AASV Announces Student Poster Competition Participants

October 20, 2020 — AASV Staff

The AASV is pleased to announce the participants in the eleventh annual Veterinary Student Poster Competition, sponsored by United Animal Health. Based on scores received in the judging of abstracts submitted by veterinary students in September, the top fifteen poster abstracts have been chosen for judging. The selected presentations were selected assigned to the random competition order below in a blind drawing.

A panel of three practitioner judges will conduct a brief interview of each student presenter during the AASV Annual Meeting and evaluate the student's poster during the meeting. The judging scoresheet is available online at aasv.org/annmtg/2021/postercomp.htm. The results of the poster competition will be announced on Monday, March 1. United Animal Health is providing the following 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

AASV Student Poster Competition

1. The efficacy of two detergents for sanitizing swine farrowing stalls
Kyle Nisley, Iowa State University

2. Quantifying sow lameness with a time-of-flight camera
Matthew Boulanger, University of Pennsylvania

3. Pilot study to validate passive transfer in piglets
Lucas Buehler, The Ohio State University

4. A comparison of two different trailer styles on stress and meat quality in commercial finishing hog transport
Melanie Boucher, University of Guelph

5. Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) detection and characterization among US swine herds
Kelly Hewitt, Iowa State University

6. Evaluation of initial pig weight and weaning age as indicators of nursery mortality and growth
Brooke Kitting, University of Pennsylvania

7. Developing a disease outbreak strategy: a survey of swine slaughterhouse location, capacity and limitations
Ashley Hallowell, University of Pennsylvania

8. Phylogenetic analysis of spillover events between swine and human influenza A virus subtype H3N2 between 2014 and 2019 in the United States
Dayna Kinkade, University of Illinois

9. A comparison of time, product usage and dose validation features between automed® and conventional dosing syringes during wean pig shots
Nicholas Benge, Iowa State University

10. Determining incidence and developing a case definition for muscle necrosis and lameness found in high health flow
Rachel Weidmayer, University of Minnesota

11. Investigating intermittent PRRSV detection in a breeding herd following PRRSV elimination
Katyann Graham, Iowa State University

12. Determining feasibility of a serum rinse method to detect PRRS via PCR
Kate Edmunds, Michigan State University

13. Effect of Saccharomyces cerevisiae boulardii on mummies, stillborns, and wean-to-service interval on a commercial breed-to-wean farm
Isaac Goldner, University of Illinois

14. Comparison of disinfectant coverage between traditional and electrostatic fogging methods for supply entry into sow farms
Sydney Simmons, North Carolina State University

15. Use of computer-aided design to optimize swine facility airflow
Luke Daniels, University of Illinois

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