Plenary Session

• Introduction: Pieter Knap
• Challenges in livestock genomics: Miguel Angel Toro
• Competition between production systems facing an increase of world demand for dairy and meat: Kees de Roest
• Recent development in genomics and its potential to increase efficiency of animal breeding: Reinhard Reents
• New technologies and approaches to improving the quality of animal products: Nigel Scollan
• New tools in reproduction technologies: Sybrand Merton