We would like to give a huge congratulations to Kasey Hobert and David Vega for WINNING first place in the CANR Research Symposium, One Health Presentation: Equine Gut Protozoans – The development of the Equine Protozoa Reference Manual on October 30th!
The team was mentored by Alexa Johnson who helped guide them throughout their project and presentation. Hobert and her research partner David Vega earned the top spot in the one health category for their studies on equine gut protozoans. The pair worked on the development of a reference manual. Vega was naturally anxious to present among Ph.D. students and post-doctoral researchers.
“Everyone was so friendly and supportive and it was an incredible learning experience,” said Kasey Hobert, a pre-veterinary medicine and animal biosciences major. “Doing research has been an amazing way to take concepts that I have learned in class and apply them to studying a topic that I am passionate about. For every undergraduate student, I highly recommend getting involved in research.”
University of Delaware doctoral candidate Alexa Johnson grew up in California. She stayed in her home state to earn her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. But, when it came time for her doctorate, as an equine researcher studying health and disease, the California native knew she had to move across the country.
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Issue 53: CHEMICAL SAFETY MOMENT
Check out this poster with great information for lab safety during COVID, especially tips to reduce fogging while wearing a mask!
The Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium was held remotely this summer and required researchers to create and record a presentation using Zoom to illustrate their research! The symposium took place on August 13th and had more than 400 undergraduate researchers participating. The Biddle Lab had 8 undergraduates involved with 4 distinct research projects: Zoe Seitz and Allie Baiungo with Equine Gut Metagenomics. Michael Morguess and Christine Marchesano with The Equine Microbiome Project. Daniella Morris and Courtney Barbato with CKD Biomarkers. Lastly, David Vega and Kasey Hobert with Protozoans.
Amy Biddle, assistant professor of animal and food sciences, who co-teaches a gut microbiome microbial and host perspectives class with Arsenault.
Biddle’s work includes the Equine Gut Microbiome project in which her lab is tackling many of the fundamental questions behind the role of bacteria in the horse gut in health and disease.
Researchers at the University of Delaware are looking into what causes that gut feeling in livestock animals such as cows and chickens.
