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SPRING PVS MEETING

May 5th-6th 2004.

MOTTRAM HALL, CHESHIRE

Meeting Agenda

Wednesday 5th May
11.00 Presidential address David Chennells
11.05 - 13.00 PMWS - UPDATES  
11.05 - 11.40 PMWS pilot surveillance project Alasdair Cook - VLA
11.40 - 12.15 PMWS pathogenesis studies Gordon Allan Queen's University, Belfast
12.15 - 13.00 Richard Potter Memorial Lecture:
There’s something going through the herd…
John Mackinnon
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH  
14.00 - 15.45 INTESTINAL HEALTH  
14.00 - 14.35 Gut microbial ecology and quorum sensing Kevin Hillman - SAC
14.35 - 15.10 Alternatives to antibiotic growth promoters Mike Varley - SCA Nutrition
15.10 - 15.45 Ileitis Dave Smith - Moredun Institute
15.45 - 16.15 TEA  
16.15 - 17.15 Sponsored Session Boehringer Ingelheim
17.15 - 18.15 AGM  
18.15 - 19.30 CLINICAL CLUB
Topical updates and Interesting cases
David Chennells
19.30 - Bar for dinner  

Thursday 6th May
9.00 - 10.50 REPRODUCTION  
9.00 - 9.35 Current investigations into leptospirosis in pigs and sow infertility Susanna Williamson - VLA
Mandy Dawson RVC - VLA
9.35 - 10.10 AI technologies Meritxell Donadeu - PIC Europe
10.10 - 10.25 BREAK  
10.25 - 11.00 PIG MEDICINE and ZOONOSES  
10.25 - 11.00 Pig Anaesthesia Eddie Clutton R(D)SVS
11.00 - 11.35 Hepatitis E Malcolm Banks - VLA
11.35 - 11.50 BREAK  
11.50 - 13.00 ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY  
11.50 - 12.25 To be confirmed To be confirmed
12.25 - 13.00 Microarrays and advances in disease diagnosis Douglas Roy - SCGI

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