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[torchickentacos]

There's not many things that unsettle me about myself, but the fact that I have a mysterious six inch long scar on my foot and no clue of why it's there is definitely one of those things.

#lore drop time. discussion of injuries in the tags but nothing graphic #it's pretty faint. definitely healed over a long time ago. healed from what? no clue. #i know where all the other scars came from #i have one right under my eyebrow from falling into the edge of a table as a kid at my aunt's wedding lol #got one from when i accidentally kneeled down on and subsequently broke a christmas ornament #several dog scars from vetsci/training/honey getting me with her FEROCIOUS HUSKY CLAWS #tons of tiny needle scars (ehlers danlos- everything scars. including blood draws) #a few from just being outdoors in various capacities #tons of mosquito bites i never left alone #pencil graphite #some ~miscellaneous~ ones #but the foot? no clue. my largest scar and no idea of where it's from. #for a while i had one from a snakebite but that one healed over and i'm sad about it :( #it wasn't like. fang marks. just a triangular friction mark that wouldn't heal bc a rat snake tried to take a piece out of me #he was mad that i wouldn't let him come in through my kitchen window. #that's a whole other story though. i had friends literally pulling into the driveway while i was being bitten by a ratsnake #that was fun to explain lol. walking up to them like HI ONE SECOND I HAVE A SNAKE. I'LL SAY HI IN A MINUTE #they know what they signed up for by being my friend lmao #i'm here to captivate people with my picks-up-snakes-and-beetles-with-her-bare-hands swag

[madwickedawesome]

today my vetsci teacher said (direct quote) “get me on all fours and treat me like a dog”

#he is the most intimidating deadpan man in the world #IT WAS SO FUNNY #theres context to it but this sentence alone had everyone DYING

[aspiringvetsurgeon]

09/10/17 Guess who’s here to visit for a week! Meet Dot the labradoodle, my much missed dog from home. She’s already claimed my bed as her nap spot whilst I study and has got everyone in the flat totally in love with her. It’s going to be a fun week.

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[globalscienceandtechnologyforum]

VETSCI 2014 Dr Mohamed Nayel Testimonial - Global Science and Technology Forum

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[evoldir]

Graduate position: UWyoming.WildlifePopGenetics

PhD student assistantship position for Fall 2019 is available for research and training in wildlife population genomics, conservation genetics, and disease ecology at the University of Wyoming (UW) in Laramie. The position will be mentored within two labs: the Holly Ernest Wildlife Genomics and Disease Ecology Lab http://www.wildlifegenetichealth.org/ and the Jennifer Malmberg Wildlife Pathology and Genomics Lab https://www.uwyo.edu/vetsci/department-directory/faculty-members/malmberg-jennifer.html in the Department of Veterinary Sciences https://www.uwyo.edu/vetsci and the UW Graduate Program in Ecology (PiE; http://www.uwyo.edu/pie/). Research will use genomic, genetic and diagnostic methods to study wildlife population ecology and disease ecology in the Rocky Mountain West and/or California, with project either in large mammal or avian species. Information and application instructions: http://www.wildlifegenetichealth.org/grad-wildlife-genomics/ The Ernest and Malmburg Labs are dynamic and highly collaborative and maintain affiliations with Colorado State University, University of California Davis and other academic institutions, as well as state, federal, and non-governmental agencies. There are many opportunities to work with recognized leaders who apply excellence in science toward wildlife conservation and management. There are opportunities for an added academic minor in Environment and Natural Resources: http://www.uwyo.edu/haub/. In addition to research and course work, responsibilities may include teaching (TA-ing), lab maintenance tasks, and mentoring other students. Quality mentorship of trainees is a priority for us. University of Wyoming hosts excellent wildlife and ecology science and a collegial academic atmosphere. Laramie is a wonderful college town of ~ 30,000 and offers easy access to the Rocky Mountains and outdoor activities including skiing, hiking, climbing, birding, and fishing & hunting. To apply for this position please do two things: 1) email a cover letter of introduction and C.V. to [email protected] and 2) submit an electronic application to UW and note that your application is directed to Dr. Ernest and Dr. Malmburg: http://www.uwyo.edu/admissions/graduate/ then click "Graduate Application" to arrive at: http://www.uwyo.edu/admissions/apply-online.html. Applicants can temporarily upload documents without the need to pay the $50 application fee until notified that they are finalists for the position. At the UW application site, please upload your cover letter, C.V., unofficial transcripts for all college work, and everything you can upload short of paying the application fee. Finalists for the position will be notified and asked to finalize their UW online application with 3 letters of recommendation, and official transcripts, official GRE's, etc. as well as $50 application fee. The application cover letter should include educational and research background, PhD research and study interests as regards to wildlife population genomics, ecology, and disease ecology; career goals, specific interests in our labs, GPA (overall and science/math) and GRE (raw and percentile scores), your address, email, cell phone, and names for at least three research/academic-related references including MS adviser, with their contact information (name, position, email, phone, institutional affiliation, website, and research area). GRE's must have been taken after Sep 2014, (within 5 years) and please include both percentiles and raw scores for all GRE's taken. Applications reviews will begin as soon as received, position may remain open until filled. If a candidate is not identified for Fall 2019, we may consider a start date of January 20, 2020. We are sorry but this position is not available for students outside the US and Canada. Feel free to email Dr. Ernest ([email protected]) with inquiries - we look forward to your application! Information and application instructions: http://www.wildlifegenetichealth.org/grad-wildlife-genomics/ Holly Ernest DVM PhD Professor, Wildlife Genomics and Disease Ecology Excellence Chair in Disease Ecology University of Wyoming http://www.wildlifegenetichealth.org/ [email protected] [email protected]

[rcseau]

just audrey blythe things:

when she was a smol child, she was really annoyed by her name for the sole reason that its initials weren’t ordered properly. audrey blythe derosier. ABD. “where’s the c?” “the c?” “in my name. audrey blythe derosier --- there’s no c! you should give me another middle name so there can be a c.”

home girl has smiles for days, and they all mean something. growing up in a world of pleasantries and formalities meant that she had to learn to smile through everything. close friends will know what her different smiles translate to.

if you haven’t caught on already she is married to the rose motif.

she’s ??????????? so type a. so type a. oh dear lord. and has a perfectionist streak for miles with stuff that Matter/she cares about.

her high school gpa is like a 3.1 something something? ironically it’s the science that brought it down. she has to get help for that when she realizes she wants to go into vetsci.

she. loves. dogs. i always liked the idea of the derosier’s having a lot of hounds? like three or four bye large, lithe things that audrey grew up and ran around with.

she adopts her border collie, max, from a shelter after grad school. he’ a timid thing with an abusive history that boils audrey’s blood to thing about. but he’s extremely sweet and active, and he’s lucky she likes to go for jogs (gotta stay Fit amirite) because boy can he go. she love him more than she can put into words.

she loves her brother jonathan even more than that, which says something tbh. with twelve years between them, he really is her baby brother and she is fiercely protective. chad gets him into fencing when he’s old enough and audrey has never wanted to strangle them both so much. but the sport makes jonny happy and is good for the stress that comes as a result of his ocd.

back to the subject of animals ----- she inherited her mother’s Way with them. call it magic, call it some strange intuition, but when she was younger audrey would definitely talk to her pets and swear they spoke back. as she grew older she “grew out” of it, just assuming it was a childhood quirk. it still comes in handy in the veterinary science field, but in a more intuitive way than anything really “special ability” related. had she nurtured the thing, though.... who knows.

doesn’t like reptiles for the majority of her first twenty years, and it has everything to do with stories about maleficent. a little tiny lizard is not a fire breathing dragon, no ----- but try telling that to a five year old audrey. the fear stuck over the years. not crippling, but they give her the heebie jeebies. she learns to work around it for vocational reasons.

the fam is a musical fam. everyone sings in this family, and the house is rarely without some sort of music happening. she’s competent with a piano, though she’s no virtuoso (that’s a skill for her brother), and will tinker with it on occasion. her voice is her biggest instrument, some of her mother’s Gift For Song trickling down.

