Congratulations to Maris Daleo for receiving the Terry Amundson Best Student Presentation Award Honorable Mention for her talk at the 74th Annual International Conference of the Wildlife Disease Association.
Presentation title: “A calibrated metapopulation framework for evaluating chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer”
Congratulations to Evan London and Aadhya Ganesh for receiving student awards for their presentations at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Illinois Chapter of The Wildlife Society.
1st place oral presentation – Evan London
Title: Increasing the accuracy of PRNP allele frequencies in white-tailed deer; applications to disease management
2nd place poster presentation – Aadhya Ganesh
Title: Going the Distance: Movement Barriers to Gene Flow Between White-Tailed Deer in Jackson and Pope County Illinois
Well done!
By Drs. Nelda A. Rivera and Nohra Mateus-Pinilla
By Drs. Nelda A. Rivera and Nohra Mateus-Pinilla
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Nicole Pietrunti – 2nd place graduate student poster presentation
Title: Natural resource managers may want to consider antimicrobial resistance when managing Canada Geese in Illinois.
Melanie Bergman – 2nd place undergraduate student poster presentation.
Title: Comparisons Between Litter Size and Fetal Development for Chronic Wasting Disease in White-Tailed Deer.
Great Job!!!
Congratulations to undergraduate students YiYing Tung, Nora Ryan, Rachel Lupas, and Melanie Bergan, who did a fantastic job presenting posters at the Annual Meeting of The Illinois Chapter of The Wildlife Society (ICTWS) showcase – Lewis and Clark Community College (10-12 April 2022).
Bluetongue (BT) and Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) are viral diseases of wild and domestic ruminants, transmitted by Culicoides midges. Disease surveillance helps to predict outbreaks, manage BT/EHD in livestock, and informs the public about risks and expected outcomes from outbreaks in wild ruminant populations.
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A recent review published in the journal Pathogens titled “Bluetongue and Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease in the United States of America at the Wildlife–Livestock Interface” explores the current knowledge and distribution of BT/EHD and their vectors in the United States of America and the importance of disease surveillance for ruminant populations. View Full-Text
Undergraduate student, Melanie Bergman, is one of two of this year’s Dr. Janet R. Jackson and Dr. Mark A. Roos scholarship recipients.
Congratulations Melanie!!!
Two NRES undergraduate students working in the Novakofski & Mateus Chronic Wasting Disease Collaborative Labs, Lauren Brunk and Yi-Ying Tung, received an NRES scholarship for the 2021-2022 school year.
Lauren is the recipient of the Ralph Lorenz Memorial Scholarship, and Yi-Ying received the Knoebel Scholarship.
