veterinary – Swine in Minnesota

Epidemiological insights on the PRRS-Loom Variant webtool: https://stemma.shinyapps.io/PRRSLoom-variants/

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.

In today’s Science Page Kim VanderWaal, Nakarin Pamornchainavakul, and Mariana Kikuti explore a new UMN VDL tool which allows people to upload their sequence and get their genetic variant classification but also know which PRRS variants are on the rise.

Drs. Justin Brown and Perle Zhitnitskiy discuss “Swine Medicine Education: A Survey of North American and Caribbean Veterinary Colleges Curricula”

The Swine Disease Eradication Center is proud to present another episode of “Processing the Litter-ature”: a podcast in which peer-reviewed papers are docked, clipped and supplemented with a field perspective.

Drs. Justin Brown and Perle Zhitnitskiy discuss “Swine Medicine Education: A Survey of North American and Caribbean Veterinary Colleges Curricula”.

Join Us in Leipzig: UMN Showcases Top Swine Health Studies at IPVS 2024

For those attending the 27th International Pig Veterinary Society (IPVS) Congress in Leipzig, Germany on June 4-7. 2024, we are excited to invite you to support the University of Minnesota! Join us as we present groundbreaking scientific works in collaboration with swine veterinarians, producers and experts from various institutions.

We will also have a booth in the exhibition area; make sure to stop by and say hello!

Swine Veterinary Education in the US: current challenges and opportunities

The AASV Collegiate Activity Committee taskforce, co-led by Drs. Gil Patterson (VetNOW) and Perle Zhitnitskiy (UMN CVM) published a commentary in JAVMA regarding the current state of affairs in swine veterinary education in the United States.