Congratulations to our newest Dr Dr Caroline McKinney-Aguirre who successfully defended her PhD this afternoon! We are so proud of you 🎉🫶🧫🥼NCSU CVM Research NCState CVM Comparative Medicine Research Training

Congratulations to our summer veterinary student scholar, Sydney Lierz, who did an incredible job presenting her work optimizing a permeability assay for intestine during normothermic machine perfusion at the NCSU CVM Research Annual Research Day! 🤩🥳🎉 NC State Vet Medicine

Wishing our wonderful postdoc, Elizabeth Goya Jorge, an excellent #PostdocAppreciationWeek! We are so grateful for your uplifting attitude, amazing work ethic, brilliant science mind- and your photography skills!!! NCSU CVM Research

👏👏👏 to our lab alumna and surgeon extraordinaire-to-be, Brittany! ACVS

Very excited about the product of our collaboration with awesome colleagues at the Iowa State College of Veterinary Medicine AND our newest equine publication regarding equine intestinal epithelial monolayers 🐴🌟NCSU CVM Research NC State Vet Medicine frontiersin.org/journals/veter…

🚨New publication 🚨 Inspired by reviewers who often ask why we don’t use rodent models for our work- a very useful exercise in reviewing our experimental models and what others have tried as well!

Spending time with the Wolfpack in sunny #AAEPOrlando while sharing and learning about all the exciting developments in 🐴 medicine has us feeling ✨magical ✨NCSU CVM Research NC State Vet Medicine AAEP

✅READ: “Large Animal Models Enhance the Study of Crypt-Mediated Epithelial Recovery from Prolonged Intestinal Ischemia Reperfusion Injury.” McKinney-Aguirre et al., Am J Phy. Gastro. Liver Phys., 2024. NC State Vet Medicine (ORIP-T32OD011130, R03OD026598-01) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39404771/

Thank you for helping make this work possible NIH ORIP!

Thank you for the invitation to present AAEP! Honored to have joined the other amazing NCSU CVM Research presenters in sharing our work, from all different realms, at #AAEPOrlando! NC State Vet Medicine

Very proud of Caroline McKinney-Aguirre for winning the EQUUS Foundation Research Award at #AAEPOrlando in recognition of her hard work evaluating novel therapeutics for 🐴 intestinal healing! 🎉🥼🧫! NCSU CVM Research NCState CVM Comparative Medicine Research Training NC State Vet Medicine AAEP

Alumnae Alert! 🎓🎉❤️This weekend we officially celebrated our most recent Gonzalez Lab alumnae, Dr Drs Elsa Ludwig and Caroline McKinney-Aguirre! We are so grateful that you both will be remaining with the pack! NCSU CVM Research NC State Vet Medicine NCState CVM Comparative Medicine Research Training

Happy Holidays from the Gonzalez Lab! Wearing our wonderful gifts from john freund last year and hoping everyone else is gets some time to ‘horse around’ this holiday season too!

Thank you AJP-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology! Honored to be part of this outstanding journal! NCSU CVM Research NCState CVM Comparative Medicine Research Training

Thank you so much to Dr. Jerrold Turner and Harvard Medical School for the opportunity to share our work with the HDDC! NCSU CVM Research NC State Vet Medicine

We ❤️d sharing our work, along with so many other fantastic NCSU CVM Research labs, with all of the wonderful visitors at this year’s NC State Vet Medicine Open House!

Great time at the American Physiological Society Summit in Baltimore so far! Carla Lopez Cruz represented us so well with her oral presentation in the Horace W Davenport Distinguished Lectureship session! Can’t wait for all the posters tonight! APS Gastrointestinal and Liver Section NCSU CVM Research NC State Vet Medicine

Having too much fun to post in real-time! Our trainees did an amazing job with their posters last night! Two more left for this evening if you’d like to hear about our work - S866 and 884! AJP-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology NCSU CVM Research

From Melbourne to Raleigh: Thank you for coming to visit us and sharing our excitement for GI Normothermic Machine Perfusion, Adam Testro! You are welcome any time! NCSU CVM Research

Gonzalez Lab updates can now be found on Bluesky! GonzalezLabNCSU.bsky.social