2024 CRWAD Schedule at a Glance

Saturday, January 20, 2024

  • NC1202 Annual Meeting 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
  • AVEPM Workshop 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
  • ACVM Board of Governors Meeting 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
  • CRWAD Council Meeting 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
  • 3MT Competition 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Sunday, January 21, 2024

  • AAVI Distinguished Immunologist Symposium 8:30 am – 10:00 am
    • Featured Speakers
      • Christopher Chase DVM, PhD
        • “Before there was COVID, there was Bovine Respiratory Disease”
      • Randy Sacco, MS, PhD
        • “A Tribute to our Friend and Colleague Dr. John D. Lippolis”
  • CRWAD Research Abstracts 8:30 am – 10:00 am
  • Break 10:00 am – 10:30 am
  • AAVI Symposium 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
    • Featured Speakers
      • Adam Moeser MS, PhD, DVM
        • “Stressed from the start: Implications of early life stress for lifelong health and disease resistance”
      • Daniela Rajao, MS PhD, DVM
        • “Host responses during influenza A virus adaptation to a new species”
  • CRWAD Research Abstracts 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
  • Break (Lunch on own) 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
  • CRWAD Fellows Luncheon (Invite only) 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
  • CRWAD Opening Remarks & Introduction of Fellows 1:30 pm – 2:00 pm
  • CRWAD Council Keynote/CRWAD Special Symposium: Novel Solutions to Problems in Animal Health 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
    • Keynote Speaker:
      • Christy Petersen MS, PhD, DVM
        • “Global One Health efforts to eliminate vector-borne zoonoses”
    • Featured Speaker
      • Raluca Mateescu MS, PhD
        • “Genomic solutions for sustainable beef production: Climate-smart cattle breeding”
  • Break 3:45 pm – 4:15 pm
  • CRWAD Special Symposium 4:15 pm – 6:00 pm
    • Featured Speakers:
      • Ariel Ortiz-Bobea MS, PhD
        • “R&D needs for US agriculture in a changing climate”
      • Zhengxia Dou MS, PhD
        • “Food’s journey in the last mile – managing food waste as untapped resources”
  • Alumni Events 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
  • AAVI Mixer 6:00 pm

Monday, January 22, 2024

  • AVEPM Calvin Schwabe Symposium 8:30 am – 10:00 am
    • Featured Speakers
      •  Jan Sargeant DVM, MSc, PhD
        • “What question are we trying to answer? Embracing causal inference”
      • Annette O’Connor BVSc, MVSc, DVSc, FANZCVSc
        • “Rethinking variable selection and study design approaches”
  • CRWAD Research Abstracts 8:30 am – 10:00 am
  • Conference Break 10:00 am – 10:30 am
  • AVEPM Calvin Schwabe Symposium 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
    • Featured Speakers:
      • Audrey Ruple DVM, MS, PhD, DACVPM, MRCVS
        • “Do our exposure variables tell us what we think they are telling us?”
      • David Renter DVM, PhD
        • “Aligning valid research outcomes with stakeholder values”
  • CRWAD Research Abstracts 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
  • Break (Lunch on own) 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
  • AAVI Luncheon (Ticketed Event/RSVP Needed) 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
  • Animal Vaccinology Research Symposium 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
    • Featured Speakers:
      • Glenn Browning DVM, PhD
        • “Vaccines – critical components of effective veterinary microbial stewardship”
      • Hyun Lillehoj PhD
        • “Progresses and challenges in the development of vaccines against intracellular intestinal parasites in poultry”
  • CRWAD Research Abstracts 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
  • Break 3:30 pm – 4:15 pm
  • CRWAD Business Meeting 3:30 pm – 4:15 pm
  • Animal Vaccinology Research Network Symposium (continued) 4:15 pm – 5:45 pm
    • Featured Speakers:
      • Benjamin Beck MA, PhD
        • “Prevention and control of diseases in aquaculture species”
      • Paul Morley DVM, PhD, DACVIM
        • “Does vaccination prevent antimicrobial resistance?”
  • CRWAD Research Abstracts 4:15 pm – 5:45 pm
  • CRWAD Poster Reception 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

  • ACVM Distinguished Microbiologist Symposium 8:30 am – 10:00 am
    • Featured Speakers
      • Linda Saif MS, PhD, DACVM
        • “Coronavirus: Past, present and future threats to animals and humans”
      • Stanley Perlman MD, PhD
        • “Pathogenesis of Murine and Human coronavirus infections”
  • CRWAD Research Abstracts 8:30 am – 10:00 am
  • Break 10:00 am – 10:30 am
  • ACVM Symposium 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
    • Featured Speakers
      • Andrew Bowman MS, DVM, PhD, DACVPM
        • “SARS-CoV-2 spillovers across the human-animal interface”
      • Gregg Dean DVM, PhD
        • “Utilizing aptamer-based proteometrics to investigate feline infectious peritonitis pathogenesis and discover biomarkers”
  • CRWAD Research Abstracts 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
  • CRWAD Closing Comments and Award Presentations/Closing Remarks 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
  • NC 1192 Annual Meeting 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

 

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

  • Recorded featured speaker presentations become available online to registered participants.

 

*This schedule is subject to change until the conclusion of the CRWAD Conference on January 23.

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