AASV Announces Student Seminar Participants for 2017

October 19, 2016 — AASV Staff

The AASV is pleased to announce the program for the Student Seminar at the 2017 AASV Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado. Fifty veterinary students from 12 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 33 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 for 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, February 26, from 1:00 to 5:15 pm, and the scholarship awards will be announced during the noon luncheon on Monday, February 27. The schedule for the Student Seminar oral presentations follows:

Concurrent Session #1: Student Seminar
Sunday, February 26, 2017
1:00 – 5:15 PM
Session Co-chairs: Maria Pieters and Andrew Bowman

Sponsored by ZOETIS

1:00
Evaluation of a peroxygen-based disinfectant to inactivate porcine epidemic diarrhea virus in swine feces on metal surfaces under freezing conditions
Kimberlee Baker, Iowa State University

1:15
Calculating and evaluating antibiotic usage in a United States swine production system
Megan Pieters, Iowa State University

1:30
Assessment of knowledge, compliance, and attitudes of English- and Spanish-speaking farm employees towards biosecurity practices
Michael Mardesen, Iowa State University

1:45
Comparison of standard and bench entry protocols for prevention of environmental contamination due to personnel entry in a commercial swine facility
Cassandra Fitzgerald, Iowa State University

2:00
Use of molecular characterization tools to investigate Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae outbreaks
Alyssa Anderson, University of Minnesota

2:15
Development and validation of ante-mortem urine collection techniques for gilts and sows
Megan Nickel, Iowa State University

2:30
An evaluation of oropharyngeal swabbing as a diagnostic technique for the detection of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) in weaned pigs
Kylie Glisson, North Carolina State University

2:45 BREAK

3:15
A challenge study to determine whether in-feed flavophospholipol can reduce Salmonella shedding and colonization in nursery pigs
Jane Newman, University of Guelph

3:30
Correlating sampling methods to porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) viremia status of sows and piglets in a sow herd with or without PCV2 revaccination during gestation
Allison Knox, University of Illinois

3:45
Sample comparison for detecting porcine circovirus type 2 in breeding herds
Rachel Schulte, Iowa State University

4:00
Evaluation of positive pressure filtration to reduce aerosol transmission of PRRSV during an experimental challenge of farm access points
Hunter Baldry, University of Minnesota

4:15
Evaluation of methods for determining the porcine circovirus type 2 status of sow herds
Chelsea Ruston, Iowa State University

4:30
Dynamics of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae colonization, seroconversion and onset of clinical signs in a population of gilts under field condition
Chris Deegan, University of Minnesota

4:45
Investigating porcine circovirus associated disease (PCVAD) in commercial swine herds by next generation sequencing
Zhen Yang, University of Minnesota

5:00
Effect of antimicrobials on non-toxigenic E coli oral vaccine
Olivia Myer, North Carolina State University

5:15 Session concludes

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