BMVS Student Spotlight and Names in the News
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 MS Presentation Awards 1st Place: Sarah Davies MS Poster Awards: 1st Place:
Suzanne Hirst ______________________________________________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________________________________________ CONGRATULATIONS
to Suzanne Hirst for her recent publication: Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Cerium Oxide Nanioarticles. which can be found in the journal Small. ______________________________________________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________________________________________ 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 . ______________________________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________________________ Student Spotlight November 2008 Feature 20th Annual VMRCVM Graduate Research
Symposium PhD Presentation Awards: 1st Place: Pergentino Balbuena PhD Poster Awards: 1st Place: Murali Mallela MS Presentation Awards: 1st Place: Dave Geiger MS Poster Awards: 1st Place: Sarah Davies ______________________________________________________________________________ Student Spotlight June 8, 2007 Feature 19th Annual VMRCVM Graduate Research
Symposium Student Presentation Awards: 1. Oscar Peralta Student Poster Awards: 1. Claudio Gutierrez ______________________________________________________________________________ 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. 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). Need news or a student recognition posted? Contact
Courie Cohen with details!
2nd Place: R.S. Pudupakam
2nd Place: Jamie Wearn
2nd Place: Marianne Werner
2nd Place: Parthiban Rajasekaran
2nd Place: Deena Khan
2nd Place: James Cissell
2nd Place: Vrushali Chavan
2. Jennifer Gillespie
3. Amy Wang
2. Murali Mallela
3. Naveen Surendran
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.
