Our Speaker Lineup
We are very excited that we have been able to engage the services of some of the best international and local speakers to motivate and educate for our 2017 Conference program. Our speaker list will be updated shortly.
Announcing our international speaker:
Dr Patricia Pesavento, DVM, PhD, DIP ACVP
Dr.
Pesavento is a Swarthmore College graduate and received her PhD in 1997
from Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. She received her DVM and
pathology residency training sequentially at UC Davis. After two years
of diagnostic research at the California Animal Health and Food Safety
Laboratories, she joined the faculty in the Department of Pathology,
Microbiology, and Immunology, at the School of Veterinary Medicine at UC
Davis. The organizing focus of work in the Pesavento laboratory is to
investigate the biology of interactions between viruses and their target
tissues. Depending on the virus, this work ranges from the molecular
development of viral constructs to perform cell biology or diagnostics,
to tissue culture models of virus: host cell interaction. The laboratory
has current focused efforts on viral discovery in intensively housed
animals such as small animals in the shelter environment, or wildlife at
the human-animal interface.