Conferences, workshops, webinars

HoloRuminant representatives will attend conferences, industry days, national and international SR shows, workshops, and webinars. During these events, the latest project developments, progress and results will be presented to the audience.

2025

• 76th EAAP Conference (Innsbruck, Austria, August 25-29, 2025). Holoruminant partners’ presentations:
  • SRUC: “The Milk Microbiome and its Association with Mastitis in Dairy Cattle”.
  • INRAE: “The end of win-win solutions in controlling methane emissions from ruminants? “.
• 33rd CONFERENCE ON Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology / 24th European Conference on Computational Biology. (Liverpool, UK, July 21st, 2025). QUB presented: “Secrets in the Sewers – Revealing SARS-CoV-2’s hidden diversity in Northern Irish wastewater”.
• 19th International Conference of Production Diseases in Farm Animals (ICPD2025). (KuLeuven, Belgium, July 8-11, 2025). LUKE  presented: “Response of Primary Mammary Epithelial Cells to Pathogen Challenge in Dairy Cows with Divergent Genomic Breeding Values for Udder Health”.

• British Mastitis Conference 2025. SCRUC presented “The Milk Microbiome and its Association with Mastitis in Dairy Cattle” on June 18th, 2025, in Worcester, UK.

• 2024 QUB School of Biological Sciences PhD Student Symposium (Belfast, UK, June 16th, 2025). QUB presented: “Secrets in the Sewers – Revealing SARS-CoV-2’s hidden diversity in Northern Irish wastewater”.
• 14th International Gut Microbiology Symposium (Clermont-Ferrand, France, June 3rd, 2025).
• INRAE presented: “Dynamics of rumen bacterial guilds in lambs from birth to finish are affected by the absence of dams in the suckling period”.
• CSIC presented:
  • “Effects of feed additives supplementation on rumen bacterial diversity and composition in calves during pre- and postweaning.”
  • Poster version
• SRUC  South and West Seminar Series (Dumfries, UK/Online, April 25th, 2025).
• British Society of Animal Science Annual Conference 2025 (Golway, Ireland, April 15, 2025).Presentation: “Identification of the core microbiota of bovine colostrum collected fresh from the dam” by Sabine Scully (TEAGASC).
• SRUC PGR Conference 2025. SCRUC presented “The Milk Microbiome and its Association with Mastitis in Dairy Cattle” on April 2-3, 2025, in Edinburgh, UK.
• II Meeting Andalucía AGRO HUB (Granada, Spain, March 11, 2025). CSIC presented: “Effects of feed additives on blood parameters and rumen microbial fermentation in male dairy beef calves pre- and post-weaning.”

