Congratulations to the following students for their excellent poster presentations to wrap up the Summer Leadership and Research Program (SLRP).
First Place
Daniel Kim: “A retrospective evaluation of thrombomodulin expression in tissues from dogs with systemic inflammatory disease”
Chanel Schwartzentruber: “Evaluating the accuracy and reliability of the FAMACHA© eye colour chart in sheep using different light sources”
Second Place:
Ceilidh Barlow-Cash: Evaluating macrophage activity of Canadian dairy cows characterized by an imbalanced adaptive immune response phenotype”
Fernando Salgado-Bierman: “Raptor mortality in Ontario”
Meagan Walker: “Evaluating the impact of biofilm production of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius on antimicrobial susceptibility in vitro”
Third Place
Andrew Chong: “Effect of platelet lysate on canine mesenchymal stem cells”
Ellen Denstedt: “Investigation of scar-free wound healing in the leopard gecko (Eublepharis macularius)
Robert Mould: Combining antigen presenting cell-based vaccination with oncolytic viruses for the treatment of prostate cancer”
Joseph Okudolo: “Differences in monocyte-derived macrophage activity between Canadian Holstein dairy cows classified as high and low immune responders”
Winners of the SLRP poster presentations (clockwise from top): Joseph Okudolo, Andrew Chong, Robert Mould, Daniel Kim, Meagan Walker, Fernando Salgado-Bierman, Ceilidh Barlow-Cash, Ellen Denstedt, Chanel Schwartzentruber.