Conferences – Page 2 – Swine in Minnesota

DVM Students: Start planning now to apply for this year’s Morrison Swine Innovator Prize!

Veterinary students: Are you shadowing a swine practitioner this summer or have you been involved in an interesting clinical case investigation? Did you work on your veterinary skills by designing a differential diagnosis list or working on a treatment plan? Did you investigate a problem by analyzing production records? Share your work at the Allen D. Leman Swine Conference to win the Morrison Swine Innovator Prize!

Attending the Leman Conference is a great opportunity for veterinary students who want to network with industry leaders. Submissions to enter in the selection to present at the DVM student session at the Leman Conference should be uploaded at z.umn.edu/MSIP by the end of the day August 15th.

We are headed to the AASV Annual Meeting! See you there!

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!

First time win: A University of Minnesota student takes the Morrison Swine Innovator Prize

*2025 Morrison Swine Innovator Prize winner Kaydance Hinn (right) and Dr. Perle Zhitnitskiy, CVM professor and coordinator of the competition.*

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.

Paradigm Shifts and Practical Solutions: Highlights from the 2025 Allen D. Leman Swine Conference

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.

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) 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.