AASV Announces Student Seminar Participants for 2018

October 25, 2017 — AASV Staff

The AASV is pleased to announce the program for the Student Seminar at the 2018 AASV Annual Meeting in San Diego, California. Fifty-eight veterinary students from 17 universities submitted abstracts for consideration. A panel of six veterinarians representing private practice, industry, and academia reviewed and scored the abstracts to select 15 for oral presentation at the meeting. The panel approved all of the remaining 43 abstracts for poster presentation. Zoetis, sponsor of the Student Seminar and Poster Session, provides a $750 travel stipend to each student selected to participate in the oral session and co-sponsors a $250 stipend for each poster presenter.

At the meeting, the students' oral presentations and written materials will be judged to determine the recipients of AASV Foundation scholarships ranging from $500 to $5000, funded by Elanco Animal Health and Zoetis. The Student Seminar, co-chaired by Drs Andy Bowman and Maria Pieters, will take place Sunday, March 4, from 1:00 to 5:15 pm. The scholarship awards will be announced during the noon luncheon on Monday, March 5. The schedule for the Student Seminar oral presentations follows:

Concurrent Session #1: Student Seminar
Sunday, March 4, 2018
1:00 - 5:15 PM
Session Co-chairs: Andrew Bowman and Maria Pieters

Sponsored by ZOETIS

1:00
Developing a useful model to evaluate the judicious use of a ceftiofur crystalline free acid to control umbilical infections and hernias in a commercial production system
Cassandra Fitzgerald, Iowa State University

1:15
The effect of increased feed intake during late gestation on litter characteristics of commercial sows
Katie O'Brien, University of Illinois

1:30
Evaluation of antibiotics at weaning on swine respiratory disease in the early wean-finish phase
Joel Steckelberg, Iowa State University

1:45
Comparison of oral fluids, environmental swabs, and pooled feces for detection of dysentery-associated Brachyspira spp in pigs
Whitney Webb, Iowa State University

2:00
Comparison of biosecurity aspects between swine breeding herds with low and high incidence of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus
Kimberlee Baker, Iowa State University

2:15
Putting to test a diagnostic protocol for confirmation of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae elimination in sow farms
Bryant Chapman, Virginia Maryland Regional CVM

2:30
Evaluation of washing-disinfectant-TADD conditions required to produce a negative PCR result when monitoring the presence of PRRSV on metal surfaces
Rita Anne Neat, Iowa State University

2:45 BREAK

3:15
Litter porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) status at processing and relationship to PRRS status at weaning using different pools of sampling tissues
Mikalah Smith, Iowa State University

3:30
Vaccination shedding of a porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) modified live virus in nursery pigs
Evan Koep, Iowa State University

3:45
Evaluation of Senecavirus A transmission in mice under experimental conditions
Elizabeth Houston, Iowa State University

4:00
Utilizing piglet-processing fluids to detect PRRSV by PCR in a low-prevalence population
Jacob Baker, Iowa State University

4:15
Geographic distribution and genetic diversity of porcine circovirus type 3 from clinical samples in the US swine farms
Zhen Yang, University of Minnesota

4:30
Use of a hurricane fogger for Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae inoculation in nursery age gilts
Megan Nickel, Iowa State University

4:45
A comparison of the use of tails versus testicles in the production of processing fluids for detection of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus
Megan Hood, North Carolina State University

5:00
Evaluating the effects of an isotonic protein solution in nursery pigs
Stephanie Betbeze, Lincoln Memorial University

5:15 Session concludes

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