2024 CRWAD Keynote Speaker

Christy Petersen
MS, PhD, DVM
CRWAD Keynote Speaker
“Global One Health efforts to eliminate vector borne zoonoses”
2024 CRWAD Special Symposium:
Novel Solutions to Problems in Animal Health

Raluca Mateescu
MS, PhD
University of Florida
“Genomic Solutions for Sustainable Beef Production: Climate-Smart Cattle Breeding”

Ariel Ortiz-Bobea
MS, PhD
Cornell University
“R&D needs for US agriculture in a changing climate”

Zhengxia Dou
MS, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
“Food’s journey in the last mile – managing food waste as untapped resources”
AVEPM Featured Speakers

Jan M. Sargeant
DVM, MSc, PhD, FCAHS
Calvin Schwabe Award
University of Guelph
“What question are we trying to answer? Embracing causal inference”

David Renter
DVM, PhD
Kansas State University
“Aligning valid research outcomes with stakeholder values”

Audrey Ruple
DVM, MS, PhD, DACVPM MRCVS
Virginia Tech
“Do our exposure variables tell us what we think they are telling us?”

Annette O’Connor
BVSc, MVSc, DVSc, FANZCVSc
Michigan State University
“Rethinking variable selection and study design approaches”
Animal Vaccinology Research Network Featured Speakers


Hyun Lillehoj
PhD
USDA
“Progresses and Challenges in the Development of Vaccines against Intracellular Intestinal Parasites in Poultry”

Glenn Browning
DVM, PhD
University of Melboure
“Vaccines – critical components of effective veterinary antimicrobial stewardship”

Paul Morley
DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Texas A&M
“Does vaccination prevent antimicrobial resistance?”
ACVM Featured Speakers

Linda Saif
MS, PhD, DACVM
Distinguished Veterinary Microbiologist
Ohio State University
“Coronaviruses: Past, present and future threats to animals and humans”

Stanley Perlman
MD, PhD
University of Iowa
“Pathogenesis of Murine and Human coronavirus infections”

Andrew Bowman
MS, DVM, PhD, DACVPM
Ohio State University
“SARS-CoV-2 spillovers across the human-animal interface”

Gregg Dean
DVM, PhD, DACVP
Colorado State University
“Utilizing Aptamer-based proteomics to investigate feline infectious peritonitis pathogenesis and discover biomarkers”
AAVI Featured Speakers

Christopher Chase
DVM, PhD
Distinguished Veterinary Immunologist
South Dakota State University
“Before there was COVID, there was Bovine Respiratory Disease”


Adam Moeser
MS, PhD, DVM
Michigan State University
“Pathogenesis of Murine and Human coronavirus infections”

Daniela Rajao
MS, PhD, DVM
University of Georgia
“Host responses during influenza A virus adaptation to a new species”