identification of emerging zoonoses: the case of Hepatitis E virus
10:00-10:15	Ethel Ukaegbu Selected Oral Speaker	Strengthening capacity for food surveillance of human pathogenic microsporidian spores on pig farms in Makeni, Sierra Leone
10:15-10:30	Antonio Peña-Fernández Selected Oral Speaker	First detection of human-associated microsporidia species in urban and suburban pigeons in the city of Leicester and surrounding areas, UK
10:30-10:45	Ishika Pal Selected Oral Speaker	Assessment of aquatic arthropod health in terms of heavy metal contamination: using Macrobrachium lamarrei as a representative
10:45-11:00	Farhan Jamil Selected Oral Speaker	Analysing aquatic invertebrate health in terms of Artificial Light at Night (ALAN)
11:00-11:15	Andreia Manuela Vieira Garces Selected Oral Speaker	Collateral Damage: Secondary Exposure to Anticoagulant Rodenticides in European Nocturnal Birds of Prey
11:15-11:30	Gianmarco Ferrara Selected Oral Speaker	Serological and molecular survey of Q fever in the dog population in southern Italy
11:30-11:45	Muhammad Hussain Ghazali Selected Oral Speaker	Mitigating the Impact of Lyme Disease on One Health: A Holistic Approach
11:45-11:50	Break

Session E. Sustainable animal welfare, ethics and human-animal interactions

Date: 14 March 2025 (Friday)
Time: 14:00 (CET, Basel) | 08:00 (EST, New York) | 21:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time in CET	Speaker	Title
14:00–14:10	Prof. Dr. Colin G. Scanes Session Chair	Welcome from the session chair
14:10-14:30	Dr. Zoltan M. Varga Invited speaker	The overlap of the 3Rs of animal welfare and environmental sustainability using zebrafish as a laboratory biomedical species
14:30-14:50	Dr. Linas Balčiauskas Invited speaker	Two sides of roadkill
14:50-15:05	João Pedro Donadio da Silva Pereira Selected Oral Speaker	Rethinking environmental enrichment for dairy calves: improvements for basic biological needs?
15:05-15:20	Inês Laranjeira Selected Oral Speaker	Environmental enrichment, are we doing enough? A systematic review of protocols in rats and mice
15:20-15:35	Moutaz Alhamada Selected Oral Speaker	Development of a Comprehensive Evaluation Grid for Dairy Cow Welfare in Organic Farms
15:35-15:50	Hingryd Olmo Selected Oral Speaker	Gender effects in Brazilian livestock advisors' attitudes toward dairy cattle welfare and cow-calf contact
15:50-16:05	Gary Comstock Selected Oral Speaker	Imagining Other Species’ Pains: Four Challenges