Incubation and Fertility Research Group
(WPSA Working Group 6)

Fundamental Physiology and Perinatal Development Group (WPSA Working Group 12) 

August 30th – September 1st 2017

Wageningen, The Netherlands

Programme
	Wednesday, 30th August
09:00-10:00	Welcome and Registration
10:00 – 12:00	Session 1: Influence of breeder on chick health and performance
	Breeder age and chick health	Marleen Boerjan
	Effects of breeder age and oxygen concentration during incubation on embryonic heat production and development, and post-hatch chick performance	Roos Molenaar
	Adipokines, feeding levels and omega 3 fatty acids supplementation in the control of fertility steroidogenesis, laying performance and offspring development in broiler breeders hens.	Joelle Dupont
	Adipokine expression profiles during early broiler embryo development and regulation by maternal feeding restriction and omega -3 fatty acid supplementation	Namya Mellouk
13:30 – 17:15	Session 2: Egg storage and handling
	Influence of heat treatment during egg storage on number of chicks and chick quality	Aline Ferreira
	Cellular and morphological characterization of freshly laid blastoderms to study effects of storage conditions on embryonic survival and hatchability in broilers	Yuval Cinnamon
	Hatch traits of artificially incubated of ostrich eggs as affected by setting position, angle of rotation and season	Zanell Brand
	Handling with care – controlling loss of hatching eggs and hatchability of broiler breeders due to mechanical impact	Timea Torma
	Effects of broiler breeder age and egg storage duration on hatchability rate, chick quality and later life performance in hot climates	Heida Nasri
18:30	Conference Dinner
	Thursday, 31th August
08:45-10:40	Session 3: Impact of parental effects
	Examination of the combined effect of parental thermal stress and thermal treatment of the offsprings on early embryonic development on primordial germ cells	Invited Young Researcher Lecture: Bence Lázár
	Hormone-mediated maternal effects: gonadal steroid levels in freshly laid bird eggs do not represent maternal alloc	Neeraj Kumar
	Avian yolk hormones: recent understandings of mechanisms and their function	Invited Keynote lecture: Prof. Ton Groothuis
11:00-12:30	Session 4: Adaptation and epigenetic alteration in birds
	Gene activity through epigenetic alterations in quails	Vincent Coustham
	Avian adaptation to heat by prenatal acoustic stimulation: from songbirds to poultry	Invited Key note lecture: Mylene Mariette
13:30-17:30	Session 5: Incubation parameters and chick vitality
	Importance of incubation conditions on proper In-Ovo vaccination	Mike Wineland
	How much the In-ovo injection process can affect the contamination level and chick quality (case study)	Muntasar Salem
	Changes in oxygen levels during incubation as a new way to affect Tibial dyschondroplasia incidence in broiler chicks	Shelly Druyan
	The interaction between carbon dioxide concentration and eggshell temperature during second half of incubation in broiler chickens	Henry van den Brand
	The effects of temperature during late incubation on broiler chicken development.	Conny Maatjens
	Affecting leg bone development in broiler chickens through incubation lighting schedules	Carla van der Pol
	Friday, 1st September 2017
09:00-12:40	Session 6: Control and programming of energy balance
	Identification of adipokines involved in the selective breeding of broiler and layer hens provided new insights about the role of adipose tissuein chicken reproduction	Miriam Friedman-Einat
	Embryonic “over”-nutrition and metabolic malprogramming in the avian primary brain area for control of energy balance, feed intake and body weight	Barbara Tzschentke
	Heat production of chicks with and without access to feed and water between hatching and pulling	Inge van Roovert-Reijrink
	Impact of perinatal temperature training and feed composition during growing phase on production efficiency in males of different chicken lines	Barbara Tzschentke
	NPY and metabolic hormones: programming by short-term temperature training in the final embryonic development	Sabrina Tatge
	Posters
	Effect of feed and water treatments during a transport period (6 h) on broiler chick development	Marieke van Eijk-Priester
	Effects of temperature variations during incubation and postnatal growth on performance, metabolism and health of meat-type chickens	Anne Collin
	In vitro effects of triiodothyronine and insulin on the metabolism of muscle cells from chickens submitted or not to heat manipulation during embryogenesis	Nathalie Couroussé
	Development of the body wall in the chick embryo	Zdenka Zemanova
	The heart rate response to moderate and severe acute hypoxia in the 4-day old chicken embryo	Marina Nechaeva
	The effect of preincubation storage on hatchability in Japanese quail	M. Lichovnikova
	The effect of preincubation during egg storage on embryo development of young parent stock	M. Tesarova
	Changes in embryo development and chick quality from four different egg size in Bronze Turkey	A. Sözcü

     
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Abstracts of presentations are published in

European Poultry Science, 81. 2017, DOI: 10.1399/eps.2017.204

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