Abstract
The Focused Scientific Sessions (FSS) at the 2018 Combined Annual Meeting of the American College of Veterinary Pathology (ACVP) and American Society for Veterinary Clinical Pathology (ASVCP) in Washington, DC, will reflect the broad array of scientific interests within the veterinary pathology community. The FSS platform presentations will be held on Sunday, November 4, and Tuesday, November 6. Associated poster sessions will be highlighted during the session breaks on these days. Original abstracts have been submitted from institutions across the globe. From the abstract submissions, recipients are chosen for the ACVP Wendy Coe Graduate Student/Resident Travel Award, ASVCP Share the Future Travel Grant, and the Society of Toxicologic Pathology Resident and Student Poster Award. Platform presentations will be delivered by authors of selected abstracts and competitors for the ASVCP Young Investigator Award and the ACVP/American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (AAVLD) Diagnostic Pathology Travel Award. A large number of poster presentations will include those by all ACVP Young Investigator Award competitors. Veterinary students will present their posters during the Opening Reception on Saturday, November 3.
The Education and FSS committees have organized a program that not only showcases the work of our college members but also brings innovative science and technology from outside our discipline to the attention of our membership. In addition to FSS, the program will feature concurrent sessions on muscle and meat pathology, comparative oncology, vascular biology, intraoperative diagnostics, global engagement, and more.
The diverse and exciting FSS program will begin on Sunday morning, November 4. Highlights from these sessions include: ACVP Industrial and Toxicologic Pathology featured speakers will discuss challenges, approaches, and histopathology of immunotoxicity, preclinical toxicity testing, and investigational new drug applications. Natural Disease sessions will provide insights into the new world origin of canine distemper, toxic plants of livestock, viral discoveries and how to link them to causality, and pathology of hyraxes. Clinical Pathology featured speakers will discuss targeting the complement cascade to dampen autoimmune diseases, as well as immunothrombosis. Experimental Disease featured speakers will discuss mechanisms of cystic fibrosis lung disease, relevance of animal models to the study of human diseases, immune responses to transplanted organs, and canine cilia–associated respiratory bacteria. Two afternoons of Diagnostic Pathology sessions will highlight case reports and the presentation by the AAVLD/ACVP travel award winner from the 2017 AAVLD meeting. Sunday afternoon, competitors for the ACVP/AAVLD Diagnostic Pathology Travel Award will give platform presentations. By popular demand, we are bringing back lightening talks in the Sunday session, including select veterinary student platform presentations. The Education session will be held on Tuesday morning, November 6, and will focus on bioinformatics for analysis of omics data.
We look forward to seeing you in Washington, DC!