This year marks the 25th anniversary of the event, celebrating diverse achievements in basic, translational, clinical, and outcomes research, as well as lively discussions and multidisciplinary collaborations across the fields of veterinary medicine and biomedical sciences. See more life of the college in this Instagram reel.

The event kicked off on Friday with a lecture from Dr. Cheryl London, the Anne Engen and Dusty Professor of Comparative Oncology and associate dean for research and graduate education at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University.

 

Dr. Tracy Webb and Dr. Colleen Duncan worked with Dr. Mark Zabel to create the award. “It is a great opportunity for a college that does so much research to commit to one of the main values of CSU, which is sustainability. If we can implement that into all of the great research that we do, we will have an even greater positive impact on the world,” said Webb.

Oral Presentations

Early Stage Basic Research

First place
Ghyslaine Ramirez, Biomedical Sciences (BMS): Enhancing the antioxidant capacity of granulosa cells to mitigate the impact of heat stress (Mentor: Dawit Tesfaye)

Second place
Christian Sewor, Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences (ERHS): Household air pollution and Inflammation: do lifestyle patterns matter? (Mentor: Maggie Clark)

Advanced Stage Basic Research

First place
Courtney Maichak, ERHS: West Nile Virus Mosquito Vector Changes and Land Use Changes in Fort Collins, Colorado, 2006-2021 (Mentor: Sheryl Magzamen)

Second place
Jess Kincade, BMS: A tail of two calves: an epigenetic timeline of BVDV infections (Mentor: Thomas Hansen)

Early Stage Clinical Research

First place
Mark Ryan, Clinical Sciences (CS): Evaluating the efficacy of shelf stable blood products for resuscitation in a canine hemorrhagic shock model; an endothelial glycocalyx evaluation (Mentor: Kelly Hall)

Second place
Trish Paulos, CS: The use of doxorubicin and propranolol for canine splenic hemangiosarcoma: a retrospective study of 31 dogs (Mentor: Doug Thamm)

Advanced Stage Clinical Research

First place
Summer Barnes, CS: Anesthesia of Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches (Gromphadorhina portentosa) with Isoflurane, and a Novel Technique for Heart Rate Monitoring (Mentors: Khursheed Mama, Miranda Sadar)

Second place
Patricia Gualtieri, CS: Stereotactic body radiation therapy for oral tumors in canine patients (Mentor: Keara Boss)

Early Stage Translational Research

First place
Jacob Smoot, ERHS: Modeling the Effects of an Emerging Toxicant, Wildfire Smoke, on Reproductive Toxicity Using Caenorhabditis elegans (Mentor: Luke Montrose)

Second place
Alissa Threatt, ERHS: Omega-3 fatty acid metabolite Resolvin D1 assists recovery after agricultural dust exposure (Mentor: Tara Nordgren)

Late Stage Translational Research

First place
Marika Klosowski, Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology (MIP): Primary lung fibroblasts promote therapy resistance in co-cultured triple negative breast cancer cells through a juxtacrine, JAK-dependent signaling mechanism. (Mentor: Dan Regan)

Second place
Alison Manchester, CS: Single-cell RNA sequencing analysis of the duodenal mucosa in dogs with chronic inflammatory enteropathy (Mentor: Steve Dow)

Poster Presentations

Early Stage Basic Research

First place
Gamze Badakul, ERHS: Clustered DNA Double Strand Breaks for Cancer Treatment via Multi-gRNA CRISPR/Cas9 System (Mentor: Jack Nickoloff)

Second place
Heather Rogers, BMS: Transcriptomic Insights into Advanced Maternal Aged Granulosa Cells Emphasizes Inflammation and Immune Response (Mentor: Dawit Tesfaye)

Advanced Stage Basic Research

First place
Julia Hilliard, MIP: Omega-3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid inhibits Staphylococcus aureus growth mediated by FadA β-oxidation (Mentor: Casey Gries)

Second place
Maelle Coupannec, ERHS: Purification of Ra-226 legacy waste for production of Ac-225: from nuclear waste to cancer treatment. (Mentor: Ralf Sudowe)

Early Stage Clinical Research

First place
Grace Jakes, CS: Effects of an innate immune stimulant on dairy calf respiratory health, Salmonella shedding, and cytokine gene expression (Mentor: Sarah Raabis)

Second place
Madelyn Burtz, CS: Radiation Therapy as a Treatment for Urinary Obstruction Secondary to Urothelial Carcinoma in Dogs (Mentor: T. Martin)

Late Stage Clinical Research

First place
Rae Isdale, CS: Efficacy of a combination of selamectin + sarolaner placed on cats for the prevention of transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum from infected Ixodes scapularis (Mentor: Michael Lappin)

Early Stage Translational Research

First place
Sara Cook, MIP: Determining therapeutic targets for peripheral t cell lymphoma, not otherwise specified in canines (Mentor: Anne Avery)

Second place
Brandi Dunn, BMS: Generating physiologically relevant extracellular vesicles from bovine oviductal organoids (Mentor: Dawit Tesfaye)

Advanced Stage Translational Research

First place
Rachel V. Brady, CS: CD206 agonism stimulates growth of canine histiocytic sarcoma cell lines (Mentor: Doug Thamm)

Second place
Emily Van Zeeland, CS: Investigating the Influence of Intra-articular Estrogen on Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis Following Mechanical Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury in a Mouse Model (Mentor: Katie Sikes)

Undergraduate presentations

First place
Olivia Martinez, MIP: Investigating the Effects of Temperature Change on Oviposition and Progeny Viability of Aedes aegypti and Culex tarsalis Mosquitoes (Mentor: Rebekah Kading)

Second place
Ellison Black, BMS: Selective cholinergic activation prevents memory loss and thein vivo growth of amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s disease (Mentor: Seonil Kim)

Third place
Emily Perkins, MIP: Establishing molecular mechanisms of glial-mediated response in a chronic pain in vitro model (Mentor: Katriana Popichak)

Evelina Bouckova, BMS: Ketamine reverses chronic stress-induced mental disorders via the expression of Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptors in mice (Mentor: Seonil Kim)