2008 Student Awards and Other Awards
1. The Calvin W. Schwabe Award is presented annually by the AVEPM to honor lifetime achievement in veterinary epidemiology and preventive medicine. The 2008 Calvin Schwabe Award was presented by Dr. Ian Gardner to Dr. David Hird.
2. The Association for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Awards (AVEPM),presented by Dr. Paul Morley:
Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics:
Oral - $300 awarded to each of two winners
a) No.
40 T. Rosendal, University of Guelph, Association
between PRRS virus genotypes and clinical signs of disease. T. Rosendal1*,
C. Dewey1, Z. Poljak1,
B. Young1. 1Dept. of Population Medicine, University
of Guelph, Guelph, ON.
b) No. 64 J. B. Walker, The Ohio State University, The Effect of Strain Differences on Cure-rates in Dairy Cows with Naturally Occurring Staphylococcus aureus Intramammary Infections. J.B. Walker1*, P.J. Rajala-Schultz1, F.J. DeGraves1, 1Department Veterinary Preventive Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
Food and Environmental Safety: Oral – $300 awarded
to each of two winners
a) No.
92 A. Rodriguez-Palacios,Wild birds in
the epidemiology of Clostridium difficile: A
study in the Midwestern USA. A. Rodriguez-Palacios1*,
J Van Pelt1, P.
G. Rodewald2, A. A. Buchanan2, S. N. Matthews2,
J. T. LeJeune1. 1Food Animal Health Research
Program, Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, and 2School
of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University,
USA
b) No. 81 M. E. Jacob, Evaluating Methods for Detecting Salmonella in Fecal and Carcass Samples using Bayesian Analysis [FSRRN]. M.E. Jacob1*, D.G. Renter1, T.G. Nagaraja1, and R. Evans2. 1College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, 2College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Poster: $300
No. 48P E. Taylor,
Genetic variation and Shiga toxin production of Escherichia coli O157:H7
isolates from bovine and human feces. E. Taylor*1,
X. Shi1, J. Alam1, G. Peterson1, S.
Narayanan1, D. Renter1, and T. G. Nagaraja1. 1Department
of Diagnostic Medicine/ Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
Mark Gerhart Memorial Award: $1000
No. 16 Renata Ivanek, Extreme value theory in
analysis of differential expression in microarrays where either only
up- or down-regulated genes are relevant or expected. R. Ivanek1*,
Y.T. Gröhn1, M.T. Wells2, S.
Raengpradub3, M.J. Kazmierczak4, M. Wiedmann3. 1Dept.
of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary
Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 2Dept.
of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY. 3Dept.
of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 4Channing
Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
3. The Distinguished Veterinary Immunologist Award was presented to Dr. Lorraine Sordillo by Dr. Chris Davies, AAVI President.
4. The American Association of Veterinary Immunologists Awards (AAVI) presented by Dr. Carol Chitko-McKown (Photo Far Right):
First Place Oral: $500 award,
Certificate, and AAVI Membership
No. 116 Junbae Jee, Effect of Vitamin
A on Bovine Coronavirus Infection, Vaccination and Immunity in Feedlot
Calves. Jee, J.1,2*, M. Azevedo1,2, A. Vlasova1,2,
A. Hoet2, S. C. Loerch3, C. Pickworth3,
J. Hanson1 and L. J. Saif1,2. 1Food
Animal Health Res. Prog.; 3Dept. of Animal Sciences, OARDC,
The Ohio State University (OSU), Wooster, Ohio 44691; 2Dept.
of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, OSU, Columbus, Ohio 43210
Second Place Oral: $200
award, Certificate, and AAVI Membership
No. 115 Kuldeep Chatta,
Expression of CD21, CD32 and membrane IgM on calf lymphocytes varies
with age. K.S. Chattha*, M.A. Firth, D.C. Hodgins,
P.E. Shewen, Department of Pathobiology, Ontario Veterinary College,
University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Third Place Oral: Certificate,
and AAVI Membership
No. 118 Ali Elliott,
Altered actin expression by neutrophils from cows genetically more
susceptible to mastitis. A.A. Elliott*, J. Dunlap, G.M. Pighetti. Department
of Animal Science. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Poster, 1st Place: $500 award, Certificate, and AAVI Membership
No. 88P Hiep Vu,
Sub-typing PRRSV isolates by means of measurement of cross neutralization
reactions. H.L.X. Vu1*, M. Brito1, W.I.
Kim2, K.J. Yoon2, W. Laegreid3, and
F.A. Osorio1. 1 Dept. of Veterinary
and Biomedical Sciences, University of Nebraske-Lincoln, Lincoln,
NE. 2Dept. of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal
Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA. 3 Dept. of Veterinary
Pathobiology, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.
Poster, 2nd Place: $200 award, Certificate, and AAVI Membership
No. 84P M. C. Heller, Rhodococcus
equi infection of indoleamine 2,3 dioxygenase (INDO) knockout
mice. M. C. Heller*, K. A. Jackson, J. L. Watson. Dept.
of Veterinary Medicine and Epidemiology, College
of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis,
CA
Poster, 3rd Place: Certificate, and AAVI Membership
No. 64P Mini Bharathan,
Characterization of T lymphocytes response to Staphylococcus aureus sensitized
monocyte derived dendritic cells from cows with prior Staphylococcus
aureus mastitis. Mini Bharathan*1, Waithaka Mwangi 2,
and Isis K. Mullarky1. 1Department
of Dairy Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA-24061. 2 Dept.
of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University College
Station, TX, USA-77843.
