Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

Brief summary of NC229 annual meeting :

The annual meeting for NC229, “Detection and Control of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus and Emerging Viral Diseases of Swine” took place on December 2, 2018 at Chicago, Il - Downtown Marriott on the Magnificent Mile. Meeting attendance exceeded 150 persons and participating stations are listed above. The meeting agenda is outlined in Table 1. Business meeting discussion topics are described below. 

1. Drs Ramamoorthy (NDSU) and Fang (KSU) and the program scientific committee were recognized for their outstanding efforts in organizing the scientific program.
    
2. The NC229 program project renewal was presented by Dr. Osorio and program details briefly discussed by participants. There was strong support for the project renewal document and Dr. Osorio and his writing team were commended for their efforts in drafting a quality proposal.
   
3. Peter Johnson discussed USDA/NIFA programs in 2018 and provided some thoughts on what funding opportunities to expect in 2019. Opportunities for CAP-type awards and the possibility of NC229 participation were discussed at the meeting and subsequently by participating stations.
   
   
4. Planning and scheduling future NC229 annual meetings were discussed. The association of the NC229 meeting with the NA-PRRS Symposium this year proved highly successful. During discussion it was suggested that efforts to coordinate the NA/PRRS meeting with the NC229 meeting are in the best interest of our common scientific community. We have a common goal: to provide our research community with an annual scientific meeting defined by excellence. This type of meeting format would return NC229 to the highly successful meeting structure pioneered by Dr. Rowland (KSU) some years ago; a solid one-day meeting that provides quality information and high – impact science for our research community -“Back to the future”. Drs. Ramamoorthy (NDSU) and Fang (KSU) will lead meeting planning for 2019.
   
   
5. Meeting adjourned at 4:45 PM. 

Accomplishments of NC-229 multistate research activities over the past five years are detailed in the NC-229 renewal project proposal.

Publications/funding sources for 2018 and over the past five years are detailed in the NC-229 renewal project proposal.