Progress 08/01/20 to 07/31/21
Outputs
Target Audience:The International Congress of Meat Science and Technology (ICoMST) is an annual meeting of meat scientists; meats industry professionals; and graduate and undergraduate students where knowledge and advances in all areas related to meat production, quality, processing, safety, marketing, and many others topics are shared. The congress rotates among countries, and is typically held in the United States once every 15 years. In 2020, ICoMST washosted by the American Meat Science Association (AMSA) in conjunction with the annual Reciprocal Meats Conference (RMC) in a virtual format on August 2nd-7th. 840 scientists and students attended this virtual meetingin 2020. The overall goal of the Congress wasto share current and important information discovered by scientists from around the world and in doing so, increase the health, well-being, and economic conditions of all people. This proposal received funding for the primary purpose of sponsoring a specific session concerning meat quality, and providing conference stipends for individuals. The specific sessions for which funding was received foced on the current status of meat and poultry quality traits, and featuredspeakers from Italy and Australia. Specifically, for one session, Massimiliano (Max) Petracci, University of Bologna, Italy presented a seminar on "Update on the status of woody breast, white striping, and spaghetti meat myopathies in poultry meat" and Robyn Warner, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia who presented "Historical perspectives and current knowledge of meat and poultry tenderness." Changes/Problems:During a time of uncertainty and contingency planning, the American Meat Science Association converted the 2020 International Congress of Meat Science and Technology and the Reciprocal Meat Conference from a meeting at Disney World to a meeting in Virtual World. By altering the 2020 meeting to an entirely virtual meeting, we maintained all our programming and speakers, while decreasing the registration fees and providing additional conference stipends to international attendees to attend the meeting. The virtual platform exceeded our expectations, as we all know nothing can take away from the in-person interactions. Still, during a time of uncertainty, we were able to expand our reach and efforts to allow more attendees from all over the world to participate and engage in this meeting. We were able to offer additional registration stipends to students and professional attendees to attend the meeting at no/reduced cost and give international students the chance to participate in a specific PhD courses focusing on meat quality, tenderness, water holding capacity and biochemistry at no cost to the student attendees. To provide the best meeting and content possible, we prerecorded the presentations allowing us to close caption each of the presentations to help increase the attendee experience in being able to understand what the speaker was saying fully. We played the prerecorded sessions during the meeting, thus allowing the speakers to engage with attendees in real-time and answer their questions via a chat function. As we watched this unfold, more and more attendees asked questions, increasing the interaction and dialogue with the speakers. Even though this meeting did not occur in person in Disney World in 2020 the ICoMST and RMC 2020 virtual meeting accomplished all of the goals set forth from a content standpoint and a networking and collaboration standpoint. The International Congress of Meat Science and Technology (ICoMST) is an annual meeting of meat scientists, meat industry professionals, and graduate and undergraduate students where knowledge and advances in all areas related to meat production, quality, processing, safety, marketing, and many others topics are shared. The congress rotates among countries and is typically held in the United States once every 15 years. In 2020, ICoMST was hosted by the American Meat Science Association (AMSA) in conjunction with the annual Reciprocal Meat Conference (RMC) in a virtual format on August 2nd-7th. Eight hundred forty scientists and students attended this virtual meeting in 2020. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The congress's long-term goal was to advance the science and technology necessary to ensure a safe, wholesome, and affordable food supply for peoples of the world. This long-term goal was accomplished by presenting and disseminating new and important research and technologies to congress attendees by the conference speakers. The collaboration and interaction of the speakers and conference attendees were engaging and informative. The session was able to connect scientists from across the world to discuss research and initiatives moving forward as we continue to produce food for people worldwide. This session's presentations are stored in the conference archives, where they have been viewed over 650 times post-meeting . Post-conference, the speakers have been in contact with attendees for follow-up discussions and presentations with other colleagues who could not attend the meeting. On-going educational and citation of the speaker's research will continue with the publication of their conference papers/journal articles in the American Meat Science Associations open access journal Meat and Muscle Biology. