NEWS

We are pleased to inform you that a limited number of places are still available for the ASPA Congress dinner, which will take place in the prestigious setting of the Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi, a magnificent example of Baroque architecture located just outside Turin.
This exclusive event will offer participants the opportunity to enjoy an elegant evening in a remarkable historical venue, accompanied by fine cuisine and excellent company.
We warmly invite you to register and secure your place within 16th June 2025, at noon.

Dinner fee: 100,00 € – Register here

Please note that after this date, registration for the dinner will be closed.

A course in text mining and topic analysis, reserved for 50 young people (under 35), is scheduled on 16th June from 2 to 6 pm and on 17th June from 9 am to 1 pm, at the AGROVET Campus, Room SAMEV 5.
Hold by Dr. Barbara Contiero, in this course, you will learn how to apply advanced techniques in text mining and topic analysis to scientific research. More info here

We are pleased to announce that, thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, the text mining course scheduled for June 16th and 17th will be free of charge. Participants who have already registered and paid the fee will receive a refund. A few spots are still available (up to a total of 50 participants). To register, please send an email to riccardo.moretti@unito.it with the following details: Name and Surname, Affiliation, email address.

To promote and stimulate young researchers, the Animal Science and Production Association (ASPA), in collaboration with Italian Journal of Animal Science (IJAS), and with the economic support of the organizing committee of ASPA 2025 Congress of Torino, organizes the fourth edition of the ASPA Young Researchers Competition – “Best Oral Communication”, with the aim to select the best 7 abstracts presented as oral communication, and the fourth edition of the ASPA Young Researchers Competition – “Best Poster” for the 7 best posters, at the next 26th ASPA Congress that will be held in Torino (June, 17th to 20th 2025).

To participate in the competition, the applicants must fill in the form downloadable here and send it, by e-mail, within 6th of June at the following address: aspa2025@unito.it

Click here for the complete regulation

WINNERS FOR BEST ORAL COMMUNICATION COMPETITION
Piera Iommelli – Fennel seed powder in the diet of dairy buffalo affects milk VOCs profile, antioxidant activity and SCD1 mRNA level
Martina Bordini – Gene expression analysis of Collagen type III coding gene in chicken breast muscles affected by wooden breast condition
Viviana Floridia – Genetic characteristics for a breed standard definition of the Maltese Hunting Dog (Kelb tal-Kaċċa ta’ Malta)
Claudia Giannone – Preliminary analyses on the identification of horse behaviors using deep learning techniques
Daniele Colombi – Multi-breed genomic predictions for average daily gain in three Italian beef cattle breeds
Lorenzo Nompleggio – Effect of kinetic activity on behaviour and productive performance of different chicken genotypes
Rebecca El Hawat – Terpene transfer from hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) and savory (Satureja hortensis L.) to milk of dairy cows supplemented with fresh leaves

WINNERS FOR BEST POSTER COMPETITION
Chiara Rossi – Enteric methane emissions in organic Brown Swiss cows
Andrea Confessore – Virtual Fencing and Remote Sensing: Improve the herd management of dairy cows on alpine pasture
Matteo Zarantonieli – Reducing food losses by developing an automated hatching system prototype for early stage embryos of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
Gabriele Rocchetti – Untargeted metabolomic analysis of heat stress response in indicine and taurine cattle
Drishti Sarkar – Dynamics of greenhouse gases in central Italian meadows: a high-resolution analysis using LI-COR gas analyzers
Michela Errico – High throughput UHPLC-HRMS method for the detection of purines derivatives as biomarkers of nitrogen efficiency in dairy cows
Gianluca Pugliese – Red lentil screening by-product inclusion in rabbit diet: effects in growth traits, meat quality and gut health