Progress 07/15/16 to 07/14/19
Outputs
Target Audience:The meeting format consists of satellite meeting sessions of scientific presentations that are held on the Saturday thorugh Sunday proceeding the 10 concurrent scientific sessions offered on Monday and Tuesday of the meeting. The poster sessions are held on Sunday and Monday evenings. The participants discuss cellular, molecular, genomic/genetic or whole animal aspects of animal disease and health and methods to prevent or moderate disease through vaccines, diagnostics, enhanced immunity and therapeutic interventions. Presentations are also in the areas of biosafety, pathogenesis, environmental safety and vector borne diseases. Target audience is scientists, graduate students, post doctoral research associates, pharmaceutical and bioligcal company representatives and government officials having interests in all aspects of infectious diseases of agricultural, small and zoo animals. Changes/Problems:In 2017 we will revamp CRWAD into a more appealing scientific meeting. The CRWAD Council will attempt to group similar papers into broad categories, for exampls antimicrobial resistance, vaccine and vaccinology, and other categories. Already we have receive 354 abstracts for the 2017 meeting. We will also sponsor the second Council Keynote Speaker supported by this grant the topic being the Microbiome. These changes in the meeting organization will improve the quality of the meeting and attract more attendees to this important convergence of experts and scientists in animal diseases. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?A number of M.S., Ph.D. and post doctoral research associates from 15 different countries attend this meeting. The meeting provides these professionals with the opportunity to present an oral or poster presentation, compete for awards with their peers through peer judging of their research and to network with some of the most distinguished scientists in veterinary infectious disease programs throughout the world How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Results are disseminated through Published Conference Proceedings and Abstracts that are distributed at the meeting in a hard copy. Abstracts are also available through the CRWAD website at www.crwad.org. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The 96th Annual Meeting of the Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases (CRWAD) was held in Chicago, IL on December 6-8, 2015. The meeting was dedicated to Dr. Prem Paul University of Nebraska Lincoln. The 97th Annual Meeting of CRWAD was held on December 4-6, 2016. The 2016 meeting was dedicated to Dr.Yehia Mohamed (Mo) Saif, Ohio State Corporate sponsors for both meetings were Boehringer Ingelheim, Zoetis, Newport Laboratories, Merial, Ceva and USDA NIFA. Eight addiional companies provided tabletop products displays: Animal Health Research Reviews, MABTECH, GENEREACH, Tetracore, Newport Laboratories, Midwest Veterinary Supply, Perkin Elmer,and GE althcare Life Sciences. Approximately 400 individuals from 15 different countries attended the meetings in 2015 and 2016. Each meeting also featured 10 other keynote speakersin each of the 10 concurrent scientific sessions. meetings Satellite meetings ncluded NC 1202 Enteric Diseass of Food Animals; NE 1201 Mycobacterial Diseases of Animals; and NC 229 Emerging Viral Diseases of Swine. The Inernational Brucellosis meeting partnered with CRWAD in 2015 and the BVDV symposium was at CRWAD in 2016. The USDA NIFA held a project directors meeting in 2015 and 2016 prior to each conference. In 2015, the Schwabe Symposium was "Big, Open, Crowd-sourced and Exhausted(ed) what opportunities do these data sources hold vor Veterinary epidemiology?" The 2015 mark Gearhart Memorial Graduate Student Award went to C.A. Cull for his research on "Pereformance and carcass characteristics of commercial feedlot cattle from a study of vaccine and direct-fed microbial effects on Escherichia coli 0157:H7 fecal shedding." At the 2016 meeting, the American Association of Veterinary Epidemiologists and Preventative Medicine helda moring workshop and the Schwabe symposium. Dr. Will Hueston was the Schawabe Award winner and he spooke on"Building Public Private Partnerships to Deliver One Health". The AVEPM Mark Gearhart Memorial Award for GraduateStudents was awarded to Jonah Cullen for his work "The Case: Control Design in Veterinary Sciences: A Survey." At the 2016 meeting the first CRWAD Council Keynote presentation sponsored through this grant was given by Dr. Randall Prather, Department of Animal Sciences, University ofMissouri Columbia. His talk entitled "Genome editing for PRRSV resistance and beyond" was a state of the art devlopment using CRISPR technology to derive genetically PRRSV resistant pigs. Several graduate students received awards for best oral and poster presentations. Overall the meeting provided state of the art presentations in the 10 concurrent session areas, attendees returned home with the most recent experimental data on various animal diseases. This conference continues to offer the only forum where multiple diseases in animals and multiple disciplines studying these diseases converge.
