Animal Microbiome Europe 2019

Simon Doherty

Simon Doherty, president of the British Veterinary Association (BVA) is a veterinary consultant and senior lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast.

With two decades of experience in veterinary practice, industry and academia, Simon is well positioned to represent the varied veterinary roles and diversity of BVA’s 18,000+ members.

For three years, Simon was the Animal Sciences & Aquaculture specialist for the Department for International Trade. Last year, he was appointed a GlobalScot in the animal health & aquaculture sector by the Office of the First Minister in Scotland.

Simon is a past president of the North of Ireland Veterinary Association and of the Northern Ireland Branch of BVA. He currently chairs the UK One Health Coordination Group and is one of two BVA representatives at the Federation of Veterinarians in Europe (FVE). He also chairs the FVE FishMedPlus Coalition.

A STEM Ambassador, he is also actively involved in the provision of veterinary careers advice, regularly mentoring applicants to veterinary school. He is also an ambassador for the livestock development charity, Send a Cow, and a trustee of the Animal Welfare Foundation.

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Gary Tang

Based in Palo Alto, Gary focuses on growth equity investments across a wide range of sectors at Norwest including consumer, retail, internet and education. Gary’s current investments include Bailey44 and Topo Athletic. Gary was previously involved with Norwest’s investments in PCA Skin (acquired by Colgate-Palmolive), The Learning Experience (acquired by Golden Gate Capital), and Turnitin (acquired by Advance).

Sherry Layton

Randi Lundberg

Mark Engel

Kevin Kessler

Marinus Van Krimpen

Ravi Starzl

Mark Pallen

Mark Pallen is a Research Leader at the Quadram Institute and Professor of Microbial Genomics at UEA. His research interests span microbial genomics, metagenomics and bioinformatics, including the chicken gut microbiome. He is director of the MRC Cloud Infrastructure for Microbial Bioinformatics (CLIMB) project.

Dr. Regina Wolf

Regina studied veterinary medicine at the Universities of Milan, Giessen and Munich.

She joined ROYAL CANIN in Cologne, Germany, as manager for veterinary products. Regina then worked for ICON Clinical Research in Langen, Germany as monitor on European clinical trials in humans before she joined PFIZER Animal Health in Sandwich, UK, as manager of clinical trials and then European clinical projects. Before joining KLIFOVET in Munich, Germany, in March 2012 as Head of Product Development, Regina was assessor of immunological products at the Veterinary Medicines Directorate, UK. Since August 2017 she is heading the regulatory affairs unit at KLIFOVET where she is responsible for general strategic advice, registration and regulatory life cycle activities for the registration of feed, feed additives, biologicals and veterinary medicinal products.

Stefan Gabriel Buzoianu

Johnny Li

Olga Francino Marti

Ph.D. in Genetics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) with broad experience in molecular biology and animal genomics.  Project Management and Innovation at the Molecular Genetics Veterinary Service (SVGM) of the UAB since its creation in 1996. Founding partner of Vetgenomics (2011), a technology-based company focused on genetic diagnostic and genomics.  

With extensive experience in the design and implementation of new methodologies of genetic analysis as well as to their valorization. Responsible for numerous agreements and projects with companies of the pharmaceutical and agrigenomics fields and currently working in national and international collaborations on infectious diseases, pathogens, and microbiome characterization with NGS.

Valentin Nenov