U of S awards go to WCVM graduate students

Ahmad Al-Dissi

Graduate students from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine earned top marks for their research posters at the 16th annual U of S Life and Health Sciences Research Day on March 13. Here’s the list of 2009 award recipients who are based at the WCVM:

• Bryan Macbeth: first place in the Animal Science category. Supervisor: Dr. David Janz, Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences.
• Ahmad Al-Dissi: second place in the Cardiovascular/Respiratory Science category. Supervisor: Dr. Lynn Weber, Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences.
• Aleksandar Masic: first place in the Microbiology category. Supervisors: Drs. Andrew Potter and Yan Zhou, Department of Veterinary Microbiology.
• Natasha Thiessen: second place in the Microbiology category. Supervisor: Dr. Baljit Singh, Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences.
• Taseen Desin: third place in the Microbiology category. Supervisors: Drs. Andrew Potter and Wolfgang Koester, Department of Veterinary Microbiology.
• Monika Polewicz: second place in the Immunology category. Supervisors: Drs. Lorne Babiuk and Volker Gerdts.
• Lilani Munasinghe: third place in the Immunology category. Supervisor: Dr. Henry Tabel, Department of Veterinary Microbiology.
• Jith Thomas: first place in the Soil Sciences/Environmental Toxicology category. Supervisor: Dr. David Janz, Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences.
• Jimena Yapura: second place in the Reproductive Biology category. Supervisors: Drs. Gregg Adams and Jaswant Singh, Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences.
• Behzad Toosi: third place in the Reproductive Biology category. Supervisor: Dr. Norman Rawlings, Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences.