Dear colleagues Please find attached the October issue of the Davis-Thompson Foundation Newsletter. In addition to our two wonderful editors Stephanie Shrader and Javier Asin, this month we welcome Dr Jeann Leal, our colleague and long term visual artist, to the editorial team of the DTF newsletter. Welcome Jeann. Amongst the many training opportunities offered by the Foundation in October, we are particularly proud to announce our first hybrid seminar, which started yesterday and will conclude today in Galveston, Texas with a great turn out both in person and virtually. This first-time hybrid seminar will be followed soon (October 23) by the symposium on Pathology of transboundary diseases, during the annual meeting of the AAVLD, which will also be held in a hybrid format. We hope that as the pandemic recedes, we will be able to see more of each other face to face in the not too distant future. Enjoy Paco Uzal Davis/Thompson Foundation CEO