CRWAD 2010 Graduate Student Awards
1. The Calvin W. Schwabe Award is presented annually by the AVEPM to honor lifetime achievement in veterinary epidemiology and preventive medicine. The 2010 Calvin Schwabe Award was presented by Dr. Jan Sargeant to Dr. Preben W. Willeberg. Dr. Willeberg is shown in the picture below 4th from the right.
2. The Association for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Awards, presented by AVEPM President Dr. Jan Sargeant.
Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics:
Oral - $300 awarded to each of two winners
a) No. 055, Stephane Guillossou, Estimates of diagnostic test sensitivities and specificities: what confidence do we really have? S. Guillossou, H. Scott, J. Richt, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.
b) No. 059, Timothy Boyer, Measurement of low-quantity antibiotic resistance genes in agricultural samples: a hierarchical model for analysis of left-censored qPCR data. T. Boyer, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; R. Singer, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN.
Food and Environmental Safety: Oral – $300 awarded
to each winner
a) No. 098, Wayne Muraoka, Genotypic and phenotypic evidence for L-fucose utilization by Campylobacter jejuni. W. Muraoka, Q. Zhang, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
b) No. 100, Raghavendra Amachawadi, Molecular characterization of vancomycin-resistant 0and vancomycin-susceptible Enterococcus faecium isolated from a semi-closed and integrated agri-food system. R. Amachawadi, H. Scott, J. Vinasco, T. Nagaraja, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS; R. Harvey, T. Poole, Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center, USDA, College Station, TX
Poster: $300 awarded to the winner
No. 043P, Jose Pantoja, Factors associated with coliform count in unpasteurized milk. J. Pantoja, P. Ruegg, D. Reinemann, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
Mark Gerhart Memorial Award: $1000 awarded to the winner and presented by president Dr. Jan Sargeant.
a) No. 031, Katie Steneroden, Zoonotic disease awareness in animal shelter workers and volunteers and the effect of training. K. Steneroden, A. Hill, M. Salman, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
3. The Distinguished Veterinary Immunologist Award was presented to Dr. Frank Blecha by Dr. Carol Chitko-Mckown.
4. The American Association of Veterinary Immunologists Awards (AAVI) presented by Dr. Carol Chitko-McKown, Awards Chairman.
First Place Oral: $500 award,
Certificate, and AAVI Membership
No. 137, Neeta Jain, Brucella outer membrane vesicles-polaxamer mixture as a vaccine for B. melitensis in a mouse model. N. Jain, S. Boyle, N. Sriranganathan, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA; A. Rodriguez, E. Avila-Calderon, A. López-Merino, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico, Mexico.
Second Place Oral: $250
award, Certificate, and AAVI Membership
No. 135, John C. Schwartz, Differential expression of the porcine heavy chain immunoglobulin repertoire following Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV) infection. J. Schwartz, J. Abrahante, M. Murtaugh, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN.
Third Place Oral: $100 award, Certificate,
and AAVI Membership
No. 122, Sanjukta Majumder, Up-regulation of inflammatory mediators and pro-apoptotic genes during Mycoplasma gallisepticum infection. S. Majumder, J. Mohammed, D. Rood, S. Szczepanek, S. Geary, S. Frasca, L. Silbart, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
Poster, 1st Place: $350 award, Certificate, and AAVI Membership
No. 075P, Mini Bharathan, Monocytes: The precursors of inflammatory dendritic cells in Staphylococcus aureus infection. M. Bharathan, N. Sriranganathan, I. Mullarky, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA; W. Mwangi, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
Poster, 2nd Place: $150 award, Certificate, and AAVI Membership
No. 069P, Susana Flores-Villalva, Mycobacterial immunodominant antigens ESAT6 and CFP10 improve tuberculin skin test specificity in cattle naturally infected. S. Flores Villalva, F. Suárez Güemes, J. Gutierrez Pabello, Laboratorio de Investigación en Tuberculosis y Brucelosis, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, UNAM, D.F., Mexico; C. Espitia, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, UNAM, D.F., Mexico; M. Vordermeier, TB Research Group, Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Weybridge, Addlestone, Surrey, United Kingdom.
Poster, 3rd Place: Certificate, and AAVI Membership
No. 126P, Sue Morarie, Fetal immunological effects and liver tolerance following persistent bovine viral diarrhea virus infection. S. Morarie, J. Mediger, L. Braun, C. Chase, South Dakota State University, Sioux Falls, SD; N. Smirnova, T. Hansen, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
5. The Society for Tropical Veterinary Medicine and the American Association of Veterinary Parasitologists Awards (AAVP) were presented by Dr. Roman Ganta.
