The AAVLD Annual meeting provides the opportunity to interact with colleagues from many disciplines, learn about what colleagues are doing, and work together on moving our Association forward. The scientific sessions provide the best forum for presenting the work we do every day, and for providing continuing education opportunities. In order to make these sessions the best that they can be, we need YOU to submit your abstracts. The deadline is rapidly approaching, and we need your submissions! Don’t forget that only those applying for awards need to submit a presentation recording. Everyone else, we need your abstracts submitted ASAP! Thanks for all that you do on a day-to-day basis, and we’re looking forward to seeing you in October!

A reminder to be thinking about your abstract submissions for the AAVLD/USAHA annual meeting. Please also encourage others to present their work at the meeting – this is where we get to share and hear about the great work that we’re all doing!! The deadline for submission is only a few days away for both awards and general abstracts.

Only those applying for awards need to submit a recording, and those recordings are due by September 4^th, 2024. I’m looking forward to seeing you all in Nashville!

Tanya LeRoith, DVM, PhD, DACVP

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The first AAVLD/NVSL Summer Diagnostic Symposium was held June 10^th -13^th in Ithaca NY. The symposium was hosted by the Cornell Animal Health Diagnostic Center, the official New York State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. There were 108 in attendance from AAVLD and NAHLN laboratories across the USA. Bench scientists in particular were encouraged to attend this CE event which included 2 days of presentations with breakout discussions, all focused on the topic of molecular diagnostics. Generous funding from USDA covered most of the expenses including travel expenses of the attendees (via cooperative agreements to AAVLD from NVSL and USDA APHIS grants managed by CSU). Finding opportunities for bench scientists to obtain CE has been a long-term goal of both AAVLD and NVSL who have been collaborating together on lab workforce development. The organizing committee was Suelee Robbe-Austerman, Stephen Cassle, Christina Loiacono, Diego Diel, Francois Elvinger. Kristy Pabilonia and David Zeman. Crissy Carter and Reda Ozuna were conference managers. A big thank you to all sponsors, attendees, presenters, and moderators for making this event a success.  A proceedings document will appear soon on the AAVLD website’s Learning Management System (LMS).  

Up to 96 attendees and speakers participated in this meeting over the 3 days. USDA updates were provided by Dr. Rosemary Sifford and we had about 25 speakers presenting a broad range of themes such as workforce development, aquaculture, and honey bees. 

Special thanks to our sponsors (Global VetLink, Pork Checkoff, Boehringer Ingelheim, TraceFirst, Shearwell Data Livestock Systems, New Scientific, and ThermoFisher Scientific) who helped make the meeting possible.

Robert Gibson, MPH

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WASHINGTON, May 16, 2024 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is awarding more than $22.2 million to enhance prevention, preparedness, early detection, and rapid response to the most damaging diseases that threaten U.S. livestock. 

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In late March 2024, highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAI) of the H5N1 subtype was for the first time detected in nasal swabs and milk of dairy cows, increasing concern that HPAI A(H5N1) viruses may enter the human food chain. The Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory obtained cow’s milk samples from an affected herd in New Mexico, from which eight HPAI A(H5N1) viruses were isolated (Table S1; for details, see the Supplementary Appendix, available with the full text of this letter at NEJM.org).

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“Editor’s Note: Several AAVLD labs were involved with this breaking story! See the authors listed at the end. DHZ “

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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

Interstitial lung diseases frequently represent a diagnostic challenge for veterinary diagnosticians. This challenge can be identified at all stages of diagnosis, particularly with gross and histologic interpretation. Moreover, each animal species varies in pulmonary physiology, pathology, and frequency of different diseases, which add more layers of complexity to this already difficult pattern. We aim to expand our knowledge of this intricate pattern to better investigate our lung submissions, describe lesions, and finally diagnose interstitial lung diseases.

We are inviting submissions to a JVDI special section on Interstitial lung disease in domestic animals to be guest edited by Dr. Francisco R. Carvallo, Virginia Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Tech, and Dr. Jeff Caswell, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph.

If you are interested, please submit an abstract of up to 250 words describing your proposed topic by September 30, 2024.

Primary research papers, case series, and reviews of a focused topic will be considered, as will single-animal case reports if they are novel and include a review of the literature on the focused topic of the report. For abstracts on topics considered suitable for the special issue, authors will be notified by October 30, 2024, and full submissions will be expected by April 30, 2025. Submitted manuscripts will proceed through the usual JVDI peer-review and editorial processes, with publications expected in the fall of 2025. Page charges of $75/printed page will apply - there is no color page charge for online-only publications.

Please submit your abstract to guest editor Dr. Francisco R. Carvallo, fcarvallo@vt.edu

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AAVLD membership is open to any individual interested in the disciplines and activities of veterinary diagnostic laboratories. Membership terms are by calendar year (January-December) and membership dues are payable by November 15th of the preceding year (to ensure inclusion in the annual membership directory, eligibility for committee involvement, and receipt of all six issues of the JVDI). Note: In order to receive a discounted rate for the Annual Meeting registration, you are required to be a current AAVLD Member.

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