Every Species. A Broader Microbial Picture.
Dates: September 26–October 1, 2026
Venue: Oregon Convention Center
Location: Portland, Oregon
Hosted by: Oregon Zoo
Booth: 610
The AZA Annual Conference is the organization’s largest gathering for zoo and aquarium professionals, bringing together more than 2,800 attendees to exchange ideas, explore best practices, and discover new technologies and services.
MiDOG will be exhibiting at the AZA 2026 Annual Conference in Portland. Visit us at Booth [#] to explore how next-generation sequencing can support the complex infectious disease, monitoring, and surveillance needs of zoo, aquarium, wildlife, and conservation medicine teams.
Zoological health investigations often extend beyond a single patient or point in time. Clinicians and scientists may need to evaluate microbial findings across multiple animals, compare patient samples with environmental sources, monitor changes throughout treatment, or investigate patterns within a collection.
MiDOG provides broad, species-agnostic microbial insight directly from submitted samples. Depending on the test and report selected, veterinary teams can investigate bacteria, fungi, parasites, antimicrobial resistance markers, and other microbial features without limiting the search to a predetermined group of organisms.
Meet the MiDOG team and learn more about:
- Clinical testing when signs persist or previous results conflict
- Comparison Reports for animal-to-animal analysis
- Patient-to-water or patient-to-enclosure comparisons
- Cross-site comparisons across different sample types
- Time-Series Reports for chronic, recurrent, or monitored cases
- Wellness and baseline screening
- Routine surveillance and trend tracking
- Outbreak investigation and containment support
- Dietary and feed-related microbial surveillance
- Free veterinary consultation and report interpretation support
Whether you are managing an unresolved clinical case, monitoring the health of a collection, or investigating a possible environmental connection, MiDOG can help bring the broader microbial picture into focus.
MiDOG Poster Presentation
Monitoring the Microbial Composition of an Abscess in a Wild Stranded California Sea Lion Using Next-Generation Sequencing
Join MiDOG’s Jenna Archambeau for a poster presentation examining how next-generation sequencing was used to monitor changes in the microbial composition of an abscess in a wild stranded California sea lion (Zalophus californianus).
The presentation highlights the value of longitudinal microbial analysis in wildlife medicine, particularly when clinicians need to track microbial changes over time and better understand the organisms associated with a complex clinical case.
Presented by: Jenna Archambeau
Date: Tuesday, September 29
Time: 5:00–6:30 PM Pacific Time
Location: Exhibit Hall
Explore Microbial Insight Across Species and Environments
Connect with MiDOG at the AZA Annual Conference to discover how NGS-based testing can support clinical care, surveillance, and research across zoological settings.