Publications
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Published Proceeding by Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases. Compiled and edited by Loren Harper and David Benfield. 2016 copyright CRWAD. ISBN 978-0-9800515-8-2. Contact David Benfield, Executive Director CRWAD for distribution.
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Progress 07/15/18 to 07/14/19
Outputs
Target Audience:The vision of the CRWAD Conference is to bring together scientists,graduate students, post doctoral research associates, industry and government from a variety of interests, backgrounds and disciplines to present new and unpublished data related to challenges and solutions for resolving animal diseases. The similarity between diseases and the mechanisms via pathogens alter the homeostasis of the host implies that an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach is necessary to develop means to mitigate the effects of infectious diseases. CRWAD is a conference where the convergence of the disciplines offers a venue for communication amongst scientists studying various animal diseases and potentially between veterinary and biomedical scientists. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Project allows for graduate students and post doctoral research associates to have the experience of presenting an or or poster scientific paper. These individuals have the opportunity to be mentored by some of the most notable scientists in the fields of animal diseases How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Results in the form of Abstracts are available publicly on the CRWAD website www.crwad.org. There is no charge to access the electronic copy of the proceedings.? What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Plans for the 100th CRWAD meeting are underway and scheduled for November 3 to 5, 2019 at the Chicago Marriott Downtown on the Magnificent Mile. There will be presentations by 12 keynote speakers, a Council Keynot speaker and a special banquet speaker. Information on the 2019 meeting is posted on the website www.crwad.org.?
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The meeting dedicatee wasDr. Ronald Schultz, Professor Emeritus College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Madison-Wisconsin. Ron received his PhD in microbiology at Penn State (1970) under the direction of Dr. Howard Dunne. He held faculty appointments at Cornell and Auburn Schools of Veterinary Medicine before becoming Founding Chair of the Department of Pathobiological Sciences at the new School of Veterinary Medicine in 1982, retiring in 2016. Throughout his career, Ron emphasized the translational aspects of immunological research, especially the development and assessment of immunodiagnostics and vaccines in domestic animal species. Ron was an enthusiastic supporter of CRWAD for 50 years and served as President in 1994. He was a founder of the American Association of Veterinary Immunologists and first President in 1979. Ron has received numerous awards including the first Distinguished Veterinary Immunologist Award in 1988 and being named an Honorary Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Microbiologists. Meeting statistics The Conference of Research Workers held the 99th meeting in Chicago, IL on Dec. 2 - 5, 2018. There were 16 presentations by featured speakers, including the AAVI Distinguished Immunologist, ACVM Distinguished Microbiologist, and the AVEPM Calvin Schwabe Award recipient. Four-hundred and eighty-eight research abstracts were presented (290 oral, and 198 poster presentations). There were 554 registered attendees at the meeting including 157 graduate students and 49 post-doctoral research associates. CRWAD Council Keynote and associated meetings The third CRWAD Council Keynote was presented by Dr. Guy Palmer, Regents Professor, Jan and Jack Creighton Endowed Chair and Senior Director of the Paul G. Allen School for Global Health, Washington State University. His topic was Animal Health as a Driver to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Thirteen additional keynote speakers also presented at the meeting (see www.crwad.org). Associated meetings at CRWAD included the North American PRRS Conference, the International Brucellosis meeting, NC1202 Enteric Diseases of Swine and Cattle. And NC229 Detection and Control of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus and Emerging Viral Diseases of Swine. The USDA NIFA also held their project directors meeting. AVEPM awards The Calvin Schwabe Award for life time achievement in Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine was awarded to Dr. Alfonso Torres, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University. He presented a talk titled Counteracting Animal Diseases at the Global Level. Dr. Torres served as Deputy Administrator of USDA-APHIS-Veterinary Services from 1999 to 2002. Dr. Torres was the Director of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center and as chief of USDA's Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory from1994 to1996. He returned to Cornell University in 2003 as Professor and Associate Dean for Public Policy at the College of Veterinary Medicine, retiring