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The National Institutes of Health recently awarded CVMBS a $4 million grant to help fund construction of the planned expansion to the Bioenvironmental Research Building at the Foothills Research Campus. The expansion will help alleviate a critical shortage of BSL3 research space for MIP investigators. Congratulations to Ralph Smith, Ken Olson and all of the others who contributed to this successful application. Please reserve January 15, 2008 (plus or minus a few months) for the grand opening celebration!

The first annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Regional Center of Excellence took place from October 2-4 at the Hilton-Fort Collins. Participants from across the 600,000 square mile region, along with NIH representatives, gathered for two days of intense and truly exciting discussions outlining the missions, projects, cores and goals of this exciting new Center.
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Dr. Juliet Bryant has accepted the position and will begin October 24.

The annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Virology Club / first joint meeting with the Rocky Mountain Branch of the ASM took place at Pingree Park October 7-9. Over 60 enthusiastic and interactive microbiologists attended the meeting - some coming from as far as New Mexico.
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The MIP Department acknowledges our current and former trainees who recently sat the American College of Veterinary Pathology board certification examinations;

Certified in Anatomic Pathology: (and on the first attempt!!!)
• Jonathan Arzt
• Michelle Dennis

Certified in Clinical Pathology: (also on attempt 1!)
• Jennifer Steinberg, a former trainee who completed her training at Tufts University.

Diplomates in waiting...
Keith Nelson and Marie Legare have positioned themselves in a positive direction toward board certification by passing 2 parts of the examination.

Gail Berardino-Lang presented her final seminar on Tuesday, Sept 27 entitled, "Nitrogen Oxide Reducers in Permeable Barrier Microcosms".
...and you thought that the CSU goal line stand versus UTAH was impressive!

CSU was awarded funding for one anatomic pathology residency position from the ACVP/STP Coalition of Veterinary Pathology Fellows. Applications were submitted from 17 different North American training institutions for five anatomic pathology residency positions.
Congrats to Gary Mason and all of the other folks who made this happen!

Congratulations to the following
MIP finishers!
• Carol Blair (1st Place in Division)
• Patrick Brennan (1st Place in Division)
• Nicole Ehrhart
• Christine Olver
• Karamjeet Pandher
• Sue VandeWoude
• Marjorie Williams
• Matthew Williams
• Jeffrey Wilusz

• Anderson J, Akkina R. TRIM5alpha(rh) expression restricts HIV-1 infection in lentiviral vector-transduced CD34(+)-cell-derived macrophages. Mol Ther. 2005 Oct;12(4):687-96.
• Anderson J, Akkina R. HIV-1 resistance conferred by siRNA cosuppression of CXCR4 and CCR5 coreceptors by a bispecific lentiviral vector. AIDS Res Ther. 2005 Jan 13;2(1):1.
• Johnson CM, Pandey R, Sharma S, Khuller GK, Basaraba RJ, Orme IM, Lenaerts AJ. Oral Therapy Using Nanoparticle-Encapsulated Antituberculosis Drugs in Guinea Pigs Infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2005 Oct;49(10):4335-8.
• Hutcheson HJ, Gorham CH, Machain-Williams C, Lorono-Pino MA, James AM, Marlenee NL, Winn B, Beaty BJ, Blair CD. Experimental Transmission of West Nile Virus (Flaviviridae: Flavivirus) by Carios capensis Ticks from North America. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2005 Fall;5(3):293-5.
• Beck ET, Bosio CF, Geske DA, Blair CD, Beaty BJ, Black WC 4th. An analysis of gene flow among midwestern populations of the mosquito ochlerotatus triseriatus. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2005 Sep;73(3):534-40.
• Linde CM, Grundstrom S, Nordling E, Refai E, Brennan PJ, Andersson M. Conserved structure and function in the granulysin and NK-lysin peptide family. Infect Immun. 2005 Oct;73(10):6332-9.
• Han B, Specht R, Wickramasinghe SR, Carlson JO. Binding Aedes aegypti densonucleosis virus to ion exchange membranes. J Chromatogr A. 2005 Oct 21;1092(1):114-24.
• Hu J, Lutz CS, Wilusz J, Tian B. Bioinformatic identification of candidate cis-regulatory elements involved in human mRNA polyadenylation. RNA. 2005 Oct;11(10):1485-93.

• Date: Nov 18
• Place: Micro B120
• Time:11:30am to 2:00pm

(Please wipe the anticipatory saliva off your keyboard before you scroll down to the next story.)

Date: Oct 28, 2005
Time: 4:00pm
Place: Glover Gallery, Pathology

Please join the Department in recognizing the following individuals for their dedicated service to CSU:

Click on the photo above and check out the Fall 2005 issue of Insight, the quarterly publication that highlights CVMBS acheivements....lots of MIPeople in this one!

