08:30 - 09:00 | Registration and welcome refreshments
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09:00 - 09:05 | President's welcome address - Monica Bando, outgoing President of the AVTRW
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09:05 - 09:20 | 80th anniversary conference opening and welcome to the Royal Veterinary College - Professor Stuart Reid President & Principal of the Royal Veterinary College
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09:20 - 10:05 | Keynote: Back to the Future: Competence, Reflection, and AI Ms Perdi Welsh - Director of School of Veterinary Nursing, Royal Veterinary College
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10:05 - 10:20 | Listening to the Student Voice: Investigating medicine and veterinary medicine student and staff perspectives on curriculum co-creation at the University of Nottingham - Jack McCrum, University of Nottingham

10:20 - 10:35 | Perspectives on Physical Disability Inclusion in the Veterinary Profession: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Veterinarians - Kirsty Chalmers, University of Glasgow. AVTRW Acorn Award for undergraduate research presentation

10:35 - 10:50 | Fit to practice? How can we best structure support for veterinary students with chronic illness and disability on clinical rotations? - Jess Reynolds, University of Nottingham
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10:50 - 11:15 | Refreshment break

11:15 - 11:30 | Investigating the influences of owner behaviours towards indoor resource provision from current multi-cat households with the comparison of indoor-only and indoor-outdoor cats - Bibi Tuken Tegi, Royal Veterinary College. AVTRW Acorn Award for undergraduate research presentation

11:30 - 11:45 | Public Engagement at the Royal Veterinary College - Grace Mackintosh Sim, Royal Veterinary College

11:45 - 12:00 | Development of a digital pathology algorithm to assess myocardial fibrosis in captive chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes) - Kirsty Doughty, Royal Veterinary College

12:00 - 12:15 | Comparative Effectiveness of 2-Dimensional Images, 3-Dimensional Fabricated Models, and Computer-Generated 3-Dimensional Images in Veterinary Anatomy Education: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Study - Pamela Carlton, University College Dublin

12:15 - 12:30 | Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes of Healthcare Science Students Towards Ecopharmacovigilance - Bryony Shaw, University of Nottingham

12:30 - 12:45 | The impact of work place culture on clinical outcomes - James Russell, University of Nottingham

12:45 - 13:45 | Lunch break
Poster presentations and tour of the RVC anatomy museum
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13:45 - 14:45 | Panel Discussion The Future of Animal Welfare Science - Panel discussion chaired by Dr Louise Whatford, Lecturer in One Welfare, Royal Veterinary College

14:45 - 15:00 | Stepping Towards Sustainable Sheep Foot Health: One Health One Welfare Framework - Katarina Malgo, Royal Veterinary College

15:00 - 15:15 | Relocating Non-Ambulatory Cows: A Preliminary Report on a Novel Handling Technique - Rachel Hayton, Synergy Farm Health

15:15 - 15:30 | Mapping the single-cell transcriptomic landscape of canine (neuro)endocrine neoplasms: Implications for welfare-focused precision oncology - Phoebe Y.K. Chan, Royal Veterinary College

15:30 - 16:15 | Refreshment break - Poster presentations

16:15 - 16:30 | Engineered Pulmonary Artery Tissues (EPATs): A Novel Alternative to Using Animals in Research - Hassan Chaudhry, Royal Veterinary College

16:30 - 16:45 | Incidence of and outcomes following non-fatal musculoskeletal injuries in jump racing Thoroughbreds in Great Britain - Sophia McDonald, Royal Veterinary College
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16:45 - 17:00 | I feel your pain: individual differences in welfare indicators after castration in horses - Carrie Ijichi, University of Lancashire

17:00 - 17:15 | CareCompass: supporting veterinary decision-making through a social model of contextualised care - Bluebell Brown, Royal Veterinary College

17:15 - 17:30 | Defining the Age-Related Proteome of the Thoroughbred Suspensory Ligament - Jasmine Servant, University of Liverpool. AVTRW Acorn Award for undergraduate research presentation, sponsored by the HBLB

17:30- 17:45 | Pilot study: Development of a 3D cell culture system for equine tendon microvascular cells - Cheuk Yin Law, Royal Veterinary College

17:45 - 18:00 | A Hand-Assisted, Less Invasive Approach to Umbilical Vein Resection in Foals - Adel Katalin Auth, University of Glasgow

18:05 - 19:00 | 80th AVTRW AGM - all are welcome

19:00 onwards | Conference dinner at the RVC
All are welcome - this event is generously sponsored by the RVC. There is no cost to delegates for the dinner but please let us know your intention to attend by adding a dinner ticket to to your order when you purchase conference tickets.

