The Focused Scientific Sessions and Abstracts in Montreal

Abstract

Experimental Disease: Featured speakers will comment on mouse models of human breast cancer, microbial provocation and susceptibility to gastrointestinal inflammation, host–bacterial interactions in inflammatory bowel disease, and characterization of attaching and effacing E. coli in pigs. Natural Disease: Featured speakers will comment on Beluga whales from the local St Lawrence estuary, bovine neonatal pancytopenia, and canine respiratory disease complex. Industrial and Toxicological Pathology: Featured speakers will comment on Alzheimer disease and novel biomarkers of skeletal muscle, reproductive pathology in nonclinical safety assessment, and genomic and mechanistic insights in druginduced vascular injury in rats. Posters will be on display throughout the meeting. Poster presenters may be available by their presentation during the refreshment breaks corresponding with the platform sessions of the same topic. This exchange is always well received because it is a dedicated time to meet the folks behind our science and to talk pathology with colleagues. It has been a great year for the Focused Scientific Sessions Committees—thanks to the large number of quality abstracts submitted for the meeting. There is a little something for everyone in the diverse and enlightening program. I am looking forward to at errific meeting, inat errific venue, and Ih ope to see as many of you there as possible. I also want to extend special thanks to Focused Session Chairs, their committees, and the ACVP administrative staff who truly make it all happen.