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Greetings, fellow veterinary diagnosticians! I hope all is going well and you are enjoying the sweet smell of spring. We are excited to be in the midst of our call for abstracts for the 2025 annual meeting in Denver, Colorado. This is the second time we will be at the relatively new Gaylord of the Rockies Hotel in the Denver Suburb of Aurora, where you can sit on the front lawn with your colleagues after a great day of scientific and business meetings and enjoy the sunset over the Rocky Mountains… truly spectacular! Program Chair Ashley Hill has arranged an outstanding program, and the plenary session is titled “What’s New is Old Again”. So don’t miss this great opportunity! SAVE THE DATES NOW, October 30th – November 5th !!
Last year, we had over 200 scientific presentations, posters, and several symposia for our attendees. We want to see your institution’s diagnostic work highlighted and preserved, and hope you are considering a professional presentation. If you are a mentor or advising professor of a diagnostician trainee, please work with them and encourage a scientific submission for a live presentation or poster; it will build their CV and grow their professional skills. Also, encourage them to apply for our various trainee awards, including travel awards and outstanding presentation awards. They are all listed in pertinent documents on our annual meeting website page; applicants apply as they submit their abstracts through our ScholarOne system. Like last year, only those applying for awards need to submit recordings (these recordings help our judges preview candidates for the various awards; an important process because we have so many great competitors). So please, SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACTS BY JUNE 27TH.
If you are a Committee Chair, spring and summer are great times to meet with your committees and discuss issues for your discipline and prepare for final deliberation and action at the annual meeting. Later this summer, we will hold an all-committee-chair Zoom meeting to update and prepare you for the annual meeting.
Be sure and scroll down this Newsletter and see several key announcements about laboratory expansions and leadership changes. Our AAVLD labs are truly on the move. Thank you, AAVLD diagnosticians, for the dedicated and essential public services you provide our Nation.
Most sincerely,
David H. Zeman, DVM, PhD, DA
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Editor’s Note: As many know, a wildfire took the home of many people last March in Stillwater OK. One of those homes was that of OSU ADDL Director Dr. Jerry Saliki. We post below the link to a GoFundMe page for the Saliki family. If there are other ADDL people with similar situations, feel free to share information with all of us on the AAVLD list serve at aavld-nw@aavld.org (accessible to all members). We wish all affected families strength through this tragedy. DHZ
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Thank you for your continued support and dedication to the field of veterinary laboratory diagnostic science. We look forward to having you with us for another year of growth and collaboration.
Best regards,
Francisco Uzal and Melissa Macias Rioseco
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| | | | Grand Opening of Missouri VMDL | | Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe and VMDL Director Shuping Zhang at the VMDL Phase I Grand Opening and VMDL Phase II Groundbreaking | |  | |
On April 18th, 2025, the University of Missouri celebrated a grand opening for the Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory (VMDL) Phase I building and a groundbreaking for the VMDL Phase II building. The phase I building ( 34,200 sf) was funded by the state of Missouri ($15 million) and the College of Veterinary Medicine ($15 million). The Phase II building ( ~40,000 sf) is funded by the state ($43 million) and will be named the Dr. Dan Brown Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Building. The late Dr. Dan Brown was an alumnus of the College and served in the Missouri House of Representatives and Senate. The new facility will enable the VMDL to improve its capabilities and capacity in educating veterinary students and supporting the veterinary community and agricultural sector.
