Want to review the list of University of Minnesota speakers at this year’s American Association of Swine Veterinarians Annual Meeting? Check out our recent blogpost highlighting the UMN Swine Group at the AASV. You can also check out the full program on the AASV on their website.
Safe travel to those on their way to the meeting! We will be back with new content on March 6!
St. Paul, Minn.—Kaydance Hinn, a first-year student at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, received the 2025 Morrison Swine Innovator Prize, an award given to veterinary students who want to make a difference in swine health and production.
Continue reading “First time win: A University of Minnesota student takes the Morrison Swine Innovator Prize”The 2025 Allen D. Leman Swine Conference brought together more than 700 professionals from the international swine community in St. Paul, Minnesota this past weekend, delivering exactly what attendees have come to expect: cutting-edge science, practical solutions, and challenges to conventional thinking.
Continue reading “Paradigm Shifts and Practical Solutions: Highlights from the 2025 Allen D. Leman Swine Conference”This is our Friday rubric: every week a new Science Page from the Bob Morrison’s Swine Health Monitoring Project. The previous editions of the science page are available on our website.
The Global African Swine Fever Research Alliance (GARA) builds global research partnerships to combat African Swine Fever (ASF). Its goals include identifying research gaps, studying ASF’s impact, developing and evaluating control tools, and promoting knowledge sharing. GARA coordinates efforts toward ASF control and eradication. Their latest meeting was held in Rome, Italy, in April 2025. Two selected abstracts from the proceedings are included below.
Continue reading “Featured abstracts of the Global African Swine Fever Research Alliance (GARA) Scientific Meeting – Part 2”This is our Friday rubric: every week a new Science Page from the Bob Morrison’s Swine Health Monitoring Project. The previous editions of the science page are available on our website.
The Global African Swine Fever Research Alliance (GARA) aims to build worldwide research partnerships to tackle African Swine Fever (ASF). Their goals include identifying research opportunities, conducting diverse studies on ASF, assessing its societal and economic effects, developing new tools for prevention and control, evaluating their impact, and acting as a hub for communication and technology sharing in the global ASF research community. GARA fosters a coordinated effort leading to the progressive control and eradication of ASF. Their most recent scientific meetings, the 2025, took place in Rome, Italy, on April 2025. We have selected 2 abstracts from the proceedings book that we have included below.
Continue reading “Featured abstracts of the Global African Swine Fever Research Alliance (GARA) Scientific Meeting – Part 1”