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Penn Vet Research Retreat

Friday, October 6, 2023

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8:30 a.m.
REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
  
8:55 a.m.

OPENING REMARKS
Phillip Scott, PhD
Vice Dean for Research & Academic Resources

Montserrat C. Anguera, PhD
Chair, Research Retreat Organizing Committee

  
9:00—10:05 a.m.BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
  
9:05—9:25 a.m.
Unusual cell lineage plasticity caused by knock-out of transcription factor YY1
Michael L. Atchison, PhD
  
9:25—9:45 a.m.Global mechanisms of protein regulation
Anna Kashina, PhD
  
9:45—10:05 a.m.Rewired regulatory pathways involving retrotransposons impact reproduction and early development
Andrew J. Modzelewski, PhD
  
10:05—11:10 a.m.CLINICAL SCIENCES AND ADVANCED MEDICINE
  
10:10—10:30 a.m.When the scalpel doesn't cut it...A veterinary surgeon-scientist's approach to regenerative medicine and comparative oncology
Susan W. Volk, VMD, PhD, DACVS
  
10:30—10:50 a.m.

Targeting regulatory T-cells in canine gliomaClinical implications with translational potential
Wojciech K. Panek, DVM



10:50—11:10 a.m.Minimally invasive thoracic duct embolization (TDE) for chylothorax
Dana L. Clarke, VMD
  
11:10—11:45 a.m.POSTER SESSION
  
11:45—12:45 p.m.
LUNCH
  
12:50—1:45 p.m.MARSHAK LECTURE Introduction by Montserrat C. Anguera, PhD
  
 

Is cognition the secret to dogs' success?
Brian Hare, PhD
Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology
Duke University

  
1:45—2:50 p.m.
PATHOBIOLOGY
  
1:50—2:10 p.m. Canine neurologic diseases as natural models for human disease
Molly E. Church, MS, VMD, PhD, DACVP
  
2:10—2:30 p.m.
Wildlife Futures research
Erick Gagne, PhD
  
2:30—2:50 p.m.

Parasite sex and why it's important to understand
Boris Striepen, PhD

  
2:50—3:10 p.m.
BREAK
  
3:15—4:20 p.m.
CLINICAL STUDIES—NEW BOLTON CENTER

 
3:20—3:40 p.m. Flow-controlled ventilationA new way to improve pulmonary mechanics
Klaus Hopster, DVM, PhD
  
 3:40—4:00 p.m.Microbiome medicine: Towards sustainable livestock systems
Dipti Pitta, BVSc, MVSc, PhD
  
4:00—4:20 p.m. Classification of equine ambulatory events using machine learning analysis of inertial measurement data
Darko Stefanovski, PhD
  
4:20—4:30 p.m. ZOETIS PRIZE Awarded by Christopher J. Lengner, PhD
  
4:30—5:30 p.m. PRIZES, POSTER SESSION, AND RECEPTION