2025 CRWAD Keynote Speaker
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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:
Novel Solutions to Problems in Animal Health
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Jeff Hogan
PhD
University of Georgia
“Development of Countermeasures for High Consequence Zoonotic and Human Pathogens”
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Amelia Woolums
DVM, PhD, DACVM
Mississippi State University
“Opportunities for RNA Therapy in Animal Health”
AVEPM Featured Speakers
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Jan Scarlett
DVM, MPH, PhD
Calvin Schwabe Awardee
Cornell University
“Challenges to Conducting Epidemiologic Research Regarding Companion Animal Welfare”
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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”
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Margaret Slater
DVM, PhD
ASPCA
“Illuminating the Welfare Implications of Free-Roaming Unowned Cats Via Epidemiological Approaches”
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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
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Yongqun “Oliver” He
DVM, PhD
University of Michigan Medical School
“Advancing Systems Vaccinology by Leveraging AI”
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Daniel O’Connor
BSc AFHEA MSc DPhil (OXON)
Oxford Vaccine Group
“Systems Vaccinology: Utilising the “-omics” Toolkit to Elucidate the Mechanisms Underlying Immune Responses”
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Gavin J. Wright
DPhil, FMedSci
Hull York Medical School
“Genome-Led Vaccine Target Discovery for Animal African Trypanosomiasis”
ACVM Featured Speakers
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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”
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Matthew Scott
DVM
Texas A&M Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Science
“Investigating Bovine Immune-Medicated Mechanisms Influenced by Viral Respiratory Vaccination Through Bulk RNA Sequencing”
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David Scott McVey
DVM, PhD
University of Nebraska Lincoln School of Veterinary Medicine
“Infection and Immunity – Clinical Outcomes”
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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
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Armin Saalmüller
Distinguished Veterinary Immunologist
University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
“Immune Responses After Vaccination – Peculiarities of the Porcine Immune System”
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Anne DeGroot
MD
University of Georgia
“Potentiating the Application of Immunoinformatics Tools to Animal Health”
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Colin Parrish
PhD
Cornell University
“Emergence and Spread of Viruses in New Hosts – The Examples of Canine Parvovirus and H3N8 Canine Influenza Virus”
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Shayan Sharif
DVM, PhD
University of Guelph
“Host responses during influenza A virus adaptation to a new species”