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 American College of Poultry Veterinarians Workshop 7:00 7:45 8:00 8:30 9:00 Maximizing Performance: Is the Poultry Industry Ready for Current Challenges? SUNDAY , MARCH 22, 2015 Registration and Continental Breakfast Welcome Making “cents” as the ultimate goal of improved productivity in a highly competitive global environment. Nutritional interventions to improve intestinal health and feed conversion for traditional and antibiotic free production systems. Getting the most out of hatchery vaccination: development of early immune response and its effect on performance. Questions & Answers Break Application of new vaccine technology to improve immunity and productivity: advantages and challenges. Round table: Field experiences troubleshooting vaccine application Questions & Answers LUNCH The link between diagnostics and improved productivity: Surveillance, interpretation and response. Regulating intestinal immunity to optimize productivity in traditional and antibiotic free production systems. Questions & Answers Break Processing plant interventions to improve breast meat yield and control foodborne pathogens. Further processing audits: critical factors to improve economic return. Questions & Answers Adjourn 9:30 10:00 10:15 10:45 11:45 12:15 1:30 2:00 2:30 3:00 3:15 3:45 4:15 4:30 64th Western Poultry Disease Conference (March 23‐25, 2015) 7:00 7:50 8:00 9:00 9:15 9:30 9:45 Shahbaz Haq Steve Davis Martine Boulinanne Derek Detzler Chris Morrow 10:15 11:00 11:15 11:30 Michael Czarick Charles Hofacre HL Shivaprasad Tara Roberts 11:45 12:00 Hind Kasab‐
Bachi 1:30 Kalen Cookson 1:45 Vilmos Palya (Scientific Program as of December 4, 2014) MONDAY, MARCH 23, 2015 TOPIC: Raised Without Antibiotics Registration and Continental Breakfast Welcome Invited Speaker: Necrotic Enteritis, a persistent challenge for raised without antibiotic birds Evaluating alternatives to antimicrobials with a necrotic enteritis experimental model in broiler chickens Antibiotic reduction and removal in commercial poultry production Avian mycoplasma control – central for antibiotic independent production Poster Viewing & Break TOPIC: Raised Without Antibiotics/Antimicrobial Resistance Invited Speaker: Poultry house environmental control for antibiotic free operations Poultry On‐Farm National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) ‐ A progress report Health challenges in poultry grown as organic or antibiotic free or in alternate housing Risk factors for antimicrobial resistance of Escherichia coli isolates from Ontario broiler chicken flocks at chick placement: a comparison of three production system types Antimicrobial susceptibility of Clostridium perfringens isolates obtained from commercial Ontario broiler chicken flocks LUNCH BREAK TOPIC: Infectious Bronchitis /Probiotics/Biosecurity A comparison of vaccination programs against a contemporary Cal‐99 IBV isolate in commercial broilers Broad cross‐protection achieved by combined application of Mass and 793B‐type vaccines against recent US and Q1‐like variant IBV strains 2:00 Anita Menconi 2:15 John Schleifer 2:30 2:45 Pat Wakenell Kristen Roza 3:00 3:30 Silvia Carnaccini 3:45 4:00 Sarah Mize Todd Kellman 4:15 Ernesto Soto 4:30 Darrel Kapczynski F. Bonfante 4:45 5:00 6:00 Evaluation of a hatchery administered lactic acid bacteria probiotic product on early body weight and mortality in broiler chickens under field conditions Reducing the incidence of bacterial chondronecrosis with osteomyelitis in broilers with a dietary combination of Bacillus Subtilis C‐3102 (Calsporin) probiotic and IMW50 yeast cell wall preparation Backyard Poultry, Biosecurity and Beyond Increasing standardization in real‐time PCR diagnostics with a modular system and its benefit to laboratory throughput Poster Viewing & Break 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM TOPIC: Avian Influenza/New Castle Disease Diagnosis of a Low Path Avian Influenza H5N8 American Strain in Commercial Quail Layers in Central Valley California Low Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (LPAI) H5N8 in Stanislaus County, California Mapping of the spatial‐temporal intersection of avian influenza reservoirs in California as a mechanism for guiding surveillance in domestic poultry Inclusion of the gene that codifies for avian interleukin 2 into a live recombinant vaccine against avian influenza H5 in a Newcastle disease virus vector Update on H7N3 highly pathogenic avian influenza in Mexico Synergy or interference of a velogenic Newcastle Disease virus challenge in H9N2 avian influenza – infected chickens are dose dependent WPDC BUSINESS MEETING WPDC WELCOME RECEPTION (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM) 64th Western Poultry Disease Conference 7:00 8:00 9:00 Blake Wang Simone Stoute 9:15 9:30 9:45 Ali Nazmi Jianping Li 10:15 Greg Mathis 11:00 H. Cervantes 11:15 Elisa Russo 11:30 Lindsay Kehler 11:45 Seiche Genger 12:00 1:30 2:15 2:30 2:45 3:00 3:15 James Guy Rocio Crespo Holly Sellers HL Shivaprasad Maritza Tamayo 3:45 Silvia Carnaccini 4:00 4:15 Rudiger Hauck Anya Kajlich Geoffrey Lossie C. Lindsey 4:30 4:45 TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2015
