2022 Phi Zeta Research Emphasis Day
The 2022 Phi Zeta Research Emphasis Day will be held on Wednesday, November 2, 2022.
Each year the Epsilon Chapter of the Phi Zeta Honor Society at the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine sponsors a Research Emphasis Day to highlight student and faculty research. Participants demonstrate research findings through posters and seminars throughout the day and distinguished speakers are invited to present the two keynote lectures. The event culminates with the annual banquet during which awards for best poster and seminar are presented, and new members are inducted to the honor society.
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Schedule
8:00: Opening Statement
Dr. Frank F. Bartol,
Alumni Professor and Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Studies,
Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine
8:15-12:00 MORNING Presentations – Overton Auditorium
Moderator (Morning Sessions): Dr. Satyanarayana Pondugula
Veterinary Students
8:15 Hannah Bostick Application speed and energy level effects of diffuse diode laser irradiation on heat accumulation and stromal collagen coagulation in the equine cornea
8:30 Ava Mullin Pilot Project on Clinical Characterization of Low-Dose Acetylcholinesterase Inhibition
8:45 Kaitlyn Speights Quantitative analysis of stress following student palpation per rectum in the mare
9:00 Zach Wriedt Do Dogs with Chronic Bronchitis Cast NETs?
Graduate Students
9:15 Ferrin Antony β-catenin inhibition during conjunctival melanoma suppresses tumor progression
9:30 Morgan Brown The impact of single-dose trazodone administration on endogenous adrenocorticotropic hormone (eACTH) and serum cortisol concentrations in healthy dogs
9:45 Serena Ceriotti Pulmonary disposition and pharmacokinetics of oral chloramphenicol in adult horses: a pilot study
10:00 Serena Ceriotti Beta2-adrenergic receptor expression changes with ageing in the equine respiratory tract
10:15 Break
10:30 Jordan Doss Albumin Quotient as an Indicator of Blood Brain Barrier Integrity in Cats
10:45 Pankaj Gaonkar Dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes across the food chain of commercial antibiotic-free poultry farms
11:00 Aliaa Ismail Evaluation of the Role of Conditionally Replicative Adenovirus on Osteosarcoma Tumor Cell Growth in Vitro
11:15 Shari Kennedy Seroprevalence of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus in Feral Swine in 17 states
11:30 Steven Kitchens Use of MinHash Software “Mash” on Salmonella Muenster Whole-Genome Sequences
11:45 Sarah Kooy Amikacin concentration of the tibiotarsal versus tarsometatarsal joint in horses following intravenous regional limb perfusion
12:00–1:00 POSTER Presentations
1:30-3:30 AFTERNOON Presentations –
Overton Auditorium
Moderator (Afternoon Sessions): Dr. Stuart Price
Graduate Students (continued)
1:30 Sarah Lewis Influence of trazodone on intradermal histamine reactions in normal dogs
1:45 Annette Lundberg In vitro activity of fluorescent photobiomodulation therapy on meticillin-susceptible and -resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius and S. aureus
2:00 Rebecca Nance Differential Gene Expression Analysis of Canine Osteosarcoma from a Precision Medicine Perspective
2:15 Julia Salamat Sotorasib, a KRAS-G12C inhibitor, may induce chemoresistance by activating human pregnane xenobiotic receptor
2:30 Taylor Yenrick Developmental Toxicity of Perchloroethylene (PERC) in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)
2:45 Huifei Sophia Zheng How Does Thyroid Hormone Regulate the de novo Cholesterol Synthesis in the Adrenal Gland
Faculty/Staff
3:00 Aime Johnson Adenoviral Vectored GnRH Contraceptive Vaccine for Cat Population Control
4:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE-Overton Auditorium
5:00 INDUCTION AND AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENT
INDUCTION of new Phi Zeta Members
Research Awards Presentations
PHI ZETA KEYNOTE SPEAKER
“Cachexia: Basic Science to Clinical Trials”
Daniel L. Marks, MD, PhD
Senior Associate Dean,
Research Professor,
Pediatric Endocrinology
Ray Hickey Chair for the Director of the Papé Family Pediatric Research Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Daniel L. Marks M.D., Ph.D. received medical and graduate training at the University of Washington, then completed his pediatric residency at the University of Utah, and a fellowship in pediatric endocrinology at OHSU. He is currently Senior Associate Dean for Research at OHSU. He is also Professor in Pediatric Endocrinology, Ray Hickey Chair for Pediatric Research, Director of the Papé Family Pediatric Research Institute, and Associate Director of the OHSU MD PhD program. His current investigations are focused on the neuroendocrine control of body weight. He has a particular interest in the brain mechanisms of disease-associated cachexia, with emphasis on cachexia in cancer patients and children with chronic disease.
Posters
Undergraduate Students
Kathryn Edmondson Comparing Aav9 Delivery Routes in the Treatment of Feline Gm2 Gangliosidosis
Paige Hall Gene therapy for peripheral disease in feline GM2 gangliosidosis
Su Kim Are anti-Müllerian hormone receptor type 2 (AMHR2)-expressing cells responsible for the adrenal gland development?
Ben Maggard The Sexually Dimorphic Developmental Trajectory of the Mouse Adrenal Gland Transcriptome
Caroline Parrish Designing the PCR for the STK11 and MSK1 genes in canine mammary cancer
Luke Eller In vitro genetic modification of canine adenovirus type two
Isabella Shimko-Lofano
Veterinary Students
Deanna Arnold The Effects of Chew Toys on Cognitive Welfare in Working Dogs
Heather Gosnell Qualitative Analysis of Intern Applications and its Relationship to Performance
Startus Hutcherson Accuracy of canine vertebrae pedicle pin placement using an augmented reality neuronavigational device
Jessica Meier Effect of the industrial chemical Bisphenol A on endocrine function of the male gonad
Quintan Rossow Acute Developmental Toxicity of the TCE Metabolite DCVC in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Graduate Students
Inass Ahmed Natural apoptosis-inducing anticancer compounds augment docetaxel chemotherapeutic effect and selectively kill human prostate cancer cells
Wenqi Cao Blood transcriptome responses to PFOA and GenX treatment in the marsupial biomedical model Monodelphis domestica
Atonu Chakrabortty Unraveling the Mystery of CAV2 Tropism: Characterization of Canine Adenovirus type 2 Virus Infection
Y Savanie Fernando Confirming the DHCR24 expression in the inner cortex of adrenal gland using DHCR24 LacZ reporter mice
Deepika Goyal Primer Design Targeting a Frameshift Mutation in CEACAM24
Natasha Grabau Effects of sleep on memory, anxiety, and depression-like states in mice
Vander LeKites Increasing sleep by chemogenetic activation of specific neurons in the Nucleus Accumbens in mice
Xiaolei Ma Effect of mineral oil as a lubricant to collect feces from cats for microbiome studies
Rachel Smith Nationwide molecular survey for Dirofilaria immitis and Dirofilaria repens in companion dogs and cats, United States of America
Jyoti Yadav Antibody Gene Therapy for Rabies Encephalitis
Ying Zhang Origin of α-satellite repeat arrays from mitochondrial molecular fossils – sequential insertion, expansion, and evolution in the nuclear genome
Yue Zhang Transcriptome landscape of the canine zonary placenta
Kevin Zhong H3N2 influenza virus from companion dogs in Alabama, USA
Faculty/Postdoctoral Fellows/Staff
Susan Elrod Assessment of Chemical and Microbial Stability of a Sedation
Formulation for New World Camelids
Courtney Garrett Assessing the effect of dosage and injection route on AAV gene therapy in the treatment of feline GM2 gangliosidosis