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The conference presentations have been recorded and stored in the conference proceedings for future access and sharing of the authors' research and presentations. The authors submitted proceedings papers published in the American Meat Science Associations open access journal Meat and Muscle Biology, where they will be accessible and fully citable. The proceeding site was posted and shared with all conference attendees and all members of the American Meat Science Association. Attendees have accessed these presentations and used them for ongoing education, and some professors have used these presentations for lecture materials for their classes. Authors have also agreed to host follow-up webinars for additional questions and conversations that might be needed post-conference. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?The Congress's overall intent was to share current and essential information discovered by scientists from around the world and, in doing so, increase the health, well-being, and economic conditions of all people. The goals and objectives of this session have been met by the conference that occurred in August 2020. There will continue to be follow-up conversations and outreach for attendees and members to the speakers moving forward.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Our goal for this 2020 meeting was to have a significant impact as it brought together international attendees to have a balanced discussion about food and nutrition. The conference provided an international meeting for professional and academic training for student attendees to enhance their knowledge of the industry and provide networking and training opportunities for their future careers. During a time of uncertainty and contingency planning, AMSA converted the 2020 ICoMST and RMC from a meeting at Disney World to a fully virtual meeting. The 2020 ICoMST and RMC was a success by many metrics. There were 594 global professional participants; 242 student participants the technical program included 50 presentations, 22 proceedings papers, and 218 abstracts. The post meetings comments about the exchange of information and networking opportunities were excellent: "What an amazing transformation from in-person to on-line. I TOTALLY congratulate the organizers. Enjoyed learning and participating!!" "ICoMST/RMC is such an important meeting because it brings together the international community to share the latest research in meat and food safety science and discuss applications for industry and regulators. This year's virtual conference was another great success as data and ideas were disseminated across the globe. I look forward to seeing the future impact of this knowledge exchange." "Congratulations with a really great ICoMST. True American enthusiasm and entrepreneurship you made a fantastic event under extremely challenging conditions." Through the virtual meeting we watched individuals passionate about meat science connect all over the world. It allowed more people to 'attend' and to view the meeting in their time zones. The goal of connected and sharing information exceed our expectations as we saw online dialogue and networking happening during and after the sessions. It seems many more questions are generated when they can be typed in as the presentation is being given. Many of our speakers answered questions in 'real-time,' thus generating even more in-depth discussion. We used grant funds to cover registration fees for speakers and international professionals. We reduced registrations to more international students to participate in the meeting and courses to enhance their studies and strengthen their connections. There is a strong feeling that having virtual access to meetings such as ICoMST and/or RMC might be beneficial even after travel restrictions are loosened again. The Congress's overall goal was to share current and important information discovered by scientists from around the world and, in doing so, increase the health, well-being, and economic conditions of all people. This proposal received funding for the primary purpose of sponsoring a specific session concerning meat quality and providing travel stipends for individuals. The specific sessions for which funding was received focused on the current status of meat and poultry quality traits, and featured speakers from Italy and Australia. Specifically, for one session, Massimiliano (Max) Petracci, University of Bologna, Italy presented a seminar on "Update on the status of woody breast, white striping, and spaghetti meat myopathies in poultry meat" and Robyn Warner, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia who presented "Historical perspectives and current knowledge of meat and poultry tenderness."
Publications
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Accepted
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Baldi, G., Soglia, F., and M. Petracci. 2020. Current Status of Poultry Meat Abnormalities. Meat and Muscle Biology 4(2): 4, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.22175/mmb.9503.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2021
Citation:
Robyn Warner. 2020. Meat tenderness and texture historical perspective and recent advances 4(2): 4,
https://doi.org/10.22175/mmb.10489
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Awaiting Publication
Year Published:
2021
Citation:
Abstracts of the 2020 International Congress of Meat Science and Technology and the Reciprocal Meat Conference. 2020.
