Name: Emily Rubinson
From: Bethesda, Maryland
Degrees and institute where received: BA, Smith College, Massachusetts;
MSc, University of Kentucky

Emily Rubinson wanted to pursue a degree at the University of Kentucky Gluck Equine Research Center so she could apply the molecular and microbiological techniques she had used in human medicine to animals.

“And since I am in Kentucky, I wanted to get some experience with horses,” she said. “I have been fortunate to perform my research under the supervision of Dr. Martin Nielsen (DVM, PhD, Dipl. EVPC, assistant professor at the Gluck Center).”

In Rubinson’s research project, she evaluated the inflammatory reaction to vaccination and whether deworming horses simultaneously with vaccination would affect vaccine efficacy