Dear Colleagues

Welcome to the October issue of the Davis-Thompson Foundation newsletter, with the compliments of our great managing editors, Drs. Javier Asin and Jeann Leal.

As always, our seminars are attracting large audiences all over the world. As an example, please look at the photo of the huge crowd (310 attendees!!) gathered to listen to Dr Melissa Macias speaking on Reproductive Pathology during the recent Paraguayan Seminar of the Foundation, organized by Dr Leila Maidana in Asuncion, Paraguay. Congratulations Melissa, Leila and colleagues!

In addition to our traditional in person and virtual training activities in several languages, this month, I would like to highlight a few very significant events coming up:

-Identification of protozoan and metazoan parasites in tissue sections. AAVLD pre-meeting seminar. October 13, 2023. Instructor: Chris Gardiner (pre-registration is closed, but on-site registration will be available the day of the seminar).

-Tumors of the Urogenital System: No Kidneying, Ovary-reacting, or Testifying! ACVP pre-meeting seminar. October 28, 2023. Instructors: Drs. Rob Foster, Renee Laufer-Amorin, Dorotheee Bienzle, Valeria Grieco and Chiara Palmieri.

-Latinamerican Roadshow: Veterinary Neuropathology. Mexico, Brazil, Peru and Chile. Please see the following pages for details in each country. Instructor: Marti Pumarola.

-Curso Descriptivo de Patologia Veterinaria de America Latina (Veterinary Pathology Descriptive Course for Latin America; Costa Rica). December 15-18. Instructors: Jey Koehler, Ana Alcaraz and Patty Pesavento.

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Also, please have a look at the announcement of "Seminarios de Macroscopia", a new initiative of the Brazilian Association of Veterinary Pathology, in collaboration with the Davis-Thompson Foundation.

Once again, Dr Roger Kelly, University of Queensland, Australia, has generously provided an interesting article on liver fixation for EM, which is featured in the “Expert’s Corner”. This time, the article is authored by Dr Kelly and one of his former graduate students, Dr Majid Ghoddusi. Thank you, Roger and Majid!

Last, but not least, please do not miss our now regular “Volunteers corner”, prepared by Dr Rafaela De Negri (thank you Rafa!!!), where we highlight the great and generous work done by our outstanding volunteers. Please consider reaching out and thank them for the terrific job they do.

Looking forward to seeing you in one of our upcoming training activities.

Francisco Uzal, DVM, MSc, PhD, Dipl. ACVP

Chief Executive Officer

Davis-Thompson Foundation

Ph: 951 751 0027

E-mail: fauzal@ucdavis.edu