AASV Announces Student Poster Competition Participants

November 16, 2011 — AASV Staff

The AASV is pleased to announce the participants in the second annual Veterinary Student Poster Competition, sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. The competition will be held Sunday, March 11, during the 2012 Annual Meeting in Denver. Based on scores received in the judging of abstracts submitted for the AASV Student Seminar in September, the top fifteen poster abstracts have been chosen for judging.

A panel of three judges will conduct a brief interview of each student presenter and evaluate the student's poster at the meeting on Sunday morning, March 11. 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 Boehringer-Ingelheim-sponsored AASV Luncheon on Monday, March 12. Boehringer-Ingelheim 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

The judging scoresheet is available online at http://www.aasv.org/annmtg/2012/postercomp.htm. The following presentations have been selected for the competition:

Veterinary Student Poster Competition
Judging Schedule
Sunday, March 11, 2012

9:00
Detection of PRRSV and SIV in oral fluids from pigs one week postweaning
Shamus Brown, Iowa State University

9:10
Effect of joint sampling technique on bacterial load in synovial fluid samples of swine in a commercial setting
Deanne Day, Iowa State University

9:20
Identification of a flow-based Salmonella challenge using a multi-site necropsy survey in a swine production system
Jordan Graham, Iowa State University

9:30
Comparison of various diagnostic samples as a means of diagnosing Mycoplasma hyosynoviae
Jared Jacobson, Iowa State University

9:40
A comparison of tracheobronchial, oropharyngeal, and nasal swabs to determine the Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae status in suckling piglets
Kurt Kuecker, Iowa State University

9:50
Retrospective analysis of pig condemnation data: Implications for national disease surveillance
Jeffrey Ling Min Than, Massey University

10:00
Modification of swine oral fluid samples to enhance the sensitivity for detecting porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSv) isolation and genomic sequencing
Daren Miller, Purdue University

10:10
Characterization of pre-wean mortality in a sow farm
Amelia Naher, Washington State University

10:20 BREAK

10:40
Diagnosis of Mycoplamsa hyorhinis and Mycoplamsa hyosynoviae in pre-slaughter animals by serology and real-time PCR
Brent Pepin, Iowa State University

10:50
Evaluation of rope chewing method to acclimate PRRS virus for replacement gilts
Abigail Redalen, University of Minnesota

11:00
Detection of Mycoplasma hyopneumonia cell-mediated immunity in a field case study
Megan Schnur, Purdue University

11:10
An evaluation of the effects of environmental enrichment on the incidence of 2-week pre-farrow vulva biting in a pen-gestated sow farm with individual electronic sow feeders
Michael Slattery, Iowa State University

11:20
Finding the keepers: The influence of observed parameters on gilt retention and productivity
Lisa Thompson, North Carolina State University

11:30
Automated control and synchronization of gilt inseminations via electronic sow feeding
Jonathan Van Blarcom, Univeristy of Pennsylvania

11:40
Patterns of pig behavior relevant to oral fluid sample collection
Drew White, Iowa State University

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