Spring PVS MEETING 2009
Sponsored by Pfizer
May 20th and May 21st 2009
Mercure Holland Park, Bristol
Meeting Details
The program is as follows:
| Wednesday May 20th |
| 11.00 |
Presidential Introduction |
Mr President: Derek Armstrong |
| 11.05 - 13.00 |
Bits and Bobs |
Chairman: Nigel Woolfenden
|
| 11.00 - 11.30 |
Pig welfare - past, present and future |
Christoper Wathes, Royal Veterinary College
|
| 11.30 - 12.00 |
Understanding potential infectious disease spread using contact patterns
|
Sandy Miller & Lucy Snow, Veterinary Laboratories Agency
|
| 12.00 - 12.30 |
'Compartments: a new way to export'
|
Russell Kyle, International Animal Health, Defra
|
| 12.30 - 13.10 |
Classical Swine Fever |
Willie Loeffen , Central Veterinary Institute of Wageningen UR
|
| 13.10 - 14.00 |
LUNCH |
|
| 14.00 - 15.30 |
Questionable bits - where are we? |
Chairman: Stan Done |
| 14.00 - 15.30 |
Emerging viral infections in the domestic pig and the wild boar: what do we know?
|
Joaquim Segalés , Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona
|
| 15.30 |
TEA and CAKES |
|
| 16.00 - 17.00 |
Historical Bits
|
Chairman Dan Tucker |
| |
The Tom Alexander Memorial Lecture
|
Prof. Hank Harris, Iowa State University
|
| 17.00 - 18.00 |
AGM |
Chairman: Mr President |
| 18.00 |
Tiny Bits Clinical club |
Chairman: David Chennells |
| Thursday May 21st 2009 |
| 08.45 - 09.40 |
Respiratory Disease - Eradication Bits
|
Chairman: David Taylor |
| 08.45 - 09.00 |
20:20 pig health. A programme for pig health improvement
|
Stewart Houston CBE, BPEX
|
| 09.00 - 09.40 |
Eradication of enzootic pneumonia - experiences and challenges
|
Katharina Stärk, Royal Veterinary College
|
| 09.40 - 10.40 |
Sponsor's Slot - Boar taint and its control |
PFIZER ANIMAL HEALTH |
| |
Boar taint - a review. |
Jeff Wood, University of Bristol.
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Vaccination to control boar taint
|
Nigel Lodge, Pfizer.
|
| 10.40 - 11.00
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COFFEE
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|
| 11.00 - 13.00 |
Reproduction - Naughty Bits
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Chair: Meritxell Donadeu |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
A mathematical model of the within-herd transmission dynamics of PRRSV based on data from 103 herds
|
Charlotte Evans, University of Warwick
Peter Brown |
| 11.30 - 12.00 |
Second litter syndrome
|
Lia Hoving, Wageningen University
Peter Brown |
| 12.00 - 13.00 |
Quality Control at the Boar Stud for Better Sperm Fertility |
Peer-Ola Hofmo, Norsvin Breeding Company |
| 13.00 |
Presidential summary and induction of new president
|
Derek Armstrong
Peter Brown |
This meeting is sponsored by:
