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CONGRATULATIONS to Cheryl Ryder for her nomination for the main campus GSA Graduate Student Service Excellence Award, for her wonderful work collecting funds and supplies for our overseas troops. She has the chance to win a $1000 reward if chosen in this competition. Great job, Cheryl!!


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Student Spotlight

December 2009 Feature

21st Annual VMRCVM Graduate Research Symposium

PhD Presentation Awards:

Tied for 1st Place: Naveen Surendran and Alicia Feagins

PhD Poster Awards:

1st Place: Shobana Raghunath
2nd Place: R.S. Pudupakam

MS Presentation Awards

1st Place: Sarah Davies
2nd Place: Jamie Wearn

MS Poster Awards:

1st Place: Suzanne Hirst
2nd Place: Marianne Werner

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CONGRATULATIONS to Dr Bonnie Brenseke-Chastain for her publication: "Concurrent nasal adenocarcinoma and rhinosporidiosis in a cat." which has been accepted by the Journal of Vaterinary Diagnostic Investigation, and will be printed in Volume 22, Number 1 in January of 2010.

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CONGRATULATIONS to Suzanne Hirst for her recent publication: Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Cerium Oxide Nanioarticles. which can be found in the journal Small.






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CONGRATULATIONS to P. R. Sumanth Kumar for his recent publication: Comparative pathogenesis in specific-pathogen-free chickens of two strains of avian hepatitis E virus recovered from a chicken with Hepatitis-Splenomegaly syndrome and from a clinically healthy chicken. which appears in Veterinary Microbiology.





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CONGRATULATIONS to Paul Kim for his presentation at the 96th American Association of Immunologists Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington. His presentation was entitled 5-Lipoxygenase mediates IL-4 induced ROS generation and MCP-1 expression in human aortic endothelial cells. ALSO congratulations on his recent publication: Oxidative mechanisms of IL-4 induced IL-6 expression in vascular endothelium. which can be found in Cytokine.


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CONGRATULATIONS to P. R. Sumanth Kumar for his recent publication: Deletions of the hypervariable region (HVR) in open reading frame 1 of hepatitis E virus do not abolish virus infectivity: evidence for attenuation of HVR deletion mutants in vivo. which can be found in the Journal of Virology .




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CONGRATULATIONS to Alicia Feagins for her recent publication: Inactivation of infectious hepatitis E virus in commercial pig livers. which can be found in the International Journal of Food Microbiology





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Student Spotlight

November 2008 Feature

20th Annual VMRCVM Graduate Research Symposium

PhD Presentation Awards:

1st Place: Pergentino Balbuena
2nd Place:
Parthiban Rajasekaran

PhD Poster Awards:

1st Place: Murali Mallela
2nd Place:
Deena Khan

MS Presentation Awards:

1st Place: Dave Geiger
2nd Place:
James Cissell

MS Poster Awards:

1st Place: Sarah Davies
2nd Place: Vrushali Chavan

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Student Spotlight

June 8, 2007 Feature

19th Annual VMRCVM Graduate Research Symposium

Student Presentation Awards:

1. Oscar Peralta
2. Jennifer Gillespie
3. Amy Wang

Student Poster Awards:

1. Claudio Gutierrez
2. Murali Mallela
3. Naveen Surendran

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March 15, 2007 Feature

Amy Wang is a PhD student in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology. Her dissertation involves the effects of arsenic on DNA damage repair in urinary bladder transitional cells. She became interested in arsenic because the mechanism through which arsenic induces cancer was unknown and arsenic intoxication existed in parts of her home country, Taiwan. High arsenic concentrations in drinking water are very prominent in some Asian countries, and have been reported in the western and northeastern United States. Amy's research interests include non-genotoxic carcinogens and environmental contaminations and how they actually affect organisms. Her defense is expected in late July or early August.

Amy has also been involved in several local and national professional organizations. As a student representative from the National Capital Chapter of Society of Toxicology (SOT), Amy organized a student day, resulting in a new Chapter tradition. At the national level, she organized and chaired a round table discussion in a national SOT annual meeting, as well as several student-orientated events. For those who have been at VMRCVM since 2000/2001, you may remember that Amy co-chaired the education committee in VMS GSA and organized several seminars per semester.

When Amy is not working in the lab, she enjoys hiking, ballroom dancing, cooking and baking, rock climbing, and is currently training to race-walk a half marathon in the mountains of West Virginia. One of her main interests is photography; particularly landscape, wildlife, and plant photography. Her main influence in starting photography is her father, a famous wild bird photographer in Taiwan. Amy maintains her own web page about her professional work that you can check out if you wish to find out more about her.

Names in the News

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Ashish Ranjan for his first place award at the Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine's Via Research Recognition Day, October 5 and 6, 2006. See this link to Vital Signs for more details!

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Kijona F. Key winner of the Best Graduate Student Award in the field of Virology by the American College of Veterinary Microbiology at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases, December 1st-3rd in Chicago, IL.

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Undine Christmann for receiving the Best Abstract Presentation Award at the Veterinary Comparative Respiratory Society (VCRS).

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