The American Meat Science Association (AMSA) is pleased to announce, Drs. Wes Schilling, Heather Bruce, and Ranjith Ramanathan will be the featured speakers at the AMSA 71st Reciprocal Meat Conference(RMC) Symposium entitled “Applied and Omic Approaches to Fresh Meat Quality Defects”, on Monday, June 25 in Kansas City, MO. This symposium will target current and cutting-edge research employed in animal and meat science to address the fundamentals of fresh meat quality defects utilizing omic approaches. The speakers will address new research findings on some of the well-known quality defects such as DFD (dark-firm-dry) in beef and PSE (pale-soft-exudative) in chicken, focusing on both pre-harvest interventions and post-harvest meat biochemistry.