The AASV is pleased to announce the program for the Student Seminar portion of the 52nd AASV Annual Meeting. Forty-two veterinary students from 10 universities submitted abstracts for consideration. A panel of six veterinarians representing private practice, industry, and academia reviewed and scored the abstracts to select 15 for oral presentation at the meeting. The panel approved the remaining 27 abstracts for poster presentation.
Zoetis, sponsor of the Student Seminar and Poster Session, provides a $750 stipend to each student selected to participate in the oral session and a $250 stipend for each poster presenter.
During the meeting, the students’ oral presentations will be judged to determine the recipients of AASV Foundation scholarships ranging from $500 to $5000, funded by Elanco Animal Health and Zoetis. The Student Seminar, co-chaired by Drs Andy Bowman and Perle Zhitnitskiy, is currently scheduled to take place Sunday, February 28, from 1:00 to 5:15 pm, with the announcement of scholarship awards on Monday, March 1. The schedule for the Student Seminar oral presentations follows:
Concurrent Session #1: Student Seminar
Sunday, February 28, 2021
1:00 – 5:15 PM
Session co-chairs: Andrew Bowman and Perle Zhitnitskiy
1:00 A novel objective and quantifiable measure of lameness in gestating sows
Andrew Shulman, University of Pennsylvania
1:15 Evaluation of the finishing mortality removal process and factors that contribute to contamination spread
Kris Kovach, Iowa State University
1:30 Case study evaluating sow farm natural planned exposure on farms using intensive rotavirus feedback with varying levels of porcine circovirus type 3
Brian Johnson, University of Illinois
1:45 Evaluation of different fogging methods to disinfect supplies prior to entering into farms using a cardboard box model contaminated with porcine epidemic diarrhea virus and a swine bioassay
Zack Talbert, University of Illinois
2:00 Drinking water flow rates and usage in nursery pigs with various water pressures and nipple orifice sizes
Hunter Everett, North Carolina State University
2:15 The effects of oral antibiotic administration on vaccine-induced H1N1 influenza immune responses in weanling pigs
Paige Haenig, University of Illinois
2:30 Effect of particle size and H2O2/PAA concentration on the efficacy of an aerosol decontamination system for items entering swine farms
Erin Kettelkamp, University of Illinois
2:45 REFRESHMENT BREAK
3:15 Investigation of Lawsonia intracellularis shedding by peri-parturient sows
Rachel Patton, The Ohio State University
3:30 Significant gaps exist in current cull sow surveillance stream for the detection of foreign animal diseases in the US
Selena Clark, University of Illinois
3:45 Examining the relationship between hemoglobin concentration in nursery, growing and finishing gilts to be used for breeding replacement.
Hannah Lathom, North Carolina State University
4:00 Comparing anesthetic combinations for vasectomizing boars
Emily Pratt, Iowa State University
4:15 Risk factors for umbilical hernias in commercial pigs
Mindi Bracy, Oklahoma State University
4:30 Impact of coccidiosis and treatment with ponazuril on piglet performance
Sabra McCallister, North Carolina State University
4:45 The use of an audio-based monitoring technology to detect clinical respiratory distress episodes in growing pigs
Allyson Witt, Iowa State University
5:00 Lack of efficacy of routine and enhanced hygiene practices in removing environmental rotavirus A from rubber piglet comfort mats
Sarah Botkin, University of Illinois
5:15 Session concludes