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SVSRF — Previous Student Projects

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2007

Victoria Baxter — Infectivity and inflammatory responses during persistent and reactivated Q fever in mice

Jason Brinlee — Evaluation of E-beam pasteurization for inactivation of avian influenza virus in poultry meat and egg products

Angela Chang — Neurogenesis in age-matched calcium ion channel mutant mice, leaner and tottering

Maria Esparza — Zebrafish as a model organism for neurotoxicity testing of low-dose methylmercury exposure

Tyler Foreman — S100A1: A New Approach to Disease Treatment

Leslie Hoobler — Group occupational risks for Salmonella prevalence associated with swine production facilities

Amanda Kowalski — Prion Protein (PrP) Targeted for Silencing by RNAi

Joseph Miga — Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations of Tulathromycin and Other Select Antimicrobials for Isolates of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis Obtained from Clinical Samples

Audrey Morrissey — Evaluation of Plasmid-transfer From Virulent to Avirulent Rhodococcus equi

Lauren Smith — Spatial Distribution of Genotoxicity in Lavaca Bay, Texas as Measured in Oysters (Crassostrea virginica) with the Comet Assay

Bethany Solomon — Development of Foot and Mouth Disease Resistant Livestock using RNA Interference

Kelly Sulik — Induction of hyperactivated motility in equine sperm with ammonium chloride

Amanda Taylor — Prevalence of Community-Associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococci in Clinically Normal Companion Animals

Kellie Williamson — Changes in microbial populations of Escherichia coli isolated from feedlot cattle administered chlortetracycline in the feed

Devony Wingo — Inhibition of Equine Infectious Anemia Virus using RNA Interference

2006

Amy Boyer — The Effect of Egg Yolk in Freezing Extender on Equine In Vitro Fertilization Rates

Wendy Browning — Identification of Integrins Expressed on Apical Membranes of Endometrial and Trophectodermal Cells of Pigs during Early Pregnancy

Andrew Bugbee — The molecular basis for intestinal persistence of Salmonella enterica subspecies I involving gene STM0558

Catherine Clinton — Evaluation of DNMT-1 knockdown in adult bovine fibroblasts using RNA interference (RNAi)

Jennifer Crawford — The Relative contribution of ER alpha and ER beta to constrictor response of arginine vasopressin during aortic coarctation-induced hypertension in female Rats

Georgina Dobek — Expression of sialic acid receptors for the binding of avian influenza virus in partridges and pheasants

Veronica Flores — Lurking In The Wings:  Avian Hemoparasites And Their Insect Vectors At The Fort Worth Zoo

Katherine Fogelberg — Potential Impact of Four Common Viral Diseases on a Subpopulation of Endangered Ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) in Southern Texas

Stephanie Hampe — Risk mapping for Johne’s disease in beef cattle

An Hoang — Enucleation of the Unfertilized Avian Ovum

Erin Katribe — Defects in organ colonization and intestinal persistence of non-subspecies I Salmonella enterica in mice

Jennie Marvelle — Development of a photoreceptor-specific promoter for gene therapy

Christine McCoy — Effects of chronic depolarization on apoptosis of mutant leaner mice cerebellar granule cells in slice culture

Nicole Miller — Antimicrobial activity of gallium maltolate against intracellular Rhodococcus equi

Patsy Morris — Methylation Status of Horse Embryos Produced by Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection

Kristey Reed — The Induction of SPP1 in Ovine Endometrial Glandular Epithelium and Stroma Requires Progesterone, but is Augmented to Maximal Production by Conceptus Attachment  

Jean Marie Stanley — Integration of Texas Isolate Reticuloendotheliosis Virus in Fowlpox Virus Isolated from a Chicken Pox Lesion

2005

Allison Bradley — In vitro trials of inhibitory drugs and investigation into oxygen susceptibility culturing from feces of Macrorhabdus ornithogaster2005 SVSRF Conference Posters

Jenny Bryant — Effects of Heat and Cold on Edema Formation Produced by Topical Prostaglandin E1 in vivo

Rebecca Davies — Co-repressor Activity of Singleminded-2 on Estrogen Signaling

Josie Flowers — Observing Leukocyte Trafficking in the Presence of Induced Inflammation Using the Pallid Bat Wing Model

Barbie Gadsden — Methylation Status of the Male Pronucleus in the Horse

Maureen Hynes — Role of matrix metalloproteinases on vasoconstriction-induced acute-remodeling of resistance arterioles

Crystal Keeley — Effects of isoflurane on peripheral microvascular function

Abby Obermiller — Oct-4 Expression in the Equine Embryo

Craig Quinlan — The Effect of Induced Lymph Flow on Protein Expression by Bovine Mesenteric Lymph Vessels