https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/mmb/
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
https://community.meatscience.org/
https://meatscience.confex.com/amsa/RMC20/webprogram/meeting.html
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Progress 08/01/20 to 06/28/21
Outputs
Target Audience:The International Congress of Meat Science and Technology (ICoMST) is an annual meeting of meat scientists; meats industry professionals; and graduate and undergraduate students where knowledge and advances in all areas related to meat production, quality, processing, safety, marketing, and many others topics are shared. The congress rotates among countries, and is typically held in the United States once every 15 years. In 2020, ICoMST was hosted by the American Meat Science Association (AMSA) in conjunction with the annual Reciprocal Meats Conference (RMC) in a virtual format on August 2nd-7th. 840 scientists and students attended this virtual meeting in 2020. The overall goal of the Congress was to share current and important information discovered by scientists from around the world and in doing so, increase the health, well-being, and economic conditions of all people. This proposal received funding for the primary purpose of sponsoring a specific session concerning meat quality, and providing conference stipends for individuals. The specific sessions for which funding was received foced on the current status of meat and poultry quality traits, and featured speakers from Italy and Australia. Specifically, for one session, Massimiliano (Max) Petracci, University of Bologna, Italy presented a seminar on "Update on the status of woody breast, white striping, and spaghetti meat myopathies in poultry meat" and Robyn Warner, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia who presented "Historical perspectives and current knowledge of meat and poultry tenderness." ? Changes/Problems:During a time of uncertainty and contingency planning, the American Meat Science Association converted the 2020 International Congress of Meat Science and Technology and the Reciprocal Meat Conference from a meeting at Disney World to a meeting in Virtual World. By altering the 2020 meeting to an entirely virtual meeting, we maintained all our programming and speakers, while decreasing the registration fees and providing additional conference stipends to international attendees to attend the meeting. The virtual platform exceeded our expectations, as we all know nothing can take away from the in-person interactions. Still, during a time of uncertainty, we were able to expand our reach and efforts to allow more attendees from all over the world to participate and engage in this meeting. We were able to offer additional registration stipends to students and professional attendees to attend the meeting at no/reduced cost and give international students the chance to participate in a specific PhD courses focusing on meat quality, tenderness, water holding capacity and biochemistry at no cost to the student attendees. To provide the best meeting and content possible, we prerecorded the presentations allowing us to close caption each of the presentations to help increase the attendee experience in being able to understand what the speaker was saying fully. We played the prerecorded sessions during the meeting, thus allowing the speakers to engage with attendees in real-time and answer their questions via a chat function. As we watched this unfold, more and more attendees asked questions, increasing the interaction and dialogue with the speakers. Even though this meeting did not occur in person in Disney World in 2020 the ICoMST and RMC 2020 virtual meeting accomplished all of the goals set forth from a content standpoint and a networking and collaboration standpoint. The International Congress of Meat Science and Technology (ICoMST) is an annual meeting of meat scientists, meat industry professionals, and graduate and undergraduate students where knowledge and advances in all areas related to meat production, quality, processing, safety, marketing, and many others topics are shared. The congress rotates among countries and is typically held in the United States once every 15 years. In 2020, ICoMST was hosted by the American Meat Science Association (AMSA) in conjunction with the annual Reciprocal Meat Conference (RMC) in a virtual format on August 2nd-7th. Eight hundred forty scientists and students attended this virtual meeting in 2020. ? What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The congress's long-term goal was to advance the science and technology necessary to ensure a safe, wholesome, and affordable food supply for peoples of the world. This long-term goal was accomplished by presenting and disseminating new and important research and technologies to congress attendees by the conference speakers. The collaboration and interaction of the speakers and conference attendees were engaging and informative. The session was able to connect scientists from across the world to discuss research and initiatives moving forward as we continue to produce food for people worldwide. This session's presentations are stored in the conference archives, where they have been viewed over 650 times post-meeting. Post-conference, the speakers have been in contact with attendees for follow-up discussions and presentations with other colleagues who could not attend the meeting. On-going educational and citation of the speaker's research will continue with the publication of their conference papers/journal articles in the American Meat Science Associations open access journal Meat and Muscle Biology. