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.
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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