Havemeyer Equine Behavior Lab
New Bolton Center Section of Reproduction
Penn State Department of Dairy and Animal Science

2005 Summer Student Research Presentations
 

    


August 3, 2005
10:00 AM

324 ASI Building
Penn State

 

Program and Abstracts

 

Jessica Wilson
MS Candidate in Animal Science, Department of Dairy and Animal Science, Penn State
Olfactory Discrimination in the Horse
 

Lauren E. Dowler
Penn State Undergraduate Student, Animal Sciences
Side Preference in a Two Choice Discrimination Study
 

Lindsay S. Hoffman
Penn State 2005 Graduate, Accounting
Influence of Novel Environments and Group Dynamics on Equine Dominance Hierarchies
 

Laura Florence
2004-2006 Special Havemeyer Research Fellow
Quantitative Study of Hoof Growth and Wear Patterns in a Semi-feral Herd of Ponies
 

Modesty Dallmeyer
Penn Vet Class of 2007, Working for the summer in the lab of Dr. Hannah Gallantino-Homer
Sperm Accumulation in a Stallion
 

Dawna L. Voelkl
Second year resident in Large Animal Reproduction, New Bolton Center
The Effect of Adding
b-Cyclodextrin and Cholesterol during Cyropreservation of Stallion Spermatozoa on
Post-thaw Motility, Viability, Capacitation, and the Acrosome Reaction

 
Ann P. Klocke
Penn Vet Class of 2007, Working for the summer in the lab of Dr. Regina Turner
Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms Involved in the Regulation of Equine Sperm Motility

 
Kelly A. Cunningham
Penn State Undergraduate Student, Animal Bioscience
Rhodococcus equi in Horses: Distribution and Virulence Factors
 
Megan L. Brown
Penn State Undergraduate Student, Animal Sciences
Evaluating the Internal Parasite Monitoring Program at the Penn State Horse Farms and
Examining the Usefulness of an Additional Test for Tapeworms

 

Elkanah Grogan
University of Delaware 2004, Research Technician in the Havemeyer Equine Behavior Lab

Poster Presentations:
West Nile Virus Titers in a Semi-Feral Herd of Ponies in Pennsylvania

Borrelia burgdorferi Exposure in a Semi-feral Herd of Ponies in Chester County Pennsylvania and
Comparison of ELISA, Western Blot, and Canine SNAP 3Dx Assays


Real-time Ultrasound Measure of the Fetal Eye (vitreous body) for Estimation of
Parturition Date in Small Ponies