2025 VMSRTP Schedule
*The schedule is subject to change; changes will be announced at weekly meetings and by email.
| Date | Event | Person | Location |
| Wed., Mar 12, 2025 (5:30-6:30PM) | Organizational/Introduction Meeting | Scholars/Mentors | VIDI 103 & ZOOM |
| Wed., April 16, 2025 (5:30-7PM) | Writing Workshop: Drafting your Research Proposal | Dr(s). Gaddy and Vemulapalli | VIDI 103 |
| Wed., April 30, 2025 | Proposals 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, 2025 | Orientation: 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 Scientists | Scholars/Mentors | Pebble Creek Country Club |
| TBD ALL DAY | Field Trip: Texas Heart Institute. MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston Methodist Research Institute | Scholars 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, Directors | VIDI 105 |
| Tue, July 15, 2025 | Symposium Abstracts due to AAVMC | ALL SCHOLARS | send 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; references | Drs. Vemulapalli & Gaddy Scholars | VIDI 105 |
| Fri., July 25, 2025 (1-3PM) | Office Hours: Poster help “clinic” (optional) | Drs. Vemulapalli | VIDI 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/Mentors | VENI 107A |
| Fri., August 1, 2025 (6PM) | VMSRTP Final Banquet and Awards Dinner | Scholars/Mentors | Casa do Brasil |
| Wed., August 6, 2025 | Complete Formatted MS Due for Review to Dr. Tracy Vemulapalli | All Scholars Dr. Tracy Vemulapalli | |
| Thu.-Sat., August 7-9, 2025 | NATIONAL VETERINARY SCHOLARS SYMPOSIUM (VSS), Spokane, WA (Travel: August 7-10) | ||
| August 31, 2025 | Final Manuscripts due to Mentors Program Completion | All Scholars |
