AAVI - ACVM 2008 SYMPOSIUM
Title: Stress and Innate Immunity
The symposium will be held at the Annual 2008 CRWAD Meeting, Chicago Marriott, Downtown Magnificent Mile, Chicago, Illinois, Sunday, December 7, 2007, 1:30 - 5 PM (prior to the CRWAD meetings).
For questions or comments contact Douglas D. Bannerman, Department of Veterans Affairs; Christopher Chase, South Dakota State University; or Scott McVey, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Speakers and topics (40 min talk; 5 min questions)
1:30 PM - Opening Introductions
1:40 PM - Janeen L. Salak-Johnson, Department of Animal
Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Making sense about stress and immunity."
2:25 PM - Jesse Goff, Department of Biomedical Sciences,
Iowa State University
"Interactions between metabolic disease and the immune system of the
periparturient dairy cow."
3:10 PM - Break
3:30 PM - Philip Griebel, Vaccine & Infectious Disease
Organization (VIDO), University of Saskatchewan
"Role of stress in the fatal viral-bacterial synergy of bovine
respiratory disease."
4:15 PM - Kip Lukasiewicz, Sandhills Cattle Consulting,
Inc.
"The reduction of stress via caregivers' approach."