Date and time:
September 14, 2021,
at 14:00-15:30 CEST
Join us for the grand opening of Trouw Nutrition's new, state-of-the-art poultry research facility in Spain
From the highest mountain peaks to the deepest desert canyons and beyond, Trouw Nutrition has a presence in 105 countries. That’s why we need to be sure that our solutions work for customers around the globe.
Our Poultry Research Centre in Spain is helping us do this, by leading the change towards more sustainable poultry farming production methods. Our new Nutrition and Health facility within this centre has state-of-the-art climate-control systems that let us simulate any farm condition from around the globe.
You’re invited to attend our exclusive launch of Trouw Nutrition’s new poultry Nutrition and Health research facility in Spain and see for yourself how we make sure every solution that Trouw Nutrition develops and brings to the market, is thoroughly tested and validated! The exclusive opening event organised around the theme “The Feed, Farm, Health approach for smart and profitable antibiotic reduction” will bring together customers, colleagues, and academia from every corner of the world.
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Integrated and science-based solutions for antibiotic reduction
In 2016, 700,000 people globally died from diseases that couldn't be treated anymore due to antibiotic resistance and estimates say this could grow to 10 million by 2050 if we don’t solve this urgent challenge. At Trouw Nutrition, we empower our customers to reduce the need for antibiotics by supporting animal health. Research has shown that with an integrated approach to Feed, Farm, Health – management farmers can realise at least equal or improved animal health, welfare and profitability. Trouw Nutrition has done more than a decade of research and testing on health-supporting nutritional concepts and their effect on microbiota composition and gut integrity. Our R&D department conducts more than 150 global studies annually at our in-house research facilities and in collaboration with over 100 global research partners to develop nutritional products, models, and services to address this and other challenges.
Our new poultry research facility builds on our commitment to finding new methods to grow healthy animals without the use of antibiotics, in partnership with our customers and others in the industry. Antibiotic reduction requires a holistic, multidisciplinary, and multi-stakeholder approach in both human and animal health management.
Agenda of the event
At the event, moderated by prof.dr.ir. Leo den Hartog – R&D Director of Nutreco and part-time professor in Animal Nutrition in Circular Economy at Wageningen University, the Netherlands - you will hear from experts who will address the theme of antibiotic reduction from a scientific, commercial, and practical point of view:
- Silke Birlenbach, Head of Global Innovation Trouw Nutrition will speak on the power of innovation and the importance of a holistic, multidisciplinary, and multi-stakeholder approach to tackle antibiotic reduction.
- SCIENCE
- Filip van Immerseel, Professor at the Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Ghent University, Belgium will share his expertise on the importance of dysbacteriosis control to reduce the use of antibiotics in field conditions
- COMMERCIAL
- Barbara Brutsaert, global programme manager poutry health Trouw Nutrition will speak on translating the science of antibiotic reduction into a tangible Trouw Nutrition strategy to reduce antibiotics in poultry production.
- PRACTICAL
- Jose Maria Diez Gata, Director SADA (poultry integrator in Spain): SADA has already proven in the field the success of a holistic approach to reduce antibiotics in broiler production and will tell us how they did it.
- Ana Isabel Garcia Ruiz, Research Manager Poultry will explain the unique details of the new unit, give the closing address and lead the official countdown to open our newest R&D facility.
If you would like to attend this exciting event, please sign up via your Trouw Nutrition representative or contact us!
Get to know our speakers
Leo den Hartog
Prof.dr.ir. Leo den Hartog is director of R&D at Nutreco and part-time professor in Animal Nutrition in Circular Economy at Wageningen University. It was from this same university that Den Hartog graduated in Animal Sciences in 1978 and where he obtained his PhD on the relationship between nutrition and fertility in gilts and sows in 1984.
In 1989, Den Hartog received the Henneberg Lehmann Award from the University of Göttingen, Germany. In 1999, he accepted an honorary PhD from the University of Kaposvar, Hungary. In 2014, he was granted the Molenaar Award from the Animal Nutrition magazine in The Netherlands and Belgium. This award is granted every two years to a person for his or her contribution to the animal feed and additive industry.
Den Hartog’s extensive experience in animal production is reflected in over 450 scientific and applied articles and seven books as author or co-author. To date, he has given more than 750 lectures in over 40 different countries. He has also been chairman of Dutch trade missions on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality to China, Taiwan, South Korea, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and South Africa.
