The University of Minnesota will have a strong presence at the 55th American Association of Swine Veterinarians Annual Meeting! Join us in Nashville, Tennessee later this month and hear from these great UMN speakers.
Saturday afternoon
Disease Preparedness: Lessons and Updates
1:45 New insights: Application of an African swine fever virus surrogate, Declan Schroeder
3:30 Depopulation methods: Adding more tools to the toolbox, Marie Culhane
Maximizing the Value of Big Diagnostic Data
2:25 Extracting maximum value from farm-specific whole genome sequencing data: Lessons learned working with several cases, Amanda Sponheim
Sunday morning
Research topics
8:30 What is behind tongue tip sampling and other welfare-friendly postmortem samples for accurately detecting PRRSV? Mariana Kikuti
10:15 Environmental viability of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, Cassidy Cordon
10:30 Confirming Day 0 in a Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae herd closure, Amanda Sponheim
Swine Health through Nutrition
9:00 Modulating the microbiome with feed interventions: Strategies and challenges in swine and livestock production, Noelle Noyes
Much Ado about Flu
10:15 Mitigating the spread of influenza between pigs and workers, Montse Torremorell
Sunday afternoon
1:00 Repeat offenders: PRRSV clinical re-breaks from a whole genome perspective, Julia Baker
1:15 Evaluation of the indirect transmission of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, Cassidy Cordon
Monday afternoon
3:00 Current trends in Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae elimination, Amanda Sponheim
Posters
- Minimizing sample cross-contamination for the detection of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, Casondra Snow
- Characterizing the persistence of inactivated Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae DNA detection in the respiratory tract of pigs, Albert Canturri
- Survey of management, biosecurity, and marketing practices of alternative pig farms in Minnesota, Miranda Medrano
- Evaluation of the infectious level of three wild-type PRRSV variants, Marcello Melini
- Weathering the storm: Extreme weather events and their association with PED and PRRS occurrence, Igor Paploski
- Detection of Mycoplasma hyosynoviae antibodies in pigs from clinically affected and non-affected herds, Haley Schwecke
- Development and implementation of an early warning tool for disease occurrence in the US swine breeding herd population, Xiaomei Yue
- Factors influencing the PEDV time-to-stability and time-in-positive in US breeding herds: A retrospective analysis based on one decade of monitoring data, Xiaomei Yue
Check out the AASV website for the full program, and register if you have not done so yet (the last day to register online is this Friday, February 16). We are looking forward to seeing you there!