Swine in Minnesota

Congratulations to University of Minnesota students Ilya Slizovskiy and Lan Wang on their awards from CRWAD!

The University of Minnesota had two Student Award Winners at the 2023 Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases! Both students received Animal Health Institute/Joseph J. Garbarino Foundation Biosafety & Biosecurity Awards for their presentations at the conference.

Morrison Swine Health Monitoring Project (MSHMP) 2022 Summary

As we have been doing it every year, we would like to provide you a general summary of our 2022 activities on this science page. During 2022 we continued to fine tune our internal processes based on requests and feedback obtained from all of you.

The University of Minnesota is hiring a Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Director

The Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of Minnesota is looking for a new leader to join their team who can help advance their mission to empower animal health professionals with accurate and timely diagnosis, innovative research and exceptional education.

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Best of Leman 2022: Lauren Glowzenski – Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae outbreak in an Iowa Finisher

This is our most popular series on the blog. Once a month, we are sharing with you a presentation given at the Allen D. Leman swine conference, on topics that the swine group found interesting, innovative or that lead to great discussions.

You can find all of the presentations selected from previous conferences on the blog here.

Dr. Lauren Glowzenski from TriOak Foods, gave this talk on the impact of biosecurity related to an App case, during the Carlos Pijoan SDEC symposium, a pre-conference workshop offered annually at the Leman Swine Conference.

The changing disguises PRRSV might use to hide from a pig’s immunity

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.

Researchers Igor A. D. Paploski, Dennis N. Makau, Nakarin Pamornchainavakul, Julia P. Baker, Declan Schroeder, Albert Rovira and Kimberly VanderWaal from the University of Minnesota and the University of Reading take a look at different glycosylation patterns of PRRSV in the US.