UTCVM Represented at National Meeting | College of Veterinary Medicine

Microbiology lab members (from left to right) Bryanna Fayne, Porsha Reed, Swetha Madesh, Sreekumari Rajeev, and Liana Nunes-Barbosa (front) pose for a group photo at the conference.

Three UTCVM Comparative and Experimental Medicine graduate students and one post-doc presented at the American Society for Microbiology’s Microbe 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. More than five thousand attended the largest microbial sciences gathering in the world.

Members of Dr. Sree Rajeev‘s Leptospira Research and Diagnostic laboratory presented four posters throughout the event:

Liana Nunes-Barbosa, Courtney Jayde Christopher, Shawn Robert Campagna, and Sreekumari Rajeev presented, “Preliminary evaluation of Leptospira interrogans metabolome.”

Liana Nunes-Barbosa, a post-doctorate researcher at UTCVM, stands beside her poster explaining “Preliminary evaluation of Leptospira interrogans metabolome.” — Liana Nunes-Barbosa, a post-doctorate researcher at UTCVM, presents her research.

Bryanna Fayne, Swetha Madesh, Liana Barbosa, and Sreekumari Rajeev presented, “Outcomes of Leptospira interrogans serovar Copenhageni infection in C3H/HeJ Mice.”

Bryanna Fayne, a comparative and experimental medicine graduate student, stands beside her research poster, “Outcomes of Leptospira interrogans serovar Copenhageni infection in C3H/HeJ Mice.” — Bryanna Fayne, a comparative and experimental medicine graduate student, presents her research.

Swetha Madesh, Liana N Barbosa, Alejandro Llanes, and Sreekumari Rajeev presented, “A pilot study to Characterize Immunogenic proteins from Ehrlichia canis and Anaplasma platys.”

Swetha Madesh, a comparative and experimental medicine graduate student, shares her research, “A pilot study to Characterize Immunogenic proteins from Ehrlichia canis and Anaplasma platys,” with a conference attendee — Swetha Madesh, a comparative and experimental medicine graduate student, shares her research.

Porsha Reed, Liana Nunes Barbosa, Brian Johnson, Rebekah Duckett Jones, and Sreekumari Rajeev presented, “Assessing the potential role of Leptospira in Equine Recurrent Uveitis – Preliminary Findings.”

Porsha Reed, a senior lab technologist and comparative and experimental medicine graduate student, stands beside her research poster, “Assessing the potential role of Leptospira in Equine Recurrent Uveitis – Preliminary Findings.” — Porsha Reed, a senior lab technologist and comparative and experimental medicine graduate student, presents her research.

In addition to the presentations, clinical bacteriology and mycology lab staff Rebekah Jones, Brian Johnson, and Julie Pryor also attended the conference.