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Palouse
Student Chapter of the Wildlife Disease Associated (PSC WDA)
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President: Katherine
Gailbreath
katherine@vetmed.wsu.edu
Vice President: Danielle Nelson
danielled@vetmed.wsu.edu
Secretary: Madelynn Fell
mfell@vetmed.wsu.edu
Treasurer: Sarah Jo McIntyre
sarah@vetmed.wsu.edu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. William Foreyt
Constitution
March 2007
The mission of the Palouse Student Chapter of the Wildlife Disease
Association is to facilitate communication, mentoring, and
collaboration between students, researchers, clinicians, field
professionals, and support staff from various fields of science in
order to advance understanding of wildlife health, conservation, and
disease and to educate students about career opportunities.
The chapter was created in March of 2007, and has approximately 20
members from Washington State University and the University of
Idaho. Members include veterinary students, undergraduate and
graduate students from a variety of departments and programs.
Faculty and staff members also regularly attend lectures and
participate in meetings. A major goal for the chapter is to provide
a venue through which students, faculty and staff from otherwise
separate programs can interact and discuss topics of common interest
related to wildlife. Through these discussions we hope to gain a
better understanding of the complex relationships between factors
that affect wildlife health including population dynamics, habitat,
nutrition, pathogens, and host animal defense. To date we have
invited guest speakers from the local universities to present
lectures on their research with wildlife species including dolphins,
vultures, grizzly bears, and blue duikers. We intend to broaden the
scope of subjects and speakers in the future and to organize field
trips and wet-lab events. Ultimately these activities will enrich
our connections to the local community, the greater community of
wildlife professionals, and the animals that share our world.
Past Events
March 20, 2007:
Lecture by Dr. Lindsay Oaks, DVM, PhD, ACVM
Title: “Diclofenac residues as the cause of vulture population
decline in Pakistan”
Nature. 2004. 427:630-633.
Dr. Oaks is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Veterinary
Microbiology and Pathology and is the head of the microbiology
section of the Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Lab. He
has a wide variety of interests including diseases of raptors and is
an advisor for the World Center for Birds of Prey in Boise, Idaho.
His talk focused on the process of diagnosing the cause of a huge
vulture die-off in Pakistan that culminated in significant changes
in antimicrobial use in the region and in a paper in Nature.
April 4, 2007 co-hosted with the Pathology Club
Lecture by Dr. Brian Joseph, DVM
Title: “Health Assessment of Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops
truncatus) from Charleston, SC and the Indian River Lagoon, Florida”
Dr. Joseph is Chief Operating Officer and co-owner of Living
Exhibits, Inc. and a member of the Chula Vista Nature Center's
Board. He has consulted on a variety of research projects and
provided expertise and resources for live animal wildlife exhibits.
His talk focused on an ongoing research project with a group of
dolphins with particular emphasis on various disease processes that
affect the dolphins.
April 14, 2007
Hosted an informational table at the WSU College of Veterinary
Medicine Annual Open House
April 17, 2007
Lecture by Dr. Lynn Nelson, DVM, ACVIM
Title: “Hibernating bears: What are the important physiologic
questions?”
Dr. Lynn Nelson is a veterinary cardiologist in the Department of
Veterinary Clinical Sciences at Washington State University.
Her talk focused on her research with cardiovascular physiology in
hibernating grizzly bears.
April 24, 2007
Dr. Lisa A. Shipley, PhD
Title: “Fruit or Fiber? The Nutritional value of wild figs to a
small African ruminant, the blue duiker”
Dr. Shipley is a wildlife ecologist in the Department of Natural
Resource Sciences at Washington State University who has a special
interest in ruminant nutrition but has also works with a variety of
other species including pygmy rabbits, grizzly bears and porcupines.
Her talk focused on her research on blue duiker nutritional
physiology and how these small ruminants utilize fruit as a food
source.
Parent Organization:
Wildlife Disease
Association
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