2024

• Virtual Institute of Bioinformatics and Evolution (VIBE) and Irish Computational Biology and Genomics (ICBG) Conference 2024. (Galway, Ireland, December 12, 2024). QUB presented: “Secrets in the Sewers – Revealing SARS-CoV-2’s hidden diversity in Northern Irish wastewater”.
• 13th Session of the Intergovernmental Technical Working Group (ITWG) on Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Rome, Italy, November 20, 2024). EFFAB presented the HoloRuminant project at FAO Head Quarters.
• Hannah Dairy Research Conference 2024: Next Generation Data-Led Dairying.  SRUC presented: “Comparative analysis of shed and external ambient temperature and humidity data on mastitis incidence in housed dairy cattle” on November 18-19, 2024, in Edinmburh, UK.
• III Jornada de la Juventud Investigadora (III Young Researchers’ Day EEZ) (Granada, Spain, October 17, 2024). CSIC presented: “Effects of long transportation of male dairy beef calves and feed additives on physiological status and rumen microbial fermentation pre- and postweaning.”
• British Society of Animal Science Annual Conference 2024 (Belfast, UK, October 4, 2024).Presentation: The faecal microbiota during the pre-weaning period and its relationship with diarrhoea, health and performance in dairy heifer calves by Sabine Scully (TEAGASC).
• 75th EAAP Conference (Florence, Italy, 1-5 September 2024).
  • Reduced alpha-diversity of bacteria in refrigerated compared to non-refrigerated colostrum from prim and multiparous dairy cows presented by Sabine Scully (TEAGASC).
  • Ruminant microbiome data are skewed and unFAIR, undermining their usefulness for improving sustainable production by Abimael Ortiz et al. (INRAE).
• TEAGASC Grange BEEF Open Day 2024 – (Dunsany – June 26, 2024) – TEAGASC presented: Calf Health and the Microbiome
• One Health: challenges for food safety Conference (online, June 19, 2024). Presentation: Genes and pathways revealed by Escherichia coli challenge of milk-derived bovine mammary epithelial cells (LUKE).
• British Mastitis Conference 2024. SCRUC presented “Freezer storage impact on clinical mastitis culture results” on June 12th, 2024, in Worcester, UK.
• Second Skill Development webinar: PigWeb and HoloRuminant’s Collaborative webinar series organized by EFFAB (April 24, 2024).
• Rencontres Recherche Ruminants (Paris, France, April 12, 2024). IDELE presentation “Microbiota and livestock farming – Perceptions of consumers, farmers, veterinarians and advisors from different European countries and acceptability of new farming practices.”.
• 2024 Congress on Gastrointestinal Function (University of Illinois, USA, April 8-10, 2024). Presentation: Extracellular electron transfer in the rumen ecosystem is stimulated by conductive materials by the INRAE team.
• SRUC PGR Conference 2024. SCRUC presented “Freezer storage impact on clinical mastitis culture results” on April 3-4, 2024, in Edinburgh, UK.
• I Meeting Andalucía AGRO HUB (Malaga, Spain, March 11, 2024). CSIC poster “Effects of using feed additives on rumen fermentation parameters and microbial populations in pre- and postweaning calves”.
• IDELE – Methane 2030 online meeting, presentation of results from consumers survey and focus groups. (February 23, 2024).
• SEMiPyP XV Workshop (Sevilla, Spain, February 21, 2024). CSIC poster – “Efecto del uso de aditivos nutricionales sobre parámetros de fermentación ruminal y desarrollo de poblaciones microbianas en terneros mamones pre y posdestete” (“Effect of the use of nutritional additives on rumen fermentation parameters and development of microbial populations in pre- and post-weaning suckling calves.)
• First Skill Development webinar: PigWeb and HoloRuminant’s Collaborative webinar series organized by EFFAB (February 1, 2024).

2023

• Hannah Dairy Research Conference 2023: Next Generation Data-Led Dairying.  SRUC presented: “The impact of freezer temperature, storage duration, and glycerol cryoprotectant usage on clinical mastitis culture results” on November 20-21, 2023, in Edinburgh, UK.
• Puy de la recherche (November 7-8, 2023)- INRAE presentation: “Origine: microbiote ruminal et diarrhée“.
• II Jornada de la Juventud Investigadora (II Young Researchers’ Day EEZ) – (Granada, Spain, October 18, 2023). CSIC presentation – “Impacto del transporte y la suplementación nutricional en terneros mamones en una granja del norte de España” (“Impact of transport and nutritional supplementation on suckling calves on a farm in northern Spain”).
• Third Joint Dissemination Network webinar – organized by EFFAB (October 3, 2023).
• Second Joint Dissemination Network webinar – organized by EFFAB (September 19, 2023).
• First Joint Dissemination Network webinar – organized by EFFAB (September 5, 2023).
• 74th EAAP Conference, Lyon. EuroFAANG dedicated session was held on August 31, 2023. Yuliaxis Ramayo-Caldas (IRTA) presented on behalf of HoloRuminant The genetic basis of ruminant microbiomes – contribution of the HoloRuminant project
• 74th EAAP Conference, Lyon, France. HoloRuminant dedicated session was held on August 30, 2023.
  • Theatres
    • • HoloRuminant – Understanding microbiomes of the ruminant holobiont presented by the project coordinator Diego Morgavi (INRAE)
      • Differential effects of Ostertagia ostertagi vaccination and infection on the rumen microbiome presented by Joana Lima (SRUC).
      • Stakeholders views regarding new practices to control microbiomes presented by Jarkko Niemi (LUKE).
      • Relationship between feed efficiency and rumen microbiota in feedlot bulls fed contrasting diets presented by Abimael Ortiz-Chura (INRAE).
      • Effect of colostrum source and calf breed on diarrhoea incidents in pre-weaned dairy calves presented by Sabine Scully (TEAGASC).
      • Upper respiratory tract microbiota of dairy calves experimentally challenged with BRSV presented by Stephanie O’Donoghue (TEAGASC).
  • Posters
    • • Temporal establishment of the colon microbiota in Angus calves from birth to post-weaning poster presented by Michelle Stafford (TEAGASC). A video presentation of the poster is also available here.
      • Rumen metabolites of periparturient dairy cows varying in SARA susceptibility modify bacterial composition and fermentation poster presented by Jeyamalar Jeyanathan (UGENT).
      • An experimental approach for assessing casual microbes in early life diarrhoea in lambs poster presented by Laurianne Voland (INRAE).

