Conferences

SmartCow representatives will attend numerous conferences and workshops; during these events, the latest project developments, progresses and results will be presented to the audience.

2022

• DAIR’INNOV Congress 2022 in Namur (Belgium, 27^th – 29^th April 2022). CRA-W and INRAE presentation: “Firsts results about potential use of fecal NIR spectra to estimate daily CH4emissions of dairy cows measured with GreenFeedsystem”.
• German Society of Nutrition Physiology 2022, FBN poster: “SmartCow: An integrated infrastructure for increased research capability and innovation in the European cattle sector”.

2021  

• ADSA 2021 virtual meeting (11^th – 14^th July 2021). WUR presentation: “Effect of source and frequency of metabolizable protein supplementation on milk production and nitrogen efficiency”.
• German Society of Nutrition Physiology 2020, FBN poster: “SmartCow: An integrated infrastructure for increased research capability and innovation in the European cattle sector”.

2020

• 71^st EAAP Virtual Annual Meeting (1^st – 4^th December 2020). INRAE presentation: “Natural 15N abundance of animal proteins: a promising biomarker of feed efficiency in beef cattle”, INRAE poster: “Faecal-NIRS for predicting animal to animal variation in feed organic matter digestibility in cattle”.

2019

• 6^th EAAP International Symposium on Energy and Protein Metabolism and Nutrition (ISEP2019) in Belo, Horizonte (Brazil, 9^th – 12^th September 2019). INRAE and SRUC presentation: “Natural 15N abundances in plasma and urea-N concentration in milk as biomarkers of urinary N excretion in dairy cows: a meta-analysis”.
• 13^th ISPR (International Symposium on Ruminant Physiology) in Leipzig (Germany, 3^rd – 6^th September 2019). INRAE, SRUC, FBN, AU, UREAD, Teagasc and EAAP presentation: “SmartCow: an integrated infrastructure for increased research capability and innovation in the European cattle sector”.
• 70^th EAAP Annual Meeting in Ghent (Belgium, 26^th– 30^th August 2019). Presentations: 1) “SmartCow: fostering synergies through mapping cattle research infrastructure, technologies and research databases” (Teagasc, INRAE, IDELE and EAAP); 2) “SmartCow: integrating European cattle research infrastructures to improve their phenotyping offer” (INRAE, SRUC, FBN, AU). Poster: “Faecal-NIRS for predicting digestibility and intake in cattle: efficacy of two calibration strategy” (INRAE and CRA-W)
• ADSA 2019 in Cincinnati, Ohio (USA 23^rd – 26^th June 2019). INRAE and SRUC presentation: “Combining natural 15N abundances in plasma and urea-N concentration in milk to strengthen the prediction of N use efficiency in dairy cattle: a meta-analysis”.
• ICAR Conference in Prague (Czech Republic, 17^th – 21^st June 2019). INRAE and SRUC presentation: “SmartCow: a project aimed at improving phenotyping capacity across cattle research infrastructures in Europe”.
• German Society of Nutrition Physiology 2019, FBN poster: “SmartCow: An integrated infrastructure for increased research capability and innovation in the European cattle sector”.

2018

• 10^th International Symposium on the Nutrition of Herbivores in Clermont-Ferrand (France, 2^nd – 6^th September 2018).  Presentations: 1) “SmartCow general presentation” (INRAE); 2) “First Call for proposals for “Transnational Access” to Research Infrastructures” (SRUC); 3) “Focus on the Joint Research Activities” (INRAE).
• 69^th EAAP Annual Meeting in Dubrovnik (Croatia, 27th– 31st August 2018). Presentations: 1) “Transnational access to leading European cattle research facilities in the EU Project SmartCow” (EAAP, SRUC, AU, INRAE); 2) “SmartCow’s training and capacity building activities” (IDELE, EAAP, INRAE); 3) “Stakeholders engagement in SmartCow” (IDELE, EAAP, INRAE).
• German Society of Nutrition Physiology 2018, FBN poster: “SmartCow: An integrated infrastructure for increased research capability and innovation in the European cattle sector”.