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Faezeh Kharazyan was awarded a travel grant by the prestigious American Society for Virology (ASV) to present her research results entitled “Detection of potentially novel strains of the Aleutian mink disease virus in wild mink and evidence for low intra-host genetic diversity”. The meeting was held in London, Ontario, in July 2015. She was also nominated by the Department of Plant and Animal Sciences as the winner of the travel award to attend the Canadian Society of Animal Sciences (CSAS) annual meeting to present her research results titled “Evolutionary correlations between individual genes, partial and full-coding regions of the Aleutian mink disease virus genome” and “Investigating the source of the recent Aleutian mink disease virus outbreak in Nova Scotia using phylogenetic analysis”. This meeting was held in Ottawa in May 2015. Faezeh also won the second prize in oral presentation category in Graduate Research Day in Dalhousie University Faculty of Agriculture in April 2013.

Faezeh is a M.Sc. candidate at the Department of Plant and Animal Sciences at Dalhousie University under supervision of Dr. Hossain Farid. Her research project is on sequencing and evolutionary analysis of the Aleutian mink disease virus (AMDV) circulating in wild mink in Nova Scotia and determine their evolutionary relationships to AMDV worldwide. She has currently coauthored two articles published in peer-reviewed journals.