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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