08:30 - 08:55 | Arrival and refreshments
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08:55 - 09:00 | Welcome to the second day of the conference - Jess Reynolds, incoming President of the AVTRW
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09:00 - 09:45 | Keynote Wildlife Disease, Surveillance, and Mitigation: A Personal Journey - Professor Andrew Cunningham, Deputy Director of Science at the ZSL Institute of Zoology
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09:45 - 10:00 | Invited speaker Post-Mortem Demonstration Overview - Dylan Yaffy, Zoological Society of London

10:00 - 10:15 | Medetomidine, midazolam, and neuromuscular blockers in Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus) - Hannah Hayter, Royal Veterinary College

10:15 - 10:30 | A review of pathological lesions and/or molecular identification of parasites found in zoo-housed gastropod molluscs - Tom Bunn, Royal Veterinary College

10:30 - 10:45 | Development and Evaluation of a Body Condition Score System for the Royal Python (Python Regius) - Deyi Yang, Royal Veterinary College. AVTRW Acorn Award for undergraduate research presentation, sponsored by Science for Animal Welfare (formerly UFAW)

10:45 - 11:00 | The prevalence of endoparasites and treatment efficacy in commonly kept Macropodidae species within UK zoological collections - Catherine Basford, University of Liverpool. AVTRW Acorn Award for undergraduate research presentation
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11:00 - 11:15 | Refreshment break

11:15 - 11:30 | Invited speaker Post-Mortem Demonstration Findings - Dylan Yaffy, Zoological Society of London

11:30 - 11:45 | Feline chronic gingivostomatitis (FCGS) in cats under primary veterinary care in the UK within VetCompass: Epidemiology and clinical management - Hayley Shone, Royal Veterinary College
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11:45 - 12:00 | VetCompass Epidemiology and Clinical Management of Tick Infestation in UK Cats - Marisa Marino, Royal Veterinary College

12:00 - 12:15 | Using serological approaches to investigate incursions of non-notifiable low pathogenic avian influenza virus into UK poultry over a 10-year period - Georgina Ward, Animal & Plant Health Agency

12:15 - 12:30 | Role of Dense Granules in Eimeria spp. intracellular lifestyle - Daisy May Bright, Royal Veterinary College

12:30 - 12:45 | Evaluation of Medetomidine-Butorphanol-Alfaxalone as Part of a Multimodal Approach to General Anesthesia in Columbiformes - Kyra Reid, Royal Veterinary College

12:45 - 13:00 | Patterns of antimicrobial resistance in equine Escherichia coli: findings from the REIN In AMR surveillance initiative (2023–2025) - Charlotte Barber, University of Cambridge

13:00 - 13:30 | Lunch break
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13:30 - 14:15 | Keynote Re-examining the Familiar: Integrating Traditional Forensic Methods into Wildlife Crime Investigations - Dr Alexandra Thomas, Conservation Training Manager, Durrell Conservation Trust

14:15 - 14:30 | Causes of mortality and indicators of poor welfare in pet rabbits: a retrospective comparison of forensic and diagnostic post-mortem cases submitted to the Royal Veterinary College between 2013-2025 - Maisa Korchi, Royal Veterinary College

14:30 - 14:45 | Expression Profile of Splenic Messenger RNA in Dogs with Non-Associative Immune-Mediated Haemolytic Anaemia - Rachel McDonnell, University College Dublin

14:45 - 15:00 | Time until contralateral rupture in QMHA patients presenting with cranial cruciate ligament rupture - Finley Westwood, Royal Veterinary College

15:00 - 15:15 | Evaluation of Surgical Management and Outcomes of Right Auricular Appendage Masses at the QMHA - Disha Nagari, Royal Veterinary College

15:15 - 15:30 | Survival to discharge of splenic torsion cases seen at the QMHA - Jasmine Chong, Royal Veterinary College

15:30 - 15:45 | Characterisation of alkaline phosphatase enzymes in the cat small intestine - Rona Zhou, Royal Veterinary College

15:45 - 15:50 | Short break

15:50 - 16:00 | Conference closing and presentation of the award for best first presentation

16:00 onwards | Opportunity to explore London Zoo
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Thursday 17th 18:05 - 19:00 | AVTRW AGM. All members welcome.
‍This will be held as a hybrid event. AVTRW members will be emailed instructions for joining online nearer the date of the meeting.
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