50th Edition, Issue 2 Winners!!!!

We're excited to announced the winners of The Vet Gazette - 50th Edition, Issue 2!!!!

We had 220 submissions from 28 different schools - the most submissions we've ever seen!!

The school with the most submissions was Western!!

Overall Winners for Best Submission:

(Tie) Maxbetter Vizelberg - Tufts

(Tie) Phoenix Watt - Western

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My SAVMA Symposium Experience

Lisa Corsale, Ross University

Experiences, Entry

If one has an opportunity to attend the SAVMA Conference next year, then it should be taken.  The trip not only helps you network in your field with different social activities but also there are wet labs, day trips, and lecturers.

You get to meet many specialists during the lecturers. For example, I was able to attend a large animal behavior talk given by Dr. Temple Grandin.  From her lecture, being able to read the behavior and interpret correctly how the animal feels, I am able to incorporate that same lesson into small animals. No matter what area of veterinary medicine you are interested in, there was a lecture for every topic imaginable.

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The Beauty of Lines

Cher Hung, University of Georgia

Creative Corner, Submission

A review of Veterinary Research in Epigenetics

Rebecca Zaremba, Ross University

Cases/Abstracts, Honorable Mention           

 For many years, millions[ACL1]  of healthy women and their families have suffered from miscarriage, which is openly defined as the loss of a fetus under 20 weeks of age (The March of Dimes). The trauma of miscarriage often impacts entire families, from expectant mothers and fathers to siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles. Many factors can cause miscarriage, and most of these are poorly understood. It is important to determine etiologies of miscarriage and it is also equally important to be able to understand that these tragedies do not disappear after the loss of the baby. Fortunately, the veterinary field has helped immensely in determining specific point mutations which are thought to be responsible for such tragedies in humans.

            One of the long-term goals of the Lossie lab is to understand the genetic and epigenetic causes of miscarriage. In an effort to understand these mechanisms, we have characterized two lethal mutations in mice known as l11Jus1 (L1) and l11Jus4 (L4). L1 and L4 are two separate mutations in a gene called Notchless (Nle1), which is a component found downstream to the Notch pathway (Baumgarner et al. 2007). These two mutant lines survive through the blastocyst stage (Figure 1) and are able to successfully implant into the uterus. However, neither L1 nor L4 survive past implantation; they arrest prior to gastrulation, which eventually leads to an immature body.

Figure 1. Implantation

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Freedom

Meghan Shuman, Western University

Creative Corner, Entry