Science@CornellVet [blog] (2017-present)

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Science@CornellVet was launched in June, 2017 to showcase the College of Veterinary Medicine’s scientific work and discoveries. Periodic blog postings are written, edited, and produced by DVM and graduate students, trainees, faculty, and Marketing and Communications Office staff. The goals are to help CVM students and trainees develop their science writing skills and to help publicize CVM’s research and clinical work.

Current blog posts can be found at https://blogs.cornell.edu/vetblog/

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2018 Science@CornellVet: Infection with Toxoplasma gondii may lead to Alzheimer’s
Office of Marketing and Communications. Media Relations; Torres, Luisa (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2018-08-16)
This item from Science@CornellVet is about: Parasitic infections can be a nightmare, especially when they interfere with your breathing, eyesight, or digestive tract. But some parasites cause no symptoms in most people with a working immune system. Toxoplasma gondii (or Toxo for short) is one of them, and according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) sixty million people in the United States may be infected with it. This parasite eventually ends up in the brain, but no one knows how it affects the brain cells or the brain connections of healthy humans. Dr. Margaret Bynoe, professor of immunology in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, led a study published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation to determine the effect of chronic Toxo infection on the brains of healthy mice.
2018 Science@CornellVet: “How do you vaccinate a clouded leopard?” Training zoo animals to be active participants in their veterinary care (part 2)
Office of Marketing and Communications. Media Relations; Jimenez, Isabel (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2018-05-25)
This new item from Science@CornellVet is about: Previously, we discussed the importance of animal training in zoos to the care of animals in captivity. Over the past 30 years, zoo veterinarians have utilized behavioral conditioning to better care for animals in captivity. By using positive reinforcement training to cue desirable behaviors from captive wildlife, preventative medicine tasks become much simpler, safer, and less stressful for the animal – often avoiding or minimizing restraint and sedation, and thus allowing more frequent examination, preventative medicine, and earlier detection of disease.
2018 Science@CornellVet: “How do you trim an elephant’s nails?” The importance of zoo animal training to the care and conservation of wildlife species (part 1)
Office of Marketing and Communications. Media Relations; Jimenez, Isabel (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2018-05-15)
This news item from Science@CornellVet is about: Share Imagine climbing into a pool and trying to roll a dolphin onto its back to examine it, or physically lifting an elephant’s foot to trim its toenails. Without the cooperation of the animal, these tasks would be virtually impossible – or would require sedation and restraint, which each have their own risks. But what if, instead of sedating an elephant and laying them on their side for a foot examination, the elephant could be asked to lift its foot voluntarily? Over the past 30 years, zoo veterinarians have utilized behavioral conditioning to better care for animals in captivity. By using positive reinforcement training to cue desirable behaviors from captive wildlife, preventative medicine tasks become much simpler, safer, and less stressful for the animal – often avoiding restraint and either avoiding or minimizing sedation, and thus allowing more frequent examination, preventative medicine, and earlier detection of disease.
2018 Science@CornellVet: Working towards wellness
Office of Marketing and Communications. Media Relations; Shiroor, Divya (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2018-05-11)
This news item from science@CornellVet is about: “You should never do experiments when you’re hungry, tired or overworked!” My PI’s advice rang in my ears as I looked at evidence of my failed experiment in disbelief. All I had to do was add two solutions to a tube, and I’d somehow screwed it up. Going over my week, I realized I’d skipped lunch three days in a row, I couldn’t remember the last time I’d slept a full 8 hours, or when I’d last stepped into the gym. When I started graduate school, I’d sworn I wouldn’t become “that student,” and yet, here I was. I realized that if my brain felt too fuzzy to add a solution correctly, and messing this up had me blubbering like a three-year-old, I was definitely doing something very wrong.
2018 Science@CornellVet: Time versus swine: Working against the clock to stop the next pandemic
Office of Marketing and Communications. Media Relations; Torres, Luisa (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2018-04-13)
