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Veterinary Students Selected to Participate in 2017 Poster Competition

The AASV is pleased to announce the participants in the seventh annual Veterinary Student Poster Competition, sponsored by Newport Laboratories. The competition will be held Sunday, February 26, during the 2017 Annual Meeting in Denver. 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 33 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, February 26. 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, February 27. 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/2017/postercomp.htm. The following presentations have been selected for the competition:

1. An interferon-inducing porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus vaccine candidate elicits protection against challenge with a heterologous virulent type 2 strain in pigs
Eve Fontanella, Iowa State University

2. Determining the efficacy of pooling fecal swabs in the field versus the lab for detection of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus by PCR
Sara Hamlett, Iowa State University

3. Evaluation of autogenous vaccine efficacy in western Canadian swine herds
Lauren Redies, University of Saskatchewan

4. Trends in Lawsonia intracellularis polymerase chain reaction to the submissions to the University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory over a 10-year period
Donna Drebes, University of Minnesota

5. Sand as a bedding for loose-housed gestating sows fed via ESF
Jessica Applebaum, University of Pennsylvania

6. Evaluation of the sensitivity of Envirobooties™ and Swiffer™ kits for viral detection of PRRSV and PEDV in livestock trailers
Taylor Engle, Virginia-Maryland Regional CVM

7. Comparison of morbidity and mortality after challenge with two North American PRRS virus isolates shows marked variation in time course and prevalence of clinical disease between isolates
Laura Constance, Kansas State University

8. Detection of influenza A virus on inanimate fair surfaces
Courtney Wright, The Ohio State University

9. Evaluation of the effects of flushing feed manufacturing equipment with chemically treated rice hulls on porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) cross contamination during feed manufacturing
Jordan Gebhardt, Kansas State University

10. Impact of sow parity on the influenza A (IAV-S) infection timing of the suckling pig in an endemic herd
Megan Bloemer, University of Illinois

11. Evaluation of a novel antibiotic-free extender utilizing short-term hypothermic storage
Rochelle Warner, Iowa State University

12. Timing differences of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae colonization in growing replacement gilts with and without tulathromycin administration at weaning
Brandi Burton, University of Illinois

13. Refinement of field anesthesia protocols for joint fluid collection in healthy swine
Katie O'Brien, University of Illinois

14. Validation of snout wipes to detect influenza A virus in swine (IAV-S)
Joel Steckelberg, Iowa State University

15. Observations of sleep-related behaviors in piglets pre- and post-castration
Anna Martin, University of Pennsylvania