Wildlife Disease Student Research Symposium Speakers/Travel Award Winners Selected
The travel award winners of the first Wildlife Disease Student Research Symposium, hosted by the UGAscWDA and the Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute, have been announced.
The top three abstracts in the competition were submitted by Dr. Mark Ruder, a graduate student in SCWDS and the Department of Veterinary Pathology; Shamus Keeler, a graduate student and SCWDS and the Department of Infectious Diseases; and Shelley Robertson, and graduate student in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources.
These three students will each receive a $500 travel stipend and present their research in an oral presentation at the symposium on Wednesday, November 30th at 11AM at the Paul D. Coverdell Center.
The winning abstracts were selected from a total of 18 submitted for the symposium’s travel award competition. UGAscWDA would like to extend a special thanks to the judges who took the time to review them: Dr. Margie Lee (Population Health), Dr. Sonia Hernandez (Wildlife Disease), Dr. Paul Osterle, Dr. Nicole Gottdenker (Veterinary Pathology), Dr. Vanessa Ezenwa (Ecology), Dr. Justin Brown (SCWDS) and Barbara Shock (Wildlife Ecology and Management).
The winning abstract titles are:
Transfer of the biotoxin linked with Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy (AVM) to domestic chickens through an aquatic invertebrate
Shelley M. Robertson*, Susan B. Wilde, Rebecca S. Haynie
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
Use of FTA® sampling cards for molecular detection of avian influenza virus in wild birds
Shamus P. Keeler1,2,*, Pamela J. Ferro1,3, Justin D. Brown1, Xingwang Fang4, John El-Attrache5, Rebecca Poulson1,2, Mark W. Jackwood 6 and David E. Stallknecht1
1Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, Department of Population Health, Wildlife Health Building , College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA. 2Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA. 3Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. 4Ambion, Inc., Applied Biosystems, Inc., LifeTechnologies, Austin, TX. 5Ceva-Biomune, 8906 Rosehill Road, Lenexa, KS. 6Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
Susceptibility of white-tailed deer and Culicoides sonorensis to an exotic epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus, EHDV-7
Mark G. Ruder,1,2,* Andrew B. Allison,1 David E. Stallknecht,1 Daniel G. Mead,1 John R. Fischer,1 Sabrina N. McGraw,2 Deborah L. Carter,2 Steven V. Kubiski,1 Barbara S. Drolet,3 Carrie A. Batten,4 and Elizabeth W. Howerth2
1Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia USA 2Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia USA 3United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Arthropod-Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit, Manhattan, Kansas USA 4Institute for Animal Health, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking, UK