Many students with mentors from the College of Veterinary Medicine participated in this year’s University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF) on April 17, presenting research that reflects the breadth and impact of work taking place across both the College and the university. Below is a list of students who placed and participated in the event, along with their faculty mentors.

Suhaylah Ahmad Ali, in the Gorgoglione Lab; first-place award for her poster: Discovering Saprolegnia spp, Diversity in the Great Lakes Region

Madison Cole, mentored by Dalen Agnew and Anneke Moresco; first-place award for her poster: Microscopic Patterns of Menopause-Like Aging in Orangutan Ovaries

Jessica Rowe, in the Gomes Lab; first-place oral presentation: Uterine Artery Perivascular Adipose Tissue Expansion and Impaired Vascular Remodeling in a Mouse Model of Obesity and Superimposed Preeclampsia. Her abstract was also selected as an abstract of distinction at the American Physiological Society Summit.

Emma Horne, mentored by Jane Manfredi, Sarah Shull, and András Komaromy; awarded for: A Combined Submaximal and Maximal Exercise Fitness Test to Assess Conditioning in Beagles

Nelli Gaspar, mentored by Kurt Zinn; awarded for: How do Different Human Infant Gut Microbiomes Influence Exploration, Memory, and Response to Novelty in Both Social and Non-Social Contexts in Mice?

Alexandra Watson, mentored by Miguel Chirivi; awarded for: Excess Iron Increases Lipolysis and Interferes with the Insulin-Sensitizing Action of Chromium in Bovine Adipocytes

Sean Burk, mentored by Simon Petersen-Jones; awarded for: Genomic Architecture of Resilience: Evaluating Gene Content Variation in Drought-Responsive Loci of Camelina sativa

• Madison Cole with Dalen Agnew, Anneke Moresco

• Lauren Cane with Andres Contreras

• Suhaylah Ahmad Ali with Bartolomeo Gorgoglione

• Mantaj Singh with Bartolomeo Gorgoglione

• Alphan Alpaydin with Valerie Johnson (and Morteza Mahmoudi)

• Mckenna Goike with Sean Crosson (and Melene Alakavuklar)

• Rowan Litts with Vic DiRita (and Ritam Sinha)

• Nelli Gaspar with Kurt Zinn (and Kylie Smith)

• Sophie Monolidis with Margaret Petroff (and Alexandra Yaw, Soo Hyun Ahn)

• Isabella Stoutenburg with Pam Ruegg

• Stephanie Hadley with Jane Manfredi

• Josephine Parish with Jane Manfredi

• Ruby Rockburn with Jane Manfredi

• Mckenna Gould with Jane Manfredi

• Emilia Horne with Jane Manfredi

• Laura Santos e Silva with Janeen Salak-Johnson

• Cora Wegner and Eva Calderon with Madonna Benjamin

• Bonnie Howard, in the Agnew Lab

• Dylan Kwast with Simon Petersen-Jones and Paige Smith

• Brea Sofferman with Robert Fowkes-Gajan and Kyan Strong

• Jessica Rowe with Viviane Gomes

• Kendall Ball with Viviane Gomes

• Alexandra Watson with Miguel Chirivi Gonzalez

• Panchalee Mahavithana with Jack Harkema, James Wagner, Ryan Lewandowski

• Emma Andrecheck with Alanis Torres Berrios, Karilyn Sant and Katelyn Polemi

• Lucie Hranacova with Adam Lauver and Afolashade Onunkun

• Avery VandenBussche with Adam Lauver

• Sean Burk with Simon Petersen-Jones and Paige Smith

• Abigail Cattermole with Jean Tsao, Matthew Bucholz, and Henry Campa

• Jack Hannan and James Kowalewski with Adam Lauver and Barbara Towns-Christian

Check out some pictures from the day: