2025 CRWAD Graduate Student Award winners
2025 CRWAD Meeting ACVM Graduate Student Awards
Name of Award: Brenda Love Memorial Award (Travel)
Name of Winner: Ahmed Abouelkhair
Institutional Affiliation: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Title of Abstract: Targeting calcium homeostasis is the leading pathway to control Clostridioides difficile infection
Name of Award: Don Kahn Award (Overall best presentation)
Name of Winner: Bryan Tegner Jacobson
Institutional Affiliation: Montana State University
Title of Abstract: Exploring biofilm formation in Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae: attachment, nuclease activity, and disaggregation
Name of Award: ACVM Student Presentation Award (oral); 1st. place
Name of Winner: Klao Runcharoon
Institutional Affiliation: University of Georgia
Title of Abstract: Using challenge models to identify pathogenicity traits of novel Avian Pathogenic E. coli (APEC) serogroups
Name of Award: ACVM Student Presentation Award (oral); 2nd. place
Name of Winner: Stephenie Bradley
Institutional Affiliation: Texas A&M University
Title of Abstract: Using fluorescent Salmonella serovars to evaluate trafficking and tissue preference in orally challenged calves
Name of Award: ACVM Student Presentation Award (oral); 3rd. place
Name of Winner: Hannah Teddleton
Institutional Affiliation: University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Title of Abstract: Exploring differential metabolic responses in immune cells from naturally parasite-resistant sheep
Name of Award: ACVM Student Presentation Award (poster)
Name of Winner: Wellesley Dittmar
Institutional Affiliation: Louisiana State University
Title of Abstract: Effects of white-tailed deer-specific spike glycoprotein mutations on SARS-CoV-2 fusogenic activity