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2008 CRWAD PROGRAM - BY THE DAY

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Speaker Ready Room: (Section meeting rooms are listed inside front cover) Streeterville Room (2nd floor) is available on Friday, Dec. 5 - Tuesday, Dec. 9

POSTER INFORMATION - Poster Sessions I & II - Grand Ballroom III, 7th Floor

Poster Boards are 4 ft tall x 8 ft wide. Poster presenters must furnish their own tacks.

NOTICE: Poster Presenters must be with their competition entry posters for possible judge interviews. Poster Presenters (and oral presenters) must wear their name badge during their presentation.

The Graduate Student Competition Awards will be presented during the Tuesday Business Meeting. All students entered in the competition are invited and encouraged to attend the Business Meeting.

Friday - Saturday - Sunday (afternoon) - Symposiums
Symposiums Schedule:

Friday - Dec. 5, 1 - 7 PM - International PRRS Symposium Program - Regist. Required
Saturday, Dec. 6, 8 AM - 5:00 PM - Int. PRRS Symposium Program - Regist. Required
Sunday - Dec. 7, 1:30 - 5 PM - AAVI/ACVM Symposium Program - Open Attendance
Sunday - Dec. 7, 12:30 - 5 PM - AVEPM Symposium Program - Open Attendance

CRWAD Meeting Begins Sunday (evening):

Notice: Section meeting rooms are listed inside front cover
Sunday - Dec. 7 – 6:00–8:00 PM – Kick–Off CRWAD Reception and Poster Session I

Monday – Dec. 8, 8:00 AM – CRWAD Sections Oral Presentations begin in eight separate rooms simultaneously.

