The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Animals
The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Animals
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Animals series
Event's Timezone: Central European Time
27th November 2024
27th December 2024
7th March 2025
Farm Animals, Companion Animals, Zoo Animals, Wildlife, Aquatic Animals
IECA2025 Abstract Submission Deadline Extension to 27 November 2024
Share your research and connect with the scientific community.
Submit your abstract before 27 November 2024 to be considered for presentation and publication.
Accepted abstracts are eligible for publication in a Special Issue of Animals (ISSN: 2076-2615, Impact Factor 2.7), with a 10% discount on the publication fee.
Additionally, if you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (4-8 pages), please submit it to the Biology and Life Sciences Forum (ISSN: 2673-9976).
For more information, please visit the Publication Opportunity section.
Register for free here: https://sciforum.net/event/IECA2025?section=#registration
Welcome from the Chairs
It is with great enthusiasm that we announce the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Animals (IECA 2025). The conference is organized by the MDPI open access journal Animals (ISSN: 2076-2615; Impact Factor: 2.7) and will be held online from 12 to 14 March 2025.
On behalf of the Conference Chairs for IECA 2025, I invite you to participate in this important meeting. Animals face unprecedented challenges worldwide, including declining genetic diversity, climate change, pollution, and intensive production systems, to name but a few. The main topics and sessions of the conference are as follows:
- Sustainable animal nutrition;
- Animal genetics and genomics;
- Sustainable animal physiology and reproduction;
- Environmental challenges to animals and precision livestock farming;
- Sustainable animal welfare, ethics and human–animal interactions;
- Sustainability of products derived from animals;
- One health: improve disease manifestation and management in animals, humans, and the environment.
All the accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
Please join in the discussion about how we can care for the planet's animal heritage better. You cannot afford to miss this conference!
Kind regards,
Conference Chairs
Prof. Dr. Clive J. C. Phillips
Prof. Dr. Colin G. Scanes
Prof. Dr. Michael Hässig
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Event Chairs
Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia,
Curtin University Sustainability Policy (CUSP) Institute, Australia
Clive Phillips was Australia’s first Professor of Animal Welfare, at the University of Queensland, and foundation director of the Centre for Animal Welfare and Ethics. His PhD focused on dairy cow nutrition and behaviour. He was previously a lecturer at the Universities of Cambridge and Wales. He has authored about 400 scientific journal articles on the welfare of farm, zoo and companion animals, animal nutrition, transport and production. His books include Principles of Cattle Production, The Animal Trade and The Welfare of Animals - the Silent Majority. He recently co-edited the Routledge Handbook in Animal Welfare. Clive chairs the Queensland and Western Australian Governments’ Animal Welfare Boards, is editor-in-chief of the journal Animals and Springer’s Animal Welfare book series. His interview series, ‘Conversations with Clive’ can be found at https://tinybeamfund.org/Conversations-With-Clive
Colin Scanes was educated in the UK - B.Sc (1st class honours), D.Sc. (University of Hull), Ph.D. (University of Wales). He has published 21 books, 108 reviews/chapters, & 304 refereed papers. He has held faculty/administrative positions at the University of Leeds (UK), Rutgers University (professor/department chair), Iowa State University (professor/executive associate dean), Mississippi State University (professor/Vice president research) and University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (professor/vice chancellor research). He is presently president (Scanes Technology & Research llc. consulting for industry, NGOs and governments). He has received awards for teaching, research and contributions to agriculture (e.g. Honorary doctorate, University for Agriculture, Krakow).
Department for Farm Animals, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Michael Hässig was a professor at Vetsuisse Faculty, the University of Zurich. His main scientific interests are the etiology of bovine abortion, especially infectious etiology, basics on immunology related to abortion and the perinatal time, epidemiological studies and herd problems. Personal additional scientific projects include influence of NIR on bovine health; adverse effects after vaccination; GIS in clinical epidemiology. He is an Expert to the federal commission of the parliament for animal protection, is the Section Editor-in-Chief of "Animal Physiology" in Animals. He has authored about 268 publications and published 54 scientific journal articles as the first author.
