SEMINAR SCHEDULE

SPRING SEMESTER 2008

Meeting time and place will be 4:00 p.m., 145 VBS

Jan		14		Name:		Harshdeep Dogra, PhD Candidate, Department of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences
				Title:		"D-alanine Ligase and D-alanine Reacemase of Mycobacterium as Candidate Drug Targets"
				Host:		Dr. Raul Barletta
Jan		21		Martin Luther King Day (UNL is closed)
Jan		28		Name:		Dr. Mike Carlson, Toxicologist, Department of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences
				Title:		Mela-What? Melamine-Contaminated Pet Food: A Veterinary Toxicological Viewpoint
				Host:		Dr. David Hardin
Feb		4		NO SEMINAR
Feb		11		Name:		Dr. John Bannantine, Scientist, National Animal Disease Center, Ames, IA
				Title:		“Identification of mycobacterial antigens in the context of Johne’s disease using a protein array”
				Host:		Dr. Raul Barletta
Feb		18		Name:		Dr. Marjorie Lou, Professor, Department of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences
				Title:		"Why Oxidative Stress is Essential for Cellular Function"
				Host:		Dr. David Hardin
Feb		25		Name:		Dr. Dave Nelson, Assistant Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington, IL
				Title:		“Virulence factors in the hypervariable chlamydial plasticity zone dicate strain and tissue tropism in vivo”
				Host:		Avery Paulson
Mar		3		Name:		Holly Samson, MS Candidate, Department of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences
				Title:		"Comparative Responses of Ruminant Host Cells to BVDV Infection"
				Host:		Dr. Clayton Kelling
Mar		10		Name:		Namal Liyanage, PhD Candidate, Department of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences
				Title:		"Induction of Epithelial Cell Apoptotic Death Helicobacter Hepaticus Cytoletahl Distending Toxin"
				Host:		Dr. Gerald Duhamel
Mar		17		Spring Break
Mar		24		Name:		Lalit Beura, MS Candidate, Department of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences
				Title:		"Role of PRRS Viral Proteins in Type I Interferon Antagonism"
				Host:		Dr. Fernando Osorio
Mar		31		Name:		Debasis Nayak, PhD Candidate, Department of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences
				Title:		"Single amino acid change in central domain of Vesicular stomatitis virus nucleocapsid protein abrogates its replication function"
				Host:		Dr. Asit Pattnaik
Apr		7		Name:		Avery Paulson, PhD Candidate, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
				Title:		“Agreement Between and Within Diagnostic Tests for Johne’s Disease: Implications for Disease Surveillance”
				Host:		Dr. David Smith
Apr		14		Name:		Canceled: Jamie Henningson, PhD Candidate, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
				Title:		“Influence of Mutations in Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus"
				Host:		Dr. David Steffen
Apr		21		Name:		Xiaofeng Yang, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
				Title:		"Host Adaptation of the Lyme Disease Spirochete"
				Host:		Dr. Greg Somerville
Apr		28		Name:		Sakthivel Subramaniam, PhD Candidate, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
				Title:		"Mechanism of Immunosuppression in PRRSV Pathogenesis"
				Host:		Dr. Fernando Osorio