Room is found in Summary Table inside front cover
Time Section No. Short Title
8:00 Biosafety and Biosecurity 23 Comparison of different sampling methods for herd-level detection of Salmonella on dairy operations.
8:00 Food and Environmental Safety 70 Keynote: We Have a Small Problem - Public Health Today and Tomorrow Depends on Solving the Problems of the World.
8:00 Gastroenteric Diseases 102 Response to challenge of suckling pigs passively-immunized vs Clostridium difficile toxin A
8:00 Immunology 111 Detection of Equine Pulmonary Airway Fluid Proteins Possessing HRPO Binding Avidity
8:00 Respiratory Diseases 128 P. multocida and M. haemolytica Immunity
8:15 Biosafety and Biosecurity 24 Salmonella among cattle admitted to a veterinary medical teaching hospital, 1996-2007
8:15 Gastroenteric Diseases 103 Prevalence of Clostridium difficile in horses presented to a referral hospital
8:15 Immunology 112 Long Term Immunity in Dogs to the New Variant of Canine Parvovirus 2 (CPV-2c).
8:30 Biosafety and Biosecurity 25 Environmental Salmonella contamination in western US animal shelters
8:30 Gastroenteric Diseases 104 Response to challenge of nursing piglets passively immunized against Clostridium perfringens toxins
8:30 Immunology 113 Adjuvant formulation for improved cellular response in bovine.
8:30 Respiratory Diseases 129 BHV-1 and M, haemolytica in BRD
8:30 Vector-Borne and Parasitic Diseases 157 Identification of tick-transmitted Infections in Mongolian Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)
8:45 Biosafety and Biosecurity 26 Risk Factors for nasal carriage of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus spp. in vets and their pets
8:45 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 38 PRRSV surveillance - stability of diagnostic targets in oral fluid: sample storage and critical techniques for testing.
8:45 Food and Environmental Safety 71 Translational Opportunities in Modeling Mitigation of Antimicrobial Resistance.
8:45 Gastroenteric Diseases 105 Keynote: Tales from the gut: The mucosal barrier to Salmonella infection
8:45 Immunology 114 Risk factors associated with failure of passive transfer in heifer calves on US dairy operations
9:00 Biosafety and Biosecurity 27 Do methicillin-resistant staphylococcal infections cluster in space?
9:00 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 39 Practical disease surveillance in growing pig populations
9:00 Food and Environmental Safety 72 Colostrum supplementation and preweaned calf health
9:00 Immunology 115 Expression of CD21, CD32 and membrane IgM on calf lymphocytes.
9:00 Respiratory Diseases 130 Virulence strategies of Mannheimia haemolytica and Histophilus somnii.
9:15 Biosafety and Biosecurity 28 Attitudes towards biosecurity practices on beef farms
9:15 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 40 Association between PRRS virus genotypes and clinical signs of disease.
9:15 Food and Environmental Safety 73 Evolution and patterns of antimicrobial resistance in animals and humans in Scotland, 1990 to 2004
9:15 Immunology 116 Effect of Vitamin A on Bovine Coronavirus Infection, Vaccination and Immunity in Feedlot Calves
10:00 Bacterial Pathogenesis 1 Mannheimia haemolytica leukotoxin binds bovine neutrophil mitochondria
10:00 Biosafety and Biosecurity 29 Keynote: Applying Risk Assessment-Based Biosafety to Research and Clinical Studies.
10:00 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 41 Spatial Analysis in Veterinary Research:  Review of the Application
10:00 Food and Environmental Safety 74 Quantification of blaCMY2 Resistance Gene in Feces from Ceftiofur Treated Beef Feedlot Cattle 
10:00 Gastroenteric Diseases 106  Effect of avian egg antibodies on inhibition of colonization of ETEC to porcine intestinal cellline
10:00 Immunology 117 Characterization of Multiple CD32 Splice Variants in Bovine PBMCs
10:00 Respiratory Diseases 131 Transgenic alfalfa as an oral vaccine
10:00 Viral Pathogenesis 160 Evaluation of the onset of protection against type 1b BVDV in calves vaccinated with a MLV vaccine
10:15 Bacterial Pathogenesis 2 Pathogenesis of epizootic bovine abortion in the bovine fetus and SCID mouse; a comparative study
10:15 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 42 Modifications to stochastic Reed-Frost epidemic models
10:15 Food and Environmental Safety 75 Studies of the fecal flora of beef calves and lactating dairy cows following ceftiofur adminstration
10:15 Gastroenteric Diseases 107 The Role of Giardia duodenalis as a cause of calf scours
10:15 Immunology 118 Altered actin expression by neutrophils from cows genetically more susceptible to mastitis
10:15 Respiratory Diseases 132 H. somni IgBP subunits protect against calf pneumonia
10:15 Viral Pathogenesis 161 Distribution of antigen in white-tailed deer persistently infected with bovine viral diarrhea virus
10:30 Bacterial Pathogenesis 3 MAP transcriptionally regulates apoptotic genes in the bovine macrophage
10:30 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 43 Potential environmental covariates of false positive RT-PCR foot and mouth disease samples in Texas.
10:30 Food and Environmental Safety 76 Molecular characterization of non-type specific E. coli
10:30 Gastroenteric Diseases 108 Immunity ratio for paratuberculosis diagnosis
