History & previous meeting
History & previous meeting
Meeting dates and locations (organiser) with details of abstracts published
Copies of International Hatchery Practice with abstracts are held by Charles Deeming.
2010 : Vinci Conference Centre, Tours, France (organiser: Nick French)
in association with the 13th European Poultry Conference.
Abstracts of the presentations are published in Avian Biology Research 3 (3): 123-143.
doi: 10.3184/175815510X12837948154979
Speakers IFRG 2010 meeting
2011 : Ede, The Netherlands (organiser: Nick French)
Abstracts of the presentations are published in Avian Biology Research 4 (3): 133-153.
doi:10.3184/175815511X13154124109537
2012 : Pisa, Italy (organisers: Margherita Marzoni and Annelisse Castillo)
Abstracts of the presentations are published in Avian Biology Research (pdf).
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3184/175815512X13421912660767
Participants IFRG 2012 meeting
Click below for links to slideshow of:
- Presentations in the refectory
- The Certosa
- The conference dinner
- The Natural History Museum
- The monastery
Click any slide to start the slide show
2013 : Gottingen, Germany (organiser: Marleen Boerjan)
Abstracts are published in International Hatchery Practice (pdf), 28(2): 27-33 and 28(3): 23-27.
Report here (pdf)
Participants IFRG 2013 meeting
2014 : Lunteren, the Netherlands (organiser: Marleen Boerjan)
Abstracts are published in International Hatchery Practice and here Report here (pdf)
Participants IFRG 2014 meeting
Key | Participants not present | |||||||||||||
1 | Joanna | Frischke-Krajewska | 12 | Muntaser | Salem | 23 | Eddy | Lierde van | Mehmet Akif | Boz | ||||
2 | Mark | Foote | 13 | Ampai | Nangsuay | 24 | Carla | van der Pol | Pieter | Gouw de | ||||
3 | Dr. | Umut Sami | Yamak | 14 | Guy | Whetherly | 25 | Dr. | Alexander | Wade | Anita | Gradziel | ||
4 | Dr. | Okan | Elibol | 15 | Dr. | Barbara | Tzschentke | 26 | Manon | Marwijk van | Drs. | Merlijn | Kense | |
5 | Dr. | Henry | Brand van den | 16 | Dr. | Anne | Collin | 27 | Prof. | Silke | Rautenschlein | Dr. | Margherita | Marzoni |
6 | Chad | Daniels | 17 | Luc | Gabriel | 28 | Yao | Fang | Dr. | Mike | Wineland | |||
7 | Dr. | John | Kent | 18 | Dr. | Ali | Youssef | 29 | Barbara | Kerkaert | Dr. | Henri | Woelders | |
8 | Asher | Lugassi | 19 | Tomasz | Bocianski | 30 | Deb | Jeffrey | Dr. | Israel | Yolelewits | |||
9 | Roger | Banwell | 20 | Dr. | Murray | Bakst | 31 | Gerd | De Lange | |||||
10 | Tolga | Erkus | 21 | Dr. | Dinah | Nicholson | 32 | Dr. | Johannes | Aka | ||||
11 | Ni | Leksrisompong | 22 | Dr. | Marleen | Boerjan | 33 | Mark | Jeffrey | |||||
34 | Dr. | Glenn | Baggott | |||||||||||
2015 : Berlin, Germany (organiser: Marleen Boerjan)
Abstracts are published in International Hatchery Practice and here
Report here (pdf)
2016 : Brugge, Belgium (organiser: Marleen Boerjan)
Abstracts of presentations can be downloaded here (pdf) and report here (pdf)
2017 : Wageningen, the Netherlands (organiser: Marleen Boerjan)
Report can be downloaded here (pdf). Abstracts of presentations can be downloaded here, and are published in European Poultry Science, 81. 2017, DOI: 10.1399/eps.2017.204
2018 : Edinburgh, Scotland (organisers: Dinah Nicholson and Marleen Boerjan)
Booklet of presentations can be downloaded here (pdf) and report here (pdf)
Key Note Speakers
for 2022 IFRG meeting

Day 1, October 13th IFRG meeting 2022
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kristen Brady

Day 2, October 14th IFRG meeting 2022
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Henry van den Brand