Veterinary Students Selected to Participate in 2015 Poster Competition

October 15, 2014 — AASV Staff

The AASV is pleased to announce the participants in the fifth annual Veterinary Student Poster Competition, sponsored by Newport Laboratories. The competition will be held Sunday, March 1, during the 2015 Annual Meeting in Orlando. Based upon scores awarded in the judging of abstracts submitted for the AASV Student Seminar, the top 15 poster abstracts have been chosen for judging, out of the 46 that were selected for poster presentation at the meeting.

A panel of three judges will conduct a brief interview with each of the 15 students selected to participate, and will evaluate the students' posters at the meeting on Sunday morning, March 1. 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 AASV Luncheon on Monday, March 2. Newport Laboratories is sponsoring the following scholarship 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 score sheet is available online at https://www.aasv.org/annmtg/2015/postercomp.htm. The following presentations have been selected for the competition:

1. A porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus vaccine based on the synthetic attenuated virus engineering (SAVE) approach is attentuated and effective in protecting against macroscopic lung lesions associated with homologous virus challenge in a conventional pig model
Danielle Evenson, Iowa State University

2. A retrospective study of Brachyspira hampsonii in swine using paraffin-embedded colon tissue from diagnostic cases
Stephanie Derbawk, University of Saskatchewan

3. Effect of reconstitution of an influenza A swine vaccine with another vaccine on the serological response
Daniel Gascho, Purdue University

4. Evaluation of deworming protocols in breeding herds in Minnesota and Iowa using a survey and fecal examination
Cassy Griebel, University of Minnesota

5. Individual Pig Care: Determing the best management practice for the B-pig
Chelsea Onken, Iowa State University

6. Investigation of neutralizing antibodies to determine lactogenic immunity levels following exposure to porcine epidemic diarrhea virus
Erin Jobman, Kansas State University

7. Alternative methods of measuring swine body temperature
Amanda Jara, University of Georgia

8. Serology comparison of pigs vaccinated with Ingelvac® PRRS MLV at different ages, from a PRRSV positive stable source
Tyler Te Grotenhuis, Iowa State University

9. Vaccination mitigates the negative impact PRRSV infection has on the pharmacokinetics of ceftiofur crystalline free acid in pigs
Joel Sparks, Iowa State University

10. Comparison of 4 euthanasia methods in weaning age piglets
Dan Breuer, Iowa State University

11. Elucidating positive states of sow welfare
Bernadetta Bernatowicz, University of Pennsylvania

12. Comparison of sampling methods for detection of influenza A virus
Kayla Ohrt, Iowa State University

13. The effect of translactational antibodies on preweaning mortality in a porcine epidemic diarrhea virus exposed herd
Donna Drebes, University of Minnesota

14. Differences in host genetics influence PCVAD susceptibility based on experimental challenges with porcine circovirus 2b
Taylor Engle, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine

15. Evaluation of Flu DETECT antigen test kit using three different sampling methods during natural infections of influenza A virus in swine
Joseph Yaros, Cornell University

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