TOPIC: Vaccines/Raised Without Antibiotics Registration and Continental Breakfast Invited Speaker: Feeding raised without antibiotic birds. What is required? Evaluation of protection induced by Riemerella anatipestifer‐E. coli O78 bacterin in White Pekin ducks Diatomaceous earth as a novel adjuvant in poultry vaccines Nanoparticle‐based vaccine for avian influenza virus Poster Viewing & Break. **All poster presenters to be available for discussion** TOPIC: Coccidiosis/Raised Without Antibiotics Invited Speaker: Managing coccidiosis in raised without antibiotic birds Assessment of changes in sensitivity of coccidia to nicarbazin White striping appearance along growth on broiler chickens treated with different coccidiosis control programs Coccidiosis prevention and control in specialty broilers Jejunal length and weight is increased in commercially‐raised turkeys with depressed growth LUNCH BREAK TOPIC: Gut Health/Viral Diseases Invited Speaker: Potential role of viruses in compromising gut health and its prevention Hepatitis E virus infection in organic layers Genotypic analysis of avian reoviruses from clinical submissions of viral arthritis An unusual outbreak of avian encephalomyelitis in vaccinated 12‐week‐old chickens Infectious bursal disease situation in Mexico Poster Viewing & Break TOPIC: Case Reports Phallus disease in goose breeders: patho‐histologic observations and comparative bacteriological examinations of altered organs. Retrospective study of histomoniasis (Blackhead) in California turkey Flocks, 2000‐2013 Postmortem findings in laying hens housed in non‐cage systems in California and Iowa: Presence as severity of lesions and their relationship to stage of lay Atypical gross lesions associated with Aspergillus fumigatus in organic, cage‐free commercial layers A longitudinal study of Escherichia coli virulence factors in turkeys 5:00 5:15 Susantha Gomis Isolation of Enterococcus and other bacterial species from hatch debris ADJOURN 64 Western Poultry Disease Conference th
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2015 TOPIC: Gut Health /Bacterial Diseases/ Immunology 7:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:00 Stephen Collett Invited Speaker: Optimizing gut health environment of raised without antibiotic birds 8:45 Yuko Sato Outbreak of Type C botulism in commercial layers 9:00 HL Shivaprasad An unusually widespread outbreak of gangrenous dermatitis in broiler chickens 9:15 Emma Wils‐
Immunomodulatory nutrients modify tissue presence and immune related gene expression of Plotz Salmonella enterica serovar enteritdis in chickens 9:30 Ching Ching Wu Phytobiologics – using redoxigenic plant immunity to support the immune system in animals 9:45 Poster Viewing & Break 9:45 AM – 10:00 AM TOPIC: Raised Without Antibiotics/Bacterial Diseases/Molecular Biology 10:00 Maarten Invited Speaker: Antimicrobial use reduction for animal production: opportunity or liability for DeGussem the poultry industry? 10:45 G. Senties‐Cue Ornithobacteriosis causing septicemia and neurological signs in California meat‐type chickens 11:00 Fred Leung Application of Next Generation Sequencing in Viral and Bacterial genome sequencing 11:15 R. Hauck Full genome sequences of ORT strains shows high homology 11:30 Roxana Phenotypic, Genotypic and Pathogenicity assessment of Salmonella Infantis isolated from poultry Sanchez‐Ingunza 11:45 J. Butterweck Utilization of phage technology to control salmonella 12:00 ADJOURN Poster Presentations 1 M.Faizal/Abdul Protection mediated by in ovo deliver toll‐like receptor 2 and 21 lignads against infectious Careem laryngotracheitis infection 2 Kevin Bolek Characterization of immunoglobulin knockout chickens 3 Celina Buscaglia Survey of hemagglutinating viruses in spotted Nothura from Buenos Aires Province , Argentina 4 Kelly Hogan The effect of environmental poultry samples on the pH of typical enrichment and pre‐enrichment media. 5 Girish Sarma Safety and efficacy of a chicken embryo origin live fowl pox virus vaccine in 1‐day‐old commercial turkeys 6 Stephen Spatz Reconstitution of infectious laryngotracheitis from a collection of overlapping cosmid clones 7 Valerie Leathers Real‐time PCR reagents for simultaneous detection and differentiation of Mycoplasma gallisepticum and synoviae 8 Timothy Using field exercises along with public‐private partnerships to increase awareness and acceptance Goldsmith of continuity of business and secure food supply plans 9 Karen Lopez The secure Egg Supply Plan: business continuity planning for a highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak 10 Cecilia Rosario Serotypes and virulence genes detection in E. coli isolated from processing plant, supermarket and public market in Mexico 11 Tara Roberts Antimicrobial use on broiler chicken farms in Ontario, Canada 12 Tara Roberts Prevalence, risk factors , and profiles of resistant Salmonella isolates obtained from Ontario broiler chicken farms at chick placement and pre‐harvest 13 Bertrand Effect of a specific blend of essential oils and oleoresins of spices as an antibiotic growth promoter Medina alternative on the boiler performances 14 Bertrand Effect of a specific blend of essential oils and oleoresins of spices to improve broiler performance Medina rearing under stressed conditions