American Heartworm Society’s Triennial Symposium
Multiple current and former members of the Verocai Lab showed out at the American Heartworm Society’s Triennial Symposium this year! This included:
- Dr. Guilherme Verocai
- Temporal patterns of Dirofilaria immitis–derived microRNA populations in serum of experimentally infected dogs in the search for novel diagnostic biomarkers
- Probe-based qPCR as an alternative Knott’s test when screening dogs for heartworm infection in combination with antigen detection tests
- Dr. Caroline Sobotyk (recent resident and postdoc with Dr. Verocai; now clinical assistant professor at UPenn)
- Detection of Dirofilaria immitis via integrated serological and molecular analyses in coyotes from Texas, USA (oral)
- Assessing the field performance of a cell-phone based video-microscope for diagnosing heartworm infections in dogs (poster)
- Dr. Kaitlyn Upton (veterinary student researcher with Dr. Verocai; now large animal intern at University of Tennessee)
- Heartworm, Dirofilaria immitis, in carnivores kept in zoos located in Texas, USA: Risk perception, practices, and prevalence
- Dr. Meriam Saleh
- Evaluation of urine for Dirofilaria immitis antigen detection in dogs
- Dr. Sarah Lane (veterinary student researcher with Dr. Verocai; now veterinarian at Oak Forest Animal Hospital in Houston, TX)
You can read more about the event in the VMBS News article that was just recently published. Congratulations everyone!
