Dear colleagues and friends:

•  Brief introduction to ISNH symposiums

The International Symposium on Nutrition of Herbivores (ISNH) is a series of symposium s which aim on the advances on the nutrition of herbivores in the world. It h as been hosted by different countries all over the world six times. Now, in Sept. 16-22, 2007, the 7 th ISNH will be hosted in Beijing China . Every time, the symposium will have a proceeding which collected the invited speakers' contribution s to the symposium. And also, the ordinary plenary contributors' papers will be collected as another proceeding.

•  Introduction of ISNH7

ISNH7 is expected to be the most specialized international symposium in the herbivore nutrition for the year 2007 in Beijing , China . We expect an attendance of more than 400 foreign and local participants. The theme of ISNH7 is “the herbivore nutrition associated with the development of efficient, safe and sustainable livestock production.” The symposium will include 8 sessions. They are: 1) The role of herbivores in mixed/integrated agriculture and agro-forestry systems in Asian countries; 2) gastrointestinal microbial ecology in herbivores; 3) Assimilation of carbohydrates and nitrogen in the herbivore intestine; 4) molecular advances in forage breeding and utilization; 5) gene expression and gene-nutrient interactions in herbivores; 6) stress factors associated with herbivores nutrition; 7) nutritional practice; 8) nutritional options to secure environmental and food safety based on intensive animal production systems. Each session is composed by several topics, 2 or more. We will have 19 topics in totally. And for all, we will invite 19 famous nutritionists who have great abilities as senior authors, and 13 other nutritionists has been recommended as the co-authors to help the seniors to finish the contribution more scientifically. Also, senior authors can organize their author teams by themselves. Each topic will get a invited contribution as a 30-35 A4 - pages paper to be as the main presentation . And under each topic, 2 or 3 presentations each lasts for 10-15 min will be included. More scientists who works on the herbivores nutrition will get the chance to share their researches with others. The most famous 18 animal nutrition scientists will compose as the international advisory committee to help to host a successful symposium. And we local organizing committee will also hire a lot of other scientists to examine and revise all the contributions in order to give the researchers all over the world a fantastic working. With the supporting from China government, especially from the Ministry of the Agriculture o China and the China Association of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, we all think that the ISNH7 will be a successful symposium! It can improve the researching level on the herbivores nutrition greatly!

•  Symposium publicity

We have constructed the official website as http://www.isnh7.org.cn and official email address as isnh7@vip.163.com to make nutritionists and researchers all around the world to know and to attend the symposium. And also, exchanging linkages and emanating publicity flyers will be other useful methods to do. So we all hopeful that the ISNH7 will be the largest meeting for the herbivores researchers.

•  Satellite meetings