5. The Society for Tropical Veterinary Medicine and the American Association of Veterinary Parasitologists Awards (AAVP) were presented by Dr. Roman Ganta (Photo Left) Dr. Bill Stich(Photo Right).
The 2008 Society for Tropical Veterinary Medicine: $200 and
a two year membership in the STVM:
No.
152 James B. Reinbold, Comparison of three oral chlortetracycline
treatment regimens for persistent Anaplasma marginale carrier
clearance. James B. Reinbold1*, Johann Coetzee1,
Ronette Gehring1, James Havel2, KC Olson3,
Larry Hollis3, Casey Wood4, and Roman Ganta4. 1Department
of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary
Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. 2PharmCATS
Bioanalytical Services, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. 3Department
of Animal Sciences & Industry, Kansas State University, Manhattan,
KS. 4Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiolology,
College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan,
KS
The American Association of Veterinary
Parasitologists: $50 plus 1 yr. AAVP membership and Annual Meeting
Registration:
No.
149 Amed Mohamed, Prevalence
of Giardia in US pet
dogs and its distribution in the state of Colorado. Ahmed
S Mohamed* 1, George E Moore1, Elizabeth
Lund2, Larry T Glickman1 1 Dept.
of Comparative Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue
University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, 2 Banfield,
The Pet Hospital, Portland, OR 97213
6. The NC-1041 Enteric Diseases Awards were presented by Dr. David Francis:
$150 Oral, No. 109 Eeuri Nam, High-density porcine aminopeptidase N (pAPN) is essential for porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) infection. E. Nam* and C. Lee. Department of Microbiology, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
$150 Poster, No. 32P Dharanesh Gangaiah, Studies on Polyphosphate kinases of Campylobacter jejuni. D. Gangaiah1*, B. Adhikari1, B. Jeon2, Y. Sannad1, Q. Zhang2 and G. Rajashekara1. 1 Food Animal Health Research Program, OARDC, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH, 44691. 2Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011.
7. The Distinguished Veterinary Microbiologist Award was presented by Dr. Mary DeBey to Dr. Carlton L. Gyles.
8. The American College of Veterinary Microbiologists Awards were presented by Dr. Steve Olsen:
InVitro:
$200 awarded
No. 9 Y. P. Lin, Fibronectin-binding
activity on a surface exposed domain within the C-terminal variable
region of Leptospira interrogans LigB protein. Y. P.
Lin1*,
A. Greenwood2, W. Yan1, L. K. Nicholson2,
Y.F. Chang1. 1Department of Population Medicine
and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2Department
of Molecular Biology and Genetics, College of Agriculture and Life Science,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
Molecular:
$200 awarded
No. 3 E. Kabara,
Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis transcriptionally
regulates apoptotic genes in the bovine macrophage. E. Kabara1*,
C.C. Kloss2, M. Wilson2, S.
Sreevatsan3, H. Janagama3, and P.M. Coussens2. 1Department
of Biochemistry and 2Center for Animal Functional Genomics, Department
of Animal Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
3Center for Animal Health and Food Safety, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN.
InVivo:
$200 awarded
No. 163 Robin L. Cissell, Prevalence
of Malignant Catarrhal Fever virus- White Tailed Deer variant in Tennessee
Hunter Harvested Deer *Cissell, Robin L1,3 , Stephen
A. Kania2, and Robert L. Donnell3. University
of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine, Knoxville, TN 1Comparative
and Experimental Medicine Graduate Program, 2Dept. of Comparative
Medicine, 3Dept. of Pathobiology.
Poster:
$200 awarded
No. 3P R. J. Ortiz-Marty, Suppression
of bovine mammary epithelial cell immune response by intracellular Staphylococcus
aureus. R. J. Ortiz-Marty*, W. Wark, I. K.
Mullarky. Dept. of Dairy Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA.
The
Don Kahn Award – $400 awarded
No. 180 D. M. Madson, Reproductive
effects of PCV2 in semen when used for artificial insemination. D.M.
Madson1* A.R. Patterson1, S. Ramamoorthy 2,
N. Pal 1, X.J. Meng 2, T. Opriessnig1. 1Department
of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA. 2Department
of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University, Blacksburg, VA.
6. The Biosafety and Biosecurity Awards, sponsored by the Animal Health Institute, presented by Dr. Bob Ellis:
Two First Place Awards: $200, Plaque,
and Laboratory Biosafety book
a) No.
33 Lindsey Holmstrom, Movement patterns of feral swine (Sus
scrofa) in a South Texas rangeland: implications
for disease transmission dynamics. L.K. Holmstrom1*,
A. Parham2, W. Cupit3, X.B. Wu4,
H.M. Scott2, S. Cooper5. 1Dept.
of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of California, Davis,
CA, 2Veterinary
Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station,
TX, 3Aransas Bay Ecosystem, Rockport Marine Lab, Rockport,
TX, 4Dept. of Ecosystem Science & Management, and 5AgriLife
Research and Extension, Texas A&M University, College Station,
TX.
b) No. 24 Kevin J. Cummings, Salmonella among cattle admitted to a veterinary medical teaching hospital, 1996-2007. K.J. Cummings1*, T.J. Divers2, P.L. McDonough1, L.D. Warnick1. 1Dept. of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, 2Dept. of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Poster: $200, plaque, and Laboratory
Biosafety book
No.
14P Lindsey Reister, Potential Mechanical and Antiviral Methods
to Insure PRRSV Free Semen. L. Reister*, T. Clement, E. Nelson,
J. Christopher-Hennings. Veterinary Science Dept., South Dakota
State University, Brookings, SD 57007