Shuping Zhang, BVS, PhD, DACVM
Professor and Director, MO VMDL
| | | Left to Right: Shuping Zhang (VMDL Director), Cliff Miller (MVMA Government Relations Chair), Mun Choi (UM President), Julie Braun (MVMA Executive Director), Danette Sherrell (Dr. Brown’s Daughter), Todd Graves (UM Board of Curator), Cathy Brown (Dr. Dan Brown’s Wife), Srinand Sreevatsan (CVM Dean), Chris Chinn ( MDA Director), Mike Kehoe (Missouri Governor), Justin Brown (Missouri Senator), Pat Thomas (Chief of Staff for Sen.), and Robert Fry ( UM Board of Curator) | | |
On April 11, the Kansas Legislature voted to fund a new veterinary diagnostic laboratory facility for the State of Kansas at Kansas State. The funding provided is $128 million, and fundraising efforts are planned for additional funding. With the recognition by the Kansas Legislature, the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (KSVDL) will begin the long transition to the Kansas Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (KVDL)at Kansas State. Thanks to all of our fellow labs who helped us get this accomplished!
Jamie Retallick (Henningson) DVM, PhD, DACVP
KVDL Director and Professor/Veterinary Pathologist
Kansas Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory
College of Veterinary Medicine| Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology
Kansas State University
| | Karriker Named Iowa State University Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine Department Chair and Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Executive Director | | |
Dr. Locke Karriker, Morrill Professor and the Dr. Douglas and Ann Gustafson Professor for Teaching Excellence in Veterinary Medicine, has been named the chair of the Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine and the executive director of the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at Iowa State University. His appointment is effective May 12, 2025.
A faculty member in the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine since 2003, Karriker is the director and founder of the Swine Medicine Education Center (SMEC), the only such center in the country dedicated to providing veterinary students and practicing veterinarians from across the world with extensive hands-on experiences and education in swine health and production.
Karriker has held the Gustafson Professorship of Excellence in Veterinary Education since 2014. He was named a Morrill Professor in 2021. Karriker was a member of the U.S. Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria during 2019-2023. He served as the American Association of Swine Veterinarians (AASV) District 6 Director from 2015 to 2021 and is currently the AASV President.
Karriker has received numerous awards. In addition to the Morrill Professor and Gustafson Professorship, he is the recipient of several Iowa State University awards for teaching excellence. These include the ISU Excellence in Remote Instruction Award, the ISU Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching, and the CVM Faculty Member of the Year. Karriker also received the AASV Howard Dunne Memorial Award in 2014. He was named the Alumnus of the Year for Mississippi State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine in 2012. He is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine.
Karriker replaces Dr. Patrick Halbur in these positions. Halbur is retiring after 35 years of service to the College of Veterinary Medicine in a variety of positions including interim dean.
| | 2025 NEUSAHA Meeting Held in Harrisburg | | |
The 2025 NEUSAHA annual meeting occurred this year in April at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center in Harrisburg. The meeting provided a valuable opportunity to connect with colleagues outside the usual October gathering and was a welcome change from virtual meetings. The inclusive nature of our regional group, which includes AAVLD representation, was notable, and the meeting featured interesting presentations on topics ranging from rabies and HPAI to mRNA vaccines and market prices. A highlight included multiple laboratory speakers from the NAHLN and NADPRP-funded “Transboundary, Regional Emerging and Novel Disease (TREND) Rounds,” an initiative open for northeast AAVLD members to join (email Rob to receive communications: robert.gibson@unh.edu). The meeting attendees also had the opportunity to tour the Pennsylvania Veterinary Laboratory that is across the street from the PA Expo Center. We look forward to seeing the rest of our amazing colleagues at the annual meeting this October, where NE AAVLD Representative Melanie Prarat (Ohio) and her virology co-chair, Roman Pogranichniy (Kansas) are presenting a one-day symposium, "International Experiences with High Consequence Animal Disease Outbreaks and Response" that includes speakers from Italy, Germany, Ukraine, Singapore and other countries.
| | | | | From L to R: Erin Goodrich (Cornell AHDC); Mani Lejeune (Cornell AHDC); Francois Elvinger (Cornell AHDC); Cassandra Guarino (Cornell AHDC); Robert Gibson (New Hampshire VDL); Deep Tewari (Pennsylvania Veterinary Laboratory); Amar Patil (New Jersey Department of Agriculture, Division of Animal Health); Leonardo Cardia Caserta (Cornell AHDC) | | | AAVLD Northeast Region Updates | | |
Dr.Talita Resende joins the University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory to expand food animal diagnostic services
The Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine has welcomed Dr. Talita Resende as its newest food animal diagnostician and member of its faculty.
