Office of Research and Graduate Education

STAR Students Project Titles

As part of the STAR program students must produce a one page summary and a poster. Below are their summaries. Posters may be viewed at STAR Special Events - STAR TG BBQ

Those students who received Merial funding are marked by an * following their name.

For more information please contact Sue Kanoho at svmstarprogram@ucdavis.edu or 530-752-6612.


 

 Sam Amirshahi

Class of 2015 - “Tickling B cells for rapid antibody production"; Mentor: Nicole Baumgarth, DVM, PhD - VM: Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine. 

Laura Barrett

Class of 2015 - “Effects of CpG ODNs on the proliferation of immune cell subsets in canine blood”; Mentors: Michael Kent, DVM, VM: Surgical & Radiological Sciences, and Ellen Sparger, DVM, PhD - VM: Medicine & Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine

Emily Brown

Class of 2015 – “Genome-wide association study of coloboma in the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever”; Mentor: Danika Bannasch, DVM, PhD - VM: Population Health & Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine

Jamie Case

Class of 2015 - “Characterization of hepatic dysfunction and systemic biological effects in an Fbxo44 null mouse mutant”; Mentors: Kent Lloyd, DVM, PhD - VM: Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine and David West, PhD – Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute

Susanne Ceulemans

Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands “Evaluation of the thermal antinociceptive and sedative effects of buprenorphine hydrochloride in American Kestrels”; Mentors:  D. Sanchez-Migallon Guzman, LV, MS and Joanne Paul-Murphy, DVM, PhD - VM: Medicine & Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine

Elise Chad

Class of 2014 - “Enterocyte microparticles and hepatocellular Injury”; Mentor: Matt Mellema, DVM  VM: Surgical & Radiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine

Marion Davidson

Ecole Nationale Veterinaire D’Alfort – Paris, France - “Effect of transparent exopolymer particles and suspended particles on the survival of Salmonella enteric in marine waters”; Mentor:  Karen Shapiro, DVM, MPVM, PhD VM: Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine

Bas Dijkstr

Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands “Evaluation of the effects on thromboxane B2 and safety of oral meloxicam in Hispaniolan Amazon parrots”; Mentor:  Joanne Paul-Murphy, DVM, PhD - VM: Medicine & Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine

 

Whitney Engler

Class of 2015 - “The effect of different types of classical music at a veterinary hospital on the behavior of pets and owner satisfaction”; Mentor:  Melissa Bain, DVM, MS - VM:  Medicine & Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine

Andrew Findlaytor

Class of 2015 - “Fluorescent imaging to identifystem cell-derived seminiferous tubule segments in KOMP2 chimeric mice to accelerate germ line transmission”; Mentors: Kent Lloyd, DVM, PhD - VM: Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine and David West, PhD – Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute

Pauline Freycon

VetAgro Sup, Lyon, France - “Molecular characterization of multiple Anaplasma phagocytophilum strains from Californian ticks”; Mentor:  Janet Foley, DVM, MS, PhD - VM: Medicine & Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine

Jessica Gillette

Class of 2015 - “Immunomodulatory effects following sequential intravenous injections of allogeneic mesenchymal stem cells in horses”; Mentor: Dori Borjesson, DVM, PhD - VM: Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine

Denise Gonzalez

Class of 2015 - “Induction of humoral immunity by an attenuated RhCMVΔIL-10 vector”; Mentors: Peter Barry, PhD, UCDHS: Pathology, School of Medicine and Ellen Sparger, DVM, PhD – VM: Medicine & Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine 

 

Lori Hougen

Class of 2014 - “Lung density profile characterization of canine diffuse pulmonary disorders using quantitative CT analysis”; Mentor: Eric Wisner, DVM VM: Surgical & Radiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine

Joanna Kaplan

Class of 2015 - “Molecular characterization of PKD2 and EGFR and their contribution to the severity and progression of feline autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease”; Mentor:  Leslie Lyons, PhD VM: Population Health & Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine

Spencer Kehoe

Class of 2015 – “Prevalence of Bartonella spp. infection in cardiac valves of coyotes, a natural reservoir in California”; Mentor:  Bruno Chomel, DVM, PhD - VM: Population Health & Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine

James Liu

Class of 2015 – “A one health approach to sustainable captive propagation of the Burmese Black Mountain Tortoise”; Mentor: Cheryl Scott, RN, NP, DVM, MPVM -VM:  Calvin Schwabe One Health Project, School of Veterinary Medicine

 

Christopher Micheletti

Class of 2015 - “Reconstructing 130 years of genetic diversity in CA pumas:  Historic DNA from museums for conservation genetics”; Mentor: Holly Ernest, DVM, PhD - VM: Population Health & Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine  

Breanna Miller

Class of 2015 - “Development of a recombinant virus-like particle (VLP) - based ELISA to determine the seroprevalence of a newly discovered polyomavirus in raccoons and sympatric species”; Mentor:  Patty Pesavento, DVM, PhD - VM: Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine

Caroline Mitter

Class of 2015 – “Analysis of in vivo lymphocyte reactions to equine allogeneic mesenchymal stem cell transfusions and validation of an in vitro cross-match procedure”; Mentor: Sean Owens, DVM - VM: Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine

Georgina Newbold

Class of 2014 - “Association between blepharitis, topical oil-based ophthalmic medication and presence of Malassezia in periocular skin of dogs”; Mentors: David Maggs, BVSc (Hons), VM: Surgical & Radiological Sciences /Catherine Outerbridge, MVSc, DVM, VM: Medicine & Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine  

Alex Ohlendorf

Class of 2015 - “Imaging of sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium dynamics during adrenergic stimulation in the intact heart”; Mentor: Crystal Ripplinger, PhD MED: Pharmacology, School of Medicine

Katherine De Oliveira

Class of 2015 - “Effects of ozone and wildfire particulate matter on innate immunity during childhood development”; Mentor: Lisa Miller, PhD - VM: Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine

Michelle Sanborn

Class of 2015 - “Blood meal analysis of Culicoides sonorensis collected on a dairy farm in northern California”; Mentor:  N.J. MacLachlan, BVSc, PhD - VM: Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine

Carlynn Stevens

Class of 2015 - “Positional candidate gene evaluation for hoof wall separation syndrome in Connemara ponies”; Mentor:  Danika Bannasch, DVM, PhD - VM: Population Health & Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine

Charlotte Tusler

Class of 2014 - “Characterization of non-pathologic intrascleral ossification in the domestic goat using histology and computed tomography”; Mentor:  Kathryn Koehler, DVM - VM: Surgical & Radiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine  

Tarini Ullal

Class of 2015 - “Assessment of the feasibility of high resolution manometry (HRM) in healthy awake dogs and comparison of the effects of cisapride and metoclopramide on gastroesophageal sphincter pressure”; Mentor:  Stan Marks, BVSc, PhD - VM: Medicine & Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine

Hanna Wachtel

Class of 2015 - “Reliability of marker placement in kinematic analysis of canine pelvic limbs”; Mentor: Amy Kapatkin, DVM, MS -VM: Surgical & Radiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine

Sabrina Wilson

Class of 2015 - “Expression of angiopoietin-like 4 at the fracture site, in osteoblasts exposed to hypoxia and during osteoblastic differentiation”; Mentor: Clare Yellowley, PhD - VM: Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine  

Jenna Winer

Class of 2014 - “The dental pathology of southern sea otters”; Mentor: Frank Verstraete, DrMedVet, BVSc (Hons) - VM: Surgical & Radiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine

Meghan Wood

Class of 2014 - “Genotypic characterization of Streptococcus Phocae isolates from northern and southern sea otters”; Mentor: Barbara Byrne, DVM - VM: Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine

Brian Zude

Class of 2014 - “Ex-vivo cytokine response to flagellin stimulation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells in Rhesus Macaques with idiopathic chronic diarrhea”; Mentor: Dallas Hyde, PhD VM: Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine