Joint ESVP and ECVP Congress September 5th -8th 2018, Cluj-Napoca, Romania University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Table of Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ 12 Welcome from the Presidents .................................................................................................................. 14 Programme Overview ................................................................................................................................ 16 Scientific Highlights of the Congress ...................................................................................................... 22 Venue and General Information................................................................................................................ 26 Important locations of ESVP/ECVP Congress 2018 & satellite ISVD meeting......................................... 26 Congress Map ......................................................................................................................................... 27 Registration and Congress Secretariat .................................................................................................... 28 Speaker Information ................................................................................................................................ 30 Poster Information ................................................................................................................................... 30 Awards ..................................................................................................................................................... 30 Case presentations and mystery cases ................................................................................................... 30 Additional Meetings ................................................................................................................................. 31 Social Events ........................................................................................................................................... 32 Tips for your stay in Cluj-Napoca ............................................................................................................. 33 Keynote Lectures....................................................................................................................................... 34 KN1 Dendritic cells and dendritic cell diseases ....................................................................................... 34 KN2 The 2012-2018 lumpy skin disease virus epidemic in the Middle East and Europe – lessons learnt and pathology seen (sponsored by the Journal of Comparative Pathology) ............................................ 50 KN3 Mycoplasma bovis pneumonia: pathology and pathogenesis .......................................................... 51 KN4 Large Animal Models of Human Diseases ....................................................................................... 53 KN5 Advances in molecular pathology and stem cell technology drive personalized cancer therapy ..... 54 KN6 Digitalization of the pathology profession - threat or chance? .................................................... 55 ESVP / ECVP Speaker abstracts ............................................................................................................... 56 So 1. ESVP/ECVP Educational Session - How to prepare for the Comprehensive Pathology part of the ECVP exam? ........................................................................................................................................... 56 So 2. ESVP/ECVP Workshops - Pathologic diagnosis of lung diseases of cattle .................................... 57 So 3. ESVP/ECVP Educational Session - Observational Study Design in Veterinary Pathology ............ 58 Page | 2 So 4. ESVP/ECVP Workshops - Correlation between clinics, neuroimaging and neuropathology in Central Nervous System (CNS) disease: how clinicians and pathologists can learn from each other ..... 59 So 5. ESVP/ECVP Workshops - Musculoskeletal Pathology Workshop........................................... 61 So 6. ESVP/ECVP Workshops - Digital Pathology and Image analysis - tools, developments, ideas ..... 62 ESVP/ECVP Mystery Slide Session .......................................................................................................... 63 Oral Presentations ..................................................................................................................................... 64 Oral A – 1 Pathology of the Canine Prostate: Recommendations of an Oncology/Pathology Working Group....................................................................................................................................................... 65 Oral A – 2 Human Diagnostic Criteria of Malignancy Better Reflect the Biological Behavior in a Series of 105 Canine Smooth Muscle Tumors........................................................................................................ 66 Oral A – 3 Gastrointestinal Polyps in Jack Russel Terriers with Germline Mutation of APC Gene .......... 67 Oral A – 4 Familial Diffuse Astrocytoma (of Gliomatosis Cerebri Type) in Bearded Collies ..................... 68 Oral A – 5 Minimal Residual Disease Detection in Canine Lymphoma by Next Generation Sequencing – Preliminary Results .................................................................................................................................. 69 Oral B – 1 Targeting Drug Tolerance of Residual BRCA1-Mutated Mouse Mammary Tumors ............... 70 Oral B – 2 An In Vivo Mouse Model to Study Drivers of Metastases in Mammary Cancer ...................... 71 Oral B – 3 Staphylococcus Sciuri- and Corynebacterium Amycolatum-Associated Dermatitis in NMRI NU/NU Mice ............................................................................................................................................. 72 Oral B – 4 Topically Applied Core Multishell Nanocarriers Remain in the Stratum Corneum but their Cargo Tacrolimus Reaches the Viable Skin in a Murine Model of Atopic Dermatitis ............................... 73 Oral B – 5 Retinal Features in Iodoacetic Acid Treated Biomedical Pigs as Model for Photoreceptors Disorders ................................................................................................................................................. 74 Oral C – 1 Redistribution of Sialic Acid Receptors in the Chicken Trachea Hampers Superinfection with Infectious Bronchitis Virus, but not With Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus ...................................... 75 Oral C – 2 Neoplasia In Syngnathidae – Histological and Immunohistological Characterisation of 18 Cases ...................................................................................................................................................... 76 Oral C – 3 Usutu Virus in Wild Birds: Lessons from the Recent Outbreak in Belgium ............................. 77 Oral C – 4 Can Iron Storage Disease be Induced by a Chronic Infection such as Tuberculosis in Asian Elephants (Elephas Maximus)? ............................................................................................................... 78 Oral C – 5 Advances in the Epidemiology, Pathology and Persistence of Adenoviruses in Canids and Mustelids ................................................................................................................................................. 79 Page | 3 Oral C – 6 Chlamydia spp. Infection and Male and Female Reproductive Pathology in Koalas (Phascolarctos Cinereus) ........................................................................................................................ 80 Oral D – 1 Histopathological Characterization and Proposed Prognostic Predictors in Equine Arytenoid Chondrosis/Chondropathy ....................................................................................................................... 81 Oral D – 2 CRISPR/CAS9: a Useful Tool to Study the Pathogenesis of the Equine Sarcoid? ................. 82 Oral D – 3 NLRP3 Inflammasome Expression in Brain and Skeletal Muscle of Aged Cattle ................... 83 Oral D – 4 Presence of Visna/Maedi Virus in Post-Vaccination Granulomas in Naturally-Infected Sheep: a New Factor For Virus Spread? ............................................................................................................. 84 Oral D – 5 Bovine Abortions in Denmark 2015 – 2017 ............................................................................ 85 Oral E – 1 GATA3 Expression Has an Opposite Prognostic Value in Luminal and Triple-Negative Feline Invasive Mammary Carcinomas .............................................................................................................. 86 Oral E – 2 E-Cadherin Overexpression in Canine Inflammatory Mammary Cancer Does not Occur at Transcriptional Level................................................................................................................................ 87 Oral E – 3 Expression and Prognostic Value of the Breast Cancer Stem-Cell Markers ALDH1A1 and SOX2 in Feline Invasive Mammary Carcinomas...................................................................................... 88 Oral E – 4 Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Expression in Primary and Metastatic