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1/30/2015

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Check out page 86 of the most recent issue of CVM Today!
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On Top of the World!

1/29/2015

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2015 is turning out to be a pretty good year! I just got back from a long day at the College of Veterinary Medicine Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Symposium where I presented a poster on my preliminary results of the diversity and distribution of lions in Zambia and was the winner (that’s 1st place) for the graduate student poster presentations!!!!

As a graduate student, there will be times when you feel like a fraud. In an interdisciplinary program and a member of the college of veterinary medicine I am often surrounded by microbiologists, biochemists and veterinarians who’s use of medical jargon and super cellular hoopla puts my macro-brain into a tailspin. Today was such a day.  I read many posters and listened to even more talks which exceeded my veterinary knowledge. So, I didn't think I was in the running to win an award. But, rather than let it get the best of me, I stayed for the entire symposium, listened and tried to broaden my scope.

I was literally shocked when I won and I feel incredibly honored. What I forget is how different my field, conservation genetics, is than medical based science. To others, my poster may have been just as confusing as fibroblastomas and hepatic lipidosis is to me. I was never really sure how my work compared and I sometimes worried my work wouldn't come across as being as impressive as others. This win was the confidence booster I needed to help me along and I am now SO ready to keep this streak going!  Next… Big funding.

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2015 CVM-GSA/PDA Poster and Platform Presentation Award Winners
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Electrifying

1/26/2015

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This is incredible!

The moral of this story: Never underestimate the intelligence of an animal and don't ever assume it is inferior to a human's.  I know a few humans who wouldn't have figured that out.  They might have been just as persistent, but probably would have just kept shocking themselves.
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Some Random Trivia

1/22/2015

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It would be downright impossible to find someone who hasn't heard of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart but most people probably don’t know why the 18th century composer passed at the early age of 35.

Over the years there has been a lot of mystery and intrigue surrounding his death.  Once thought to have been poisoned by a fellow composer or members of the Masonic order, historians all now agree that he bled to death due to some kind of illness, but what?

There are a number of theories rolling around about the specifics of the illness (kidney failure, parasite, disease) and with no autopsy there is no way to know for sure which is true.  But, one running theory amongst scholars is a secondary flare up of the inflammatory disease acute rheumatic fever – as in the disease that I have (greeeaaat). But this new bit of trivia doesn’t make me too worried and here’s why...

In 1791, Mozart fell ill experiencing symptoms of pallor, weight loss, and painful swelling of the hands and feet (sound familiar).  Unfortunately, Mozart was alive during a time of ill-thought-out medical practices and they did a bloodletting treatment to cure him of his ailments (whatever they may have been).  But, even more unfortunately, bloodletting while suffering from severe inflammation apparently causes hemorrhagic shock and, in the 1790’s, there’s no coming back from that. So, the treatment intended to save the most gifted musical genius in history accidentally killed him.

Fortunately for me, bloodletting isn't in regular practice anymore so I don’t have to worry about that kind of medical mishap!  Whoops!
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Throwback Third Thursday - January 2015

1/15/2015

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Just some elephant play time from August 2005... ENJOY!
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New Year, New Endeavors (sort of)

1/9/2015

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Tomorrow I am attending the International Plant and Animal Genome Conference XXIII (fondly referred to as PAG by those attending).  And it's not only exciting because it's my first big conference and I will be there with a bunch of wonderful people from the Genetics program at Texas A&M but it is in San Diego and I am presenting my first graduate level poster!  People are going to get their first official look at my research then I get to go home to mom and dad when I'm done.  It's like the 1997 Greater San Diego Science & Engineering Fair all over again but instead of "The Color Attraction of Mice" I will be presenting on African lions in "Genetics and Genomics: Powerful Tools for Wildlife Conservation" (Oh how times have changed).  It's a brand new year and I am starting it off with a bang.  This poster represents the next big stage of my graduate career and the beginning of what I know is going to be a successful year.  I am finished with my classes so now I can really focus on my research, prelims and making sure I don't get sick while doing it.  I can't wait!

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