10:30 Immunology 119 Bovine macrophage natural resistance seems to be modified by the alternative pathway of activation
10:30 Respiratory Diseases 133 IgE Response, Histophilus somni Persistence, and Lung Pathology in Calves Co-infected with BRSV 
10:30 Viral Pathogenesis 162 BVD in Whilte tailed deer 
10:45 Bacterial Pathogenesis 4 Keynote: Microbial Endocrinology: Why the Intersection of Microbiology, Endocrinology and Food Science Matters to Animal Health.
10:45 Biosafety and Biosecurity 30 Use of a production region model to evaluate airborne spread and biosecurity of PRRSV and M hyo
10:45 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 44 FMD in Israel and Palestine
10:45 Food and Environmental Safety 77 Transmission of multiple drug resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium 
10:45 Gastroenteric Diseases 109 High-density porcine aminopeptidase N is essential for  porcine epidemic diarrhea virus infection
10:45 Immunology 120 Toll-like receptor and antimicrobial expression in the equine respiratory tract
10:45 Respiratory Diseases 134 Proteogenomic mapping of BRD pathogens
10:45 Viral Pathogenesis 163 Prevalence of MCFV-WTD in Tennessee Hunter Harvested Deer
11:00 Biosafety and Biosecurity 31 Investigation of alternative protocols of aerosol biosecurity for PRRSV.
11:00 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 45 Seroprevalence and identification of spatial clusters of canine leptospirosis in the U.S.
11:00 Food and Environmental Safety 78 Transferable copper resistance gene in fecal enterococci of swine
11:00 Gastroenteric Diseases 110 The diversity of VP7 of porcine group B rotaviruses. 
11:00 Immunology 121 Evaluation of early cytokine responses following infection of ponies with EHV-1
11:00 Respiratory Diseases 135 Establishment of Primary Bovine Respiratory Epithelial Cells and Cell Responses to BRSV Infection
11:00 Viral Pathogenesis 164 Characterization of the functional domains of the bovine immunodeficiency virus Rev protein
11:15 Biosafety and Biosecurity 33 Movement patterns of feral swine (Sus scrofa) in a South Texas rangeland
11:15 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 46 Prevalence of radiograph abnormalities, surgery, and their association with sales price in TBs
11:15 Food and Environmental Safety 79 Distribution and antimicrobial resistance patterns of Enterococcus spp. in wild birds in Central IL
11:15 Immunology 122 Development of a method for equine plasmapheresis
11:15 Respiratory Diseases 136 Effects of BHV1 infection of bovine bronchial epithelial cells on neutrophil adhesion and activation
11:15 Viral Pathogenesis 165 Swine hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection in gnotobiotic pigs. 
1:30 Bacterial Pathogenesis 5 Variability of outer membrane protein P2 of Haemophilus parasuis 
1:30 Biosafety and Biosecurity 32 Spatial and spatio-temporal investigation of PCVAD outbreak in Ontario
1:30 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 47 Clinical trial quality evaluation
1:30 Food and Environmental Safety 80 Pre- and post-harvest Salmonella loads for broiler chicken flocks
1:30 Immunology 123 Keynote: Distinguished Veterinary Immunologist: Oxidative Stress and Inflammation:  Implications for Mastitis Control.
1:30 Respiratory Diseases 137 Nitazoxanide and tizoxanide inhibit animal respiratory virus replication in vitro.
1:30 Vector-Borne and Parasitic Diseases 146 RNAi of defensin results in reduced A. marginale infections
1:30 Viral Pathogenesis 166 Experimental co-infection of pigs with Nipah and classical swine fever viruses
1:45 Bacterial Pathogenesis 6 OmpA and antigenic diversity of bovine Chlamydophila pecorum strains.
1:45 Biosafety and Biosecurity 34 Risk-based surveillance for cattle pathogens
1:45 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 48 Modifying the CONSORT statement for livestock interventions studies. 
1:45 Food and Environmental Safety 81 Evaluating Methods for Detecting Salmonella in Fecal and Carcass Samples using Bayesian Analysis 
1:45 Respiratory Diseases 138 The Irish animal traceability system.
1:45 Vector-Borne and Parasitic Diseases 147 Efficacy of doxycycline during different phases of canine monocytic ehrlichiosis
1:45 Viral Pathogenesis 167 Highly virulent Influenza A virus H5N1 genotype 2.3.2 in Russian Far East.
2:00 Bacterial Pathogenesis 7 Characterization of ferric enterobactin receptor CfrA in Campylobacter jejuni.
2:00 Biosafety and Biosecurity 35 Spatial and meteorological factors influencing Listeria isolation from natural environments
2:00 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 49 IDEA-CARE Framework for interdisciplinary communication
2:00 Food and Environmental Safety 82 Systematic review of the prevalence of Campylobacter on chicken carcasses during processing
2:00 Respiratory Diseases 139 Removal of endotoxin from dairy wastewater.
2:00 Viral Pathogenesis 168 Receptor specificity and host adaptation of recent swine influenza viruses.
2:15 Bacterial Pathogenesis 8 A proteomic study of multidrug resistance-associated Escherichia coli proteins
2:15 Biosafety and Biosecurity 36 Estimating the spread of foot-and-mouth disease using a hypothetical outbreak in the central United 
