VMPM Graduate & Post Doc Achievements

Honors/Awards/Presentations

 

Graduate Students

 

Sage Becker

  • Fellowship – Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, USDA-ARS Graduate Student Research Opportunity in Microbiology/Immunology, Aug 2023 – graduation
  • Poster Presentation, Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases, Jan, Chicago, IL
  • Poster Presentation, American Association of Immunologists, May 2023, Washington, DC.

 

Nicholas Bockenstedt

  • Autumn Immunology Conference, 2023 – oral and poster presentation.
  • American Associate of Immunologists, 2024 – poster presentation, May 2024
  • NanoVax Conference, 2024 – oral and poster presentation, May 2024
  • VMPM-CVM Research Office travel awards to attend 2 conferences AAI and AIC.
  • Winner of the AAI Young Investigator Award and AIC award for having the best abstract.

 

Giovana Ciacci Zanella

  • VMPM Travel award for IPVS meeting in Leipzig, Germany – June 2024.
  • College of Veterinary Medicine Research Day / Poster Presentation
  • Centers for Excellence for Influenza Research and Response (CEIRR) Annual Meeting / Poster Presentation
  • All Iowa Virology Symposium / Oral Presentation
  • Research Update for Virus and Prion Research Unit (VPRU) NADC ARS

 

Maria Vitoria Peixoto Chaves

  • Poster presentation Award (1st place), BRASA Career workshop day (2023), Ames, Iowa.
  • Speaker stipend for the Nanopore Community Meeting 2023 (Houston)
  • Poster Presentation Award (2nd place), CVM Research Day (2023), Ames, Iowa.
  • AAVLD Student/Trainee Award, AAVLD Annual Meeting - National Harbor, MD (2023)
  • Graduate Travel stipend for the 2023 AAAP Conference
  • Graduate Travel stipend for 74th North Central Avian Disease Conference
  • Selected for the 2023 AAAP Foundation Poultry Scholarship, American Association of Avian Pathologists (2023)
  • 74th North Central Avian Disease Conference – oral presentation
  • 2023 AAAP Conference – oral presentation
  • CVM Research Day – poster presentation
  • AAVLD 2023 Annual Meeting – oral presentation
  • Egg Industry Symposium – poster presentation
  • Nanopore community meeting (Houston) – oral and poster presentation

 

Sarah DeWolf

  • 4th place graduate student poster award at College of Veterinary Medicine Research Day, August 16, 2022
  • Preparing Future Faculty Fellow Certificate, May 2023

 

Haley Greiman

  • Poster Presentation at Conference of Research Workers in Animal Disease 2024, Jan.
  • Attended Annual AAVI luncheon and business meeting in conjunction with CRWAD.

 

Maria Hakimi

  • 1st place, Iowa Pork Congress Research Poster Contest, 2023
  • 1st place, CVM Research Day, Iowa State University, 2023
  • J. Lindsay Oaks Best Student Molecular Biology Presentation, 66th AAVLD & 127th USAHA Annual Meeting, 2023

 

Andrea Haluch

  • Fellowship – Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, USDA-ARS Graduate Student Research Opportunity in Microbiology/Immunology, Aug 2023 – graduation

 

Carly Kanipe

  • Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases (2023), poster accepted but could not attend due to schedule conflict.

 

Nic Lizer

  • Oral Presentation, Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases, Jan, Chicago, IL

 

Adam Steffensmeier

  • 2nd Place Poster Presentation-ISU CVM Summer Scholars Symposium
  • AASV Foundation-Merck Animal Health Veterinary Student Scholarship Recipient $5,000 award

 

Jessica Santos Streauslin

  • Richard Walker Best Student Bacteriology Presentation Award at the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (AAVLD) Conference, National Harbor, MD, USA. October 15, 2023
  • Trainee Travel Award at the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (AALVD) Conference, National Harbor, MD. October 15, 2023

 

Megan Thomas

  • 1st Place Student Oral Presentation Competition, AASV Annual Conference Feb 2024
  • Swine Veterinary Student Scholarship, AASVF and Merck Animal Health Feb 2024
  • George C. Christensen Scholarship, Iowa State University May 2023
  • Freese Scholarship in Veterinary Microbiology, Iowa State University May 2023
  • Oral Presentation: American Association of Swine Veterinarians (AASV) Annual meeting, Feb 2024
  • Oral Presentation: Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases (CRWAD), Jan 2024
  • Poster: Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Response (CEIRR) Annual Network Meeting, Aug 2023
  • Poster: American Association of Swine Veterinarians (AASV) Annual Meeting, Mar 2023

 

Hannah Watkins

  • Professional society presentation award – American Society of Microbiology North
  • Central Branch Meeting, October 2023
  • 1st place graduate student oral presentation – American Society of Microbiology North Central Meeting, October, 2023

 

Joe Wilson

  • Poster Presentation at Conference of Research Workers in Animal Disease 2024, Jan.

 

 

Publications

Graduate Students

Sarah DeWolf

“Changing colors and understanding: The use of mutant chromogenic protein and informational
suppressor strains of Escherichia coli to explore the central dogma of molecular biology.” Sarah
DeWolf, Maartje Van den Bogaard, Rachael Brady Hart, Sparrow Hartman, Nancy Boury,
Gregory J. Phillips.
 