Development of a five year MIP strategic plan was the primary focus of the meeting. Click here to view a copy of the draft plan. The Departmental FY '06 budget plan is balanced, healthy and contains a significant amount of investment in developmental areas.
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Is it a Bird?
...A Plane?
...A Submarine?...

No! Its the new BEER (Biomass Energy Extraction & Recovery) System currently being installed at the Diagnostic Lab for Prion-related animal disposal!

Mark your calendars and dust off your dancin' shoes!

The 2005 MIP Holiday Party has been scheduled for Friday, December 2nd at the Hilton-Fort Collins.

The DLab is doing animal diagnostic work for the CVMA at a reduced cost.

Thanks to this and all MIP personnel who have contributed to hurricane relief.

The Colorado Division of Wildlife (DOW) has confirmed that a bull moose killed by an archer has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD). The moose was submitted for testing on Sept. 12. CWD was diagnosed in testing completed by the Colorado State University (CSU) Veterinary Diagnostic lab. Because this is the first time CWD has been found in a wild moose, testing will be repeated on this sample. Until now CWD had only been found in the wild in deer and elk. Full Story

Colorado Combined Campaign donation packets were recently distributed to everyone in MIP. Please take a moment to review this important program and consider contributing.

	Amy Moore, Accounting Tech Micro Facility
	Tian Wang, Asst Professor Arbovirology

Upcoming Birthdays

• Elizabeth Atencio, Oct 15
• Nicole Marlenee, Oct 16
• Lesley Jones, Oct 17
• Shannon Swist, Oct 18
• Katy Poole, Oct 19
• Wendy Sprague, Oct 19
• Sebabrata Mahapatra, Oct 20
• Hana VanCampen, Oct 20
• Brittney Fay, Oct 23
• Duane Lassen, Oct 23
• Ajay Jha, Oct 24
• Christine Ritter, Oct 24
• Stuart VandeVenter, Oct 24
• Victoria Jones, Oct 26
• Defne Beyce, Oct 27
• Sandra Quackenbush, Oct 27
• Julia Inamine, Oct 28
• Sang Park, Oct 29
• Jeffrey Wilusz, Oct 29
• Dennis Pierro, Oct 31
• Devinder Kaur, Nov 1
• Jian Zhang, Nov 4
• Davis Seelig, Nov 9
• Michio Kurosu, Nov 10
• Andrew Salimbeni, Nov 11
• Vara Vissa, Nov 13
• Carol Wilusz, Nov 13
• Becky Rivoire, Nov 14

"Our elections are free--it's in the results where we eventually pay " ~ Bill Stern Radio Hall of Fame

Starting this month the answers to the crossword puzzles will be published at the same time as the puzzle!
Click here for the new MIPuzzle #3
and the Answers.

MIPuzzle #2 Answers

Kasey and Arlin Rogers celebrated the birth of Cameron Joseph Rogers on 9/10/05!

(And to think it all started with the Pathology softball team in 97!) They are all well, Kasey is a postdoc at the Tufts-New England Medical Center and Arlin is the Chief of Comparative Pathology in the MIT Division of Comparative Medicine.
Arlin will be guiding a Boston pub crawl on Monday night during the ACVP meeting in December. Anyone interested should email him at abr@mit.edu.

Former Pathology Department Head, Archibald Ferguson Alexander died on Sept 16, 2005, of lung cancer. Dr. Alexander began his career at CSU in 1956 when he accepted a position as an instructor in the Veterinary School at Colorado A & M. He was chairman of the Department of Pathology from 1966 to 1980. Until recently, he would visit the Pathology facility office every few months to get his mail and check on how everyone was doing. His genuine personality and sense of humor will be greatly missed.

• Four people from the DLab dressed up as Powers Rangers.
• Jeffrey Wilusz in an Indiana Jones outfit.
• Anne Avery and Christine Olver as siamese twins.
• Charlie Calisher in a Red Sox uniform.
• Sue VandeWoude in a catsuit.
• Ralph Smith as the Mad Hatter.
• Terry Spraker and Ed Hoover in an elk costume (who gets the front?).
• Randy Basaraba as a hard working scientist.
• Gary Mason as Groucho Marx.

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Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri
3 Faculty Seminar 4pm Annual RM RCE Mtg	4	5 Histo Seminar 8am	6	7 RM ASM/Virology Mtg
10 Faculty Seminar 4pm	11 Graduate Seminar 12-noon	12 Histo Seminar 8am	13	14
17 Faculty Seminar 4pm	18 Graduate Seminar 12-noon CVMBS Faculty/Staff Mtg, 4:15pm, Hilton FC	19 Histo Seminar 8am	20	21
24 Faculty Seminar 4pm	25 Graduate Seminar 12-noon	26 Histo Seminar 8am Faculty Mtg 4pm	27	28 Milestones Reception 4pm Path Glover Gallery
31 Faculty Seminar 4pm

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