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May 11, 2023

Conference sessions from the World Nutrition Forum 2023

Over 800 delegates from all around the world met at this unique event to discuss forefront topics of modern agriculture as well as upcoming trends and challenges. The renowned, biannual conference is proudly hosted and sponsored by DSM.

The need for a sustainable approach to animal production is becoming more apparent in our world today. Improvements in health, food security and safety are taking place in the context of dwindling resources, increasing affluence, and the responsibility of producers to adopt business practices that are environmentally sound.

Interactions between the diet microbiota-immunometabolic  axis and foodborne pathogens  in the poultry intestine Michael Kogut 

When colonising the gut, bacteria must overcome barriers  imposed by the intestinal environment. Understanding bacterial colonisation requires knowledge of the inter action between landscape and microbes attempting to establish themselves.  

For example, paratyphoid Salmonella in chickens have evolved a unique survival strategy in poultry that minimises host defences (disease resistance) during the initial infection and then exploits and induces a dramatic immunometabolic reprogramming that alters the host defence to disease tolerance. The impact of diet on the gut ecosystem and improved disease resistance has been demonstrated.  


Metagenomic discovery enables precision characterisation of microbiomes - Mick Watson 

Using metagenomics not only can we discover novel species, but also which enzymes and pathways their genomes encode.  

With previously unknown metagenomics data, the creation of highly accurate genome catalogues to further  investigate the relationship between the microbiome and traits of interest to food producers is possible.


Gut microbiome precision  service: from chaos to insights Bertrand Grenier and Maia Segura-Wang 

A constantly growing collection of gut microbiome data  and metadata information can be used to reveal micro biome-host relationships affecting animal health and  performance, paving the way for generating actionable  insights related to health and antimicrobial resistance in commercial operations.


Blood talks: signatures, patterns and themes revealed by big data analysis of biomarkers from commercial broiler chickens Aaron Cowieson 

In precision farming, the metabolite profile of blood is plastic to changes in the animal’s nutrition and health status and as such is a highly valuable biological matrix. Value can only be realised from blood biomarker data when there is a clear understanding of normal ranges, and data is analyzed and presented in such a way to enable decision making. Even then, machine learning with embedded artificial intelligence is necessary to monitor, predict and diagnose the nutrition and health status of production livestock. 


Impact of mycotoxins on health and nutrition Todd Applegate

Often, livestock and poultry producers consider mycotoxin detection and mitigation strategies as risk management, with mitigation strategies considered a form of ‘insurance’. While productivity losses due to exposure are difficult to predict, there are ways data can aid decision making. Data provides a prediction of the productivity loss across a range of mycotoxins alone, and in combination. Additionally, data on nutrient and energy digestibility losses to the animal aide in a mitigation return-on-investment calculation. 


Mycotoxins‘ dirty tricks revealed Veronika Nagl  

Omics and other technologies have unravelled the molecular mechanisms of mycotoxins in unparalleled resolution. We explore studies that tackle some of the most important questions related to both old foes and potential new enemies, like emerging mycotoxins, the impact of mycotoxin mixtures, effects on poorly studied organ systems, or the discovery of biomarkers. Resulting outcomes are important for the academic community and producers alike - particularly concerning subclinical effects of mycotoxins.


Latest challenges and trends in mycotoxin analysis Rudolf Krska 

In view of climate change, prediction tools for mycotoxin and plant toxin occurrence in major food commodities are to be improved through machine learning, big data and on-site approaches. Recent efforts have focused on integrated immunodiagnostic-based ‘food smartphone’ technology. 

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