Epimorphic regeneration of reindeer antlers is enabled by an immune privileged microenvironment

BOOKLET UCVM SURE Research Days: 2021 Page | 2 Message from Dr. Hermann Schaetzl, Associate Dean, Research Dear summer students, Dear colleagues, A warm welcome from the Associate Dean, Research. The purpose of this meeting is to showcase the wide range of research activities our 2021 summer students performed. This year over 50 SURE (Summer Undergraduate Research Experience) students registered, with 74% of them receiving competitive and UCVM-external stipend support (worth >$220,000). This includes four prestigious fellowships from Merck for UCVM DVM students. The range of research activities showcased here is very broad, as is typical for our faculty, of high quality and exemplifies the UCVM research excellence. This is even more impressive as almost all our SURE students could not perform research activities within the first five weeks due to COVID restrictions. Over the next two days, we will have 20 featured oral presentations and 31 short oral presentations in parallel breakout rooms, together with two keynote lectures and prizes for best long and short oral presentations. As for the Trainee Research Days, the organizing committee comprises students, postdoctoral fellows, staff and faculty members. We are confident that this meeting brings together the UCVM community and shows the high quality of research and training activities our faculty is known for. Most importantly, congratulations to all SURE students for their excellent work. They obtained real-life and real-time insight into the fascinating but complex world of research, an experience that hopefully stimulated their appetite for more in the future. I would like to thank my co-organizer Brenda Moore from the UCVM Research Office, the members of the organization committee, and the prize judging committee for their outstanding help and efforts, and everybody else helping to make this meeting a success.