Program

Marie-Pierre Létourneau Montminy is professor at Laval University. She obtained a doctorate from AgroParisTech and Laval University. She then set up a research chair with several partners on Alternative feeding strategies for pigs and poultry in a context of sustainable development at Laval University, where she now holds a position as full professor. Her main research objective is the production of sustainable animal proteins, in particular the optimisation of phosphorus and nitrogen use in pigs and chickens. This is done through animal trials, meta-analyses and modelling to help formulate healthier, lower-cost, high-environmental-performance feed. Since 2020, it has held a Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Animal Protein Production.

Jorge Numata has a background in chemical engineering, bioinformatics and theoretical chemistry. He is a senior scientist at the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in Berlin. He has a 15-year publication track record on mathematical models for human health risk assessment, specializing in toxicokinetic models for the transfer of chemical and biochemical contaminants in farm animals. Such simulations are based on intersecting combinations of models for nutrition, growth and physiology, and for the absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of contaminants. Jorge Numata leads modeling projects on the toxicokinetics of farm animals at BfR and also leads the EU Member States PFAS Initiative to share knowledge on this important class of substances among risk assessment institutions in Europe.