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The conference presentations have been recorded and stored in the conference proceedings for future access and sharing of the authors' research and presentations. The authors submitted proceedings papers published in the American Meat Science Associations open access journal Meat and Muscle Biology, where they are available,accessible and fully citable. The proceeding site was posted and shared with all conference attendees and all members of the American Meat Science Association. Attendees have accessed these presentations and used them for ongoing education, and some professors have used these presentations for lecture materials for their classes. Authors have also agreed to host follow-up webinars for additional questions and conversations that might be needed post-conference. Presentations are also posted in the ICoMST DigIcomst proceedings. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?The Congress's overall intent was to share current and essential information discovered by scientists from around the world and, in doing so, increase the health, well-being, and economic conditions of all people. The goals and objectives of this session have been met by the conference that occurred in August 2020. There will continue to be follow-up conversations and outreach for attendees and members to the speakers moving forward.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Our goal for this 2020 meeting was to have a significant impact as it brought together international attendees to have a balanced discussion about food and nutrition. The conference provided an international meeting for professional and academic training for student attendees to enhance their knowledge of the industry and provide networking and training opportunities for their future careers. During a time of uncertainty and contingency planning, AMSA converted the 2020 ICoMST and RMC from a meeting at Disney World to a fully virtual meeting. The 2020 ICoMST and RMC was a success by many metrics. There were 594 global professional participants; 242 student participants the technical program included 50 presentations, 22 proceedings papers, and 218 abstracts. The post meetings comments about the exchange of information and networking opportunities were excellent: "What an amazing transformation from in-person to on-line. I TOTALLY congratulate the organizers. Enjoyed learning and participating!!" "ICoMST/RMC is such an important meeting because it brings together the international community to share the latest research in meat and food safety science and discuss applications for industry and regulators. This year's virtual conference was another great success as data and ideas were disseminated across the globe. I look forward to seeing the future impact of this knowledge exchange." "Congratulations with a really great ICoMST. True American enthusiasm and entrepreneurship you made a fantastic event under extremely challenging conditions." Through the virtual meeting we watched individuals passionate about meat science connect all over the world. It allowed more people to 'attend' and to view the meeting in their time zones. The goal of connected and sharing information exceed our expectations as we saw online dialogue and networking happening during and after the sessions. It seems many more questions are generated when they can be typed in as the presentation is being given. Many of our speakers answered questions in 'real-time,' thus generating even more in-depth discussion. We used grant funds to cover registration fees for speakers and international professionals. We reduced registrations to more international students to participate in the meeting and courses to enhance their studies and strengthen their connections. There is a strong feeling that having virtual access to meetings such as ICoMST and/or RMC might be beneficial even after travel restrictions are loosened again. The Congress's overall goal was to share current and important information discovered by scientists from around the world and, in doing so, increase the health, well-being, and economic conditions of all people. This proposal received funding for the primary purpose of sponsoring a specific session concerning meat quality and providing travel stipends for individuals. The specific sessions for which funding was received focused on the current status of meat and poultry quality traits, and featured speakers from Italy and Australia. Specifically, for one session, Massimiliano (Max) Petracci, University of Bologna, Italy presented a seminar on "Update on the status of woody breast, white striping, and spaghetti meat myopathies in poultry meat" and Robyn Warner, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia who presented "Historical perspectives and current knowledge of meat and poultry tenderness."
Publications
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Baldi, G., Soglia, F., and M. Petracci. 2020. Current Status of Poultry Meat Abnormalities. Meat and Muscle Biology 4(2): 4, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.22175/mmb.9503.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2021
Citation:
Robyn Warner. 2020. Meat tenderness and texture historical perspective and recent advances 4(2): 4,
https://doi.org/10.22175/mmb.10489
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
https://community.meatscience.org/
https://meatscience.confex.com/amsa/RMC20/webprogram/meeting.html
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2021
Citation:
Abstracts of the 2020 International Congress of Meat Science and Technology and the Reciprocal Meat Conference. 2020.
https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/mmb/
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