Veterinary College Research Symposium

Today is our annual research symposium for the college. All of our graduate students are here presenting. They all have posters and several of them were selected through abstracts to present today in both full talks and in flash talks. This is a great opportunity for the students to feature their research and to spend time presenting. It gives them practice in presenting and it allows faculty members to see what other labs are doing. It's critical for the students to get experience and it's critical for them to have the opportunity to share what they've been doing. The poster presentations are challenging because sometimes you walk through a total talk and you can take a, I usually stress maybe about 5 minutes to walk through the full poster. Or it can be challenging when people come up and just point out a single piece of data or just randomly point to parts of the poster. And you have to think on your, I presented my research so far to see if a subset of dogs with amemia thrown beside apenia have a deficiency in Adam TS 13. I think students and faculty benefit a lot from research symposiums, kind of when you're doing your research, sometimes you can't have tunnel vision. So it's good to get perspectives from other people. A lot of the questions from the crowd were really interesting and I think it's going to help open up other people's minds and maybe add on different legs of research for them. I was presenting environmental epidemiological data for the dog aging project, talking about environmental chemical contaminants and how we can look at health outcomes and dogs and then compare that to human health outcomes later on down the road. This was a great opportunity to be in a much bigger room with a much larger audience today. So it was my first experience with that. This is a little scary, but I'm glad to be here. Very thrilled for the opportunity. This is when students and faculty find out what their colleagues are doing. And this is where the collaborations happen. That wouldn't happen before. This is where the magic happens when people are getting great research ideas, where they're all together unrelated areas. This is what One Health really looks like.