Next week-end will start the 48th American Association of Swine Veterinarians (AASV) meeting in Denver, CO. As usual, numerous UMN-CVM faculty and graduate students will be attending and presenting the results of their latest research. We hare looking forward to seeing you there!
Pre-conference seminars:
- Doug Marthaler: Porcine rotaviruses: what we know and what we are still missing
- Maria Pieters: Current tools to approach Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae diagnostic cases
Research topics:
- Michael Murtaugh: Broadly neutralizing antibodies to recent, virulent type 2 PRRSV isolates
- Michael Rahe: Characterization of the memory immune response to PRRSV infection
- Fabian Chamba Pardo: Effect of influenza prevalence at weaning on transmission, clinical signs and performance after weaning
- Talita Resende: Mycoplasma hyorhinis associated with conjunctivitis in pigs
Antibiotic session:
- Peter Davies: Antibiotic use metrics
Managing the reproductive herd for high health and productivity
- Maria Pieters: A pig’s early challenges
Student session:
- Alyssa Anderson: Use of molecular characterization tools to investigate Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae outbreaks
- Hunter Baldry: Evaluation of positive pressure filtration to reduce aerosol transmission of PRRSV during an experimental challenge of farm access points
- Chris Deegan: Dynamics of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae colonization, seroconversion and onset of clinical signs in a population of gilts under field conditions
- Zhen Yang: Investigating Porcine Circovirus Associated Disease (PCVAD) in commercial swine herd by next generation sequencing
Posters:
- Fabian Chamba Pardo: Influenza A virus prevalence and seasonality in midwestern US breeding herds
- Donna Drebes: Trends in Lawsonia intracellularis PCR to the submissions to the UMN-VDL over a 10-year period
- Kevin Gustafson: B-cell tetramer monitoring of the memory immune response to PRRSV
- Taylor Homann: Characterizing piglet loss from PRRS outbreak