Silke Birlenbach
Dr. Silke Birlenbach became the Director of Global Innovation as of January 4th, 2021. She succeeded in this role to Saskia Korink, Trouw Nutrition CEO and joined Trouw Nutrition Leadership Team, based in Amersfoort, the Netherlands.
Dr. Birlenbach holds degrees in cell biology and veterinary physiology from Harvard University and Kansas State University, respectively, and a doctorate in veterinary medicine from Justus-Liebig University. She brings with her a wealth of experience from the Animal Health and Pharma industries as well as consulting with McKinsey&Co. Having worked internationally, Dr. Birlenbach has built a track record in transforming & growing businesses and driving strategic marketing & innovation.
Filip van Immerseel
Filip Van Immerseel received a Master in Bio-engineering Sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) in 1999, and a Master in Laboratory Animal Sciences at Ghent University in 2004. He received a PhD in Veterinary Medical Sciences at Ghent University in 2004, studying intestinal immune cell infiltration after Salmonella infection of chickens, and environmental triggers in the gut that influence Salmonella invasion. After a post-doc period, he was appointed as Research Professor by Ghent University in 2008. Currently he is Professor at the Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Ghent University in Belgium and is head of a research group that studies host-bacterium interactions. Filip Van Immerseel currently has more than 170 scientific papers in international peer-reviewed journals, has written book chapters and edited books on Salmonella and Clostridium perfringens and is a well-known speaker at international events. He is editor of the journal Avian Pathology and involved in many international collaborative research networks. He jointly established the Poultry Health Sciences Chair, part of a strategic cooperation between fundamental and applied research.
Barbara Brutsaert
Barbara Brutsaert is Global Programme Manager Poultry Health . Ms. Brutsaert holds a DVM in Veterinary Medicine cum laude from the University of Ghent in Belgium. She has extensive experience in the animal health and feed industry since 1999 and worked the first years as an independent vet in animal husbandry and for a multinational pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson. Three years before antibiotics were banned as growth promotors in Europe, she switched in 2003 as a vet from a pharma company to a nutritional company (Nutreco) confident the future is more in total approach, incl. nutrition, than drugs.
Ms. Brutsaert’s career with Trouw Nutrition has spanned a number of international management roles in feed additives, premix and nutrition, in TN Benelux and global. She empowerd to implement antibiotic reduction programmes at several customers worldwide and authored a number of articles on gut health for industry publications. Her principal area of interest is ensuring that the gut remains healthy while reducing the need for antibiotics with at least equal, or improved, animal health, welfare and profitability.
José María Díez Gata
Since 1992, José María Díez Gata is the national and regional (Andalucia) director of Sada group, poultry integrator in Spain. His responsibilities include the industrial production department and the commercialization of chicken meat products and managing multidisciplinary teams within Sada group, Spain. He has close contact with technical and commercial teams; as well as communication with other departments and third companies within the area.
José María Díez Gata holds a bacholor degree in Med veterinary at the University of Cordoba and a Master's in Agriculture-food business administration at the San Telmo Institute, Seville. To broaden his horizon he participated in the Avian poultry pathology international seminar at Georgia University, USA.
He brings a wealth of experience, as his career started in 1978 at Nanta as Poultry Technical Services, where he was responsible for breeder production systems, hatcheries and fattening farms; production and animal health. In 1992 he took a role as Director of Sada Poultry Integrator, where he took over the organization of production, planning and overseeing budgets and multi-annual plans, as well as the requesting and oversee investments on improving the production facilities.
Ana Isabel Garcia Ruiz
Dr. Ana Isabel Garcia Ruiz is the director of poultry R&D at Trouw Nutrition. She was graduated in Agricultural Engineering in the Polytechnic University of Madrid and it was there where she obtained her PhD in Animal Nutrition on nitrogen feeding system in rabbits and received the Extraordinary Award of Doctorate for her PhD.
She joined the Nutreco group in 2001 as a poultry researcher and since then she has always been linked to the R&D department occupying different positions. From 2004 to 2011 she worked as researcher for rabbit nutrition and farming projects in close collaboration with Nanta's technical and commercial team. In 2011 she started a new period in the Netherlands (Boxmeer), where she worked as swine researcher for 3 years. In 2014, she returned to the poultry research center to lead the team as poultry R&D director.
Throughout her professional career, she has participated in numerous national and international research projects and has co-directed master's and doctorate projects. She has published more than 90 scientific papers in national and international peer-review journals, commercial magazines as well as communications and presentations at different conferences and scientific forums on animal nutrition.
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