The 2011 Joint Meeting of ASAS and AAPA will be held at the Hotel Costa Galana in Mar del Plata, on October 4 – 7, 2011. This conference, organized together with the Asociación Argentina de Producción Animal (AAPA), will provide an international forum for scientific exchange among animal scientists throughout the world. The conference will take place over a 3-day period. Within the 3 days, invited speakers from different countries will discuss Animal Science related topics on Plenary Sessions as well as regular AAPA Scientific Sections. These sections are: nutrition, pastures, reproduction, production systems, animal health, genetics, animal food technology, wildlife and other disciplines. Presented posters will be discussed by experts on these sections as well.

The meeting languages will be English and Spanish. Simultaneous translations will be provided for both languages for the different talks. In addition, abstracts for all presentations will be published in the proceedings in both English and Spanish.