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Feb 7, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Scott Kenney, PhD for being elected to serve as Secretary of the NC1202 Enteric Diseases of Food Animals multistate project group during CRWAD 2024.
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Feb 7, 2024
Congratulations to our four CFAH graduate students on receiving Student Awards of the NC1202 Enteric Diseases of Food Animals at CRWAD 2024:
Kush Kumar Yadav (Kenney lab)
Name of Award: Lynn Joens Memorial Award (1st Place)
Title of Abstract: Rat hepatitis E virus (HEV) cross-species infection and transmission in pigs
Amount of Award: $250
Yu Li (Wang lab)
Name of Award: Lynn Joens Memorial Award (3rd Place)
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Feb 7, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Linda Saif, MS, PhD, DACVM on being awarded the Distinguished Career Award - ACVM Distinguished Veterinary Microbiologist - at CRWAD 2024.
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Feb 7, 2024
Congratulations to Kush Kumar Yadav (Kenney lab) for being awarded the People’s Choice Award during the inaugural 3MT® Competition at CRWAD 2024! Kush's presentation was titled "The unexpected ride of rat hepatitis E virus to humans".
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Feb 7, 2024
Congratulations to Menuka Bhandari and Saroj Khatiwada on their leadership role elections within The Ohio State University's Infectious Diseases Institute Trainee Association (IDI-TA) committee.
Menuka was elected as the 2024 President of IDI-TA committee, while Saroj was chosen to serve as the committee's Networking & Professional Development Representative.
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Dec 14, 2023
Congratulations to Carolyn Lee (Kenney lab) on receiving first place in the David Benfield poster competition at the NC229/NAPRRS/ICSVD conference. Carolyn's poster presentation was entitled Evaluation of Multiple Immune Parameters Following Vaccination with an ASFV Multiepitope Protein Nanoparticle-based Subunit vaccine.
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Oct 13, 2023
The University Laboratory Safety Committee (ULSC) at The Ohio State University recognized the sixth annual winners of the “Excellence in Safety” Award. The award, in three categories, recognizes a university faculty or staff member (Individual Award), an undergraduate or graduate student (Student Award) and a laboratory research group (Group Award) who have made considerable contributions to improving laboratory safety on the Ohio State campus.
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Oct 13, 2023
Recently Dr. Aradhya Gourapura's lab published their research, entitled: An intranasal vaccine comprising SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor-binding domain protein entrapped in mannose-conjugated chitosan nanoparticle provides protection in hamsters, within Scientific Reports.
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Oct 13, 2023
Recently Dr. Gireesh Rajashekara's lab published their research entitled Discovery of Novel Small Molecule Growth Inhibitors to Manage Pseudomonas Leaf Spot Disease on Peppers (Capsicum sp.) highlighted within Plant Disease, the leading international journal for rapid reporting of research on new, emerging, and established plant diseases.
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Oct 13, 2023
Recently Kwonil Jung (Research Scientist), Quihong Wang (Professor), and Linda Saif (Distinguished University Professor) published an article, entitled Intestinal colonization with Escherichia fergusonii enhances infectivity of GII.12 human norovirus in gnotobiotic pigs, within Elsevier Volume 336, 15 October 2023, 199219.
