Schedule
Thursday Oct 24, 2024
Alt Hotel University District
| 7:00-9:00 p.m. | Registration - ALT Hotel Everest Room, 2nd Floor |
Friday, Oct 25, 2024
Foothills Campus, Theatre 3
| 7:00-8:00 a.m. | Breakfast - ALT Hotel Magenta Room, 2nd Floor |
| 8:00 a.m. | Travel to Foothills Campus |
| 8:30 - 8:35 a.m. | Opening Remarks - Dean Renate Weller |
| 8:35 - 9:15 a.m. | Keynote Speaker – Dr. Brielle Rosa | Parasites, ponies, and plants: an ecology-based collaborative approach to discovery of novel antiparasitics |
| 9:15 - 9:30 a.m. | Break (15 mins) |
| Session 1 of 4 | |
| 9:30 - 9:45 a.m. | Presenter 1: Angelica Dias (University of Calgary, PhD Candidate) | Bacterial Succession: Tracking the Footprints of a Polymicrobial Puzzle in Dairy Cattle |
| 9:45 - 10:00 a.m. | Presenter 2: Bianca Garlisi (University of Guelph, PhD Candidate) | Fc3TSR Directed Remodeling of the Tumour Microenvironment to Enhance Efficacy of Immunotherapies and Immune Cell Migration in a Murine Model of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma |
| 10:00 - 10:15 a.m. | Presenter 3: Madison King (University of Prince Edward Island, Veterinary Student) | The effect of hypoxia on VEGF expression in feline oral squamous cell carcinoma |
| 10:15 - 10:30 a.m. | Presenter 4: Juliet Kennedy (University of Saskatchewan, Veterinary Student) | Drug ingestion in dogs: a retrospective study of 240 cases from a Canadian veterinary teaching hospital |
| 10:30 - 10:45 a.m. | Presenter 5: Marie-Jeanne Pesant (Université de Montréal, PhD Candidate) | Elucidating deoxynivalenols’ antiviral effect against porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus infections in vitro: a multi-omics approach |
| 10:45 - 11:00 a.m. | Presenter 6: Celine Said (University of Guelph, Veterinary Student) | Comparison of 2D Linear Dimension Formulas and Optimization of a 3D Bladder Circumference Algorithm for Ultrasonographic Estimation of Feline Urinary Bladder Volumes |
| Session 2 of 4 | |
| 11:00 - 11:10 a.m. | Break (10 mins) |
| 11:10 - 11:25 a.m. | Presenter 7: Bianca Marini (University of Guelph, Veterinary Student) | To agree or disagree? Validation of observer training to a piglet reaction ethogram |
| 11:25 - 11:40 a.m. | Presenter 8 : Nima Khalili Tanha (University of Saskatchewan, Graduate Student) | Breathing New Life: Acute Intermittent Hypoxia, Neuronal Plasticity, and Motor Recovery in a Mouse Model of Spinal Cord Injury |
| 11:40 - 11:55 a.m. | Presenter 9: Dominique Marullo-Masson (Université de Montréal, Veterinary and Master’s Student) | Analytical validation of portable human Accu-Chek glucometer in mealworm beetle hemolymph |
| 11:55 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. | Presenter 10: Saylor Martian (University of Saskatchewan, Veterinary Student) | Enhancing pesticide safety in pollinators: A model for gonadotoxicity in honey bee drones |
| 12:10 - 12:25 p.m. | Presenter 11: Ty Pan (University of Calgary; PhD Candidate) | Urban Ecology of Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae) in Alberta |
| Session 3 of 4 | |
| 12:25 - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch (65 mins) in CWPH 2D14 |
| 1:30 - 1:45 p.m. | Presenter 12: Lillian Black (University of Prince Edward Island, Veterinary Student) | Retrospective evaluation of electrocardiographic T-wave indices in Doberman pinschers with dilated cardiomyopathy |
| 1:45 - 2:00 p.m. | Presenter 13: Karoll-Ann Morin (Université de Montréal, Veterinary Student) | CTGF and MMP-7 are not specific urinary biomarkers for chronic kidney disease in cats |
| 2:00 - 2:15 p.m. | Presenter 14: Amanda Avison (University of Guelph, PhD Candidate) | Cardiac restitution in Standardbred racehorses during routine racing exercise |
| 2:15 - 2:30 p.m. | Presenter 15: Katherine Simpson (University of Surrey, UK, Veterinary Student) | The influence of early birth dates on participation and performance: A study of Thoroughbred foals born in 2018 entering UK races |
| 2:30 - 2:45 p.m. | Presenter 16: Louise Caplan (University of Calgary, Veterinary Student) | Characterizing common blood-derived therapeutics from horses with Pituitary Pars Intermedia Dysfunction |
| Session 4 of 4 | |
| 2:45 - 2:55 p.m. | Break (10 mins) |
| 2:55 - 3:10 p.m. | Presenter 17: Marine Rullier, DVM MSc (Université de Montréal, PhD Candidate) | Fecal microbiota transplant as an adjunctive treatment of canine chronic pruritic dermatitis |
| 3:10 - 3:25 p.m. | Presenter 18: Sumit Jyoti (University of Prince Edward Island, PhD Candidate) | Utilization of publicly available data to summarize spatio-temporal patterns of fish health events of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) reported by marine finfish industries in British Columbia (BC), Canada |
| 3:25 - 3:40 p.m. | Presenter 19: Amber Cliffe (University of Calgary, Veterinary Student) | Predicting the impact of somatic cell count on milk production in Thailand |
| 3:40 - 3:55 p.m. | Presenter 20: Narsimha Pujari (University of Saskatchewan, PhD Candidate) | The X Factor: How Neuronal NUCB1 Regulates Sex-Specific Metabolism |
| 3:55 - 4:10 p.m. | Presenter 21: Sherry Khoddami (University of Prince Edward Island, MSc Student) | “I felt like a lesser veterinarian”: Veterinary students’ perspectives on their relationship with animals used in veterinary education |
| 4:10 - 4:20 p.m. | Break (10 mins) |
| 4:20 - 4:30 p.m. | Closing Remarks - Dr. John Gilleard |
| 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. | Student Mixer (the Banquet) |
Saturday Oct 26, 2024 (For CEVSS Presenting Students and UCVM Graduate Students)
Spy Hill Campus - CSB Atrium/CSB 101A
| 7:45 a.m. | Bus Pickup for Travel to Spy Hill Campus - In Front of ALT Hotel Lobby |
| 8:15 - 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast - CSB Atrium |
| 9:00-10:00 a.m. | Workshop 1 of 2 (1 hour) - Daniel Pang | Peer Review: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly |
| 10:00-10:15 a.m. | Break & Coffee |
| 10:15-11:45 a.m. | Workshop 2 of 2 (1.5 hours) - Michelle Jackman and Nicole Schaefer | Coaching as the Antidote |
| 11:45 -12:00 p.m. | Tour of Spy Hill Campus |
| 12:00-1:00 p.m. | Lunch - CSB Atrium |
| 1:00-2:00 p.m. | Career Panel |
| 2:00-4:45 p.m. | Bus Pickup at Spy Hill Campus (Travel to Zoo) | Zoo: Behind the Scenes with Doug Whiteside |
| 5:00 p.m. | Bus Pickup (Zoo to ALT Hotel Calgary University District) |
| 6:30-8:30 p.m. | Merck Awards Ceremony and Wrap Up Event - ALT Hotel Magenta Room, 2nd Floor |