2006 Advances in Veterinary Medicine Day

Poster Winners

Dr. Laura Rush from the Department of Veterinary Biosciences planned and chaired this year's Advances in Veterinary Medicine Day on April 13, 2006. This event is designed to highlight research and scholarship being performed by College faculty and students. It is also a way for the College community to come together and learn about the exciting research being carried out by colleagues. 86 posters were displayed in Sisson Hall and in the Hummel Grand Lounge in the Veterinary Medicine Academic Building. Graduate and veterinary student poster presentations were evaluated by 28 faculty judges.

The keynote address "Genetic Mapping of Complex Traits in the Domestic Dog" was given by Elaine Ostrander, PhD. Dr. Ostrander is Chief of the Cancer Genetics Branch and heads the Section of Comparative Genetics at the National Human Genome Research Institute of NIH.

Thirteen $600 travel awards were awarded to the following students to be used to support their travel to national and international scientific meetings to present their research.

Immunology and Infectious Diseases

• Gillian Beamer, for her poster "Decreased expression of the chemokine CCL5 and the chemokine receptor CXCR3 are associated with heightened susceptibility to mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and poorly organized granulomas in vivo"
• Tracey Papenfuss, for her poster "Estriol dendritic cells (DCS) protect against experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis"
• Chris Premanandan, for his poster "Complement protein C3 binding initiated by the classical pathway enhances phagocytosis of bacillus anthracis spores by macrophages"

Molecular and Cellular Biology

• Heather Chandler, for her poster "COX-2 expression in canine lens epithelial cells"
• Cheryl Bolinger, for her poster "Dissecting a new role for the DEXH box protein RNA helicase A in stimulating translation of selected retroviral and cellular RNAs"
• Bin Li, for his poster "C/EBPδ Mrna is stabilized by UVC radiation via activation of the p38 MAP kinase pathway and HuR"
• Nicole Placek, for her poster "Identification of post-transcriptional control elements that are necessary for replication of an avian reticuloendotheliosis virus"

Structure/Function

• Colin Schawarzwald, for his poster "Atrial, SA nodal and AV nodal electrophysiology in standing horses:  reference values and electrophysiologic effects of quinidine and diltiazem"

Clinical Research

• Edward Cooper, for his poster "Evaluation of continuous cardiac output monitoring via pulse contour analysis in severe hemorrhagic shock"
• Akikazu Ishihara, for his poster "Acceleration of equine fracture healing with BMP-2 and -6 gene therapy"

Epidemiology and Applied Research

• Audrey Torres, for her poster "Selective dry cow therapy and clinical mastitis during early lactation"

Veterinary Students

• Heather Miller, for her poster "Viral induction of heat shock protein is good for the virus – and an opportunity for therapeutic intervention"
• Laurie Millward, for her poster "Yeast two-hybrid analysis of protein interactions involving the HTLV-1 accessory protein p30II"

Advances in Veterinary Medicine Day is sponsored by the College's Alumni Society, Pfizer Animal Health and the Office of the Dean.