AASV Announces 2010 Student Seminar participants

The AASV is pleased to announce the program for the Student Seminar at the 2010 AASV Annual Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska. Forty-four veterinary students from eleven universities submitted abstracts for consideration. A panel of three veterinarians representing private practice, industry, and academia reviewed and scored the abstracts to select fifteen for oral presentation at the meeting. The panel also approved a number of abstracts for poster presentation.

Alpharma Animal Health, sponsor of the Student Seminar, provides a $750 travel stipend to each student selected to participate in the oral session. At the meeting, the students’ oral presentations and written materials will be judged to determine the recipients of scholarships ranging from $500 to $5000, funded by Alpharma Animal Health and Elanco Animal Health. The Student Seminar will take place Sunday, March 7, from 1:00 to 5:15 pm, and the scholarship awards will be announced during the noon luncheon on Monday, March 8. The program follows:

1:00
Micah Taylor
University of Illinois
Visual-only evaluation of lung lesions as an alternative to palpation at necropsy

1:15
Melissa Hensch
Iowa State University
A study to evaluate the association of cortisol response following castration in piglets

1:30
Rachael Gately
Texas A&M University
Use of a confined space gas monitor as a method of evaluation of CO2 euthanasia devices on the farm

1:45
Andrea Pitkin
University of Minnesota
Evaluation of damaged filters as a risk factor for the penetration of aerosolized porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus

2:00
Jenna Cherry
Iowa State University
Use of the AASV Production Animal Disease Risk Assessment Program (PADRAP) for benchmarking biosecurity practices related to semen entry into the breeding herd

2:15
Shamus Brown
Iowa State University
Case Study: A rigorous approach to evaluating herd closure and rollover for PRRSv elimination

2:30
Amber Hazel
University of Minnesota
Evaluation of commonly used swine identification markers

2:45
BREAK

3:15
Nicholas Crossland
Kansas State University
A serological profiling tool for assessing protective immunity following immunization with baculovirus expressed PCV2 vaccine

3:30
Ralph Peace
North Carolina State University
The benefit of dietary spray dried plasma protein on post-weaning gastrointestinal health in pigs

3:45
Brent Carmichael
Iowa State University
The impact of pooling piglet serum samples on PRRSv PCR performance in sow herds being monitored for time-to-negative interval

4:00
Cassandra Roe
Iowa State University
Optimization of sample collection for ante-mortem diagnosis of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae

4:15
Paul Thomas
Iowa State University
Evaluation of vitamin E levels, selenium levels and presence of pathogens as the etiology of mulberry heart

4:30
Kate Dion
Iowa State University
The importance of McRebel procedures in successful elimination of PRRSv from large breeding herds

4:45Trevor Schwartz
Iowa State University
Brachyspira sp. colitis: Induced disease and diagnosis

5:00
Abbey Canon
Iowa State University
Comparison of swabs and tissue for detection and characterization of E. coli in clinical postweaning diarrhea cases

5:15
Session concludes

AASV Staff