BMVS Student Spotlight and Names in the News
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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