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Our fearless leader, Dr. Amy Greer, has been awarded one of five Research Excellence Awards from the University of Guelph. This award program is co-sponsored by the University’s Office of Research and the Office of the Provost and aims to highlight the achievements of recently tenured faculty members. Congratulations Amy! We are proud to be part of your team!
Photo courtesy of Roksolana Hovdey
Congratulations to Elissa Giang for the successful defense of her master’s thesis! She was all smiles as she discussed her work on Streptococcus suis in swine and the use of mathematical models to simulate control strategies for reducing disease burden. Well done Elissa!
Photo courtesy of Amy Greer
Congratulations to mathepilab member Roksolana Hovdey for the successful completion of her master’s thesis defense. Here she is discussing the environmental drivers and transmission dynamics of E. coli infection in humans. Well done Roxy!
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a zoonotic disease transmitted from dromedary camels to people, which can result in outbreaks with human-to-human transmission. Emma’s paper estimated the force of infection of MERS-CoV within camel populations in order to improve our understanding of MERS-CoV dynamics in camels raised outside of the Middle East. Congratulations Emma!
Earlier this month, Amy travelled to Calgary to share the final results of our equine network and biosecurity project with colleagues at the second annual International Equine Symposium. The symposium was chock full of the most exciting discoveries and innovation in all areas of equine health research! It was a great way to interact with equine practitioners, researchers and students and culminated in an evening at Spruce Meadows to watch the 6-bar jumping event. What a fantastic event!
Photo courtesy of Amy Greer
Kelsey’s research characterizing the movement network of horses in Ontario has been published in PLOS ONE! The results indicated that horses did not travel to the same locations each month, and the most connected locations varied between consecutive months. These results support the need to better understand the variety of locations to which horses can travel in Ontario, as different types of locations may have different associated risks of disease spread.
