Poultry Bacterial Diseases
Winter – November 13
– 14
, 2025
Coventry
Winter Meeting
Location: Coventry
Hotel Details
Ramada Hotel & Suites by Wyndham Coventry
The Butts
Coventry
CV1 3GG
Phone: +44 (0)2476 238 110
Email: info@ramadacoventry.co.uk
Website: https://ramadacoventry.co.uk
Our hotel is located within easy walking distance of Coventry Train Station, just 15 minutes from Coventry Airport and Birmingham International Airport, and the M6 Motorway is easily accessible.
THURSDAY, 13th November 2025 – Session: 11:00AM – 5:00PM
10:30 am
Welcome Tea and Coffee
10:50 am
Charlotte Commins
BVPA President
Welcome and opening remarks
11:00 am
Melanie Hay
Royal Veterinary College
Disentangling Dysbiosis in the Chicken Gut Houghton Trust-BVPA Early Career Poultry Lecture
12:00 pm
Roberto La Ragione
Surrey University
Understanding the pathobiology of APEC
12:30 pm
Lunch Break
1:30 pm
Shaun Cawthraw
APHA
Eliminating Salmonella Infantis from poultry farms: experience from six UK broiler units
2:00 pm
Jocelyn Marguerie
Reseaucristal France
Moving from antibiotics to vaccination and natural products: new options in bacterial disease management
2:30 pm
Tania Dottorini
Nottingham University
Harnessing AI to Predict, Prevent, and Control Antimicrobial Resistance and Infectious Diseases in Poultry
3:00 pm
Salvatore Catania
IZSVe – Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie
A tailored approach: applying Mycoplasma control strategies based on new evidence and tools
3:30 pm
Tea/Coffee Break
4:00 pm
Stuart James
Aviagen
Feed Supply: Strategies for Biosecurity and Salmonella Risk Management
4:30 pm
Christopher Teale
APHA
Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing – Old and New Developments
5:00 pm
Announcements
8:00 pm
BVPA 2025 WINTER MEETING DINNER
After Dinner Speaker: Christine Middlemiss, UK Chief Veterinary Officer
FRIDAY, 14th November 2025 – Session: 9:00AM – 12 NOON
9:00 am
Sarah Keep
Institute of Pirbright
What could the next generation of IBV vaccines look like?
9:30 am
Ashraf Alkhtib
NTU
Effect of life cycle inventory choices and nutritional variation on the carbon footprint of broiler meat production
10:00 am
Joseph Hinds
University of Liverpool
Retrospective examination on causes of drops in egg production in free-range layer flocks in the UK
10:30 am
Tea/Coffee Break
Clinical and Related Papers
11:00 am
Alistair Chilcott & Kath Gillett & Laura Bower Booth
Poultry Health Services & APHA
Two suspect vaccine-induced Avian encephalomyelitis cases in broiler chicks
11:30 am
Hannah Cargill
Avarafoods
Women in Poultry Production
11:45 am
John Tasker
BVPA Committee
Update on broiler welfare
12:00 pm
Announcements, end of meeting and closing remarks
Past Meetings
The previous 4 BVPA meetings
Members have full access to all previous BVPA meetings and papers presented at them
Poultry Viral Diseases
March 26 - 27 2026Harrogate
Poultry Management Innovation
March 12 - 13 2025HarrogatePoultry Diagnostic
October 10 - 11 2024Coventry
Sustainable Poultry Farming
March 14 - 15 2024Harrogate