Keynote Speakers

OUR SPEAKERS

YAHYAOUI Mohamed Habib

Professor.

YAHYAOUI Mohamed Habib

Professor.

Mohamed Habib Yahyaoui holds PhD in animal sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB, Spain) and is currently professor in the Arid Lands Institute of Medenine (Tunisia) at the Livestock and wildlife laboratory. His research focuses on applying molecular genetics and genomic approaches to better understand the biological peculiarities of animal resources raised in the arid regions, the dromedary camel and small ruminants. This include genetic characterization of local breeds, diversity of the genes involved in the adaptive immunity ( Major Histocompatibility Complex, MHC) and their association with adaptation and production traits, as well as dairy potential of Tunisian dromedary camel population and ways of its genetic improvement using gene candidate approach (association genotype-phenotype).

Email:mhyhabboub@yahoo.fr

MAALLEM Chokri

Veterinary Doctor.

MAALLEM Chokri

Veterinary Doctor.

Chokri Maallem is a veterinary doctor at the Tunisian Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries. He has extensive experience and proven expertise in food safety, and has conducted several national and international training sessions in this field. Graduated from ENMV Tunisia and UBO France, he has contributed to the development of camel husbandry in the Tozeur region. Here at camilk2026, he will present the health and regulatory challenges relating to the safety of camel milk.

KONUSPAYEVA Gaukhar

Professor

KONUSPAYEVA Gaukhar

Professor

N°ORCID : 0000-0003-0171-3582 H-index: 22 Professor at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty (Kazakhstan), leader scientist in Antigen Enterprise, member of International Guilde des fromagere, consultant for FAO, consultant for national association of artisanal processing milk producers. Field of expertises in dairy science and production (cow milk sector, camel milk sector, milk production, camel breeding); food technology (fermented dairy processing, cheese making, heat treatment); biochemistry (milk proteins, milk lipids, milk minerals); food safety and environment (environmental pollutants: heavy metals, pesticides, POPs in food chain, transfer into- out- animal). She worked for FAO in Saudi Arabia (2010-2015) where she developed extensive work on the composition and processing of camel milk. She carried out expertise on this subject in Kazakhstan, Morocco, Mauritania and Oman with FAO, Tunisia, Algeria, Spain, France, Turkey, Kazakhstan for the private sector and participated in numerous international conferences. She is also partner of EU project PRIMA program (CAMELMILK project), ERASMUS (France, Greece). She was a visiting researcher at CIRAD. In 2022 she was recognized as best scientists by Ministry of Science in Kazakhstan.