This blog post is about: It was 2003, just four years after the first known outbreak of Nipah virus occurred in Malaysia and around the time a second outbreak occurred in Bangladesh. Dr. Hector Aguilar-Carreño had just decided to focus his research on the Nipah virus, instead of expanding on his postdoctoral lab’s research on HIV. “The more I looked into the Nipah virus the more interested I became,” says Aguilar-Carreño. In retrospect, he made the right choice: “We became famous for being the pioneers for studying how the Nipah virus makes its way into cells.” Now an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Cornell, Aguilar-Carreño continues working towards unveiling how this virus causes disease.
2017 Science@CornellVet: Research during vet school: Advice from students who've been there
Office of Marketing and Communications. Media Relations; Jimenez, Isabel (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2017-07-20)
This blog post is about: Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine doesn’t just train veterinary students to earn their DVM degrees – it also hosts many graduate pursuing Master’s and PhD degrees in many different scientific fields. Veterinary students, too, have access to the researchers at the College, in the form of lecturers, advisors, and mentors.
2017 Science@CornellVet: The 6th stem cell symposium: Promoting stem cell research at Cornell
Office of Marketing and Communications. Media Relations; Torres, Luisa (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2017-08-30)
This blog post is about: For graduate students, often the best way to get feedback on their work and find out what is happening in their scientific field is to attend scientific conferences. This usually involves traveling somewhere far away just to get to speak to experts and hopefully return home with some helpful advice. On July 31st, 2017, Cornell grad students and postdocs got to do just that… right here on campus.
2017 Science@CornellVet: The Stem Cell Migration: From California to New York, From Adipose to Gingiva
Office of Marketing and Communications. Media Relations (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2017-09-29)
This blog post is about: Gingivostomatitis, or inflammation of the oral mucosa and gingiva, is a painful disease found in cats that can severely affect their quality of life. Current treatments have been frequently unsuccessful. The most promising treatment involves full mouth extraction (removing all of the cat’s teeth), and even with this some cats do not respond, as about 10-15 percent still do not see any reduction in progression of the disease or the painful side effects. Thanks to a new multi-center collaborative effort between Cornell’s Dr. Santiago Peralta and Dr. Nadine Fiani (board-certified small animal dentists) and UC Davis, that could change. Their new treatment protocol uses injections of adipose-derived stem cells in hopes of “restarting the immune system” locally in the mouths of these cats.
2017 Science@CornellVet: Canine allergies: scratching beneath the surface
Office of Marketing and Communications. Media Relations (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2017-09-21)
This blog post is about: They sleep on our beds, eat our food (despite what the vet says, we both know where our table scraps go!) and share our lives in so many ways. Researchers studying canine allergies at Cornell are beginning to appreciate the scientific advantages of having dogs as constant companions. When Dr. Elia Tait Wojno, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology first came to Cornell, she established collaborations with Dr. William Miller and his team of dermatologists at the Cornell Companion Animal Hospital and with the Cornell Veterinary Biobank to explore the very challenging sphere of canine allergies. “When I started at Cornell, it became very clear that there was a unique opportunity to do some research in animal health and develop new tools to investigate the immunology of dogs,” says Tait Wojno. “This is particularly exciting because few people have the resources we have here at Cornell, with a strong basic science backbone complemented by patient cohorts.”
2017 Science@CornellVet: Tricking Typhoid: Researchers Create New Model to Tackle Old Foe
Office of Marketing and Communications. Media Relations (Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2017-11-03)
This blog post is about: The plague of Athens, presumably caused by typhoid fever, was an epidemic that killed a third of Athens’ population during the second year of the Peloponnesian war. The ancient historian Thucydides wrote a detailed account of this event in his book “The history of the Peloponnesian war”, making it the first known written description of a typhoid fever outbreak. Since then, other notable cases have made the history books. But even though many years have passed, typhoid fever is still a major public health threat especially for developing countries, where it affects close to 22 million people each year according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Dr. Jeongmin Song, assistant professor from the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, studies how the causative bacterium of typhoid fever induces disease using a cell culture set-up as well as a novel mouse model that allows her to recapitulate many of the typhoid fever symptoms in mice.

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