April Reeves — The Prevalence of Encephalitozoon cuniculi in the Domestic Rabbit Population

Ryan Reynolds — A New Method for Extracting Silver from Animal Tissue

Jordan Tayce — The Effects of Ozonated Water on Selected Mastitis-Causing Agents in vitro

Virginia Vincent — Which Came First, the Chicken, the Egg, or the Food Handler? Analysis of Salmonella enterica serotype Heidelberg Epidemics in a Closed Community

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2004

Elizabeth Ashbaugh — Correlation of colony social behavior and infection with Thelohania solenopsae (Phylum Microspora) in Red Imported Fire Ants (RIFA) in Texas

Beth Chaffee — The Effects of Acute and Chronic Stress on Late Stage Theiler's Virus Induced

Heather Engleking — Transfer and Optimization of a Single-tube FMDV Real-time RT-PCR Assay to a 96 Well Format for High-throughput Diagnosis

James Johnson — The effect of oxygen tension on response of equine cartilage/subchondral bone explants to lipopolysaccharide stimulation

Emily Lynch — Analysis of Mitochondrial Structure and Distribution in Graded Bovine Oocytes

Jessica Snyder — Specificity and Geographic Range of Detection of a Multiplex Real-Time Reverse Transcriptase PCR Assay for Vesicular Stomatitis Virus

Melanie Warthan — Detection and analysis of Infectious Laryngotracheitis (ILT) Virus field isolates in domestic poultry from Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM) tissues

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2003

J.T. Gasson — Effects of Freezing on Hepatic Drug Metabolic Function Using Canine Liver Slices

Tanya Gustafson — Cloning and Sequencing of Partial cDNAs Derived from Canine DNA Repair Genes Linking Cancer and Aging

Kristen Kastner — Effects of dietary changes on gastric emptying of horses by means of the 13C-octanoic acid breath test

Melanie Krause — Neuron proliferation in the Hippocampus of Prozac treated Homozygous Leaner and Wild type Mice

Cody Laas — Regional and Arthroscopic Anatomy of the Caudomedial Portal

Aaron Spiegel — Mechanisms of porcine trophectoderm binding to latency associated peptide of transforming growth factor beta and fibronectin

Blair Telg — Determination and analysis of Newcastle Disease Virus shed in chickens

Cynthia Torrez — Results of Surgical Correction of Brachycephalic Airway Obstruction Syndrome

Daryl Williams — How To Conserve a Keystone Prey: Does Hunting Limit Rabbit Abundances and Population Trends after RHD?

Jennifer Walls — Isoprostane Concentrations in the Urine of Cats from Smoking Household compared to cats from non-Smoking Households

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2002

Melissa Burchfield — Pharmacokinetics of carprofen in donkeys and horses

Amy Cockerham — A Novel Method for Fetlock Arthrodesis: A Comparison of the Wire/Plate Method and an Intramedullary Interlocking Nail Method

Brandon Dominguez — Prevalence of Pseudorabies and Brucellosis in Feral Swine from Coastal Bend and Southwest Texas Counties

Justin Harper — Subchondral cystic lesions of the medial femoral condyle in 37 Thoroughbred racehorses: A retrospective study (1995-2002)

Angela Spann — Pharmacokinetics of Butorphanol Administered by Four Routes in Cats- A Pilot Study

Amber Williams — The effect of cryopreservation with and without seminal plasma on the motility and membrane integrity of epididymal sperm from feral boars

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2001

Michelle Browning — Corticotrophin releasing factor expression in the tottering and leaner mouse cerebellum

Debby Burnett — Analysis of Heavy Metal Concentration in Various Tissues of Ringed and Bearded Seals of the Alaska Arctic

Carey Matson — Medical evaluation of free-ranging primates from two locations in Madagascar

Jonathan Rocky — Interspecies Nuclear Transfer of Desert Big Horn Sheep DNA Using Recipient Domestic Bovine Ova

Virginia Snell — A Preclinical Study in the Use of Gene Therapy for the Treatment of Feline Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Jessica Stern — Assessment of Apoptosis-associated Gene Expression in Cerebellar Grannule Cells Exposed to Methylmercury

Dana Tomlinson — Effects of Prozac on neuron division and cell death in the Hippocampus of leaner mice

Ethel Taylor — Comparison of injectable anesthetics in donkeys

Elizabeth Vint — The effect of exercise dehydration and hypertonic saline infusion on osmolality and vasopressin in donkeys

Jennifer Wells — Cloning and mRNA Expression of Hepatic Deiodinase in the Channel Catfish, Ictalurus Punctatus

Jacob Worthington — Ovarian sex hormone involvement in vascular remodeling during the development of hypertension

Shawna Walters — Pulsatile administration of GnRH to induce estrus and ovulation in the bitch

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