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CRWAD 2017 Author Index and Abstracts Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases Author Index & Presentation Abstracts 98th Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases December 3-5, 2017 Chicago Marriott, Downtown Magnificent Mile Chicago, Illinois © Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases - 2017 Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases 2017 Officers President Paul S. Morley, DVM, PhD, DACVIM Professor, Colorado State University Vice-President Christopher C.L. Chase, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVM Professor, South Dakota State University Council Members QiJing Zhang, BVsc, MS, PhD Professor and Associate Dean, Iowa State University Amelia R. Woolums, DVM, MVSc, PhD, DACVIM, DACVM Professor, Mississippi State University M.M. Chengappa, BVSc, MVSc, MS, PhD University Distinguished Professor, Kansas State University Charles J. Czuprynski, PhD Professor and Director, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Immediate Past President Laurel J. Gershwin, DVM, PhD, DACVM Professor, University of California at Davis Executive Director David A. Benfield, DVM, PhD Professor and Associate Director, Ohio State University Executive Assistant Loren D. Harper Ohio State University Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases Page 1 CRWAD 2017 SPONSORS CRWAD 2017 Dedicatee: Katherine M. Kocan, PhD Regents Professor, Veterinary Pathobiology Oklahoma State University Katherine Kocan, Ph.D. and OSU Regents Professor Emerita, recently retired from a 42-year career at the Center of Veterinary Health Science, Oklahoma State University where her research was focused on ticks and tick-borne diseases. Throughout her career, Kocan and her team and graduate students published over 325 scientific papers which included defining the role of ticks in transmission of the cattle diseases, anaplasmosis and heartwater, development of vaccines against ticks, definition of molecular interactions between ticks and pathogens, and the development of a sheep model for studying tick transmission of the pathogen that causes human granulocytic anaplasmosis. She earned a B.A. degree (1968) from Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio, an M.S.P.H. (1971) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her Ph.D. (1979) from Oklahoma State University. She held the Walter R. Sitlington Endowed Chair in Food Animal Research from 1996-2016. Kocan was honored with the Distinguished Alumni Award and the J.J. Turner Alumni Achievement Awards from Hiram College (1984, 2010). She was named Fellow of the Society for Tropical Veterinary Medicine (STVM) in 2007 and was the Dedicatee of the 9th Biennial meeting of STVM. She was an invited speaker at the Italian Society of Veterinary Sciences Special Symposium in Palermo, Sicily (2006) and the Conference of Research Workers on Animal Diseases (CRWAD) (2010). She served as President of several organizations including STVM (1993), the OSU Chapter of Sigma Xi (1997), CRWAD (2003), and the OSU Regents Professors (2006). She served on the Oklahoma Center of the Advancement of Science and Technology, Health Research Committee for 20 years and was the Committee Chair from 1998 to 2004. Kathy served as a faculty mentor to many students and faculty, including Native Americans in Biological Sciences, Women in Science and the NSF Advance OSU Program. She received the Innovator of the Year “On the Brink” Award from the Journal Record in 2001 and the OSU Regents Distinguished Research Award in 2003. In 2006, Kocan received two Patent Recognition Awards. She was honored with the CVM Beecham Award for Research Excellence in 1986 and the Pfizer Research Award in 1996 and 2010. Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases Page 2 CRWAD 2017 SPONSORS Thank You! Gold Sponsors: Silver Sponsors: Bronze Sponsor: Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases Page 3 CRWAD 2017 AUTHOR INDEX Areda, Demelash .................... 53, 61, 213 Abdalaal, Hosein ..................... P072 Arenas-Gamboa, Angela ......... 191, P004, P006 Abdalla, Amina ....................... P042 Ariza, Juan-Manuel ................. P041 Abdelsalam, Karim .................. 214, P112 Arndt, Emily ............................ P023, P024 Abdi, Reta D. ........................... 136, P096 Arriaga-Pizano, Lourdes ......... P095 Abdo, Zaid .............................. 21, 40 Arrondo, Jose L. R. .................. 219 Abdul-Cader, M.S. ................... 149 Arroyo, Luis ............................ P141 Abdul-Careem, M.F. ................ 148, 149, P117 Arruda, Andreia G. .................. 97, P125 Abrahante, Juan E. .................. 200 Arruda, Bailey ......................... 75 Abundo, Michael C. ................ P104, 210 Arruda, Paulo .......................... 75 Aburu, Getachew T.A. ............. 192 Arthur, Terrance M. ................ 