- The role of the microbiome and the gut barrier in the functionality of the ruminant mucosal immune system. – Prof. Huub Savelkoul (WUR)
- Enhancing gut health in dairy cows. – Prof. Kees Plaizier (Uni. Manitoba, Canada)
- Problems with metabolism and immunity – the chicken or the egg? – Prof. Claire Wathes, (Royal Veterinary College, Hatfield, VK)
- How low can we go with crude protein in dairy cow diets? Long-term effects of feeding lower protein diets to high-yielding dairy cows. – Prof. Chris Reynolds (Reading Uni., VK)
- Managing the healthy and productive dairy cow – From the silo to the feed bunk, through the rumen to the liver – What omics-technologies have taught us. – Dr. Melanie Schären (Uni. Leipzig, Duitsland)