{"id":8044,"date":"2013-09-23T09:36:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T17:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/?p=8044"},"modified":"2013-10-11T06:33:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T14:33:26","slug":"bag-of-bones-provides-skill-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/2013\/09\/23\/bag-of-bones-provides-skill-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Bag of Bones Provides Skill Building"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Danielle Butler with the goat skeleton she built this summer.<\/p><\/div>\n

Dr. Terri Clark\u2019s mission to populate the CVM anatomy lab with every skeleton in the animal kingdom is one step closer to completion thanks to second-year student Danielle Butler. She spent most of the summer articulating a goat skeleton.<\/p>\n

Butler started with lots of bones and no instructions. \u201cI got a bag of vertebrae, a bag of ribs, a skull, a mandible, and a sternum,\u201d she says. \u201cThe legs were already put together by a student last year.\u201d Dr. Clarke provided her with a book on articulating a moose. \u201cThat helped a little bit,\u201d says Butler, \u201cand the student who built the llama last summer wrote some notes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The project also required carpentry skills that were new to Butler. \u201cThis was the first time I\u2019ve really used\u00a0 a drill. All the ribs are attached with little metal spikes so I had to drill all those,\u201d she says. \u201cI used a super-tiny drill bit because I didn\u2019t want to break anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

CVM jack-of-all-trades, Steve Lehto, helped Butler bend the heavy wire that ran through the backbone and also built a stand to support the goat. \u201cHe was a huge help,\u201d says Butler, \u201cI couldn\u2019t have done it without him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Butler appreciates the importance of having skeletons available for students. \u201cWhen we have lecture then we can go look at the skeletons. We used the horse and the ox a lot last year,\u201d she says. \u201cIf you can get 3-D it\u2019s always so much better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having survived the first year of veterinary college, Butler is looking forward to getting into the lab this year. \u201cI\u2019m really excited for bacteriology because I love microbiology,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd I\u2019m excited for parasitology; I\u2019ve heard that is really interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a Merial Scholar, Butler also worked this summer in Dr. Dan Rockey\u2019s laboratory. \u201cHe has a new compound we\u2019re testing, an anti-chlamydial and anti-gonorrhea compound,\u201d she says. \u201cWe\u2019re working with mice to see if it is toxic, and to get a pharmacokenetic profile. That\u2019s been really interesting and has given me a lot of insight into lab animal medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although interested in both lab animal medicine and radiology, Butler isn\u2019t sure yet which career path she will choose. \u201cIt\u2019s a little overwhelming. There are so many different things I can do, it\u2019s hard to just pick one and go for it. I\u2019m not there yet.\u201d Fortunately, she has three more years to decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Terri Clark\u2019s mission to populate the CVM anatomy lab with every skeleton in the animal kingdom is one step closer to completion thanks to second-year student Danielle Butler. She spent most of the summer articulating a goat skeleton. Butler started with lots of bones and no instructions. \u201cI got a bag of vertebrae, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1802,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3052],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-students"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3DBMX-25K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8074,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044\/revisions\/8074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}