49th AASV annual meeting: Come see us in San Diego!

San Diego skyline from Pt64 On Saturday starts the 49th annual meeting of the American Association of Swine Veterinarians in San Diego, CA. Once again, the swine group from the University of Minnesota, College of Veterinary Medicine will be well represented. This year’s theme is Global Knowledge: Individual Application.

Dr. Marie Culhane, member of this year’s program committee will also be co-chair a seminar on Sunday morning regarding the 4-dimensional revolution in food animal health and production: the synthesis of diagnostics, devices, digital platforms, and data analytics.  Dr. Maria Pieters will co-chair the DVM student seminar hold on Sunday afternoon.

Numerous faculty member, graduate students, researchers and DVM students will be presenting throughout the conference.

Presenter Topic When Session
Montse Torremorell Comparison of aggregate/population samples to detect viruses in suckling pigs Saturday, 2:05pm Monitoring and Surveillance 2.0
Albert Rovira Using Optisample to determine sample for specific needs Saturday, 4:15pm Monitoring and Surveillance 2.0
Montse Torremorell Air filtration testing: understanding filter efficacy and leakage Saturday, 1:25pm Biosecurity
Juan Sanhueza MSHMP Sunday, 10:15am The 4-dimensional revolution in food animal health and production
Jerri Torrison PigSAVI Sunday, 10:40am The 4-dimensional revolution in food animal health and production
Fabio Vannucci Diagnostic testing for challenging cases Sunday, 9:15am Diagnostics
Fabian Chamba Pardo Breeding herd factors associated with influenza in piglets at weaning Sunday, 9:15am Research topics
Nirmala Jayaveeramuthu Is influenza vaccination a key driver of influenza genetic diversity in piglets? Sunday, 9:30am Research topics
Jorge Garrido Mantilla Novel approaches for influenza surveillance in swine breeding herds Sunday, 9:45am Research topics
Matthew Sturos Shedding and persistence of Senecavirus A in boars Sunday, 11:45am Research topics
Zhen Yang Geographic distribution and genetic diversity of PCV3 from clinical samples in US swine farms Sunday, 4:15pm Student seminar
Fernando Leite The impact of zinc amino acid complex supplementation on the porcine response to subclinical Lawsonia intracellularis infection Sunday, 1:15pm Industrial Partners
Erika Vasquez Comparison of IPMA and commercial blocking ELISA for Lawsonia intracellularis Sunday, 3:00pm Industrial Partners
Fabio Vannucci Senecavirus A: pathologist/research perspective Monday, 4:45pm Emerging diseases
Peter Davies Measuring antibiotic use in pork production: why, how, and for whom? Tuesday, 10:30am General session

Do not forget to take a look at the various posters we will be presenting!

Presenter Topic Poster #
Taylor Homann Comparison of individual and pooled oral fluid samples, and Swiffer environmental samples of drinkers for the detection of IAV-S and PRRSV by PCR 12
Kevin Gustafson In vitro culture of porcine B cells 26
Marjorie Schleper Evaluation of farrowing stall sanitation protocols with ATP bioluminescence 37
Talita Resende Co-detection of PCV2 and PCV3 in pig samples 64
Juan Sanhueza Factors that impact PRRS time to stability 65
Frances Shepherd Phenotypic relationship and hypervariability of the VP7 gene in porcine rotavirus B and C 66
Shaoyuan Tan Benchmarking pen-side sequencing for infectious disease diagnosis 67
Carles Vilalta Model to estimate PRRSV introduction in filtered farms with negative pressure 72

Hope to see you there!

AASV 2017: Another great year for the UMN-CVM students and faculty

The UMN CVM students did a fantastic job at the 2017 American Association of Swine Veterinarians (AASV) meeting this past weekend. Four students presented their projects as an oral presentation. Zhen Yang, Alyssa Anderson, Hunter Baldry and Chris Deegan were all recognized by a jury for their hard work and commitment to the swine industry.
Taylor Homann, Donna Drebes, and Kevin Gustafson all got the opportunity to present their work as poster presentations.

Lastly, two out of the three awards given by Boehringer Ingelheim to advance the research on swine respiratory pathogens were given to Dr. Marie Culhane and Dr. Carlos Vilalta for their project on swine influenza and Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome virus (PRRSV) respectively.

Congratulations to all!

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UMN well represented at 2016 AASV

UMN students did a fantastic job at the 2016 American Association of Swine Veterinarians (AASV) meeting. Four students presented their projects as a poster presentation and two gave a presentation, reaching 2nd and 3rd position of the student competition. Alyssa Anderson was one of the five students awarded with the Merck-AASV Foundation scholarship.

On the faculty side, Dr. Mike Murtaugh’s research project concerning the development of  a challenge-free model to predict vaccine efficacy, was one of the four recognized by and received support from the AASV Foundation.

Congratulations to all!

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