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The organizing committees for the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Animal Health Laboratorians Network (CAHLN) and the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Veterinary Pathologists (CAVP) invite you to submit an abstract for an oral or poster presentation of scientific research, reviews, application or other interesting subjects related to omics or of scientific interest to the membership.
*** THE CALL FOR ABSTRACTS IS NOW CLOSED ***
Abstract submission deadline: April 30, 2024.
Please submit your abstract in a Word document containing your name, institution, title and summary (brief introduction, methods, findings, conclusions). Limit the abstract to less than 400 words.
Submit abstracts to: cfia.CAHLN-RCTLSA2024.acia@inspection.gc.ca
Abstracts of interest to the CAVP membership should be earmarked for CAVP so as to be reviewed by the appropriate committee.
All abstracts will be reviewed by the organizing committees, with notification of acceptance provided by May 15th 2024. Accepted abstracts will be published in the meeting proceedings.
Oral presentations should be carefully crafted to last no more than 12 minutes, with 3 minutes of questions to follow. Upon acceptance, please submit oral presentations’ PowerPoint no later than May 24th 2024, to avoid any technical difficulties during the meeting.
Posters will be displayed in the poster sessions throughout the CAHLN/RCTLSA meeting.
Students: Best presentations, oral and poster, will be awarded.
Early Bird Registration Fees until May 10, 2024
$300.00 + Taxes – Early Bird Regular Registration
$150.00 + Taxes – Early Bird Student Registration
Registration fee includes sessions, refreshment breaks, lunches, welcome reception on Sunday, June 2 (cash bar), and dinner on Monday, June 3 (Cash Bar)
Regular Registration Fees start May 11, 2024
$350.00 + Taxes – Regular Registration
$175.00 + Taxes – Student Registration
Registration fee includes sessions, refreshment breaks, lunches, welcome reception on Sunday, June 2 (cash bar), and dinner on Monday, June 3 (Cash Bar)
Extras/Optional
Sunday, June 2, 2024
Canadian Association of Veterinary Pathologists (CAVP) Meeting
Fee includes refreshment breaks and lunch
– $100.00 + taxes
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Dinner Banquet at the Meadowview Barn, Central Experimental Farm
Fee includes transportation, parking and dinner (cash bar)
– $75.00 + taxes / $30.00 + taxes for students
Individual registrations only
CANADIAN ANIMAL HEALTH LABORATORIANS NETWORK (CAHLN)
22nd ANNUAL MEETING
JUNE 2-5, 2024
Infinity Convention Centre (ICC)
2901 Gibford Drive, Ottawa
SUNDAY, JUNE 2
17:30 – 19:30
Welcome Reception
ICC Lobby
MONDAY, JUNE 3
08:00
Registration
ICC Lobby
Welcome and Opening Remarks
08:30
Clarice Lulai-Angi (CAHLN President-elect)
Welcome message, location and meeting orientation
David Nanang (Vice President, Science Branch, Canadian Food Inspection Agency [CFIA])
Opening Remarks
Keynote Speakers
09:00
Baljit Singh (Vice-President, Research, University of Saskatchewan)
Michael Lohuis (Semex)
How the application of genomics technology has revolutionized cattle breeding
10:30
Health Break and Sponsor Displays
Session 1: Genomics and Animal Health – Emerging Issues
11:00
Oliver Lung (CFIA)
Genomics on the frontline of infectious disease outbreak response and animal health infectious disease investigations at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency-NCFAD’s experience
François Elvinger (Cornell University)
Testing for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in a laboratory of the National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN) – Evolution of an outbreak, from birds to carnivores to cattle
12:00
Lunch and sponsor displays
Session 2: Genomics and Animal Health
13:30
Camilla Queiroz (CFIA)
The application of Next Generation DNA sequencing and bioinformatics to improve the detection of parasites of human and animal health relevance
Cass Erdelyan (CFIA)
Genomic analyses of clade 2.3.4.4b H5N5 viruses reveal multiple transatlantic incursions into North America and spillover into mammals
Anatoliy Trokhymchuk (University of Saskatchewan)
Nanopore Adaptive Sampling advantages limitations for metagenomics-based infectious disease diagnostics
Dhinesh Periyasamy (Prairie Diagnostic Services [PDS])
Bovreproseq – Bovine reproductive pathogen sequencing panel
14:30
Health Break and Sponsor Displays
Session 3: Method Development in Diagnostics
15:00
Musangu Ngeleka (PDS)
Streamlining diagnostic bacteriology information using genomics
Chukwunonso Onyilagha (CFIA)
Development and validation of an indirect and a blocking ELISA for serological diagnosis of African swine fever
William Pilot (University of Ottawa/CFIA)
RT-QuIC assays for screening chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer
Isabel Kleinbub (University of Ottawa)
Fecal metabolite extraction method optimization and validation for Wood Bison (Bison bison athabascae) Metabolomic Profiling
Bradley DeWolf (University of Guelph)
Reducing gastrointestinal parasitism in Canadian sheep using the CARLA ® Saliva Test
Jennifer Davies (University of Calgary)
2025 ISWAVLD – Partnerships in health: From disease detection to prevention
16:30
Provincial Laboratory Reports
17:30
Dinner
Lone Star Restaurant, 2880 Gibford Drive
TUESDAY, JUNE 4
08:00
Registration
ICC Lobby
Session 4: Epidemiology, Surveillance and One Health
08:30
Zohaib Anwar (Simon Fraser University)
Bioinformatics applications for genomic epidemiology in One Health
Marianne Parent (Canadian Animal Health Surveillance System)
Visualizing syndromic surveillance: CAHSS provincial abattoir and diagnostic laboratory dashboards
Afolakemi Adeniji (Animal Health Canada)
Enhancing early detection of African swine fever: Update on the CanSpotASF Program
Julie-Hélène Fairbrother (Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation [MAPAQ])
Quebec Veterinary Antimicrobial Surveillance Program – New interactive report
Wallis Rudnick (Public Health Agency of Canada)
Antimicrobial susceptibility of clinical isolates from canines and felines, AMRNet-Vet surveillance, 2022—2023
David McKinnon (CFIA)
CFIA’s WOAH Reference Laboratories and Collaborative Centres
10:20
Health Break and Sponsor Displays
Session 5: Emerging Infectious Disease
10:45
Anthony Signore (CFIA)
Phylodynamics of the H5N1 avian influenza outbreak in North America reveals the emergence of reassortants with increased fitness
Oliver Lung (CFIA)
Senecavirus cetus a novel picornavirus isolated from cetaceans represents a major host switching to the marine environment
Jonathon Cecillon (University of Ottawa)
Transmission patterns of zoonotic and emerging pathogens in Canada’s north related to climate change
Véronique Charreton-Sanford (Centre de recherche en infectiologie porcine et avicole [CRIPA-FRQ])
Complete genome sequence of a pigeon-like circovirus in lymphocyte depleted bursa of Fabricius from a Common raven (Corvus corax)
Amer Abdelgany (Carleton University)
Gut Dysbiosis affected conjugative transfer of antimicrobial resistance genes
12:00
Lunch and Sponsor Displays
Session 6: Emerging Infectious Disease
13:30
Maria Arifin (CFIA)
An overview of genotyping for CWD and Scrapie resistance
Waqas Tahir (CFIA)
Canadian 2021 H-type BSE case associated with a novel E211K polymorphism in prion protein gene
Julie-Hélène Fairbrother (MAPAQ)
Management of an accidental laboratory exposure to a Risk Group 3 bacteria
14:15
Bus transportation and tour of Rideau Hall
17:00
Bus transportation to Meadowview Barn or ICC
18:00
Banquet at Meadowview Barn, Central Experimental Farm
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5
Session 7: Innovation in Animal Disease Diagnostics
08:30
Jennifer Provencher (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
Development and use of genomic and metabolomics tools to assess the impacts of oil-related contaminants in Arctic seabirds
Durda Slavic (University of Guelph – Animal Health Laboratory)
Serogrouping of Salmonella spp. Isolates using IR Biotyper
Dhinesh Periyasamy (PDS)
Diversity of Bovine enteric coronavirus in western Canada
Marie-Jeanne Pesant (CRIPA-FRQ)
Elucidating deoxynivalenols’ antiviral effect against porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus infections in vitro – a multi-omics approach
Jonathon Kotwa (Sunnybrook)
A nested pan-coronavirus SYBR green RT-PCR: application to coronavirus surveillance in Peromyscus leucopus in Toronto, Ontario
Vincent Baby (Centre de diagnostic vétérinaire de l’Université de Montréal (CDVUM])
Porcine circovirus type 2 immunofluorescence serological assay automation using a fully integrated platform, from microplate production to cell imaging.
10:00
Health Break and Sponsor Displays
Session 8: Genomics in Animal Diseases – pathogens and hosts
10:30
Chad Laing (CFIA)
Improvements in the identification and characterization of animal diseases using genomics and machine learning
Anatoliy Trokhymchuk (University of Saskatchewan)
Technical and operational requirements for a Laboratory Information Management System to support genomics and artificial intelligence-based workflows in publicly funded animal health diagnostic laboratories
Josip Rudar (CFIA)
Sequence signatures within the genome of SARS-CoV-2 can be used to predict host source
Marika Köszegi (CDVUM)
Development of a specific qPCR assay and first whole genome sequencing of Canadian viral strains of Gull circovirus
Mingsong Kang (CFIA)
Development of a novel real-time multiplex PCR assay for detection of B. abortus, B. melitensis and B.suis using large-scale whole genome sequencing data analysis
11:45
Student Awards and Closing Remarks
LABORATORIAN OF THE YEAR
Who can be nominated:
Anyone who has made a significant contribution to animal health laboratory medicine in Canada. A nominee can be an outstanding diagnostician, educator, researcher, mentor of future laboratorians, or other contributor to the field.
How to nominate:
Send a brief letter of support outlining the nominee’s accomplishments, along with the nominee’s CV, to the Awards Committee of CAHLN, by sending an e-mail to cfia.CAHLN-CTLSA2024.acia@inspection.gc.ca before May 10, 2024. Please write “Laboratorian of the Year” as the subject title.
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Thank you on behalf of the CAHLN 2024 Organizing Committee.
HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS AND SUITES
2881 Gibford Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1V 2L9
- Attendees can book guestrooms by calling the hotel directly: 613-247-9500
- Group Code: CAH
- Dates: June 1 to 5, 2024
- Room types available:
- Double Queen at $169/night
- King Suite at $179/night
- Cut-off Date: May 15, 2024
- Or go to hieottawa.com and follow the steps below:
- Put in the exact dates of check-in and check-out (they have to coincide with the group block dates)
- Under the box for Group ID enter CAH
- The group rate with the group name will automatically populate.
HAMPTON INN BY HILTON
2869 Gibford Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1V2L9
- Attendees can book guestrooms by calling the hotel directly: 613-248-1113
- Group Code: CAH
- Dates: June 1 to 5, 2024
- Room type available:
- Standard King at $189/night
- Cut-off Date: May 17, 2024
- Or go to www.hampton.com
- Enter city and dates
- Click on “add special rate codes”
- Enter CAH in the “group code” section.
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