in 2015. The Mark Gearhart Memorial Graduate Student Award was presented to Lauren C. Wisnieski, Michigan State University. Recipients of the student award for best oral presentations were Casey Cazer, Cornell University; Ilya B. Slizovskiy, University of Minnesota and Sondra H. Lavigne, University of Pennsylvania. AAVI awards Dr. Laurel Gershwin was the recipient of The American Association of Veterinary Immunologists (AAVI), distinguished Veterinary Immunologist award. Dr. Gershwin received her DVM from the University of California, Davis in 1971. After an internship at the Angell Memorial Animal Hospital in Boston, MA and two years in private veterinary practice, she returned to UCD where in 1979 she obtained a PhD in Microbiology, with an emphasis in Immunology. She bcame a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Microbiologists in 1980. A faculty member at the School of Veterinary Medicine, UCD since 1979, she has taught Immunology or 38 years. Dr. Gershwin's research emphasizes immune responses in the lung with emphasis on IgE mediated pathogenesis, Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus, and associated vaccinology. Four Society for Mucosal Immunology Trainee Awards in recognition of outstanding oral presentations: Sankar Renu, The Ohio State University; Gun Temeeyasen, Iowa State University; Ameer Megahed, University of Illinois; and Javier Garza, West Virginia University. Recipients of the AAVI student awards were oral presentation, first place Amanda Amaral, North Carolina; second place Alejendro Hoyos-Jaramillo, University of Georgia; third place Glenn Hamonic, University of Saskatchewan. First place poster presentation Agm Rakibuzzaman, North Dakota State University; second place Victoria Mutua, University of California, Davis; third place Juliet Chepngeno, The Ohio State University. ACVM awards Professor Ab Osterhaus was honored as the American College of Veterinary Microbiology (ACVM) Distinguished Veterinary Microbiologist. As professor of Virology in Hannover, Rotterdam and Utrecht, Dr. Osterhaus is an internationally recognized scientist and principal investigator. Prof. Osterhaus is founding director of the newly established Research Center for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses (RIZ) at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany. As former head of the Department of Viroscience of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, he guided over 100 scientists in their quest for scientific excellence. His research program followed a novel integrated "viroscience" concept, bringing together world-leading scientists in molecular virology, immunology, epidemiology, pathogenesis, and intervention studies on human and animal virus infections. Major achievements of his work include the discovery of more than 60 new human and animal viruses. ACVM student awards included the Don Kahn Award for best overall presentation to Sarah Raabis, University of Wisconsin-Madison; oral presentation awards to Tessa E. LeCuyer, Washington State University; Miyagari Shoyama, Michigan State University; Syeda Hadi Anum, Michigan State University and poster presentation Marvin A. Ssemadaali, North Dakota State University. Society for Tropical Veterinary Medicine and American Association of Veterinary Parasitology awards Best oral presentation award by STVM was given to Brent Skinner, Kansas State University. The student awards for AAVP best oral presentations went to Kyle Hoffman, University of Missouri-Columbia and Kathryn Reif, Kansas State University. NC1202 awards NC1202 the North Central Multistate Committee for Research on Enteric Diseases of Swine and Cattle presented the Lynn Joens Award first place oral to ixuan Hou, The Ohio State University and second place Ti Lu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The David H. Francis award for best poster presentations, first place to Kristina Cere, Cornell University and second place to Taylor Wherry, Iowa State University... Biosafety and Biosecurity awards The student awards are sponsored by the Animal Health Institute and Joseph J. Garbarino Foundation. First place for oral presentation was awarded to Emily Cook, University of Georgia and second place to Jordan Pelkmans, University of Guelph. One award for best poster presentation went to Emily John, Atlantic Veterinary College. Three travel awards were also given to Emily John, Atlantic Veterinary College; Ana Sloain, Kansas State University and Vlad Petrovan, Kansas State University. 2017 CRWAD Travel Awards CRWAD awarded 8 students travel awards of $500.00 to attend the conference. Student award winners were as follows: Khlid Alluhaybi University of Rhode Island; Enrique Doster, Colorado State University; Emily John, Atlantic Veterinary College; Xing Ping Li, South China Agricultural University; Graham Redweik, Iowa State University; Fernanda Miyagaki Shoyama,, Michigan State University; Emily Smith, University of Minnesota and Muhammed Usman Zaheer, Colorado State University. ?
Publications
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Abstracts from the 99th meeting of the Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases. Available electronically at www.crwad.org.