The Society for Tropical Veterinary Medicine: $150 and
a two year membership in the STVM:
No. 175, Alex Betancourt, The effect of anthelmintics on proinflammatory cytokine responses in treated horses. A. Betancourt, E. Lyons, D. Horohov, Gluck Equine Research Center, Lexington, KY.
The American Association of Veterinary
Parasitologists: $50 plus 1 yr. AAVP membership and Annual Meeting
Registration at the AAVP:
No. 171, Ryan Stoffel, Utilization of a peptide based enzyme linked immunosorbant assay for the detection of bovine anti-E. chaffeensis antibodies. R. Stoffel, A. Boyles, R. Stich, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
6. The NC-1041 Enteric Diseases Research Awards were presented by Dr. Radhey S. Kaushik. Dr. David Francis, the Enteric Diseases Research Awards chairman, is standing at the far right in the above photo.
1st Place
Oral: $125
a) No. 111, Wei Zhou, Functional cloning of novel antibiotic resistance genes in chicken gut microflora. W. Zhou, A. Hunkapiller, J. Lin, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN.
2nd Place
Oral: $75
b) No. 102, Dong-Kyu Lee, Development of reverse genetics with a full-length infectious cDNA of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus. D. Lee, C. Lee, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, Republic of Korea.
Poster, $100
No. 013P, Elena Gart, Citrobacter rodentium causes structural and functional alterations in conditionally immortalized Ptk6 colonic epithelial cells. E. Gart, B. Schultz, L. Willard, S. Narayanan, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.
7. The Distinguished Veterinary Microbiologist Award was presented by Dr. Mary DeBey to Dr. Frederick A. Murphy.
8. The American College of Veterinary Microbiologists Awards were presented by Dr. Steve Olsen.
The
Don Kahn Award – $400 awarded
No. 148, Christa K. Irwin, Influenza antibody detection in experimentally inoculated swine over time using a commercially available nucleoprotein ELISA. C. Irwin, J. Prickett, A. Kittawornrat, J. Johnson, C. Wang, J. Zimmerman, Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Ames, IA.
InVitro:
$200 awarded
No. 018, Dubraska V. Diaz-Campos, Microbiological and molecular characterization of coagulase positive Staphylococcus species isolated from canine clinical specimens. D. Diaz-Campos, T. Hathcock, R. Palomares-Naveda, K. Brock, Auburn University, Auburn, AL.
Molecular:
$200 awarded
No. 004, Edward A. Kabera, MAP suppression of caspase activity in infected primary bovine macrophages. E. Kabara, P. Coussens, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
InVivo:
$200 awarded
No. 161, Phil Gauger, Enhanced pneumonia with pandemic 2009 A/H1N1 swine influenza virus in pigs vaccinated with an inactivated d-cluster H1N2 vaccine. P. Gauger, A. Vincent, K. Lager, C. Loving, National Animal Disease Center, Ames, IA; B. Janke, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
Poster:
$200 awarded
No. 109P, Amanda Beaudoin, Prevalence of antibodies to avian influenza viruses and risk factors for exposure in Thai free-grazing duck flocks. A. Beaudoin, R. Singer, J. Bender, University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, Saint Paul, MN; J. Sasipreeyajan, P. Kitikoon, Chulalongkorn University Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand; S. Pakinsee, Chulalongkorn University College of Public Health, Bangkok, Thailand.
6. The Biosafety and Biosecurity Awards, sponsored by the Animal Health Institute and the Joseph J. Garbarino Foundation, were presented by Dr. Bob Ellis:
First Place Award: $200, Plaque,
and Laboratory Biosafety book
No. 030, Brandy Burgess, Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus spp in commercial pigs used in veterinary student training. B. Burgess, D. Czerniak, M. Jacobsson, D. Bolte, P. Morley, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; J. Weese, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada.
Second Place Award: $150, Plaque,
and Laboratory Biosafety book
No. 029, Cristina Venegas-Vargas, Evaluating Porcine Circovirus Type 2 control in vaccinated herds: are sentinels needed? C. Venegas-Vargas, B. Straw, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
Poster: $200, plaque, and Laboratory
Biosafety book
No. 025P, Matt Allerson, Application of alternative methods of body temperature measurement in swine. M. Allerson, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN.