ADDL STAFF NEWS

Congratulations to Dr. Brad Njaa, ADDL pathologist, Dr. Lavun Anothayanontha, ADDL graduate student, and former graduate students Drs. Cindy Fishman and  Matti Kuipel for successfully completing the AmericanCollege of Veterinary Pathologists board examination and earning the distinction of Diplomate, ACVP.

The Bacteriology labs at both Purdue ADDL and Heeke ADDL have passed the Johne’s culture and PCR check tests.

Congratulations particularly to Bonnie Vera, Cecelia Santrich and Tom Hooper who routinely perform these tests for ADDL.

Dr. Matti Kuipel won the graduate student poster award at the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, October 2000..  His poster was titled “Coronavirus Associated Epizootic Catarrhal Enteritis (ECE) of Ferrets.

Dr. Randy White was named Chairman of the Aquaculture Committee of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians.

ON THE ROAD

Dr. Tsang Long Lin, Avian Pathologist, presented his research on Turkey Corona Virus at the World Poultry Congress 2000 in Montreal, Canada in July, 2000.

Drs. Greg Stevenson, Chuck Kanitz and Suresh Mittal (VPB) presented their research on porcine circovirus at the International Pig Veterinarian Society annual meeting in Melbourne, Australia, September, 2000.

Drs. Leon Thacker, Ching Ching Wu, Greg Stevenson, Chuck Kanitz, Steve Hooser, Duane Murphy, Robert Everson, Bill Van Alstine, Randy White, Matt Renninger, Tariq Qureshi (VPB), and Alan Bunning, Linda Yankovich, Christina Wilson attended the American Association of Veterinary Diagnosticians annual meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, October, 2000.

Dr. Tsang Long Lin presented his research findings on a DNA vaccine against Infectious Bursal Disease of Poultry at the World Congress of Vaccines   meeting in Leige, Belgium, August, 2000.