Posted July 13, 2018

Last month, faculty and students from the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine attended the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) 2018 Forum in Seattle, Washington. This year, the College's Kaitlin Lonc was presented an ACVIM Resident Research Award for her project "Feline Urinary Incontinence: A Retrospective Study of 39 Cases."

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Taylor Aiello at her presentation. She is mentored by Drs. John Kruger and Vilma Yuzbasiyan-Gurkan, and her presentation focused on investigating transcript alterations in urinary bladder tissues of cats with idiopathic cystitis using RNA sequence analysis.
Students Acvim
Students Emma Stapley, Sumana Prabhakar, and Zoe Williams, who is mentored by Dr. Stephanie Valberg. Her presentation was called "Response of Warmbloods with type 2 Polysaccharide Storage Myopathy to Diet and Exercise."
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Kaitlin Lonc's award-winning project.
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Student Sarah Buchholz (shown here at the lab) is mentored by Dr. John Kruger. Her project “Evaluation of commercial ELISA kits for quantification of selected cytokines in feline urine" was presented.
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Melissa Schott, mentored by Dr. Stephanie Valberg, presented her project called "Expression of micropeptides regulating intracellular calcium concentration in horse skeletal and cardiac muscles."
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Emma Stapley, mentored by Dr. Jane Manfredi, presented at the 2018 ACVIM Forum. Her project was called "Effect of using corn syrup with fructose on equine oral sugar test responses."
Amy Oberstadt Avcvim 2018
Amy Oberstadt presented at the 2018 ACVIM Forum.