CONGRATULATIONS

March 2008
Dharani Ajithdoss, Ph.D. student in Dr. Lupiani's laboratory, received a First Place Poster Prize and was Section Winner in Microbiology during the 2008 Student Research Week. The poster presented was entitled, "In vitro transformation properties of the Meq protein of Marek's disease virus."

Dayna Cox, undergraduate student in Dr. Lupiani's laboratory, received a First Place Poster Prize and was Section Winner in Microbiology during the 2008 Student Research Week. Her poster was entitled, "Prevalence of avian paramyxovirus type 1 (APMV-1) in wild waterfowl along the Texas Gulf Coast."

Vinayak Brahmakshatriya, Ph.D. student in Dr. Reddy's laboratory, received a Third Place Poster Prize in the Active Living/Public Health section during the 2008 Student Research Week. His poster was entitled, "Inactivation of Avian Influenza Virus in Poultry Meat and Egg Products Using E-beam Pasteurization." He also received a Third Place Oral Presentation Prize and was Section Winner in Microbiology for his presentation entitled, "Exploring the Role of Avian Influenza Viral NS1 Protein as Interferon Antagonist."

Dr. Angela Wilcox, Clinical Pathology Resident, was selected to receive the L.P. Jones Pathology Resident Award.

Veterinary Patholobiology Graduate Students, Pamela Ferro, Atrayee Banerjee, Gina Lungu and Michelle Boggs, each received a Fisher Institute Medical Award.

Dr. Ralph Callicott, recent Veterinary Pathology Graduate, received the Outstanding Graduate Student Award.

Dr. George Stoica, Professor, received the Pfizer Award for Research Excellence.

Nivedita Banerjee, Ph.D. student in Dr. Ramaiah laboratory, received a second Place Poster Prize in the Medicine/Human Nutrition/Biomedical Engineering section and session winner during the 2008 Student Research Week. Banerjee also received a student Presentation Award First Place in Immunotoxicology Specialty Section; SOCIETY OF TOXICOLOGY, Seattle March 2008 with a poster entitled, “Possible role of osteopontin in Th1 immune response and lymphocytic infiltration during non-alcoholic steatohepatitis in a dietary murine model."

February 2008
The Bush Excellence Awards for Faculty were presented for outstanding work in international teaching and international research on Wednesday, February 27, during the Consuls General Luncheon in the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center.

Congratulations to:
Dr. James Womack, Distinguished Professor, who received the TAMU Bush Excellence Award for Faculty for International Research.

Dr. Gerald Wagner, Professor, who received the TAMU Bush Excellence Award for Faculty in International Teaching.

January 2008
Dr. Shashi Ramaiah, Assistant Professor, was selected to receive a Colgate-Palmolive Grant for Alternative Research from the Society of Toxicology to fund the proposal, "Evaluation of Osteopontin as a Potential In Vitro Biomarker for Chemically-Mediated Hepatic Inflammation." Congratulations, Dr. Ramaiah.

December 2007
Congratulations to Ms. Marilyn Rubach on her retirement from Veterinary Pathobiology. Click here for more information.

August 2007
Congratulations to Ms. Mary Jewell, Office Associate, Ms. Stevie Bundy, Office Associate, and Ms. Margaret Patton, Technical Assistant II, for receiving CVM Staff Awards for 2007. Click here for more information.

July 2007
Dr. Shashi Ramaiah, Assistant Professor, was recently selected to be on the Program Committee for the American College of Toxicology for 2007-2008.

June 2007
Congratulations to Dr. David Calise - Completed his 3-year residency in Veterinary Pathobiology.

Congratulations to Dr. Tennille Lamon - Completed her 3-year residency in Veterinary Comparative Medicine.

May 2007
On May 22, Ross Clubb, VTPB Office Assistant, helped carry the torch in the Law Enforcement Torch Run (Flame of Hope) for Special Olympics. They ran from College Station to Bryan. His dad (Dr. Fred Clubb, Clinical Professor, VTPB and Special Olympics Coach), in a gasping, cyanotic state brought up the rear. Ross is an Athlete with the College Station/Bryan Aggie Bombers, Special Olympics Texas Team. He is also on the Special Olympics National Soccer team that will be competing this October at the 2007 Special Olympics World Games in Shanghai, China.
GOOD LUCK ROSS CLUBB AND TEAM USA SPECIAL OLYMPICS!

April 2007
Dr. Ian Tizard, Professor, was the first recipient of the Distinguished Veterinary Microbiologist Award from the American College of Veterinary Microbiologists.

Dr. Jeffrey M. B. Musser, Assistant Professor, has been awarded the 2007 Texas A&M International Excellence Award for faculty.

March 2007
Vinayak Brahmakshatriya, graduate student in Dr. Sanjay Reddy’s laboratory, attended the first DHS University Network Summit on Research and Education, March 15-16, in Washington, D.C. His poster entitled, "Evaluation in Chickens of a Live Attenuated NS1 Mutant Avian Influenza Virus (AIV) Vaccine” won the first place in the DHS-sponsored student poster contest. By winning he Under Secretary's Award, Vinayak has been invited to attend the DHS S&T Stakeholders onference in May in Washington D.C., and have lunch with Jay Cohen, the Under Secretary for Science and Technology for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Dharani Ajithdoss, graduate student in Dr. Blanca Lupiani's laboratory, received a First Place oral presentation award during the 2007 Texas A&M Student Research Week (March 26-30). The title of his presentation was "Transcriptional and transformation properties of Marek’s disease virus (MDV) oncogene, Meq."

Dayna Cox, undergarduate student in Dr. Blanca Lupiani's laboratory, received a Second Place poster presentation award during the 2007 Texas A&M Student Research Week (March 26-30). The title of her poster was "Evaluation of two mammalian expression systems for large-scale production of avian influenza virus H5 hemagglutinin."

January 2007
Drs. Patricia Holman, Research Assistant Professor, PI and Rebecca Parr, Research Assistant Professor, Co-PI, were awarded a grant from the National Research Fund for their proposal entitled, "Tick-Borne Diseases for Babesia microti: In vitro culture and molecular interaction between parasite and host receptors at invasion."

On January 16, Martin N'Goma had his MSC defense – Dr. Jeffrey Musser, Assistant Professor and Co-Chair of his graduate committee. Mr. N’Goma successfully completed his MSc - "The prevalence of and risk factors to Theileria parva in smallholder dairy cattle in Lilongwe milkshed area."

Paulette Waters-Suchodolski, Graduate Student in Dr. Sanjay Reddy’s Laboratory, competed in the 2007 Texas A&M Agricultural Conference poster competition and received an honorable mention!

July 2006
Congratulations to Drs. Melanie Buote and Laura Kennedy (Anatomic Pathology), Mary Nabity (Clinical Pathology) and Robert Rose (Comparative Medicine) for completing their 3-year residency program.

June 2006
On May 19, Dr. George Stoica, Professor, Gina Lungu, and Thomas Xie, graduate students in Dr. George Stocia’s laboratory, participated in the Neuroscience Symposium sponsored by Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences at The Veranda in Bryan, Texas. They received second place for the Graduate Fellowship Grant with a poster presentation entitled, "Inherited systemic neuronal abiotrophy in Spraque Dawley rats."

Atrayee Banerjee, PhD student in Dr. Shashi Ramaiah's lab, won the third prize Young Investigator Award in the 25th Annual Society of Toxicologic Pathology meeting in Vancover, Canada.

April 2006
Dr. Danna Zimmer, Associate Professor, has been appointed to the Editorial Board for Experimental Biology and Medicine.