Alumni 2011
At the 2011 Summer School sixteen students participated representing veterinary schools in Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Spain, Sweden, UK and the USA. The participants, the projects they undertook and their project supervisors are named below.
Josep Duato Botam
University of Zaragoza, Spain
Project: NLRP10 Pyrin domain: purification and biophysical assays
Supervisor: Dr. Tom Monie, Department of Biochemistry
Caitlin Brown
Kansas State University, USA
Project: Cell-surface expression of ovine PrP in Drosophila detected by
immunofluorescence
Supervisor: Dr. Alana Thackray, Department of Veterinary Medicine
Andréi-Alexandru Cimpan
University of Bologna, Italy
Project: The involvement of the MexAB-OprM drug efflux system in virulence
Supervisor: Dr. Henrietta Venter, Department of Pharmacology
Emilie Cloup
National Veterinary College of Toulouse, France
Project: Characterising the expression and role of arginase-1 in mammary gland
involution and equine mammary tumours
Supervisor: Professor Christine Watson, Department of Pathology
Seanna Fenwick
University College Dublin, Ireland
Project: Factors affecting recombinant murine norovirus antigen production and
use
Supervisor: Dr. Barbara Blacklaws, Department of Veterinary Medicine
Alissa Gunderson
University of Calgary, Canada
Project: Analysis of PrP expression in ovine PrP transgenic Drosophila
Supervisor: Dr. Raymond Bujdoso, Department of Veterinary Medicine
Annalena Hoffmann
TiHo University of Hannover, Germany
Supervisor: Professor Nabeel Affara, Department of Pathology
Project: Investigation of GPR139 as a candidate gene of porcine maternal
infanticide
Katharina Hohlbaum
TiHo University of Hannover, Germany
Project: Reactivity of anti-PrP monoclonal antibodies with ovine recombinant prion protein
Supervisor: Dr. Raymond Bujdoso, Department of Veterinary Medicine
Olivia Nathan
University of Edinburgh, UK
Project: Transcription and incorporation of influenza A SNAP-tagged RNP proteins
Supervisor: Dr. Laurence Tiley, Department of Veterinary Medicine
Gráinne Neary
University College Dublin, Ireland
Project: Generation and isolation of a truncated ovine recombinant prion protein
Supervisor: Dr. Alana Thackray, Department of Veterinary Medicine
Stephanie Ostblom
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Project: Evaluation of hypoxia and correlation with angiogenesis in histiocytic
sarcoma in dogs
Supervisor: Dr. Fernando Constantino-Casas, Department of Veterinary Medicine
Maria Piipponen
University of Helsinki, Finland
Project: Polymorphism in the chicken BG multigene family
Supervisor: Professor Jim Kaufman, Department of Pathology
Miriam Andrada Sas
Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
Supervisor: Dr. Anna Philpott, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre
Project: Influence of Ngn2 and Ngn3 on neuronal and endodermal differentiation
Lena-Mari Tamminen
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Project: Necropsy-based investigation of production units with a consistent
pleurisy problem at slaughter
Supervisor: Dr. T.J. McKinley, Department of Veterinary Medicine
Peter Venjakob
Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
Project: Effect of genistein, vasoactive intestinal peptide and cyclopiazonic acid on
CFTR-mediated chloride secretion in murine colon
Supervisor: Dr. Lesley MacVinish, Department of Pharmacology
Michaela Woolford
Charles Sturt University, Australia
Project: The effect of murine norovirus on antigen presenting cell phenotype
and function
Supervisor: Dr. Barbara Blacklaws, Department of Veterinary Medicine
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