• XX Jornadas sobre Producción Animal (XX Conference on Animal Production), from Asociación Interprofesional para el Desarrollo Agrario (AIDA) (Zaragoza, Spain, June 13, 2023). CSIC presentation – “Estudio del efecto del transporte sobre parámetros sanguíneos en terneros mamones” (“Study of the effect of transport on blood parameters in suckling calves”).
• British Mastitis Conference 2023. SCRUC presented “Mastitis in the Langhill herd: What can we learn from the world’s longest dairy genetics trial?” on June 14th, 2023, in Worcester, UK.
• 13th International Gut Microbiology Symposium Rowett-INRAE.  (Aberdeen, Scotland, June 13, 2023). CSIC poster – “Effect of using different feed additives on rumen fermentation of dairy beef calves pre and post-weaning”.
• MoorePark Dairy Open Day 2023 (Fermoy, Ireland, April 7, 2023). TEAGASC presented:
  • Microbiomes, Sustainability & Health
  • Holoruminant: Understanding the rumen microbial colonization of calves and its impact on performance. (page 206).
  • Calf diarrhoea- prevention and the role of microbes (see peer-reviewed publications).
• 19éme Rencontre des Microbiologistes du Pôle Clermontois (April 5, 2023)- INRAE presentation: “Calf rearing in dairy farms: at the crossroads between microbial transmission and welfare“.
• CLIMAT AmSud webinar was held on March 31, 2023. INRAE presented “Usefulness of the Consecutive Batch Culture technique for testing the antimethanogenic potential of some additives”.
• University College of Cork workshop was held on March 24, 2023. TEAGASC presented “The role of microbiomes in the health, welfare and productive performance of beef and dairy cattle”.
• SRUC PGR Conference 2023. SCRUC presented “Exploring the Milk Microbiome and its Impact on Mastitis Susceptibility and Inflammatory Responses in Dairy Cattle” on March 21-22, 2023, in Edinburgh, UK.
• SRUC Postgraduate Conference was held on March 21, 2023. SRUC presented “Exploring the Milk Microbiome and its Impact on Mastitis Susceptibility and Inflammatory Responses in Dairy Cattle”.
• Annual workshop for the CSIRO Future Science Program: Microbiomes for One System Health, was held on March 2nd, 2023, in Adelaide. NMBU attended the workshop.
• SRUC  South and West Seminar Series (Online, February 28th, 2023).
• Dairy Research Centre & Digital Dairy Chain introductions event was held on February 2nd, 2023. SRUC presented “The HoloRuminant Project”.

2022

• A joint meeting of the Australian Centre for Ecogenomics and Centre for Microbiome Research was held on December 2nd, 2023 in Brisbane, Australia. NMBU attended the meeting.
• The Australian Microbial Ecology Conference was held on November 7-9, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia. NMBU presented “Grazed and confused: the complex feeding habits of our gut microbes”.
• Nature Conference Biofilms and Microbiomes: Global Impact on Public and Ecosystem Health, was held virtually on October 11-13, 2023. NMBU attended the conference.
• Applied Hologenomics Conference was held in Bilbao, Spain, on September 2022. EFFAB attended the conference.
• ISEP 2022 was held in Granada, Spain, on September 12-15, 2022. INRAE presented “Reducing enteric methane emissions improves energy metabolism in livestock: is the tenet right?”.
• AVTRW Conference (The Association of Veterinary Teaching and Research Work) was held in Ireland, on October 7, 2022. TEAGASC presented a poster titled: “An observational study to assess incidence of dairy calf diarrhea and subsequent recovery”.
• SRUC South and West Faculty Seminars were held on June 20, 2022. SRUC presented “HoloRuminant Overview”
• FASEB Microbial Glycobiology Conference was held on June 12-16, 2023, in Lisbon, Portugal. NMBU attended the conference.
• GGAA 2022 was held in Orlando, USA on June 5-10, 2022. INRAE presented “Conductive materials stimulate ruminal methanogenesis and induce microbial changes indicative of improved electron transfer”.
• The Congress of Gastrointestinal Function (Digitial event) was held on April 13, 2022. NMBU presented “Digital optimization of the feed-microbiome-host nexus”.