Honors/Awards
Post-Doctoral Students
Viridiana Laredo-Tiscareño, received a travel award from the American Committee on Arthropod-Borne and Zoonotic Viruses to present a poster at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Viridiana’s poster is “Detection of antibodies to Lokern, Main Drain, St. Louis encephalitis and West Nile viruses in vertebrate animals in Chihuahua, Guerrero and Michoacán, Mexico”.
Daniel Nunez-Avellaneda, received an ASTMH Presidents’ Challenge Travel Fellowship Award to present a poster at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Daniel’s poster is “Co-circulation of chikungunya virus, all four dengue viruses and Zika virus in Guerrero, Mexico, 2019 and evidence of gross under-reporting of arboviral diseases in the region”.
Both Viridiana and Daniel postdocs in Dr. Brad Blitvich’s lab.
Graduate Students
Ashenafi Beyi
- Selected by the American Society Microbiology as a “Young Ambassador” to Iowa. He joins a network of over 200 ambassadors around the world who are advancing the microbial sciences in local community. Major professors are Drs. Paul Plummer and Qijing Zhang.
- 2021 Wayne and Karen Freese Scholarship in Veterinary Microbiology
Sarah DeWolf
- Selected for the Preparing Future Faculty Program (Fall 2021)
Debarpan Dhar
- 2021 Lora and Russ Talbot Graduate Fellowship in Veterinary Medicine award; American Society of Virology, travel award
- 1st prize in American Society for Microbiology, North Central Branch (ASM, NCB) graduate student oral presentation competition, November, 2021
Suyeon Hong
- The AAI Trainee Abstract Award at Virtual Immunology 2021 (May 2021)
Nicole Jandick
- 2021 Wayne and Karen Freese Scholarship in Veterinary Microbiology
Charles Lewis
- 2021 SCIALOG Fellow for Mitigating Zoonotic Threats
Jinji Pang
- 2021 Wayne and Karen Freese Scholarship in Veterinary Microbiology
Amali Stephens
- Nominated for Gilliam Fellowship – Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Michael Welch
- AAVLD Presentation, Denver Co, October 22-26, 2021; USDA Seed Grant, $17,000 for development of PPIV Infectious
Beulah Samuel
- F. Wendell Miller Scholarship for 2020-2021 academic year.
Loni Schumacher
- 2021 Wayne and Karen Freese Scholarship in Veterinary Microbiology
Jamison Slate
- 2021 American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Trainee Abstract Award
Jayne Wiarda
- American Association of Veterinary Immunologists (AAVI) Oral Presentation Award, 1st Place
- 2021 Brown Graduate Fellowship
- USDA AFRI EWD Predoctoral Fellowship, “Delayed weaning in pigs to reduce intestinalinflammation associated with intraepithelial T cells” July 2021/li>
Presentations
Graduate Students
Sage Becker
- Becker, S.R., K.A. Byrne, and C.L. Loving. 2021. Butyrate modulates lipopolysaccharide-induced
- innate responses of porcine monocytes. Presented at: Conference of Research Workers in;
- Animal Diseases, Annual Meeting, December 3-7, CRWAD., Chicago, Abstract.
John Christiansen
- Co-authored book chapter Polymeric Nanoparticle-Based Vaccine Adjuvants and Delivery Vehicles.
- Co-authored review article, in press, Nanocarriers for pancreatic cancer imaging, treatments, and immunotherapies.
Debarpan Dhar
- Best oral presentation Session: The invisible world of microbes. Presented at iBIO Virtual Symposium, Iowa State University, August 2020.
- 1st Prize in graduate student oral presentation competition at American Society for Microbiology, North Central branch, virtual meeting held November, 2021.
Jessica G. Santos
- Jessica G. Santos; Nubia Macedo, Franco M. Ferreyra, Amanda J. Kreuder, Orhan Sahin, Bailey Arruda,
- 2020. Characterization of Streptococcus suis isolates form various anatomic sites of diseased and healthy
- pen-matched control pigs using coagglutination and PCR-based methods. In proceedings: International
- Pig Veterinary Society Congress (IPVS), Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Poeta Silva, AP, Schwartz, K, Arruda, B, Santos. J. Macedo, N, Sahin, O, Burrough, E, Harmon, K, Siepker C, Gauger, P, Sitthicharoenchai, P, Rahe, M, Magstadt, D, Michael, A, Pineyro, P, Derscheid, R, Main, R, Fano, E, Clavijo, M, 2020. Diagnostic trends of five swine endemic bacterial pathogens using data from the Iowa State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (2010-2019). In: American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians Conference (AAVLD), Nashville, Tennessee, USA (Virtual meeting).
