Graduate Seminar Series - MIP792A

Presentation Schedule Spring 2012

Coordinator: Dr. Sandra Quackenbush, 491-3545, sandra.quackenbush@colostate.edu
Tuesdays, 12:00pm - 12:50pm
Pathology Room 103

DATE	SPEAKER
Blue denotes seminar to be held in D100 RIC Building* at Foothills Campus
January 17	Laurie Baeten "Clinical and Immunological response of Carnivores to Yersinia pestis" PhD Program, Advisor: Dr. Richard Bowen
January 24	Shannon McLeland "Comparison of Biochemical and Histopathologic Staging in Cats with Chronic Kidney Disease" PhD Program, Advisor: Dr. Steven Dow, Co-Advisor: Dr. Michael Lappin
January 30 2:30pm	Charles Brandon Stauft, BS "Western Equine Encephalitis Virus: Development and Application of a New World Alphavirus Transducing System" PhD Program, Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Olson
January 31	No Seminar Scheduled
February 2 10:00am	Andrew Goodyear, BS "Investigation of innate immunity, mucosal therapeutics and pathogenesis of select agent Burkholderia species" PhD Program, Advisor: Dr. Steven Dow
February 7	Christy Wyckoff "Estimating Prion Binding Capacity of Soil" PhD Program, Advisor: Dr. Mark Zabel
February 14	Julia Ryseff "Characterization of errors and predictability of disease using the Advia 120 hematology analyzer leukocyte differential" MS Program, Advisor: Dr. Andrea Bohn
February 21	No Seminar Scheduled
February 28	Rebecca Crew "Cell Division & Latency: Identification of important cell division regulators in M.tuberculosis"
March 6	Kara Mosovsky "Antimicrobial Peptides and Antibiotics Exhibit Complex Interactions in Bacterial Killing" Jonathan LeCureux "In vivo Blockade of PDL-1 Suppresses HIV Viral Loads and Improves CD4 T Cell Counts in Humanized Mice"
March 13	No Seminar - SPRING BREAK
March 20	Sarah Sheldon "Small Extracellular RNA Fragments of Mycobacterium tuberculosis" Paulina Zurita "Mycolic acids analysis by LC/MS: A derivatization protocol to increase detection sensitivity of potential biomarkers"
March 27	No Seminar Scheduled
April 3 D100 RIC	Carl Soffler Final Seminar "The Development, Characterization, and Comparison of Aerosol and Percutaneous Caprine Infection Models of Melioidosis"
April 10	Luis Morua "An Investigative study of Emerging Pathogenic Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria"
April 17	Mauren Emanuelli Kate Rhodes "Regulatory Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Efflux in Burkholderia pseudomallei"
April 24 D100 RIC	Christine Graham "A SYBR Green real-time PCR-based assay to identify blood meals in cat fleas (Ctenocephalides felis) from a plague-endemic region of Uganda" Final Seminar
May 1	Heidi Pecoraro "The "E's" of CIV: Epidemiology, Ecology, and Evolution of Canine Influenza Viruses (H3N8) in U.S. Shelter Dogs" Final Seminar

Presentation Schedule Fall 2011

DATE	SPEAKER
August 23	No Seminar Scheduled
August 30	Crystal Meyerett Reid, BS "Monitoring Behavioral and Cognitive Characteristics of Prion Protein Deficient Mice" PhD Program, Advisor: Mark Zabel
September 6	No Seminar Scheduled
September 13	No Seminar Scheduled
September 20	Karen Fox, DVM, DACVP "Sinus Tumors of Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep: Investigation of an Infectious Etiology" PhD Program, Advisors: Sandra Quackenbush, Terry Spraker
September 27 D100 RIC	Robyn Raban, MA Final Seminar "Aedes aegypti and dengue virus type 2: vector competence, fitness and genetics of transgenic, laboratory and wild A. aegypti."
October 4	Lorene Martinez, BS Final Seminar "North American animal Mycobacterium bovis: A snapshot of genetic diversity utilizing Multi Locus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis"
October 11	Angela Henderson, BA "Modulation of Immune Responses on Mucosal Surfaces Through Vaccination and Dietary Intervention" PhD Program, Advisor: Steve Dow
October 18	Agatha Wieczorek Final Seminar "The 16kDa protein HspX from Mycobacterium tuberculosis as a possible vaccine candidate in the small animal model of TB"
October 25	Aaron Phillips "Western equine encephalitis virus: Assessing pathogenesis and antiviral strategies in a mouse model" PhD Program, Advisor: Dr. Ken Olson
November 1 CANCELLED	Jenna Achenbach "Avian influenza A virus transmission and the emergence of drug resistance" PhD Program, Advisor: Dr. Richard Bowen
November 8	Patti Kiser "CD4+ T-cell derived IL-10 mitigates malaria-associated anemia" DVM/PhD Program, Advisor: Dr. Anne Avery
November 15 CANCELLED	Abeer Alharby
November 22	No Seminar - Fall Break
November 29	Lisa Wolfe "A Functional Proteomics Approach to Profiling the Mtb Kinome" PhD Program, Advisor: Dr. Karen Dobos
December 6	Amer Troy "A TLR9 agonist induces effective mucosal immunity against pulmonary Mycobacterium tuberculosis" PhD Program, Advisor: Dr. Angelo Izzo