UK Graduate Student Spotlight: Carleigh Fedorka

Fedorka’s research could, in the future, allow breeders to modulate post-breeding endometrial inflammation in mares.
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Name: Carleigh Fedorka
From: Meadville, Pennsylvania
Degrees and institute where received: BS in Biology from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York

Carleigh Fedorka came to Lexington, Kentucky, after graduating from college in New York to start a career in the Thoroughbred breeding industry. During the 2011 nocardioform placentitis (a form of bacterial placentitis affecting late gestation mares that can cause abortions and abnormal placentas) outbreak, Fedorka was managing Hinkle Farms, in Paris, Kentucky. The farm’s veterinarian, Karen Wolfsdorf, DVM, Dipl. ACT, asked if they would be willing to participate in a study through the University of Kentucky Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (UK VDL).

The study piqued Fedorka’s interest in the physiology, pathology, and disease processes that were occurring. Wolfsdorf and Erol Erdal, MS, PhD, DVM, associate professor at the UKVDL, suggested that she speak with the reproduction lab at the UK Gluck Equine Research Center. After meeting with Mats Troedsson, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACT, ECAR, professor and past chair of the department of veterinary science at UK, Fedorka decided to pursue a master’s degree in equine reproduction, which eventually became a doctoral degree.

“Although placentitis brought me to the Gluck Center, I have actually been studying the seminal plasma protein CRISP-3 and its possible effect on modulation of the inflammation that we see after breeding,” Fedorka said

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