Haley Greiman

“Characterization of the cellular and humoral immune responses to persistent colonization of Brucella abortus strain RB51 in a jersey cow.”
 
 
Maria Hakimi
 
Hakimi, Maria, Fangshu Ye, Chloe C. Stinman, Orhan Sahin, and Eric R. Burrough.
"Antimicrobial susceptibility of US porcine Brachyspira isolates and genetic diversity of
B. hyodysenteriae by multilocus sequence typing." Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic
Investigation 36, no. 1 (2024): 62-69.
 

Carly Kanipe

An injectable subunit vaccine containing Elongation Factor Tu and Heat shock
protein 70 protects North American bison from Mycoplasma bovis infection.
Bryan S. Kaplan, Fred M. Tatum, Robert E. Briggs, Carly Kanipe, Paola
Boggiatto, Lauren Crawford, Steven C. Olsen2, Harish Menghwar1, Eduardo
Casas, and Rohana P. Dassanayake.
Antiviral activity of type III interferon against BVD in bovine turbinate cells.
Rohana P. Dassanayake*, Harish Menghwar, Kathryn Bickel, David
Holthausen, Fayna Diaz-San Segunda, Monica Rodriguez-Calzada, Gisselle
N. Medina, Sarah Attreed, Shollie M. Falkenberg, Carly Kanipe, Randy E.
Sacco, Teresa De Los Santos, Eduardo Casas.
Characterization of Histophilus somni sialic acid uptake mutant (ΔnanPU)
using a mouse septicemia and mortality model. Harish Menghwar, Fred M.
Tatum, Robert E. Briggs, Carly Kanipe, Eduardo Casas, Jean Kaptur,
Thomas J. Inzana, Parastoo Azadi, Rohana P. Dassanayake.
Boggiatto, P.M., Kanipe, C., Putz, E.J., Olsen, Steven C., Palmer Mitchell. V. Wildlife
immune responses to Mycobacterium bovis and to bacille of Calmett-Guerin. Journal
of Immunology 211(8):1173-1179. 2023.
Palmer, M.V., Kanipe, C., Lehman, K.A., Thacker, T., Putz, E.J., Boggiatto, P.M.
Vaccination of white-tailed deer with Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette Guerin
(BCG): Effect of Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis infection.
Microorganisms 11(10):2488. 2023.
Palmer, M.V., Kanipe, C., Lombard, J.E., Boggiatto, P.M. Chapter: Bovine Tuberculosis
at the Interface of Cattle, Wildlife, and Humans. Book: Tuberculosis: Integrated
Studies for a Complex Disease. Springer International Publishing 829-846. 2023
Wilson-Welder, J.H., Han, S., Bayles, D.O., Alt, D.P, Kanipe, C., Garrison, K.,
Mansfield, K.G., Olsen, S.C. Correlation of lesion severity with bacterial changes in
Treponeme-Associated Hoof Disease from free-roaming wild elk (Cervus
canadensis). Accepted to Animal Microbiome 2024
 

Nicholas Lizer

Zhemin Zhang, Nicholas Lizer, Zuowei Wu, Christopher E. Morgan, Yuqi Yan, Qijing Zhang, Edward W. Yu; Cryo-Electron Microscopy Structures of a Campylobacter Multidrug Efflux Pump Reveal a Novel
Mechanism of Drug Recognition and Resistance; June 2023; Microbiology Spectrum, Vol. 11, No. 4
 

Megan Neveau Thomas

Neveau Thomas M, Zanella GC, Cowan B, Caceres CJ, Rajao DS, Perez DR, Gauger PC, Baker AL,
Anderson TK. “Nucleoprotein reassortment enhances transmissibility of H3 C-IVA clade influenza A
virus in swine.” Journal of Virology, 14 February 2024 doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.01703-23
3.
Neveau Thomas M, Janzen GM, Markin A, Sharma A, Hewitt K, Li G, Baker AL, Gauger PC, Anderson
TK. “Active surveillance for influenza A virus in swine reveals reassortment and continuous co-
circulation of distinct subtypes and genetic clades.”
Zanella C, Markin A, Snyder C, Neveau Thomas M, Souza CK, Arruda B, Anderson TK, Baker AL.
“Pathogenesis and transmission of persistent clades of human seasonal H1N1pdm09 influenza A
viruses in pigs.”
 

Yue Yin

Zhang, Q., Beyi, A.F. & Yin, Y. Zoonotic and antibiotic-resistant Campylobacter: a view through the One Health lens. One Health Adv. 1, 4 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s44280-023-00003-1

Post Doctoral

Fabian Diaz

Grants - Renewals:
1. Project Title: Evaluation of Nrf2 agonists as prophylactic interventions to prevent BRD in cattle.
Sponsor: USDA Capacity Grant
Funding Awarded: $20.000 for the second year.
Primary Investigators: McGill, J.L., Díaz, F.E.
Role:  Co-PI
 
Publications: 
1. Díaz, F.E, McGill, J.L. Modeling human respiratory syncytial virus infection: recent contributions and future directions using the calf model of bovine RSV disease. J. Immunol. 2023. 211(8):1180-1186 (Review)