Session Chairs
Dr. Elisabete Matos
CiiEM - Egas Moniz Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Egas Moniz School of Health and Science, Portugal
Prof. Zissis Mamuris
Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Thessaly, Greece
Dr. Claudia Giannetto
Department of veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Polo Universitario dell'Annunziata, Italy
Dr. Andrea Pezzuolo
Università degli Studi di Padova, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, Italy
Prof. Dr. Xinxia Wang
Key Laboratory of Animal Feed and Nutrition of Zhejiang Province, College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, China
Prof. Dr. Michael Hässig
Department for Farm Animals, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Event Committee
Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Science, University of Messina, Italy
ecotoxicology; heavy metals; mycotoxins; biochemistry; inflammation; biotechnology
Centre de Sant Carles de la Ràpita (IRTA-SCR), Institut de Recerca i Tecnologìa Agroalimentaries (IRTA), Spain
fish; nutrition; digestive physiology; functional feeds
immunity; inflammation; H-M interactions; epigenetics; teleost; zebrafish
Animal Health and Welfare Group, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK
animal health; animal welfare; animal behaviour; veterinary science; farm animals; aquatic animals; animal paleopathology; zooarchaeology
Key Laboratory of Aquatic Nutrition and Feed Science of Jiangsu Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, China
aquaculture nutrition; feed science; intermediary metabolism; mitochondria; molecular biology
herpetology; assisted reproductive technologies; endocrinology; cryobiology; biobanking; evolutionary ecology; sustainable management; conservation breeding programs; biodiversity; space colonisation
Swine and Poultry Infectious Diseases Research Center (CRIPA), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada
porcine viruses; coronaviruses; vaccines; PEDV; PRRSC; mink viruses; antivirals
Agriculture and Environment Department, Harper Adams University, Newport TF10 8NB, UK
dairy cow; follicle; oestrus; calf; growth; health; endocrine; ultrasound
egg; sperm; fertilization; embryology; genetics; zebrafish (Danio rerio); fish; biomedical research; cryopreservation; cryobanking; (aquatic) animal husbandry; animal welfare in research
Institute of Animal Health and Food Safety, Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35413 Arucas, Spain
nutrition and lactation physiology; colostrum feeding and immune system development; mammary gland physiology; metabolic diseases; ruminal acidosis; ketosis; hypocalcemia; novel proteomics approaches; dairy cows; newborn ruminants; sheep; goats
Center for Species Survival, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, 1500 Remount Rd., Front Royal, VA 22630, USA
assisted reproductive technology; ovarian follicle development; reproductive endocrinology; wildlife conservation; cryopreservation
veterinary ethology; animal welfare; animal behaviour; small animals; veterinary internal medicine
hoofed, semi-aquatic, carnivore and small mammal ecology; threatened and invasive mammal species; large carnivores; spatial distribution; population management and computer modeling; biodiversity and ecological diversity
Laboratory of Nutritional Physiology and Feeding, Department of Animal Science, School of Animal Biosciences, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
nutritional physiology; natural antioxidants; molecular metabolism; bioactive compounds; oxidation mechanisms; antioxidants; prevention of oxidation; functional peptides; antioxidant markers; circular economy; Immune-oxidative status
Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Science, University of Calabria, Via P. Bucci 4/B, 87036 Rende, Italy
amphibian; reptiles; evolution; cytogenetics; morphology; phylogenetics; biogeography
meat production; fresh and processed meat quality; preservation; shelf life; sensory
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia
Sensor developments, machine vision, data analysis/modelling, artificial intelligence, environment/climate management, environmental sustainability, emission reduction from livestock farms, ventilation control, manure/odour management, general livestock m
Keynote Speakers
Associated Laboratory for Green Chemistry (LAQV), Network of Chemistry and Technology (REQUIMTE), Department of Veterinary Clinics, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (ICBAS), University of Porto, Portugal
New Functional Protein Sources for Dog Foods: A Sustainable Approach
nutrition and feeding; livestock; companion animals; feed evaluation; feed efficiency; environmental impact; circular economy
Invited Speakers
infectious diseases of animals; small ruminants; zoonosis
Sessions
B. Animal genetics and genomics
C. Sustainable animal physiology and reproduction
D. Environmental challenges to animals and precision livestock farming
E. Sustainable animal welfare, ethics and human-animal interactions
F. Sustainability of products derived from animals
G. One health - improve the disease manifestation and management in animals, humans and environment
Registration
The registration for IECA 2025 will be free of charge! The registration includes attendance to all conference sessions.
If you are registering several people under the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.
Please note that the submission and registration are two separate parts. Only scholars who registered can receive a link to access the conference live streaming. The deadline for registration is 7 March 2025.
Instructions for Authors
The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Animals will accept abstracts only. The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
1. Deadline for abstract submission: 13 November 2024.
2. Deadline for abstract acceptance notification: 13 December 2024. You will be notified by 20 January 2025 in a separate email about whether your contribution has been accepted for a poster presentation or an oral presentation via the platform Zoom.
Abstract submissions should be completed online by registering with www.sciforum.net and using the "New Submission" function once logged into the system. No physical template is necessary.
1. The structure abstract should include the introduction, methods, results, and conclusions sections of about 200–300 words in length.
2. All abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
3. You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
Detailed Requirements:
1. The submitting author must ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
2. Please select only one presenter for each submission. If you would like to change the presenter after submission, please email us accordingly.
Note: We only accept live presentations.
b. File format: PDF (.pdf).
c. Size in cm: 60 width x 80 height–portrait orientation.
d. Font size: ≥20.
e. Maximum size: 250 M
Authors who wish to present a poster are invited to send it to the conference email at ieca2025@mdpi.com. All posters will be permanently exhibited online in the Poster Gallery.
It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflicts of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Any financial support for the study must be fully disclosed in the "Acknowledgments" section.
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.
Publication Opportunity
1. Animals Journal Publication
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to a Special Issue published in Animals (ISSN: 2076-2615, Impact Factor 2.7), with a 10% discount on the publication fee. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.
Please note if you have IOAP/association discounts, conference discounts will be combined with IOAP/association discounts. Conference discounts cannot be combined with reviewer vouchers.
2. Proceeding Paper Publication
All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of IECA 2025 in Biology and Life Sciences Forum (ISSN: 2673-9976); if you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (4-8 pages), please submit it to the same journal after the conference.
Authors are asked to disclose that it is a proceeding paper of the IECA 2025 conference paper in their cover letter.
Proceedings submission deadline: 28 April 2025
Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal’s website and ensure that your submission adheres to these guidelines.
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Full author names.
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Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses.
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Abstract.
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Keywords.
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Introduction.
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Methods.
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Results and Discussion.
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Conclusions.
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Acknowledgements.
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References.
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Event Awards
To acknowledge the support of the conference's esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to announce that the conference will provide six awards including Best Oral Presentation Awards and Best Poster Awards.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 6
The Best Oral Presentation Awards are given to the submission judged to make the most significant oral contribution to the conference.
The Best Poster Awards are given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting poster for the conference.
There will be six winners selected for these awards. The winner will receive a certificate and 200 CHF each.
Sponsors and Partners
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