Schedule / Important Dates

2025 VMSRTP Schedule

*The schedule is subject to change; changes will be announced at weekly meetings and by email.

DateEventPersonLocation
Wed., Mar 12, 2025
(5:30-6:30PM)
Organizational/Introduction MeetingScholars/MentorsVIDI 103 & ZOOM
Wed., April 16, 2025
(5:30-7PM)
Writing Workshop: Drafting your Research Proposal Dr(s). Gaddy and VemulapalliVIDI 103
Wed., April 30, 2025Proposals due by email to Dr. T. Vemulapalli
Complete
prior to May 16, 2025
Responsible Conduct of Research & Compliance Training:
BSL-2, Biological Safety Cabinet Training (Train-Traq)
Blood Borne Pathogen, Radiation Training (Train-Traq)
CITI training – Working with IACUC
Emburse Training (Train-Traq)
Travel Card Training (Train-Traq)
All training is ONLINE
Thu., May 15, 2025
Orientation: Required Responsible Conduct of Research

8:30AM: Welcome
8:45AM: Ethical Responsible Conduct of Research
9:30AM: Mentor-Mentee Relationships, Agreement
10:15AM: Break
10:30AM: Research Statistics
11:15AM: Data Management, Ownership & Conflicts of Interest


Dr(s). Gaddy, Long and Vemulapalli
Dr. Ramesh Vemulapalli
Dr. Dana Gaddy

Dr. Sarah Hamer
Dr. Chuck Long
VIDI 103
Fri., May 16, 2025Orientation: Required Responsible Conduct of Research
8:30AM: Ethics of Animal Research
9:15AM: Research Grants and Funding Opportunities
10:00AM: Break
10:15AM: Evaluating & Presenting a Veterinary Scientific Journal Article
11:00AM: Emburse Travel/Reimbursement Training (Bring laptops to complete training)



Dr. Tracy Vemulapalli
Dr. Peter Nghiem

Dr. Noah Cohen
Trista Moore
VIDI 103
Thu., May 22, 2025
(11:30AM-1PM)
Litterature Searches, Building your Professional Profile
Molly Crews

VIDI 103
Wed., May 28, 2025 Kick-Off Dinner: Career Paths for Veterinary ScientistsScholars/MentorsPebble Creek Country Club
TBD
ALL DAY
Field Trip: Texas Heart Institute. MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston Methodist Research InstituteScholars
Directors
Bastrop
Houston
Thu., May 29, 2025
(11:30AM-1PM)
DVM T32/PhD Career Panel

Scholars/Directors

Drs. Catrina Silveira, Alhussien Gaber, Ashlyn Holbert, Sarita Neupane, Damani Zakers
VIDI 103
Thu., June 5, 2025
(11:30AM-1PM)
Journal Club Presentations 1 by scholar group
How to prepare an Elevator speech
Scholars
Dr. Gaddy
VIDI 105
Thu., June 12, 2025 (11:30AM-1PM) Deliver elevator Speeches
Alumni corner – Invitee: Joseph Hicks, DVM, PhD,
Res Fellow, Malaria Modelling Group; Imperial College London, UK
Scholars
VIDI 105
Wed., June 18, 2025
(11:30AM-1PM)
Journal Club Presentations 2 by scholar group
Organizing Proposal, Project, Data into posters, oral presentations, manuscripts
Scholars
Drs. Long, Gaddy
VIDI 105
Thu., June 26, 2025
(11:30AM-1PM)
Journal Club Presentation 3 by scholar group

Journal Club Presentation 4 by scholar group
Scholars
Directors
VIDI 102
Thu., July 3, 2025
(11:30AM-1PM)
Holiday – No class Meeting
Thu., July 10, 2025
(11:30AM-1PM)
Alumni Corner –Stephanie Myers DVM, PhD, Assistant Professor, Texas Tech College of Vet Med.
Journal Club Presentation 5 by scholar group
Scholars, DirectorsVIDI 105
Tue, July 15, 2025Symposium Abstracts due to AAVMCALL SCHOLARSsend to AAVMC
Thu., July 17, 2025
(11:30AM-1PM)
Preparing and delivering research presentations
Manuscript Data:
Results section
Program Assessment and Evaluation
All Scholars
Dr. Dana Gaddy
VIDI 105
Thu., July 24, 2025
(11:30AM-1PM)
Poster and MS Writing Workshop: Discussion section – summary, context; referencesDrs. Vemulapalli & Gaddy
Scholars
VIDI 105
Fri., July 25, 2025
(1-3PM)
Office Hours: Poster help “clinic” (optional)Drs. VemulapalliVIDI 349
Mon., July 28, 2025 (by 5PM)POSTERS DUE VIA EMAIL by 5PM to print ALL SCHOLARS
Thu., July 31, 2025
(11:30AM-1PM)
Manuscript Editing, Formatting
ALL SCHOLARS
Directors
VIDI 105
Fri., August 1, 2025
(8:30AM-3PM)
TAMU Summer Veterinary Student Research Symposium – (10 min. oral presentations)Scholars/MentorsVENI 107A
Fri., August 1, 2025
(6PM)
VMSRTP Final Banquet and Awards Dinner Scholars/MentorsCasa do Brasil
Wed., August 6, 2025
Complete Formatted MS Due for Review to Dr. Tracy VemulapalliAll Scholars
Dr. Tracy Vemulapalli
Thu.-Sat., August 7-9, 2025 NATIONAL VETERINARY SCHOLARS SYMPOSIUM (VSS), Spokane, WA
(Travel: August 7-10)
August 31, 2025Final Manuscripts due to Mentors
Program Completion
All Scholars