THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2007
Opening Address: - 5:30 pm - 100 Large Animal Clinic (FREE and Open to the Public)
Marta Guerra, DVM, MPH, PhD, Dipl. ACVPM (opening speaker)
Senior Staff Veterinary Epidemiologist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Presenting: “Investigations and responses at CDC: epidemiology in action”
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2007 - 2271C Veterinary Medicine Basic Sciences Building
8:00-8:30 am - Registration in main lobby of Veterinary Medicine Basic Sciences Building
8:30-8:45 am - Welcome and opening remarks
8:45-9:30 am - Douglas Goodin, PhD
Director, Remote Sensing Research Laboratory, Department of Geography, Kansas State University
Presenting: "Landscape hierarchy and spatial scale: a framework for the ecology of zoonotic disease"
9:30-10:15 am -Uriel Kitron, PhD (NOTE: Schedule change)
Professor, Department of Pathobiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and CZR Co-director
Presenting: " Environment, change and disease: vector-borne zoonoses"
10:15-10:30 am - Break
10:30 - 11:15 am - Helen Jost, PhD
Department of Veterinary Science and Microbiology, University of Arizona
Presenting: "The unusual toxins of Arcanobacterium haemolyticum"
11:15-12:00 pm - J. Stephen Dumler, MD
Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Presenting: "Novel pathogens, novel pathogenetic mechanisms: Anaplasma phagocytophilum"
12:00-1:30 pm - Lunch and poster viewing - Atrium, second floor Veterinary Medicine Basic Sciences Building
1:30-2:15 pm - Tamara Maier, PhD
Department. of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Medical College of Wisconsin
Presenting: "Analysis of Francisella tularensis Himar1-based transposon mutants defective for replication in macrophages"
2:15-3:00 pm - Roberto Docampo, MD, PhD
Sanford Orkin Eminent Scholar, Department of Cellular Biology,
University of Georgia
Presenting: “Novel targets for the treatment of Trypanosomiasis”
3:00-4:00 pm - Poster Reception
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