2:15 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 50 Classification of case fatality risk classes using decision tree analysis
2:15 Food and Environmental Safety 83 Campylobacter in poultry
2:15 Immunology 124 Monoclonal antibodies to equine IL-4 and CD23.
2:15 Respiratory Diseases 140 Keynote: Research in Bovine Pneumonic Pasteurellosis: A vehicle for the study of immune response.
2:15 Vector-Borne and Parasitic Diseases 149 Prevalence of Giardia in US Pet Dogs and its Distribution in the State of Colorado
2:15 Viral Pathogenesis 169 Neuraminidase influences infection of H3N2 influenza viruses in pigs.
2:30 Bacterial Pathogenesis 9 Fn binding domain on a C-terminal variable region of LigB
2:30 Biosafety and Biosecurity 37 Social determinants of producer participation in foot and mouth disease response
2:30 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 51 Treatment in Feedlot Cattle
2:30 Food and Environmental Safety 84 Genotyping and Phenotyping of Campylobacter coli in Pigs from Farm to Fork      
2:30 Immunology 125 Uncovering genetic components involved in early regulatory immune response during PRRSV infection.
2:30 Vector-Borne and Parasitic Diseases 150 Diagnosis of canine Hepatozoon spp. infection by quantitative PCR
2:30 Viral Pathogenesis 170 Impact of concurrent PRRSV infection on PRCV disease
3:00 Bacterial Pathogenesis 10 Distinguished Veterinary Microbiologist: Foreign DNA and domestic animal bacterial diseases
3:00 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 52 CIPARS On-Farm Program: Surveillance of AMU and AMR in Canadian swine herds
3:00 Food and Environmental Safety 85 C. jejuni TAT system
3:00 Immunology 126 Antimicrobial peptides and PRRSV
3:00 Vector-Borne and Parasitic Diseases 151 Survey of Ixodes Scapularis and Borrelia burgdorferi in Indiana 
3:00 Viral Pathogenesis 171 Cross-protection induced by PRRS chimeric mutant 
3:15 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 53 Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns of Microbial Isolates from Urinary Tracts of Dogs
3:15 Food and Environmental Safety 86 Prevalence and molecular mechanisms of bacteriocin resistance in Campylobacter. 
3:15 Immunology 127 B lymphocytes are main cells influxing and secreting IL-10 in BAL following acute PRRSV infection
3:15 Respiratory Diseases 141 Receptor binding affinity of recent canine influenza A viruses.
3:15 Vector-Borne and Parasitic Diseases 152 Comparison of oral chlortetracycline treatment regimens for Anaplasma marginale carrier clearance.
3:15 Viral Pathogenesis 172 Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus glycoprotein and receptor interactions
3:30 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 54 Beef industry perceptions on methods of presenting antimicrobial use data.
3:30 Food and Environmental Safety 87 Fitness cost of erythromycin-resistant Campylobacter in chickens
3:30 Respiratory Diseases 142 Adjuvant Formulation for Influenza H1N1 and H3N2 Pig Vaccines:Montanide™ Gel safety/efficacy study
3:30 Vector-Borne and Parasitic Diseases 153 Real time PCR for quantification of Ehrlichia canis rickettsemia during experimental CME
3:30 Viral Pathogenesis 173 Expression of foreign proteins in replicase gene regions of PRRSV
3:45 Bacterial Pathogenesis 11 The role of the R. equi two-component systems in the regulation of virulence and vapA expression
3:45 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 55 Prevalence of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Inpatient Dogs in a Veterinary Hospital
3:45 Food and Environmental Safety 88 Antibiotic susceptibility of Campylobacter from pigs reared on antibiotic-free or conventional farm 
3:45 Respiratory Diseases 143 Level of protection and duration of immunity induced by different commercial PCV2 vaccines
3:45 Vector-Borne and Parasitic Diseases 154 Keynote: Murine Lyme Disease.
3:45 Viral Pathogenesis 174  PRRSV nsp2 epitope deletion mutants effect on cytokine response 
4:00 Bacterial Pathogenesis 12 Streptokinases of Streptococcus equi and zooepidemicus.
4:00 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 56 Need for early detection of Salmonella shedding in hospitalized foals
4:00 Food and Environmental Safety 89 Burden of illness associated with antimicrobial susceptible and resistant Campylobacter infections
4:00 Respiratory Diseases 144 Increased pneumonia and genetic modification in concurrently PRRSV EU and US infected pigs
4:00 Viral Pathogenesis 175 EHV-1 in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of experimentally infected horses. 
4:15 Bacterial Pathogenesis 13 Immunologic significance of N-terminal amino acid variation in SeM of Streptococcus equi.
4:15 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 57 Salmonella shedding in hospitalized horses and the risk of subsequent GI disease
4:15 Food and Environmental Safety 90 Investigation of Campylobacter Infection in Tennessee and Georgia using GIS and spatial analyses. 
4:15 Respiratory Diseases 145 Epidemiology of a New PRRS Virus Outbreak and Implications for Sustained Control and Elimination
4:15 Viral Pathogenesis 176 Efficacy of nitazoxanide as an antiviral agent for the treatment of EHV-1 infection.
4:30     Poster Session II Grand Ballroom Salon III - 7th floor

