2014 North American PRRS Symposium and PED Update

April 30, 2014 — 

This is the first announcement for the 2014 North American PRRS Symposium on December 5-6, 2014 at the Intercontinental Hotel, Magnificent Mile in Chicago, IL. The conference will begin Friday, December 5, from 1 PM to 5 PM, with a poster session and reception to follow. The poster session will include mini-talks on selected abstracts. The conference will continue with an all-day session on Saturday, December 6. Topics include disease control in the field, vaccines, pathogenesis, diagnostics, epidemiology and the role of host genetics in disease resistance. A number of talks will be devoted to the latest developments on PED. Lunch on Saturday is included in the registration fee. Abstracts are requested for PRRS, PED and PCVAD.

Abstract submission and registration information will be available soon.

Travel fellowships will be available for students and postdocs.

CE credits will be available through Kansas State University using the guidelines set forth by the AAVSB RACE approval program.