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Progress 07/15/17 to 07/14/18
Outputs
Target Audience:The meeting format consists of satellite meeting sessions of scientific presentations that are held on the Saturday through Sunday proceeding the 10 concurrent scientific sessions offered on Monday and Tuesday of the meeting. The poster sessions ae held on Sunday and Monday evenings. The participants discuss cellular, molecular, genomic/genetic or whole animal aspects of animal disease, health and methods to prevent of moderate disease through vaccines, diagnostics, enhanced immunity and therapeutic interventions. Presentations are also in the areas of biosafety, pathogenesis, Environmental safety and vector borne diseases. Target audience is scientists, graduate students, post-doctoral research associates, pharmaceutical and biological company representatives and government officials having interests in all aspects of infectious diseases of agricultural, small and zoo animals. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?A number of M.S., Ph.D. and post-doctoral research associates from 15 different countries attend this meeting. The meeting provides these professionals with the opportunity to present an oral or poster presentation, compete for awards with their peers through peer judging of their research and to network with some of the most distinguished scientists in veterinary infectious disease programs throughout the world. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Results are disseminated through a pdf version of an Author Index and Presentation Abstracts that are available at no cost on the CRWAD website www.crwad.org. Printed copies are available on request. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Plans are in progress for the 99th CRWAD meeting to be held in Chicago on December 2-4, 2018. Planning for the meeting is now done through a newly formed program committee. This committee will organize the scientific sessions and select the keynotes for the conference. The North American PRRS Conference will also join CRWAD in 2018. Some details for the 2018 meeting are already posted at www.crwad.org.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The 98th Annual Meeting of the Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases (CRWAD) was held in Chicago, IL on December 3-5, 2017. The meeting was dedicated to Dr. Katherine M. Kocan, Regents Professor in Veterinary Pathology, and Oklahoma State University for her professional accomplishments, past president of CRWAD and her general service to CRWAD meeting during her career. The meeting was sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim, Zoetis, Newport Laboratories, Merial and USDA NIFA. Eight additional companies provided tabletop products displays: Animal Health Research Reviews, MABTECH, GENEREACH, Tetracore, Perkin Elmer, and GE Healthcare Life Sciences. The 2017 CRWAD meeting had a new format with more concurrent sessions. The scientific sessions were determined based on the content of the Abstracts submitted for the meeting. This was different than our past meetings that were organized into set discipline sessions. The CRWAD Council also voted to organize a programming committee to organize the scientific sessions for 2018 rather than having this be cone by the Executive Director. The goal of the programming committee is to improve the quality of scientific presentations at CRWAD and to attract a larger number of scientists to this meeting. Accomplishments related to each major goal are described below: The meeting continues to emphasize a systems approach to the understanding of diseases in animals. One-hundred and forty-two posters and 253 oral presentations in various disciplines including bacterial pathogenesis, epidemiology, immunology, enteric diseases, biosafety and biosecurity, viral pathogenesis, respiratory diseases and vaccinology. The 395 presentations were organized in 25 concurrent sessions and were attended by over 400 registered attendees from 15 countries. The meeting forum provides numerous opportunities to network with international experts in animal diseases and well-being. CRWAD is a known meeting that promotes presentations by graduate students, post-doctoral research associates and young professionals in animal disease research. For the first time, CRWAD awarded eight travel grants (each $500.00) to graduate students to attend the meeting and present their research data. There were 21 awards presented to graduate students for poster and oral presentations by seven organizations. The awards ceremony held on the last day of the meeting is the highlight of the conference. In addition to graduate student awards, the American Association of Veterinary Immunologists honor a researcher as the Immunologist of the Year; the American Association of Veterinary Microbiology honors the Microbiologist of the Year and the American Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine presents the Schwabe Award to honor an individual for their contributions in veterinary epidemiology. USDA-NIFA is well represented at the CRWAD meeting. This agency sponsors a project directors meeting of investigators with USDA NIFA funding prior to CRWAD. A large number of the poster and oral presentations represent data funded by USDA NIFA. So the conference advances the mission and goals of USDA NIFA. The CRWAD Conference continues to be a forum where recent advances in research in animal diseases are presented. At the 2017 conference, the conference keynote sponsored by this USDA-NIFA Grant was Dr. Jack Gilbert, The Microbiome Center, University of Chicago who spoke on the topic "Invisible Influence: The Microbiome and Human Health". There were also 10 other keynote speakers that presented research results in the following sections: Bacterial Pathogenesis, Biosafety and Biosecurity; Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics; Pathogenesis of Enteric and Foodborne Diseases; Respiratory Diseases; Vector Borne and Parasitic Diseases; Viral Pathogenesis; and Immunology. The CRWAD Conference continues to attract satellite meetings that hold symposiums prior to the start of the conference. These organization include the International Brucellosis Meeting, a forum on Campylobacter, an AVEPM workshop on Biostatistics, and multistate committees NE 1201"Mycobacterial Diseases of Animals"; NC 229 Emerging Viral Diseases of Swine; and NC1202 "Enteric Diseases of Food Animals." The partnership of these satellite meetings with CRWAD adds to the quality of the meeting, allows for more presentations and attendance by researchers. This conference continues to offer the only forum where multiple diseases in animals and a diversity of disciplines come together to discuss the latest research data related to animal diseases and well-being