Tuesday

Room is found in Summary Table inside front cover
Time Section No. Short Title
8:00 Bacterial Pathogenesis 14 Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of methicillin-resistant Stapylococcus pseudintermedius
8:00 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 58 The situation and prospect of Avian Influenza in Nigeria
8:00 Food and Environmental Safety 91 Bovine viral contamination in pasture streams
8:00 Vector-Borne and Parasitic Diseases 155 Effect of Silencing  Subolesin  on Development of Anaplasma marginale in Ticks and Tick Cells 
8:00 Viral Pathogenesis 177 Keynote: Comparative and Functional Viral Genomics:  Insights for Disease Control
8:15 Bacterial Pathogenesis 15 Characterization of the mec staphylococcal cassette chromosome among MRSA isolates from horses 
8:15 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 59 RNAi as a potential alternative method to the avian influenza vaccine
8:15 Food and Environmental Safety 92 Wild birds in the epidemiology of Clostridium difficile  
8:15 Vector-Borne and Parasitic Diseases 156 Conjugative Gene Transfer within the Gut of Lesser Mealworm
8:30 Bacterial Pathogenesis 16 Microarrays: Extreme Value Theory in analysis of differential expression 
8:30 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 60 Prevalence of human and canine blastomycosis in Illinois counties from 2001-2007
8:30 Food and Environmental Safety 93 Prevalence of Giardia and Cryptosporidium on beef farms and surrounding water bodies 
8:45 Bacterial Pathogenesis 17 Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale hemolysin
8:45 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 61 Risk factors for calcium oxalate versus struvite uroliths in dogs of Ontario,  from 1998 to 2006.
8:45 Food and Environmental Safety 94 Reduction of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in bovine manure using Lactobacillus acidophilus strain NP 51
8:45 Vector-Borne and Parasitic Diseases 158 Sidney A. Ewing: Canine ehrlichiosis:  From exotic to commonplace.
8:45 Viral Pathogenesis 178 PCV-2b compared to PCV-2a replication 
9:00 Bacterial Pathogenesis 18 Clostridium septicum toxoid for cellulitis
9:00 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 62 Syndromic surveillance for nosocomial infections in veterinary hospitals
9:00 Food and Environmental Safety 95 =Multiplex PCR for Rapid Serotyping of E. coli
9:00 Viral Pathogenesis 179 Viremia and serum neutralizing antibody to PCV2 in pig farms with and without PMWS
9:15 Bacterial Pathogenesis 19 A Evolutionary approach to the analysis of Bacillus Anthracis
9:15 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 63 Syndromic surveillance for livestock diseases in a Colorado auction market
9:15 Food and Environmental Safety 96 Longitudinal prevalence and MLVA-strain survey of E. coli O157:H7
9:15 Viral Pathogenesis 180 Reproductive effects of PCV2 in semen when used for artificial insemination
9:30 Vector-Borne and Parasitic Diseases   2009 Society of Tropical Veterinary Medicine -  Announcement
10:00 Bacterial Pathogenesis 20 Escherichia coli O157:H7 induced cystitis in gnotobiotic piglets
10:00 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 64 The Effect of Strain Differences on Cure-rates of Staphylococcus aureus Intramammary Infections
10:00 Food and Environmental Safety 97 models for VTEC
10:00 Viral Pathogenesis 181 Mortality in Conventional Swine with an Experimental PCV 2b/PRRSV Challenge. 
10:15 Bacterial Pathogenesis 21 Transposon mutagenesis for Histophilus somni
10:15 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 65 Lactoferrin concentrations at drying-off in cows milked intermittently at the end of lactation
10:15 Food and Environmental Safety 98 Markov Chain approach to analyze the dynamics of pathogen fecal shedding
10:15 Viral Pathogenesis 182 Experimental Coinfection of Pigs with Ruminant Pestiviruses and PCV2
10:30 Bacterial Pathogenesis 22 C. difficile surface proteins and adherence
10:30 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 66 Comparion of Leptospira testing 
10:30 Food and Environmental Safety 99 Development of an Agro-terrorism Response Simulation Exercise 
10:30 Viral Pathogenesis 183 Effect of PCV2 vaccination of dams on fetal PCV2 replication.
10:45 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 67 Efficacy of simulated sampling strategy at identification of serogroups of ovine virulent footrot
10:45 Food and Environmental Safety 100 Microarray and Multiplex PCR for Rapid Serotyping of Salmonella
11:00 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 68 Ethno-veterinary Practices and Livestock Health and Welfare Among Pastoralists in Rajasthan, India
11:00 Food and Environmental Safety 101 Association between Salmonella son farms and at slaughter 
11:15 Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics 69 Classifying behavior in cattle using three dimensional accelerometers
11:45     Business Meeting - Salons ABCD - 5th Floor

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Phone: 970-491-5740 Fax : 970-491-1815 or e-mail: robert.ellis@colostate.edu
Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology, Room A102
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1682
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