2025 CRWAD Keynote Speaker
Phil Santangelo, PhD
Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech School of Engineering
Emory University School of Medicine
“RNA Therapy Beyond Vaccination: Possibilities and Challenges”
2025 CRWAD Special Symposium:
Applications of mRNA Technologies in Animal Health Research
Jeff Hogan
PhD
University of Georgia
“Development of Countermeasures for High Consequence Zoonotic and Human Pathogens”
Francois Villinger
DVM, PhD
University of Louisiana Lafayette
“mRNA applications in nonhuman primate models for improved preclinical evaluation”
Amelia Woolums
DVM, PhD, DACVM
Mississippi State University
“Opportunities for RNA Therapy in Animal Health”
AVEPM Featured Speakers
Jan Scarlett
DVM, MPH, PhD
Calvin Schwabe Awardee
Cornell University
“Challenges to Conducting Epidemiologic Research Regarding Companion Animal Welfare”
Alexandra (Sasha) Protopopova
PhD, CAAB
University of British Columbia
“The Use of Mixed Methods to Explore the Complex Issue of Companion Animal Relinquishment to and Adoption from Animal Shelters”
Margaret Slater
DVM, PhD
ASPCA
“Illuminating the Welfare Implications of Free-Roaming Unowned Cats Via Epidemiological Approaches”
Rachael Kreisler
VMD, MSCE, DACVPM
Midwestern University’s College of Veterinary Medicine
“Epidemiological Insights: Classic Tools for Modern Animal Shelter and Community Animal Health Research”
Animal Vaccinology Research Network Featured Speakers
Yongqun “Oliver” He
DVM, PhD
University of Michigan Medical School
“Advancing Systems Vaccinology by Leveraging AI”
Daniel O’Connor
BSc AFHEA MSc DPhil (OXON)
Oxford Vaccine Group
“Systems Vaccinology: Utilising the “-omics” Toolkit to Elucidate the Mechanisms Underlying Immune Responses”
Gavin J. Wright
DPhil, FMedSci
Hull York Medical School
“Genome-Led Vaccine Target Discovery for Animal African Trypanosomiasis”
Laura Caldwell Miller
BSc (Hons), PhD
Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine
“Translating Omics Research into Improved Swine Health“
ACVM Featured Speakers
John Ellis
DVM, PhD, DACVP, DACVM
Distinguished Veterinary Microbiologist
University of Saskatchewan
“Why Aren’t We All Dead?: Improving on Mother Nature’s Plan for Immunization”
Matthew Scott
DVM, PhD
Texas A&M Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Science
“Investigating Bovine Immune-Mediated Mechanisms Influenced by Viral Respiratory Vaccination Through Bulk RNA Sequencing”
David Scott McVey
DVM, PhD
University of Nebraska Lincoln School of Veterinary Medicine
“Infection and Immunity – Clinical Outcomes”
Kyoungjin J. Yoon
DVM, MS, PhD, Diplomate ACVM
Iowa State University
“Current Status of Swine Viral Infections in the US: Emerging and Re-Emerging Diseases”
AAVI Featured Speakers
Armin Saalmüller
Distinguished Veterinary Immunologist
University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
“Immune Responses After Vaccination – Peculiarities of the Porcine Immune System”
Anne DeGroot
MD
University of Georgia
“Potentiating the Application of Immunoinformatics Tools to Animal Health”
Colin Parrish
PhD
Cornell University
“Emergence and Spread of Viruses in New Hosts – The Examples of Canine Parvovirus and H3N8 Canine Influenza Virus”
Shayan Sharif
DVM, PhD
University of Guelph
“Host responses during influenza A virus adaptation to a new species”