Resende joined the college’s Department of Veterinary Population Medicine (VPM) as an assistant professor in May 2025. She brings an extensive background in food animal diagnostic medicine in both academic and laboratory roles. Her work spans swine and poultry infectious diseases, autogenous vaccines (also known as custom vaccines), and veterinary pathology and histology.
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Dr. Meg Moore earned her DVM and MPH degrees from Colorado State University and
the Colorado School of Public Health. She completed a residency in anatomic pathology
at the University of Minnesota, earning board certification in 2021. As a former high
school science teacher with a passion for teaching and training, Meg stayed on at UMN
as an assistant professor. In this role, she developed an in-house surgical pathology
service, trained students and residents, supported preclinical research with NHP
models, and worked closely with clinicians to ensure accurate diagnoses for clients.
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| | Zeman Named LSU SVM PhD Alumnus of the Year | | At a campus ceremony on April 24th, David Zeman, DVM, PhD, DACVP, was named the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine’s PhD Alumnus of the Year. Dr. Zeman completed his PhD in the Department of Veterinary Pathology in 1986, mentored by his Major Professor, Dr. Don Roberts, and Department Chair Dr. Harold Casey. He was cited for his decades of work as a veterinary diagnostic pathologist, researcher, and administrator, as well as State and National leadership roles in advancing the discipline of diagnostic laboratory sciences. | | Dr. Zeman receiving the award from LSU SVM Dean Oliver Garden and Associate Dean for Research Dr. Tammy Dugas. | |
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Thank you, Committee Chairs
Committee Annual Meeting Agendas Submission due September 15
Please use the provided link within this PDF Portfolio to access:
- Committee Chair reporting instructions and URL links to electronic forms
- A letter from the AAVLD meeting coordinator, Kaylin Taylor
- AAVLD Committee SOP
'2025 AAVLD COMMITTEE CHAIR PACKAGE'
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Four documents are enclosed.
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Detection of Mycoplasmopsis (Mycoplasma) bovis in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded bovine lung sections by immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization, Matthew Brown, Zackary Laney, Laila Tabatabai, Anna Hassebroek, Kevin Lahmers, Tessa LeCuyer, Francisco A. Uzal, Francisco R. Carvallo
Abstract. The bovine respiratory disease complex (BRDC) is a multifactorial disease of economic importance in cattle involving viral and bacterial agents and several environmental and host-associated predisposing factors. Mycoplasmopsis (Mycoplasma) bovis is frequently detected in BRDC cases, but the role of this bacterium in the pathogenesis of BRDC is not completely understood. We explored the utility of routine histopathology and compared immunohistochemistry (IHC) and in situ hybridization (ISH) in pneumonic bovine lung tissue samples for the detection of M. bovis infection. Samples were analyzed for M. bovis using mycoplasma bacterial culture (screening test), H&E staining, IHC, and ISH. We found that “compatible histologic lesions” are not entirely predictive of the presence of M. bovis on culture, IHC, or ISH, and also that there was no statistical difference between IHC and ISH for detecting M. bovis. We conclude that IHC and ISH can be used interchangeably to detect M. bovis infections in pneumonic bovine lung. More
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The Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation is the official journal of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians. The mission of the Journal is to educate by informing readers of progress in veterinary laboratory medicine and related fields of endeavor. The key objectives of the JVDI are to promote the science of veterinary laboratory medicine and the betterment of animal and public health. JVDI fully supports diversity, equity, and inclusion in our publishing activities.
Editor-in-chief, Dr. Grant Maxie / https://journals.sagepub.com/home/VDI
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- University Diagnosticians/Researchers: 36%
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