The AASV is pleased to announce the participants in the annual Veterinary Student Poster Competition, sponsored by United Animal Health. The competition will be held Sunday, February 25, during the 2024 Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. Based upon scores awarded in the judging of abstracts submitted for the AASV Student Seminar, the top 15 poster abstracts have been chosen for judging from those selected for poster presentation at the meeting. The full conference program is online at https://www.aasv.org/annmtg.
A panel of judges will conduct a brief interview with each of the 15 students selected to participate, and will evaluate the students’ posters at the meeting on Sunday morning, February 25. All posters will be available for viewing by the meeting attendees starting at noon on Sunday and continuing through Monday. The results of the poster competition will be announced during the AASV-AASV Foundation Luncheon on Monday, February 26.
United Animal Health is sponsoring the following scholarship awards to the poster competitors:
1st place poster: $500
2nd & 3rd place: $400 each
4th, 5th, & 6th place: $300 each
7th-15th place: $200 each
The following presentations have been selected for the competition:
1. Effects of oral meloxicam in gel and oral gavage on pain scores in piglets during processing
Carly Bates, Iowa State University
2. A comparison oMycoplasma hyopneumoniae infectivity rates of replacement gilts using different fogging techniques
Molly Jones, North Carolina State University
3. Minimizing sample cross-contamination for the detection ofMycoplasma hyopneumoniae
Casondra Snow, University of Minnesota
4. The impact of early life stress on neural plasticity in growing swine
Madeline Hall, Kansas State University
5. Evaluation of clinical and immunization sequences of sapovirus and rotavirus in related pig flows using next generation sequencing
Erin Russell, Lincoln Memorial University
6. Exploring the use of ultrasonography to identify palpable landmarks to measure and track sow body composition
Lauren Harper, Cornell University
7. Investigation of oral fluid IgA antibody levels to Lawsonia intracellularis and Salmonella enterica following vaccination under field conditions
Callie Ezell, Louisiana State University
8. Assessing the impact of a negative air ionization system on particulate matter and gaseous pollutants in swine farm environment
Yi-Fan Shen, The Ohio State University
9. Utilization of a bioassay to determine infectivity of samples collected during various stages of the truck washing procedure
Maria Victoria Pereira de Souza, Federal University of Uberlandia
10. A comparative analysis of rectal thermometers and thermal imaging cameras for early detection of disease in pigs
Samantha Nixon, University of Saskatchewan
11. The effect of water enriched with a nutrient dense liquid on weaned pigs to mitigate the effects of post-weaning E. coli
Taylor Cla, Iowa State University
12. Gross lesions in lame versus non-lame finisher pigs
David Buckwalter, University of Pennsylvania 13.
In vitro feasibility of bovine and canine blood products as a source of xenotransfusion in swine
Victoria Diaz, University of Tennessee
14. Comparison of sample collection techniques to target salmonellosis on sow far
Ellen Gibbs, University of Missouri
15. Effect of gonadotropin releasing factor analog (Improvest®) timing regimens on immunocastrated barrows behavior in late finishing
Sarah Roach, North Carolina State University