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Veterinary Students Selected to Participate in Poster Competition

The AASV is pleased to announce the participants in the ninth annual Veterinary Student Poster Competition, sponsored by Newport Laboratories. The competition will be held Sunday, March 10, during the 2019 Annual Meeting in Orlando. Based upon scores awarded in the judging of abstracts submitted for the AASV Student Seminar, the top 15 poster abstracts have been chosen for judging, out of the 29 that were selected for poster presentation at the meeting.

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 at the meeting on Sunday morning, March 10. 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 11. 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/2019/postercomp.htm. The following presentations have been selected for the competition:

  1. Evaluation of semen production in boars given an IAV-S vaccine
    Jonathan Tubbs, Auburn University

  2. Welfare implications of tail docking, teeth clipping, and surgical castration impair production and health of piglets
    Liat Morgan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  3. The cost and cause of lameness in loose-housed sows
    Justin Schumacher, University of Pennsylvania

  4. Dietary algae-derived protein as antibiotic alternative for weaned pigs infected with enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli
    Brooke Smith, University of Illinois

  5. Relationship of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and Mycoplasma hyorhini detection in processing fluids with growing pig prevalence
    Rachel Stika, Iowa State University

  6. Impact of shoulder lesions on sow behavior and welfare
    Emily Nogay, University of Pennsylvania

  7. The influence of a porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus infection on vitamin and mineral levels in serum, liver, and bone of recently weaned pigs
    Jacob Baker, Iowa State University

  8. Evaluating the correlation of Mycoplasma hyorhini and Mycoplasma hyosynoviae detection in oral fluids and lameness scores
    David Pillman, University of Minnesota

  9. Assessing the presence of infectious influenza A virus in swine in oral fluid and nasal swab samples to determine replacement gilt flow status
    Gabrielle Fry, Purdue University

  10. How neonatal factors affect reproductive performance of swine replacement breeding stock
    Jordan Buchan, University of Guelph

  11. Comparison of processing fluids and placental umbilical cord serum to detect porcine circovirus type 2 in sow farms
    Shelby Perkin, University of Missouri

  12. Case study evaluating diagnostic tools for Mycoplasma hyorhinis field diagnosis
    Katie Kehl, Kansas State University

  13. Understanding bacterial resistance from clinical isolates
    Taylor Homann, University of Minnesota

  14. Hemoglobin concentration in sows: Correlation with stillborn
    Elizabeth Noblet, North Carolina State University

  15. The effect of vaccination of gilts with a pre-farrow rotavirus RNA particle vaccine following pre-breeding natural planned exposure on piglet growth and viral shedding
    Amanda Anderson, Iowa State University