VBS news archive

Marissa Milstein won first place among CVM participants in the latest Saint Paul Campus Science in Seconds competition.

VBS Associate Professor Erin Burton discusses the paralells between strategies for learning music and learning medicine.

VBS Assistant Professor Peter Larsen sits down with Sharon Yoo, KARE 11 reporter, to discuss Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in venison and hunting. 

VBS looks back on the 43-year career of Professor Alice Larson.

The sixth season of the signature seminar series the Sizzling Summer Science Spotlight (S⁴) webinar, hosted by the Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, featured a colorful array of presenters July 15-August 12, 2021. 

VBS Professor Fang Li is part of a team that is linking llamas to the potential prevention and ending of SARS-CoV-2 infection in animals.

VBS Professors Hinh Ly and Yuying Liang led a study to test cats and dogs for antibodies, which would reveal past infection of the COVID-19 virus. 

VBS Professor Randy Singer led a case study about bacterial differences in broiler chicken litter associated with Campylobacter, which is a leading source of bacterial diarrhea among humans in the US, causing an estimated 1.5 million illnesses each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

VBS Assistant Professors Peter Larsen and Roxanne Larsen, along with members of the Minnesota Center for Prion Research and Outreach (MNPRO) team at the College of Veterinary Medicine are the first team to use a forensics research approach to identify Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) within deer carcass remains.

VBS Researchers Elizabeth Miller, Irene Bueno Padilla, along with VPM Professor Julie Ponder were awarded grant from the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources to research microbiome in raptors.