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Our fearless leader, Dr. Amy Greer, has been awarded one of five Research Excellence Awards from the University of Guelph. This award program is co-sponsored by the University’s Office of Research and the Office of the Provost and aims to highlight the achievements of recently tenured faculty members. Congratulations Amy! We are proud to be part of your team!
Photo courtesy of Roksolana Hovdey
Congratulations to Elissa Giang for the successful defense of her master’s thesis! She was all smiles as she discussed her work on Streptococcus suis in swine and the use of mathematical models to simulate control strategies for reducing disease burden. Well done Elissa!
Photo courtesy of Amy Greer
Congratulations to mathepilab member Roksolana Hovdey for the successful completion of her master’s thesis defense. Here she is discussing the environmental drivers and transmission dynamics of E. coli infection in humans. Well done Roxy!
Photo courtesy of Roksolana Hovdey
Mathepilab members join national and international colleagues at the Fields Institute in Toronto this week for a workshop entitled Borders in Public Health and Mathematical Epidemiology. This exciting workshop combines the quest for knowledge in public health policy where borders play an important role with the identification of mathematical models that can be utilized to advance such policy. Here is Amy discussing approaches in the prevention and control of “transboundary” animal diseases.
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a zoonotic disease transmitted from dromedary camels to people, which can result in outbreaks with human-to-human transmission. Emma’s paper estimated the force of infection of MERS-CoV within camel populations in order to improve our understanding of MERS-CoV dynamics in camels raised outside of the Middle East. Congratulations Emma!
Earlier this month, Amy travelled to Calgary to share the final results of our equine network and biosecurity project with colleagues at the second annual International Equine Symposium. The symposium was chock full of the most exciting discoveries and innovation in all areas of equine health research! It was a great way to interact with equine practitioners, researchers and students and culminated in an evening at Spruce Meadows to watch the 6-bar jumping event. What a fantastic event!
Photo courtesy of Amy Greer