- Poeta Silva, AP, Schwartz, K, Arruda, B, Burrough, E. Santos. J. Macedo, N, Sahin, O, Harmon, K, Siepker, C, Gauger, P, Sitthicharoenchai, P, Rahe, M, Magstadt, D, Michael, A, Pineyro, P, Derscheid, R, Main, R, Fano, E, Clavijo, M, 2021. Diagnostic trends of five swine endemic bacterial pathogens using data from the Iowa State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (2010-2019). In proceedings: 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Swine Veterinarians (AASV), Atlanta, Georgia, USA., San Francisco, CA (Virtual meeting.)
- Suyeon Hong:
- May 2021: 2 presentations & 2 posters at AAI Virtual Immunology 2021 The AAI Trainee Abstract Award at Virtual IMMUNOLOGY 2021: “Impacts of vitamin A deficiency on mucosal immunity to respiratory syncytial virus infection” and “Development of surface engineered antigenic exosomes as vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus”
Charles Lewis
- "Experimental infection of domestic swine with an NHP-isolate of Reston virus". BSL4Znet International Conference: preparing and responding to new post-pandemic challenges. Held virtually September, 2021 with approximately 329 people logged in for my presentation.
- "Reston virus infectivity in pigs". Briefing for the multi-agency Defense Against Agroterrorism Working Group, including representatives from USDA, DHS, FBI, and DOD. Virtual. March 24,
- 2021.
- "BSL4 and BSL4Ag Research". Oral presentation for the USDA National Bio- and Agro-defense Facility Laboratory Technician Training Program (NLTP) held virtually July, 2021 with approximately 20 people in attendance.
Nic Lizer
- Microbial Genetics and Genomics Fall 2020
- Identifying a fucose regulator in Campylobacter jejuni using ChIP-seq. 11/16/20, Micro 502 Microbial Genetics and Genomics, recorded 5-minute elevator pitch/presentation. Roughly 15 people in attendance.
- Immunology Principles Fall 2020
- COVID-19 and it’s Immunological Impacts. 11/19/20, VMPM 520 Immunology, oral presentation online. Roughly 20 people in attendance.
Hannah Watkins
- Journal Club Presentation (Single-cell genomics of uncultured bacteria reveals dietary fiber responders in the mouse gut microbiota, Chijiwa et al., Microbiome, 2020)
- February 2021, Food Safety and Enteric Pathogens Research Unit bi-monthly meeting (attendance ~30)
- “New Single Cell Genomics Technique: The SAG-Gel Platform” – Spring 2021, MICRO 604 Seminar
- Series, Technique presentation (attendance ~20)
Jayne Wiarda
- "Single-cell RNA sequencing of intestinal lymphocytes in pigs: challenges, workflows, and discoveries in a veterinary species", invited oral presentation at Midwest Single-Cell Sequencing Virtual Symposium sponsored by Illumina, September 2020
Jayne Wiarda
- "Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals pig intestinal innate lymphoid cells and unique activation profiles of T cells", oral presentation at CRWAD virtual conference, December 2020
Brandon Ruddell
- Ruddell B, Hassall A, Zhang Q, Plummer PJ, Kreuder AJ. (2020). Characterizing the regulatory interactions of small RNAs CjNC110 and CjNC140 of Campylobacter jejuni IA3902. Powepoint Presentation at the 101st Annual Conference of Research Workers in Animal Disease (CRWAD), virtual.
Michael Welch
- AAVLD Presentation, Denver Co, October 22-26, 2021 (Major Professor: P Gauger)
Grants Awarded
Graduate Students
Brandon Ruddell
- USDA-NIFA Education Workforce Development Grant (EWD)-Year 2 of 2; 2020-2022; Title of the grant: Characterizing the Regulatory Interactions of Small RNAs CJNC110 and CJNC140 in the Pathobiology of Campylobacter jejuni IA 3902. Funding: $120,000
- USDA Capacity Seed Grant. Year 1 of 2; 2021-2022; Title of the grant: Regulation of methionine metabolism via iron-responsive small ncRNAs CjNC110 and CjNC140 in Campylobacter jejuni. Funding: $19,800
Michael Welch
- USDA Seed Grant, $17,000 for development of PPIV Infectious Strain
Publications
Graduate Students
- Becker, S.R., K.A. Byrne, and C.L. Loving. 2021. Butyrate alters lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammatory response by porcine monocytes. J. Immunol. 206:19.14 (Abstr.)
