Annual CVM Research Forum Celebrates Trainees’ Scientific Contributions
The research of more than 100 students and house officers from the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine was on full display throughout the campus Aug. 28 as the college celebrated its annual Research Forum.
The daylong event featured a poster session, 10-minute oral presentations and a research image competition. Faculty members served as judges for the poster session and oral presentations, while the entire CVM community voted for the research image competition.
For Dr. Abdelhamid Fares, a virology Ph.D. student in faculty member Dr. Isabel Gimeno’s lab, the research forum felt like a culmination of years of hard work.
Fares, who already holds a DVM degree, says he worked as a research technician in Gimeno’s lab for 18 months before being admitted to the college’s graduate program on his fourth try. He’s continued his research studying Marek’s disease virus, or MDV, in chickens with Gimeno through his graduate program, and he was proud to finally present his work as a student-researcher.
“It has been a long journey,” he says. “I feel great, and I feel gratitude for my wife and everyone who has given me the chance to work here, first as a volunteer and then as a research technician and student under Dr. Gimeno. Without these experiences, I wouldn’t have this opportunity today.”
Winners and honorable mentions were recognized at the day’s closing event: the annual Litwack Lecture, given in honor of the late Dr. Martin Litwack, a Raleigh veterinarian and an early advocate of the CVM. Dr. Nicola Mason, a world-renowned clinician scientist from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, served as the keynote speaker. She is driving discoveries in immunotherapies from benchtop to bedside.
This year’s Research Forum winners were:
Oral Presentations
Top Honors
- Jalise Zumstein — Description of an ultrasound-guided pudendal nerve injection in dogs: a cadaveric study
- Victor Rivas — A novel cardiac troponin-I missense variant (c.593c>t) is associated with familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in golden retrievers
Honorable Mentions
- Kimberly Young — Ocular toxicity, distribution and shedding of intravitreal aav-eqil-10 in horses
- Eleanor McNamee — Investigating dog and human factors influencing canine behavior at the veterinary clinic
Poster Presentations
Top Honors
- Lindsey Diaz — Optimizing nondestructive sampling of parchment for genomic sequencing
- Earl Ford — Application of an uplc-ms method for the determination of methylene blue residues in cattle tissues
Honorable Mentions
- Nagwa Khaled — Early changes in the thymus of meat type chickens after vaccination with various mdv-1 vaccines
- Aditi Shankar — Localization and expression of the gene for artemin in mouse and canine osteoarthritic joint tissues
Research Image Competition
Top Honor
- Jessica Petry and Lainey Atwood — Infrared Canine: A Thermal Portrait
Honorable Mention
- Ian McConnell — A shifting storm of altered cortical neuron activity in mice with chronic atopic dermatitis
See a complete list of poster presentation abstracts
See a complete list of oral presentation abstracts
