Program | Thermo Fisher Scientific

Talk Title	Speaker	Abstract	Duration
African Swine Flu	Dr. Li Xiang	In this presentation you will learn about how China Animal Husbandry Group worked together with Thermo Fisher after the ASF outbreak to serve the Chinese pig industry, and how the market, the regulation as well as the whole pig producing system has changed in China from 2018, especially in terms of disease diagnosis, to meet the high standard of biosecurity which were fully applied to protect our pig industry.	10 mins
Controlling IBR infections by molecular screening of bull’ semen and future perspectives on the application of molecular diagnostics in animal health	Dr. Marimuthu Swaminathan	India is home to 300 million bovines (cattle and buffaloes) that are managed under smallholder dairy production system. Cattle and buffaloes are one of the major livelihood sources and dairy farming is an economic opportunity for more than 20 million farm families. Preventive animal health management in these smallholder dairy herds play a vital role to achieve sustained growth of this sector. Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis (IBR) caused by Bovine Herpes Virus-1 (BHV1) is one such disease, reported to cause huge economic losses in the farmer’ herd.This presentation will elaborate the research and development of innovative molecular technologies to diagnose specific disease pathogens accurately and in a timely manner as a decision-making tool for a targeted therapy.	20 mins
Animal Health Sample Extraction	Dana J Donnenwirth	The Applied Biosystems MagMAX CORE Nucleic Acid Purification Kit is an extraordinarily convenient, universal sample prep solution that’s designed to meet your veterinary diagnostic lab’s current, as well as future, testing needs. Learn about getting started with the MagMAX CORE sample preparation kit and the convenience and flexibility of the new MagMAX CORE Nucleic Acid Purification Kit for animal health.	20 mins

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