AASV Announces Student Seminar Participants for 2015

October 15, 2014 — AASV Staff

The AASV is pleased to announce the program for the Student Seminar at the 2015 AASV Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida. Sixty-one veterinary students from 15 universities submitted abstracts for consideration. A panel of three veterinarians representing private practice, industry, and academia reviewed and scored the abstracts to select 15 for oral presentation at the meeting. The panel also approved 46 abstracts for poster presentation. Zoetis, sponsor of the Student Seminar and Poster Session, provides a $750 travel stipend to each student selected to participate in the oral session and co-sponsors a $250 stipend to each poster presenter.

At the meeting, the students' oral presentations and written materials will be judged to determine the recipients of AASV Foundation scholarships ranging from $500 to $5000, funded by Elanco Animal Health and Zoetis. The Student Seminar will take place Sunday, March 1, from 1:00 to 5:15 pm, and the scholarship awards will be announced during the noon luncheon on Monday, March 2. The schedule for the Student Seminar oral presentations follows:

Concurrent Session #1: Student Seminar
Sunday, March 1, 2015
1:00 - 5:15 PM
Session Co-Chairs: Alex Ramirez and Peter Davies

Sponsored by ZOETIS

1:00
Impact of piglet weight and weaning age on influenza A virus infection and nucleoprotein antibody levels at weaning
Hunter Baldry, University of Minnesota

1:15
An investigation of PRRSV-positive PCR findings in weanling pigs using a novel sampling method
Brigitte Mason, University of Illinois

1:30
The effects of vaccination timing on porcine circovirus type 2 viremia
Colleen Crozier, North Carolina State University

1:45
Comparison of sow decubital shoulder ulcer treatments
Emily Renner, University of Minnesota

2:00
Effect of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus infectious doses on outcome of infection in naiive neonatal piglets and weaned pigs
Joseph Thomas, Iowa State University

2:15
Persistence of clinical signs associated with a porcine epidemic diarrhea virus outbreak on a farrow-to-grow swine operation in southwestern Ontario: A case study
Ryan Tenbergen, University of Guelph

2:30
Correlation of semi-quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction results for porcine epidemic diarrhea virus and the presence of positive immunohistochemistry
Alyssa Taplett, Iowa State University

2:45 BREAK

3:15
Evaluation of an accelerated hydrogen peroxide disinfectant to inactivate PEDV in swine feces on metal surfaces found in livestock trailers
Jacqueline Myers, Iowa State University

3:30
Comparison of ante-mortem sampling procedures to post-mortem bronchial swabs for detection of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae by PCR
Christopher Sievers, Iowa State University

3:45
Evaluation of disinfectants to neutralize porcine epidemic diarrhea virus
Scott Radke, Iowa State University

4:00 Use of environmental sampling and bioassay as supportive diagnostics in eliminating porcine epidemic diarrhea virus from sow farms
Kathleen Wood, North Carolina State University

4:15
A solution to controlled exposure of feedback material in group-housed gestating sows
Alexandra John, University of Pennsylvania

4:30
Evaluation of a porcine epidemic diarrhea vaccine to reduce preweaning mortality
Amanda Harris, Iowa State University

4:45
Evaluating the use of Swiffer pads to detect porcine epidemic diarrhea virus in the farrowing environment
Quinn Robinson, Iowa State University

5:00
Pharmacokinetics of translactational delivery of the analgesic meloxicam
Brianna Peters, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine

5:15 Session concludes

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