UK Researchers and Students Present at AMCOP
The 66th Annual Midwestern Conference of Parasitologists took place June 5-7 at UK’s Gluck Equine Research Center. | Photo: Jenny Evans
Several researchers and students from the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Agriculture, Food and Environment presented at the 66th Annual Midwestern Conference of Parasitologists (AMCOP) June 5-7. UK’s Gluck Equine Research Center hosted the conference.

Daniel Howe, PhD, professor and molecular parasitologist at the Gluck Center, was the meeting’s program officer. The conference topic was “Parasite adaptation and anthelmintic resistance.” Symposium keynote speakers included Craig Reinemeyer, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVM, president of East Tennessee Clinical Research, and Martin Nielsen, DVM, PhD, EVPC, Dipl. ACVM, assistant professor at the Gluck Center.

The conference featured oral and poster presentations, as well as a graduate student competition. Allison Young, an agriculture biotechnology major at UK and undergraduate student in Howe’s laboratory at the Gluck Center won the R.M. Cable Award for best presentation by an undergraduate student with her presentation titled, “Identification of surface antigens in the llama and alpaca parasite Sarcocystis aucheniae

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