Wil J.M. Landman

Dr. Wil J.M. Landman became Doctor in Veterinary Medicine at Zaragoza University Spain in 1984 and in 1987 he also obtained this degree at Utrecht University the Netherlands. His PhD thesis entitled: ‘Amyloid arthropathy in chickens’ was finished in 1998. In 2009 he became De facto Diplomate of the European College of Poultry Veterinary Science. He has been employed at Royal GD in Deventer the Netherlands from 1988 until present dedicated to the laboratory diagnostics of poultry diseases and applied research concerning various aspects of poultry health amongst which: amyloidosis, mycoplasmosis, enterococcus infections, colibacillosis, coccidiosis, histomonosis, aerosol transmission of pathogens, avian leukosis, Marek’s disease, etc. He has also been involved in research concerning other species, e.g. humans and swine. He received the Tom Newman Award in 1999 for his work on amyloidosis. In 2004 he was awarded for the best scientific paper of the year 2003 published in the Journal of the Royal Dutch Veterinary Association. In 2005 he received the Bart Rispens Memorial Award for the most outstanding scientific publication in Avian Pathology of the years 2001 and 2002 titled ‘Molecular epidemiology of unilateral amyloid arthropathy in broiler breeders associated with Enterococcus faecalis’. He was the last author of the manuscript titled ‘Induction of eggshell apex abnormalities by Mycoplasma synoviae: field and experimental studies’, and the manuscript titled ‘Development and evaluation of a multi-locus sequence typing scheme for Mycoplasma synoviae’. Both papers were also awarded with the Bart Rispens Memorial Award in 2011 and 2017, respectively. Het has authored or co-authored over 100 scientific manuscripts.