2025 Southeast Deer Study Group

2025 Southeast Deer Study Group

Chesapeake ABCD

6:00pm • Welcome Reception

Chesapeake EFG

Choptank

On Your Own

5:00pm • Dinner on Your Own

Prefunction

12:00pm • Conference Registration Desk Open

Chesapeake ABCD

8:00am • Welcome and Introduction
8:30am • Plenary Session
10:20am • Navigating Urbanization: Effects of Anthropogenic Features on White-tailed Deer Movement
10:40am • The biomechanical processes of deer jumping: a quantitative approach to deer crossing vertical barriers
11:00am • Deer, Disease, and Urban Landscapes: SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance and Findings
1:20pm • Harvest susceptibility of white-tailed deer across an urbanization gradient
1:40pm • Fecal DNA reveals declining deer density as urbanization increases
2:00pm • Understanding drivers of recruitment of white-tailed deer in South Texas
2:20pm • Thermal Drones for White-tailed Deer Management
3:00pm • National Trends in Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Budgets, Surveillance, Results Wait Time, and Replacement Tags
3:20pm • CREATING A COMMON LANGUAGE FOR CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE
3:40pm • White-tailed Deer Scavenging Community in a CWD-Endemic Region and Considerations for Prion Movement
4:00pm • Novel Approaches to CWD Surveillance and Management: The Intersection of RT-QuIC Diagnostics and Epidemiological Modeling
4:20pm • Optimizing Chronic Wasting Disease Surveillance: An agent-based modeling approach for captive deer facilities
4:40pm • Population Dynamics of White-Tailed Deer in a Chronic Wasting Disease Endemic Area in Arkansas
7:30pm • Shoot From the Hip: CWD Management Philosophies: Are We On the Same Page?

Chesapeake EFG

On Your Own

11:20am • Lunch on Your Own

Prefunction

7:00am • Conference Registration Desk Open

Chesapeake ABCD

Chesapeake EFG

On Your Own

11:20am • Lunch on Your Own

Chesapeake EFG

8:00am • Joint SECWG & NEDTC Meeting (Invite Only)