On June 22-23, 2021, the SOUND control consortium hosted an Annual online meeting to discuss the status and progress of the project. More than 40 members from 32…
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Webinar “The STOC free model” by Aurélien Madouasse
The webinar “The STOC free model: A Bayesian Hidden Markov Model for output-based surveillance” was presented by Aurélien Madouasse. Aurélien graduated in veterinary medicine in Nantes (France) in…
Call for Virtual Mobility grant candidates
The COST Action CA17110 ‘Standardizing output-based surveillance to control non-regulated diseases of cattle in the EU’ (SOUND control) encourages and supports networking of researchers between countries and institutes.…
WG1 initialized a Research topic at Frontiers “Global Control and Eradication Programmes For Cattle Diseases”
The aim of this Research topic is to improve the knowledge on control and eradication programs for cattle diseases in Europe and beyond with a special focus on…
Six members of SOUND control are among the world’s top researchers in veterinary science, according to a study from Stanford University
A recent study published in PLOS Biology reports a ranking of researcher impact (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918). The paper is a follow-up of an article published in 2019 and is based…
Storytelling webinar
On 30th April 2021 a webinar on storytelling was organised and all SOUND control members were invited. More than 30 attendees from a variety of European countries participated.…
Sound control project member receives an EU grant for a large project about endemic contagious diseases in farm animals and salmon
Prof. dr. ir. Gerdien van Schaik, who is a core group member in the SOUND control consortium, coordinated a consortium that was successful in receiving an EU H2020…
SOUND control members participated in SVEPM 2021
From 24th to 26th March 2021 the Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (SVEPM) hosted a virtual annual conference. This year, the 212 conference attendees were offered…
NEIKER’s line of research on mycobacterial vaccines wins the II International Zendal Award
An original work on paratuberculosis and tuberculosis in animals by NEIKER, and an investigation on a possible vaccine against SARS-COV-2 by the Ciqus group, have been the winning…
Webinar “Evaluation of surveillance systems” by Marisa Peyre
The webinar “Evaluation of surveillance systems” was presented by Marisa Peyre. Marisa is an epidemiologist specialized in the evaluation of animal health surveillance and control programs. She works…