Schedule
CAHLN Meeting Schedule for 2021
*Note all sessions are in Mountain Daylight Time (MDT)
Monday June 7, 2021 via Zoom
NOTE: all sessions are in Mountain Daylight Time (MDT)
| Time | Speaker/ Event | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00-09:15 | Robert McCorkell, UCVM Interim Dean | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| 09:15-10:15 |
Grant Maxie |
Changes I’ve seen in 50 years of Veterinary Pathology |
| 10:15-10:40 |
Luke Haydock |
Bronchopneumonia with interstitial pneumonia in beef feedlot cattle |
| 10:40-11:05 | Jennifer Davies & Ashley Whitehead |
Clostridial hepatitis caused by Clostridia novyi-group bacteria in 4 mature equids in southern Alberta |
| 11:05-11:15 | Break | |
| 11:15-11:40 | Dayna Goldsmith | Velogenic Newcastle disease in feral pigeons and the value of citizen science |
| 11:40-12:15 | Beverly McEwen | Veterinary Forensic Postmortem Standards |
| 12:15-13:00 | Lunch | Come have lunch with us: Networking Opportunity |
| 13:00-14:00 |
Yanyun Huang |
Selected Emerging Swine Diseases in China – Through the Lens of a Chinese in Canada |
| 14:00-14:15 |
Douglas Doyle-Baker |
Septicemic pasteurellosis causing peracute death and necrotizing myositis in a beef heifer (Bos taurus) in Alberta Canada |
| 14:15-14:30 | Summer Hunter | Pathology of free-ranging urban Leporidae in Calgary, Alberta |
| 14:30-15:15 | Meeting | Provincial Diagnostic Laboratory Reports |
| 15:15-16:00 | Meeting | Canadian Association of Veterinary Pathologists (CAVP) Annual Business |
Tuesday June 8, 2021 via Zoom
NOTE: all sessions are in Mountain Daylight Time (MDT)
| Time | Speaker/ Event | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-10:00 |
Chelsea Himsworth & Natalie Prystajecky |
From Mink to Ministries: Lessons Learned from BC LOGI2C – the BC Laboratory for the One Health Genomics Innovation and Implementation Community |
| 10:00-10:25 | Barbara Wilhelm | The Western Canadian Animal Health Network: collaboration and crowdsourcing data |
| 10:25-10:50 |
Theresa Burns |
Animal Health Informatics: Integrating Animal Health Information in Canada |
| 10:50-11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Madison Anderson |
Poster: Sarcocystis species protozoal encephalitis in a wild black bear (Ursus americanus) |
| Alyssa Butters | Poster: Using whole-genome sequencing to examine the relatedness and antimicrobial resistance elements of E. coli isolates within a One Health continuum | |
|
Brock Chappell |
Poster: Lesions of Mycobacterium avium spp. hominissuis infection in a wild mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) resemble Mycobacterium bovis | |
|
Michael Zabrodski |
Poster: Improving methods of control of American foulbrood in honey bees in Saskatchewan | |
|
Marika Köszegi |
Poster: Duck atadenovirus A 2019 and 2020 outbreaks in ducklings including whole genome sequence of the viruses | |
|
Dominique Comeau |
Poster: Bovine Astrovirus and its Potential Role in Bovine Lymphocytic Encephalitis | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch | CAHLN Annual General Meeting – Everyone Welcome |
| 13:00-14:00 | Sylvia Checkley | A One Health Approach to Understanding Resistance |
| 14:00-14:25 |
Musangu Ngeleka |
Neonatal calf diarrhea diagnostics at Prairie Diagnostic Services: lessons learned over the last two-decade |
| 14:25-14:40 |
Anatoliy Trokhymchuk |
Rapid Salmonella serotyping by sequencing on nanopore platform |
| 15:00-16:00 | Awards | Laboratorian of the Year and Student Awards, Networking, and Sponsor Breakout Rooms |
Wednesday June 9, 2021 via Zoom
NOTE: all sessions are in Mountain Daylight Time (MDT)
| Time | Speaker/Event | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-10:00 |
Herman Barkema |
Effect of restriction in the use of antibiotics in food animals on antibiotic resistance in food animals and humans |
| 10:00-10:25 | Melanie Barham | Current trends in knowledge transfer |
| 10:25-10:50 |
Maria Spinato |
Operational and quality management challenges during the early days of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: One veterinary diagnostic laboratory’s experiences |
| 10:50-11:05 | Break | |
| 11:05-11:30 |
Kalhari Bandara Goonewardene |
Oral fluid as an aggregate sample for early detection of African Swine Fever virus: evidence from four independent pen-based experiments |
| 11:30-11:55 |
Maodong Zhang |
Assessment of Metagenomic Sequencing and qPCR for Detection of Influenza D virus in Bovine Respiratory Tract Samples |
| 11:55-12:20 |
Chantale Provost |
First whole genome sequences of equine influenzavirus A (H3N8) in Canada |
| 12:20-12:45 |
Oliver Lung |
Torque teno equus virus 2 (TTEqV2), a novel Anellovirus species and the first complete Mutorquevirus genome |
| 12:45-13:00 | CAHLN | Closing Remarks |
| 13:15-14:15 | Meeting | CAHLN Bacteriology/AST Working Group |
Thanks to our 2021 generous sponsors
