AASV Announces Student Seminar Participants for 2011

October 20, 2010 — AASV Staff

The AASV is pleased to announce the program for the Student Seminar at the 2011 AASV Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. Veterinary students from eleven universities submitted a record-setting total of 50 abstracts for consideration. A panel of three veterinarians representing private practice, industry, and academia reviewed and scored the abstracts to select fifteen for oral presentation at the meeting. The panel also approved thirty abstracts for poster presentation.

Alpharma Animal Health, sponsor of the Student Seminar, provides a $750 travel stipend to each student selected to participate in the oral session. At the meeting, the students' oral presentations and written materials will be judged to determine the recipients of scholarships ranging from $500 to $5000, funded by Alpharma Animal Health and Elanco Animal Health. The Student Seminar will take place Sunday, March 6, from 1:00 to 5:15 pm, and the scholarship awards will be announced during the noon luncheon on Monday, March 7. The program follows:

AASV Student Seminar
Sunday, March 6
Phoenix, Arizona
Session Co-chairs: Dr. Peter Davies & Dr. Alex Ramirez

1:00 pm
Paul Thomas
Iowa State University
Comparison of PCR data for pre-wean pooled-serum to post-wean oral fluid for porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus monitoring in sow farms

1:15 pm
Deanne Day
Iowa State University
PRRS diagnostics: Correlation of serum, tonsil scrapings, and oral fluids in growing gilts with natural exposure

1:30 pm
Peter Schneider
Iowa State University
Survey of transport vehicle decontamination practices for PRRSv in the swine industry

1:45 pm
Jessica McKinney
University of Illinoisf
Evaluation of a novel electrocution device in swine from birth to fifteen pounds

2:00 pm
Anna Massie
University of Illinois
Salmonella environmental contamination assessment in a commercial swine nursery barn

2:15 pm
Kristy Kenney
North Carolina State University
Validation of Swiffer cloth-origin neutralizing broth samples for detection of PRRS virus in the environment

2:30 pm
Alexander Primus
University of Minnesota
Identification of a new potentially virulent Brachyspira species affecting swine

2:45 pm BREAK

3:15 pm
Allison Meiszberg
Iowa State University
Detection of ceftiofur and oxytetracycline in oral fluids of swine with a pen-side competitive ELISA test after intramuscular injection

3:30 pm
Britni Miller
University of Illinois
Use of Ingelvac® PRRS MLV to stabilize a farrow-to-finish herd dually infected with both NA and EU PRRS field strains

3:45 pm
Andrew Stas
University of Pennsylvania
Genetic diversity of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus in Pennsylvania herds

4:00 pm
Kimberly Schultz
Iowa State University
Optimization of an antibiotic sensitivity assay for Mycoplasma hyosynoviae and susceptibility profile of recent field isolates

4:15 pm
Marlena McCarty
The Ohio State University
Characterization of antimicrobial resistance of Salmonella isolates from swine under varying ceftiofur use

4:30 pm
Jeremy Johnson
Iowa State University
Feasibility of oral fluids for detection of antibody response to porcine parvovirus, Leptospira, swine influenza, Lawsonia, or Salmonella in adult swine

4:45 pm
John Prickett
Iowa State University
Pen-based oral fluid sampling for PRRSV using an improved PRRSV PCR assay is highly effective for the detection of virus in low prevalence populations

5:00 pm
Jordan Graham
Iowa State University
Characterization and quantification of risks related to exhibition pigs in a PRRS area-region control & elimination project

The complete program for the meeting, including the Veterinary Student Poster Session, is online at www.aasv.org/annmtg.

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