Thank you for a successful One Health Symposium!
The BHSI Division of One Health would like to thank its attendees and sponsors for making the 2013 One Health Symposium: Breaking Barriers and Crossing Scales held last month in Athens, Ga., such a success.
We will keep our pre-symposium content posted and will soon have video of the Symposium’s three featured speakers available online. A PDF version of the program/abstract book will also be made available online as well. So check back here or at the Division of One Health site for updates.
Congratulations once again to our “Best Poster” winners, who stood out among the 50 poster competition participants. The winners were:
First Place ($500): Patricia Jorquera, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, “A Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Microparticle Vaccine Containing the RSV G Protein CX3C Motif Protects Against RSV Infection in Mice”
Second Place ($250): Sarah Zohdy, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Third Place ($100): Amanda Jo Williams-Newkirk, Doctoral Student, Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution, Emory University, and ORISE Fellow, Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Bacterial Community Composition and Structure in the Tick Vector Amblyomma americanum”
Honorable Mention: Clement Gnanadurai, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, “Presence of Virus Neutralizing Antibodies in Cerebral Spinal Fluid Correlates with Non-Lethal Rabies in Dogs”
Stay tuned for future One Health events at the University of Georgia and for the next One Health Symposium to be held at the University of Liverpool, UK, in June 2014.
If you have any photos or stories to share, we’d love to see them. Either email us at 1health@uga.edu or share via Facebook or Twitter.