Publications
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Author Index and Presentation Abstracts, 98th Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases, December 3-5, 2017. Available at www.crwad.org
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Progress 07/15/16 to 07/14/17
Outputs
Target Audience:The meeting format consists of satellite meeting sessions of scientific presentations that are held on the Saturday thorugh Sunday proceeding the 10 concurrent scientific sessions offered on Monday and Tuesday of the meeting. The poster sessions ae held on Sunday and Monday evenings. The participants discuss cellular, molecular, genomic/genetic or whole animal aspects of animal disease, health and methods to prevent of moderate disease through vaccines, diagnostics, enhanced immunity and therapeutic interventions. Presentations are also in the areas of biosafety, pathogenesis, environmental safety and vector borne diseases. Target audience is scientists, graduate students, post doctoral research associates, pharmaceutical and bioligcal company representatives and government officials having interests in all aspects of infectioous diseases of agricultural, small and zoo animals. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?A number of M.S., Ph.D.and post doctoral research associates from 15different countries attend this meeting. The meeting provides these professionals with the opportunity to present anoral or poster presentation, compete for awards with their peers through peer judging of their research and to network with some of the most distinguished scientists in veterinary infectious disease programs throughout the world. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Results are disseminated through Published Conference Proceedings and Abstracts that are distributed at the meeting in a hard copy. Abstracts are also available through the CRWAD website at www.crwad.org. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Plans are in progress for the 2017 CRWAD meeting to be held in Chicago on December 2-5, 2017. The CRWAD Council iw working with our 10 session chairs and the Executive Director to have a more correlated scientific theme throuout the conference. this year. Our goal is to have the keynote speakers posted on our webite by May 2017. We will have the second year of the CRWAD Council Keynote speaker on Sunday evening prior to the Poster Session. There will also be keynote presentations by the Immunologist and Microbiologist of the year award recipients. A mini-symposium is also planned on Campylobacter on Sunday of the conference as well as the AVEPM training and Schawabe Symposium..The International Brucellosis meeting will also be returning to CRWAD in 2017.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The 97th Annual Meeting of the Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases (CRWAD) was held in Chicago, IL on December 2-6, 2016. The meeting was dedicated to Dr. Yehia Mohamed (Mo) Saif, Ohio State University for his contribution to avian research aGenend service to CRWAD. The meeting was sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim, Zoetis, Newport Laboratories, Merial and USDA NIFA. Eight addiional companies provided tabletop products displays: Animal Health Research Reviews, MABTECH, GENEREACH, Tetracore, Newport Laboratories, Midwest Veterinary Supply, Perkin Elmer, and GE Healthcare Life Sciences. Approximately 400 individuals from 15 different countries attended the meeting.. The new CRWAD Council Keynote presentation was given by Dr. Randall Prather, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia. His talk entitled "Genome editing for PRRSV resistance and beyond" was a state of the art devlopment using CRISPR technology to derive genetically PRRSV resistant pigs. The meeting also featured 10 other keynote speakers in each of the 10 concurrent scientific sessions. There were 92 posters and 257 oral presentations at the meeting. Multistate meetings included NC 1202 Enteric Diseass of Food Animals; NE 1201 Mycobacterial Diseases of Animals; and NC 229 Emerging Viral Diseases of Swine. The American Association of Veterinary Epidemiologists and Preventative Medicine held a moring workshop and the Schwabe symposium. Dr. Will Hueston was the Schawabe Award winner and he spooke on "Building Public Private Partnerships to Deliver One Health". The AVEPM Mark Gearhart Memorial Award for Graduate Students was awarded to Jonah Cullen for his work "The Case: Control Design in Veterinary Sciences: A Survey" Seveal graduate students received awards for best oral and poster presentations. Overall the meeting provided state of the art presentations in the 10 concurrent session areas, attendees returned home with the most recent experimental data on various animal diseases. This conference continues to offer the only forum where multiple diseases in animals and multiple disciplines studying these diseases converge.
Publications
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Published Proceeding by Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases. Compiled and edited by Loren Harper and David Benfield. 2016 copyright CRWAD. ISBN 978-0-9800515-8-2. Contact David Benfield, Executive Director CRWAD for distribution.
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