CHRISTMASES ARE LIT AF IN THE DEROSIER FAMILY. big trees, lots of decorations, lots of caroling, oh boyo. 

pretty religious, and very set in her faith. by the time she reaches her last year of high school she’s learned to navigate it and take from it what she believes in and scrap all the bigotry nonsense, but she very much believes in god. she wears a cross until college, wherein she realizes she just doesn’t need one anymore (and gets tired of having to replace them tbh), and she’s got a chastity ring that she wears until she’s married. (in most verses. there’s one where she takes it off beforehand, if only because she’s with the person for a _long ass time,_ and she’s secure in her belief that they’re the one anyway.)

#( headcanon tag. ) #will i ever set up my tags #lol #i thought a lot of thoughts today #but most of these already existed #i just wanted them on paper #also these are like... personal headcanons? #so if any of them would apply to your muse you can just....ignore them............pfft

[globalstfsingapore]

VETSCI 2014 Ms Ong Chian Teng VETSCI Testimonial - GSTF

Description  - Ms Ong Chian Teng  – Australia

Global Science & Technology Forum – GSTF

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Vetsci Annual International Conference On Advances In Veterinary Science Research - Thailand - Bangkok http://expomahal.com/vetsci-annual-international-conference-on-advances/ http://expomahal.com

[yesilovehorses-blog1]

Electronic Records Could Help Solve the Laminitis Mystery

New Post has been published on http://lovehorses.net/electronic-records-could-help-solve-the-laminitis-mystery/

Electronic Records Could Help Solve the Laminitis Mystery

More than 70% of horses diagnosed with laminitis suffered at least one recurrence.

Photo: The Horse Staff

Thanks to technology, with a few clicks of a button you can now find directions to the nearest coffee shop, get a rundown of the day’s celebrity sightings, and book a flight or shop for groceries. But one research team thinks electronic technology might have another use, one that could benefit our horses and expand the collective knowledge about one of the most feared horse health concerns: laminitis.

“We still have a lot to learn about why some horses suffer the disease and others do not,” said Claire E. Welsh, BVMS, MSc(VetSci), AHEA, PhD, MRCVS, a medical statistician at the University of Glasgow, in Scotland. She believes searching through and evaluating electronic medical records could be key to finding the answers.

Welsh said electronic medical records from first opinion equine veterinary practices (not referral hospitals, but primary practitioners seeing horses in the field) could offer new insight into laminitis and its associated risk factors. In human medicine, electronic medical records are used regularly for research, but widespread use is still relatively new in veterinary medicine.

Veterinary practices across the world are collecting and archiving electronic medical records every day. “This data source contains huge amounts of useful information on millions of horses that represents an untapped resource for research that can be used as soon as it is acquired,” she said.

Welsh acknowledged these records are not a perfect resource. To be useful, she said, accurate, detailed notes must be entered into the system.

“Veterinarians vary in how much detail they enter into medical records and in the language and abbreviations used to describe the same conditions and treatments,” she said.

Additionally, she said, “mining the data to detect diseases and treatments relies on very careful and painstaking work to identify all the possible ways the disease has been recorded, and only then can analysis of the risk factors begin.”

Despite the challenges, Welsh said she sees electronic medical records as a promising method for studying disease. For instance, in a recent study of clinical and pharmacologic risk factors for laminitis, she and colleagues examined electronic medical records from seven U.K. veterinary practices. From that data mining, the team determined that:

More than 70% of horses diagnosed with laminitis suffered at least one recurrence;

Risk factors for first and subsequent laminitis episodes varied; and

Prednisolone (a corticosteroid) use was significantly associated only with subsequent, and not initial, laminitis episodes.

Moving forward, she said, “the next steps are replication of our work in different populations to lend further confidence in our findings and implementation of the findings into practice, to hopefully reduce the number of horses suffering this painful disease.”

The study, “Disease and pharmacologic risk factors for first and subsequent episodes of equine laminitis: A cohort study of free-text electronic medical records,” was published in Preventative Veterinary Medicine.

About the Author

Katie Navarra

Katie Navarra has worked as a freelance writer since 2001. A lifelong horse lover, she owns and enjoys competing a dun Quarter Horse mare.

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[madwickedawesome]

i finished my vetsci & calc everyone :) Wahoo!!!!!

#it is 1 am #i did not have the time to practice my audition song and the guilt is eating away at me

[aspiringvetsurgeon]

05/10/2017 First week of lectures is going well. Just trying to settle back into the routine of things at the moment. Also trying out a few different societies to see what I want to join this year as I'd love to be more involved and meet new people.

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VETSCI 2014 Ms Ong Chian Teng VETSCI Testimonial - GSTF

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[weirdness555]

Proteins

Proteins are pretty cool, they are the real building blocks of life (DNA is just the blueprint). They are coded for by DNA, and each triplet codes for one amino acid in the protein chain. 

There are 20 amino acids used in biological organisms (the 21st one, Selenocysteine, does not have a triplet code and therefore can't be coded for in DNA, so it's never used).

A Protein is basically a chain of amino acids, this is the primary structure (the order of the amino acids in the chain). This determines the final (tertiary or quaternary) structure of the protein, which is really important for function.

The way in which the order of amino acids determine final structure is to do with the R chains. These are the variable parts of the amino acid, which makes each one different to the other 20. You could refer to them as types of amino acid, where all of the amino acids in one type have the same R chain. These are the parts of amino acids with differing atoms in them, and as such they form certain bonds.

There are 5 categories of amino acids, determined by the properties of the R chain. These are:

Positively Charged Amino acids

Negatively Charged Amino acids

Polar Amino acids with no charge

Hydrophobic Amino acids

Special Cases

The bonding between these R chains causes the protein chain to bend upon itself so that bonded groups are close together.

The first kind of bonding, which creates the secondary structure, is hydrogen bonding. This is the only bonding which occurs between atoms within the constant part of the amino acid structure as opposed to the R chains. This occurs between all amino acids. Hydrogen bonding is a very strong form of intermolecular bonding which occurs between atoms with lone pairs of electrons (pairs of electrons not used in a bond) and atoms which don't attract their bonding electrons very strongly due to a very electronegative bonding atom in the bond.

The hydrogen bonding between Hydrogen atoms (in OH groups) and Oxygen atoms (in OH groups).

This forms either an Alpha Helix structure or a Beta Pleated Sheet structure. An Alpha Helix is the shape of a spiral staircase, while a beta pleated sheet is the shape of concertina paper.

The R groups in an alpha helix end up on the outside of the helical structure. Think of a string with R groups all over the outside.

A beta pleated sheet is more variable with it's R group placements.

Once this has occurred, covalent bonding between Sulfur atoms on the R groups of some amino acids, called Disulphide bonds. Other forms of intermolecular bonds also form between polar amino acids with no charge. These bonds pull the chain into its Tertiary structure, which is usually either Globular, fibrous or membranous. 

Globular proteins are often enzymes, but can also be antibodies (immunoglobulins) or carrier proteins such as haemoglobin. Fibrous proteins are often involved in strength (eg keratin, collagen) and movement (eg actin and myosin). Membranous proteins are often receptors (eg Acetylcholine receptors in post-synaptic cell membranes)

Multiple polypeptide chains often join together to form a quaternary structure, and also sometimes bind to metal ions such as in the case of haemoglobin with Fe2+ ions. These metal ions usually make up part of the binding site on the protein.

Changes in the genetic code leading to a different amino acid order in the polypeptide therefore change the shape of the whole protein, leading to a tertiary or quaternary structure that is not fit for purpose as it will be the wrong shape, so the complementary shape to the intended substrate is lost.

#vetsci #proteins #animals #veterinary #science #medicine #Biochemistry

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VETSCI 2015 Dr Bhartendu Testimonial – GSTF

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