Students Selected to Participate in AASV Poster Competition

October 25, 2017 — AASV Staff

The AASV is pleased to announce the participants in the eighth annual Veterinary Student Poster Competition, sponsored by Newport Laboratories. Based upon the scoring of abstracts submitted for the AASV Student Seminar, the top 15 abstracts of the 43 selected for poster presentation were chosen for the competition, which will be held Sunday morning, March 4, during the 2018 Annual Meeting in San Diego.

At the conference, a panel of three judges will conduct a brief interview with each of the 15 students selected to participate, and will evaluate the students' posters. All posters will be available for viewing by the meeting attendees starting at noon on Sunday and continuing through Monday. The results of the poster competition will be announced during the AASV Luncheon on Monday, March 5. Newport Laboratories is sponsoring the following scholarship awards to the poster competitors:

1st place poster: $500
2nd & 3rd place: $400 each
4th, 5th, & 6th place: $300 each
7th-15th place: $200 each

The judging score sheet is available online at https://www.aasv.org/annmtg/2018/postercomp.htm. The following presentations have been selected for the competition:

1. Pooling sensitivity of oropharyngeal swabs when sampling for influenza A and porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome viruses
Rachel Schulte, Iowa State University

2. Medium chain fatty acids improve growth and alter fecal microbial populations in nursery pigs
Jordan Gebhardt, Kansas State University

3. An assessment of hemoglobin concentrations in relation to reproductive stage and parity in sows
Kayla Castevens, North Carolina State University

4. Pre-challenge microbiome composition is associated with improved weight gain in pigs after vaccination with a porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) modified live virus (MLV) vaccine followed by challenge with PRRSV and porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2b)
Laura Constance, Kansas State University

5. Investigations of prevalence and causes of lameness in various age groups of gilts
Shelby Perkins, University of Missouri

6. Dynamics of porcine parainfluenza virus shedding in vaccinated and unvaccinated sows and their piglets
Allison Knox, University of Illinois

7. Immuno-modulatory influence of antibiotic therapy on the humoral immune response to vaccination of weaned pigs
Jenna Scott, North Carolina State University

8. Comparison of serological responses in traditional and parity segregated flows for Mycoplasma hyopneumonia and Lawsonia intracellularis
Elizabeth Noblett, North Carolina State University

9. Utilizing serum antibody levels in post vaccinated piglets to evaluate maternal antibody interference and vaccination compliance
Jonathan Tubbs, Auburn University

10. Assessment of the association between respiratory pathogen burden and the productivity of growing pigs
Rachel Stika, Iowa State University

11. A novel approach to water medication calculations
Brent Sexton, Iowa State University

12. Comparison of individual oral fluids, pooled oral fluid samples and Swiffer™ environmental samples of drinkers for the detection of IAV-S and PRRSV by PCR
Taylor Homann, University of Minnesota

13. Evaluation of serological responses to Circumvent PCV-M G2 in sows vaccinated pre-farrowing and in pigs with maternally-derived antibodies at time of first vaccination
Jamie Madigan, North Carolina State University

14. Validation of a urine dipstick as a tool to assess the potential impact of urinary tract health on reproductive performance and sow mortality
Jewell Bremer, North Carolina State University

15. Evaluation of antibody titer of the weaned pig following vaccination with a killed influenza A virus vaccine in the presence of maternal antibodies both pre- and post-heterologous influenza A virus challenge
Abigail Ruane, Iowa State University

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