ADDL News

*ADDL NEWS*

*From Dr. Tom Bryan, Avian Diagnostician, Heeke ADDL* -Update to an article published in the Spring 1996 Diagnostic Forum entitled “Ascarid Migration in Turkey Livers” With the advent of fenbendazole use in turkey feed (14.5 gallons/ton feed for sic consecutive days) ascarid migration and liver condemnations have been greatly reduced. Cresylic acid is no longer available as an approved disinfectant for poultry.

ADDL Schedule Purdue ADDL and Heeke ADDL will be closed on the following University holidays in 2007.
January 15	...................	Martin Luther King Day
May 28	...................	Memorial Day
July 4.	...................	Independence Day
November 22-23	...................	Thanksgiving
December 24-25	...................	Christmas

ADDL pathology graduate students won several awards at recent American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnostician ( Minneapolis, October 2006) and American College of Veterinary Pathologists (Tucson, December, 2006) meetings.
American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians
Dr. Ikki Mitsui Best Graduate Student Poster Award Dr. Pam Mouser Travel Award Dr. Dinesh Singh Travel Award
American College of Veterinary Pathologists
Dr. Ingeborg Langohr - Young Investigator Award in the Diagnostic Pathology Specialty Group, 2^nd place - Travel Award
Dr. Kim Maratea - Young Investigator Award in the Diagnostic Pathology Specialty Group, 3^rd place
Dr. Ingrid Pardo - Natural Disease Specialty Group, 2^nd place
Dr. Shawn Clark - Toxicologic Pathology Specialty Group, 2^nd place - Student speaker award
Dr. Julia Lucas, (Clinical Pathology, Department of Comparative Pathobiology) - Toxicologic Pathologic Pathology Specialty Group, 1^st place
*Our congratulations to all*

On The Road
Drs. Leon Thacker, Steve Hooser, Peg Miller, Jose Ramos-Vara, Roman Pogranichniy, Duane Murphy, Ramesh Vemulapalli, Ching Ching Wu, Robert Everson, Vimala Vemireddi, Dinesh Singh, Ikki Mitsui, Pam Mouser, Kent Fenton and Linda Hendrickson, Buffie Mink and Steve Vollmer attended the annual meeting of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians in Minneapolis, MN, October 2006. Dr. Roman Pogranichniy made a scientific presentation at the Conference for Research Workers in Animal Diseases in Chicago, IL, November, 2006 Drs. Peg Miller, Steve Lenz, ADDL pathologists, and Drs. Michael Owston, Vimala Vemireddi, Pam Mouser, Gopakumar Gopalakrishnan, and Ingeborg Langohr, ADDL graduate students, attended the annual American College of Veterinary pathologists meeting in Tucson, AZ, December, 2006. Dr. Steve Lenz attended a Foreign Animal Disease Training Course at the USDA Plum Island facility in November, 2006. Drs. Roman Pogranichniy and Greg Stevenson attended the Indiana Swine Group meeting, Indianapolis, IN, December, 2006.

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