Swiss Animal Nutrition Conference 2025

Marketta Rinneexternal page works as a research professor at Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Jokioinen, Finland. Her main interests are dairy cow nutrition and closely linked with that, feed production and preservation. Recently, she has been involved with silage microbiome research, novel uses of green biomass such as green biorefineries as well as sustainability of dairy production. She is also the coordinator of the official Finnish feed evaluation activity (external page link to more information). Marketta Rinne has received her MSc and PhD degrees from University of Helsinki, Finland. She has worked at Luke (formerly MTT) over 30 years and published over 100 peer reviewed scientific articles.

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Knud Erik Bach Knudsen is professor in Basic Nutrition at Aarhus University, Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Denmark. For more than 35 years, Knud Erik Bach Knudsen has been working with analytical, nutritional and health aspects of carbohydrates and phytochemicals. The work has included development of analytical methods for the determination of carbohydrates in feeds, foods and digesta materials, characterisation of carbohydrates in a wide variety of feedstuffs, studies on nutritional and physiological properties of carbohydrates in non-ruminant species, and investigations of the role of carbohydrates in prevention of digestive disturbances and establishment of parasites in pigs. Knud Erik Bach Knudsen has also been involved in cross-specie projects focusing on nutrition and health properties of carbohydrates and phytochemicals.

After completing his Ph.D. in 1980 from the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Knud Erik Bach Knudsen worked at the Carlsberg Research Centre and the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen before joining the Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences (DIAS) in 1986; DIAS merged 2007 with Aarhus University. He has been author and co-author of more than 292 papers in peer-reviewed journals and 115 book chapters and proceedings. The papers have mainly been related to analytical, nutritional, physiological and health aspects of carbohydrates and phytochemicals cross species.

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Giuseppe Bee leads the Pig Research Group at Agroscope Posieux, focusing on sustainable and efficient swine production. His work examines the impact of nutrition on body composition, growth, and meat quality, with early research employing classical dissection techniques to study dietary fat and protein effects on pigs. This evolved into studying myofiber development and the influence of muscle biology on livestock performance. His research has addressed key challenges in the field, including the role of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) in fat deposition and sow milk composition, alternatives to surgical castration such as immunocastration, and the impact of intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) on growth and carcass traits.

Currently, Giuseppe focuses on improving protein efficiency and developing feeding strategies that reduce feed-food competition to enhance resource efficiency. He also leads and contributes to international projects, including MonoGutHealth, PigWeb, and Re-Livestock, aimed at advancing sustainable swine production systems.

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