Congratulations to our 2018 Summer Student Presenters!

Congratulations to the MPVM student presenters who have submitted and defended their research projects!

Dr. Deepak with advisors Terry W. Lehenbauer and Sharif Aly presented “Risk factors and pathogens associated with bovine respiratory disease in pre-weaned dairy calves”. He has already returned to India and is working in Animal Husbandry and Dairying Department of the Government of India.

Dr. Ruwini Kaushalya Rupasinghe, advised by Woutrina Smith and Danielle Harvey, presented “The effects of environmental enrichment with Acalypha indica plant and olfactory receptor gene variability on behavior of adult domestic cats in Sri Lanka”. She now begins her PhD at UC Davis in the Graduate Group in Epidemiology. View her 2018 Summer Externship story.

Dr. Andrew Di Salvo, with Beatriz Martinez-Lopez and Mike Ziccardi and co-authors Brandon Munk, Alexander Heeren, Nicholas Shirkey, & Brett Furnas from California Department of Fish and Wildlife, gave a talk entitled “A semi-quantitative risk assessment of the introduction and exposure of chronic wasting disease to California cervids”. He is off to serve as a Wildlife Veterinarian with the Bureau of Land Management, Pennsylvania Game Commission.