2025 CRWAD Schedule at a Glance

Saturday, January 18, 2025

  • 8:00am – 10:00am USDA Project Directors Meeting — Chicago F/G – 5th Floor
  • 10:00am – 12:00pm ACVM Board of Governors Meetings — Kansas City – 5th Floor
  • 10:00am – 4:00pm NC1202 Annual Meeting — Chicago A/B – 5th Floor
  • 12:00pm – 3:00pm NC1192 Annual Meeting — Chicago C – 5th Floor
  • 1:00pm – 6:00pm Speaker Ready Room — Los Angeles – 5th Floor
  • 4:00pm – 6:00pm 3MT Student Competition — Salon II – 7th Floor

Sunday, January 19, 2025

  • 7:00am – 6:00pm Speaker Ready Room — Los Angeles – 5th Floor\
  • 8:30am – 12:00pm Set up posters — Salon III – 7th Floor
  • 8:30am – 10:00am American College of Veterinary Microbiologists Symposium — Salon II – 7th Floor
    • Featured Speakers
      • John Ellis, DVM, PhD, DACVP, DACVM, ACVM
        • Distinguished Veterinary Microbiologist, “Why Aren’t We All Dead?: Improving on Mother Nature’s Plan for Immunization”
      • Matthew Scott, DVM, PhD
        • “Investigating Bovine Immune-Mediated Mechanisms Influenced by Viral Respiratory”
  • 8:30 am – 10:00 am CRWAD Research Abstracts — Chicago A-G – 5th Floor
  •  10:00 am – 10:30 am BREAK
  • 10:30 am – 12:00 pm American College of Veterinary Microbiologists Symposium — Salon II – 7th Floor
    • Featured Speakers
      • Scott McVey, DVM, PhD
        • “Infection and Immunity – Clinical Outcomes”
      • Kyoungjin J. Yoon, DVM
        • “Current Status of Swine Viral Infections in the US: Emerging and Re-Emerging Diseases”
  • 10:30 am – 12:00 pm CRWAD Research Abstracts — Chicago A-G – 5th Floor
  • 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm BREAK (Lunch on own)
  • 12:00pm – 6:00pm View Posters — Salon III – 7th Floor
  • 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm CRWAD Fellows Luncheon (Invite only) — Avenue Ballroom – 4th Floor
  • 1:30pm – 2:45 pm CRWAD Council Keynote — Salon II – 7th Floor
    • Keynote Speaker:
      • Philip Santangelo, PhD, CRWAD Keynote Speaker
        • “RNA Therapy Beyond Vaccination: Possibilities and Challenges”
  • 2:45pm – 3:30pm CRWAD Special Symposium: Applications of mRNA Technologies in Animal Health Research — Salon II – 7th Floor
    • Featured Speaker
      • Jeff Hogan, PhD
        • “Development of Countermeasures for High Consequence Zoonotic and Human”
  • 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm BREAK
  • 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm CRWAD Special Symposium: Applications of mRNA Technologies in Animal Health Research — Salon II – 7th Floor
    • Featured Speakers:
      • Francois Villinger, DVM, PhD
        • “mRNA Applications in Non-Human Primate Models for Improved Pre-Clinical Evaluation”
      • Amelia Woolums, DVM, MVSc, PhD, DACVIM, DACVM
        • “Opportunities for RNA Therapy in Animal Health”
      • Panel Discussion
  • 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm AVEPM Student Mixer Event — Chicago – 5th Floor
  • 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm AAVI Mixer — Chicago Ballrooms – 5th Floor

Monday, January 20, 2025

  • 7:00am – 6:00pm Speaker Ready Room — Los Angeles – 5th Floor
  • 8:30 am – 10:00 am American Association of Veterinary Immunologists Symposium
    • Featured Speakers
      •  Armin Saalmuller, DVM, AAVI Distinguished Veterinary Immunologist
        • “Immune Response After Vaccination – Peculiarities of the Porcine Immune System”
      • Anne DeGroot, MD
        • “Potentiating the Application of Immunoinformatics Tools to Animal Health”
  • 8:30 – 10:00am CRWAD Research Abstracts — Chicago A-G – 5th Floor
  • 10:00 am – 10:30 am BREAK
  • 10:30am – 12:00pm American Association of Veterinary Immunologists Symposium
    • Featured Speakers:
      • Colin Parrish, PhD
        • “Emergence and Spread of Viruses in New Hosts – The Examples of Canine Parvovirus and H3N8 Canine Influenza Virus”
      • Shayan Sharif, DVM, PhD
        • “Perspectives on Vaccination as an Approach for Control of Highly Pathogenic Avian”
  • 10:30 am – 12:00 pm CRWAD Research Abstracts — Chicago A-G – 5th Floor
  • 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm BREAK (Lunch on own)
  • 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm American Association of Veterinary Immunologists Luncheon (Ticketed Event)
  • 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Association for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine Calvin Schwabe Symposium
    • Featured Speakers:
      • Jan Scarlett, DVM, MPH, PhD, Calvin Schwabe Awardee
        • “Challenges to Conducting Epidemiologic Research Regarding Companion Animal Welfare”
      • Margaret Slater, DVM, PhD
        • “Illuminating the Welfare Implications of Free-Roaming Unowned Cats via Epidemiological Approaches”
  • 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm CRWAD Research Abstracts — Chicago A-G – 5th Floor
  • 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm CRWAD Business Meeting — Chicago D – 5th Floor
  • 4:15 pm – 5:45 pm Association for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine Calvin Schwabe Symposium — Salon II – 7th Floor
    • Featured Speakers:
      • Alexandra Protopopova, PhD, CAAB
        • “The Use of Mixed Methods to Explore the Complex Issue of Companion Animal Relinquishment to and Adoption from Animal Shelters”
      • Rachel Kreisler, VMD, MSCE, DACVPM (Epidemiology)
        • “Epidemiological Insights: Classic Tools for Modern Animal Shelter and Community Animal Health Research”
      • Panel Discussion
      • Lucas Horton, PhD, Mark Gearhart Memorial Graduate Student Awardee
        • “Stochastic Modelling of Economic Risk and Net Return Distributions for Feedlot
          Steers Marketed at Alternative Endpoints”
  • 4:15 pm – 5:45 pm CRWAD Research Abstracts — Chicago A-G – 5th Floor
  • 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm CRWAD Poster Reception — Salon III – 7th Floor
  • 8:15pm  Deadline to take down posters — Salon III – 7th Floor

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

  • 7:00am – 10:30am Speaker Ready Room — Los Angeles – 5th Floor
  • 8:30 am – 10:00 am Animal Vaccinology Research Symposium — Salon II – 7th Floor
    • Featured Speakers
      • Gavin Wright, DPhil, FMedSci
        • “Genome-Led Vaccine Target Discovery for Animal African Trypanosomiasis ”Featured Speakers
      • Daniel O’Connor, BsC, AFHEA, Mac, DPhil
        • “Systems Vaccinology: Utilizing the “-omics” toolkit to Elucidate the Mechanisms Underlying Immune Responses”
  • 8:30 am – 10:00 am CRWAD Research Abstracts — Chicago A-G – 5th Floor
  • 10:00 am – 10:30 am BREAK
  • 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Animal Vaccinology Research Network Symposium — Salon II – 7th Floor
      • Laura Caldwell Miller, BSc (Hons), PhD
        • “Translating Omics Research Into Improved Swine Health”
      • Yongqun He, DVM, PhD
        • “Advancing Systems Vaccinology by Leveraging AI”
      • Panel Discussion
  • 10:30 am – 12:00 pm CRWAD Research Abstracts — Chicago A-G – 5th Floor
  • 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm Conference Closing and Student Award Presentations — Chicago D – 5th Floor

 

 

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

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