- Beyi AF, Brito-Goulart D, Hawbecker T, Slagel C, Ruddell B*, Hassall A, Dewell R, Dewell G, Sahin O, Zhang Q, Plummer PJ. Danofloxacin Treatment Alters the Diversity and Resistome Profile of Gut Microbiota in Calves. Microorganisms. 2021; 9(10):2023.
- Ruddell B*, Hassall A, Sahin O, Zhang Q, Plummer P, Kreuder AJ. (2020). Role of metAB in Methionine Metabolism and Optimal Chicken Colonization in Campylobacter jejuni. Infection and Immunity, 89 (1) e00542-20; DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00542-20. Spotlight Featured Article.
Lucas Koester
- Petry AL, Patience JF, Koester LR, Huntley NF, Bedford MR, Schmitz-Esser S. Xylanase modulates the microbiota of ileal mucosa and digesta of pigs fed corn-based arabinoxylans likely through both a stimbiotic and prebiotic mechanism. PLOS One. 2021 Jan doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246144. PMID: 33503052; PMCID•. PMC7840016.
- Anderson CJ, Koester LR, Schmitz-Esser S. Rumen Epithelial Communities Share a Core Bacterial Microbiota: A Meta-Analysis of 16S rRNA Gene Illumina MiSeq Sequencing Datasets. Front Microbiol. 2021 Mar doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.625400. PMID: 33790876; PMCID: PMC8005654.
- Kiefer ZE, Koester LR, Showman L, Studer JM, Chipman AL, Keating AF, Schmitz-Esser S, Ross JW. Vaginal microbiome and serum metabolite differences in late gestation commercial sows at risk for pelvic organ prolapse. Sci Rep. 2021 Mar 17;11(1):6189. doi: 10.1038/641598-021-85367-3. PMID: 33731737; PMCID: PMC7969946.
- Petry AL, Patience JF, Huntley NF, Koester LR, Bedford MR, Schmitz-Esser S. Xylanase Supplementation Modulates the Microbiota of the Large Intestine of Pigs Fed Corn Based Fiber by Means of a Stimbiotic Mechanism of Action. Front Microbiol. 2021 Mar doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.619970. PMID: 33841350; PMCID: PMC8024495.
- Kiefer ZE, Koester LR, Studer JM, Chipman AL, Mainquist-Whigham C, Keating AF, Schmitz-Esser S, Ross JW. Vaginal microbiota differences associated with pelvic organ prolapse risk during late gestation in commercial sows. Biol Reprod. 2021 Sep
- 20:ioab178. doi: 10.1093/bioIre/ioab178. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34542158.
- Lucas R Koester, Amy L Petry, Curtis R Youngs, Stephan Schmitz-Esser. Ewe vaginal microbiota: associations with pregnancy outcome and changes during gestation. Front Microbiol. Accepted Oct 2021.
- Lewis, Charles E, and Bradley S Pickering. Livestock and Risk Group 4 Pathogens: researching zoonotic threats to public health and agriculture in maximum-containment. Institute for Laboratory Animal Research journal; accepted; October, 2021.
- Pickering, Bradley S and Charles E Lewis. Balancing Animal Welfare, Human Safety, and Research in Agriculture High Containment. Institute for Laboratory Animal Research journal; in the review process; October, 2021.
- Pickering, Bradley S., Greg Smith, Mathieu M. Pinette, Carissa Embury-Hyatt, Estella Moffat, Peter Marszal, and Charles E. Lewis. Susceptibility of domestic swine to experimental infection with SARS-CoV-2. Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases 27 (2021) 104-11. Published.
Elena Thornhill
- Respiratory Syncytial Virus's Non-structural Proteins: Masters of Interference
- DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2020.00225
- Respiratory syncytial virus: Current treatment strategies and vaccine approaches
- DOI: 10.1177/2040206620947303
- Dhar, Debarpan, Guo, B., Lager, K., and Miller, C. L. Mapping sequence requirements for packaging of Mammalian orthoreovirus gene segment S1. In preparation for 2022 submission.
- Jandick, N., Kerner, N., and Miller, C. L. Characterization of mammalian orthoreovirus infection of HER2+ breast cancer cells. In preparation for 2022 submission.