8, 88 Aceto, Helen ........................... 76 Arzumanyan, Anahit ............... P067 Acharya, Ramchandra ............ P009 Auger, Jean-Philippe ............... 198, 235, P022 Adams, Rachael J. ................... 23, 24, 25, P038 Aulik, Nicole ............................ 28, 195 Afshan, Kiran .......................... 173 Avaliani, Lasha ........................ P049 Agalarov, Dilgam .................... P128 Awosile, Babafela B. ............... P037 Aguillella, Vincente M. ............ 219 Azimov, Anar .......................... P128 Agulto, Regina L. ..................... 122, 196 Aznar, Maria Natalia ............... 83 Ahmad, Karam ........................ 87 Babasyan, Susanna ................. P083, 238, 239 Ahmed, Begum S. ................... 103 Babuadze, Giorgi .................... P106 Ahmed-Hassan, Hanaa ........... 148, 149 Bai, Jianfa ................................ 56, 75, 166, 188, P077, P100, Ahn, HeeSeop ......................... P061, P119 P118 Albers, Amy L. ......................... 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 Bailey, Michael ....................... P091 Albert, Istvan .......................... P066 Bakhtawar, KhawaJa ............... 149 Alcaraz, Antonio ..................... 219 Bakkar, lutfy ........................... P072 Aldridge, Brian ........................ 13, 33, 79, 80 Bakke, Brock ........................... 124 Alekseev, Konstantin P. .......... P132 Bakker, Henk den ................... 20 Aliper, Taras I. ......................... P132 Baldwin, Cynthia L. ................. 133, 134, 145 Alkhamis, Moh ........................ 97 Ballash, Gregory A. ................. 24, 25, 26 Allué-Guardia, Anna ............... 32 Bandrick, Meggan ................... P135 Al-Mamun, M. A. .................... P032 Bannantine, John P. ................ P010, 193 Almeida, Raul A. ...................... P096 Barletta, Raul G. ..................... P010 Alt, David ................................ P003, P015 Baron, Jerome N. .................... 83 Alusi, Phyllis M. ....................... P045 Barr, Bonnie ............................ 72 Alvarez, Julio ........................... 93 Barrera Vaca, Maria S. ............ 74 Alvarez-Narvaez, Sonsiray ...... 180 Bartens, Marie-Christine ........ 141 Amachawadi, R G. ................... 16, 17, 37, 39 Bartlett, Paul C. ...................... 57, 58, 59, P113 Amadi, Victor A. ...................... 163 Baruch, Joaquin ...................... 179 Amarasinghe, Aruna ............... 149 Bastos, Reginaldo G. ............... 170, P142 Amimo, Joshua O. ................... 106, 164 Bauermann, Fernando V. ....... 111, 236 Aminabadi, Peiman ................ 90 Baum, David ........................... 73, 233, 234 Anderson, Cameron ............... 21, 22, 34 Baumann, Maximilian P. O. .... P129 Anderson, Gary ....................... 56, 75, 187, 188, P077, P100, Bayles, Darrel O. ..................... 190, 237, P003, P010 P118 Bearson, Bradley L. ................. P014 Angelos, John A. ..................... 122, 196, P013 Beauvais, Wendy B. ................ 6, 8 Anis, Eman A. .......................... P071 Becker, Tyler ........................... 60 Anklam, Kelly .......................... P041 Bedolla Alva, Mario A. ............ P089 Antony, Linto .......................... P092 Beigel, Brittney ....................... 50, P126, P017 Apamaku, Michael B. .............. 64 Bekele, Sisay G. ....................... 101 Apley, Michael D. .................... 39, 182 Belk, Keith E. ........................... 3, 21, 22, 34, 40, 88, 181 Aqui-Salces, Milena ................ 158 Beltrán-Alcrudo, Daniel .......... 84 Archer, Holly ........................... P141 Ben Arous, Juliette ................. 110 Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases Page 3 CRWAD 2017 AUTHOR INDEX Benitez, Oscar J. ..................... 59, P113 Buist, Sterling ......................... 118 Benítez-Guzmán, AleJandro .... P095, P114 Bujold, Adina R. ...................... P019 Benn, Jamie ............................ P088 Bukachi, Salome ..................... 66, P045 Berggren, Keith ....................... 216, 219 Burakova, Yulia ....................... 118 Berghaus, Londa J. .................. 209, 240 Burgess, Brandy A. .................. 76 Berghaus, Roy D. .................... 180 Burton, Brandi ........................ 13 Berke, Olaf .............................. 47 Butcher, Marion ..................... 176 Bernardo, Pauline ................... 114 Buza, Joram ............................ 99, P066 Bernardo, Theresa .................. 48 Buza, Teresia .......................... P066 Besser, Thomas E. ................... 45 Byrem, Todd M. ...................... 57, 58 Bett, Bernard K. B. .................. 66 Byrne, Barbara A. ................... P078 Bewley, Jeffrey M. ................... 154, P036 Byrne, Kristen A. ....................
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