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122th USAHA Annual Meeting

USDA Research Reviews

New Horizons in Zoonotic and Emerging Diseases

Sunday October 21, 2018

Sheraton Crown Center Hotel, Kansas City, MO

12:30 PM - 5:30 pm; Room Atlanta A

Moderators: Roxann Motroni, USDA-ARS and Bob Smith, USDA-NIFA

12:30 – 1:00 USDA-NIFA Updates

NIFA national program leaders

1:00 – 1:30 USDA-ARS Updates

ARS national program leaders

1:30 – 2:00 NIFA’s US-UK collaboration to control viral threats to livestock

Stephen Higgs, Biotechnology Research Institute, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

2:00 – 2:30 Entomological risk factors for potential transmission of Rift Valley fever virus around concentrations of livestock in Colorado

Rebekah Kading, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

2:30 – 3:00 Rift Valley fever virus: Improvements in detection, characterization and control methods, Bill Wilson, Arthropod-Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Manhattan, KS

3:00 – 3:30 Outbreak of virulent Theileria orientalis Ikeda strain in U.S. cattle:  Threat assessment and development of preventive strategies.

Lindsay Fry, Animal Diseases Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Pullman, WA

3:30 – 4:00 New sequencing  strategies for diagnostics of Newcastle disease and Avian Influenza, Claudio Afonso, Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Athens, GA

4:00 -4:30 Development of a DIVA compatible African Swine Fever virus subunit vaccine Waithaka Mwangi, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

4:30 – 5:00 Bovine leptospirosis; endemic, emerging or re-emerging?

Jarlath Nally, National Animal Disease Center (NADC), USDA-ARS, Ames, IA

5:00 – 5:30 Evaluation of live, attenuated brucella vaccine candidates

Tom Ficht, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

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