SPRING 2026 SEMINAR SCHEDULE

We hope you will join us for the following seminars! Details for each seminar will be added as they become available, so please check back!

All School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences seminars are free and open to the public. Unless otherwise noted, the seminars will be held at 4 p.m. in VBS 145 on East Campus and streamed on Zoom (details below).

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Passcode: 814171

Jan. 26Krista Croghan and Robert Vavala
Instructional Designers, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Transformative Teaching
Title: SVMBS Boost Your Score Workshop
Host: Dr. Amy Desaulniers
Feb. 2Dr. Alex Pace
Veterinary Medicine 1st Year Student, UNL School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Title: Wildfires and Cattle: A Burning Issue?
Host: Dr. Amy Desaulniers
Feb. 9Dr. David Steffen
Professor, UNL Nebraska Veterinary Diagnostic Center
Title: Congenital Disease of Cattle Trends and Approaches
Feb. 16Dr. Lisa Rohde
Associate Director, UNL Graduate Studies
Title: Goal Setting and Creating Individual Development Plans
Host: Dr. Greg Somerville
Feb. 23Dr. Sydney Brown
Assistant Director, UNL Center for Transformative Teaching
Title: Prompting for Pedagogy: Developing High-Quality Questions More Quickly with Generative AI 
Host: Dr. Renee McFee
Mar. 2Dr. James Checco
Associate Professor, UNL Department of Chemistry
Title: Unraveling the molecular mechanisms of endogenous cell-to-cell signaling peptides
Host: Dr. Amy Desaulniers
Mar. 9Dr. Ivan Vechetti
Assistant Professor, UNL Nutrition and Health Sciences
Title: The role of MG53 in avoidance of disuse-induced muscle atrophy
Host: Dr. Amy Desaulniers
Mar. 23Dr. Carol Bagnell
Professor, Rutgers Department of Animal Science
Title: Maternal programming of development: The impact of mother’s milk
Host: Dr. Amy Desaulniers
Mar. 30Dr. Renee McFee
Associate Professor, UNL School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Title: TBD
Apr. 6Dr. Elizabeth Ramirez-Medina
Research Assistant Professor, UNL School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Title: African Swine Fever: Research, Development and Advances
Host: Dr. Scott McVey
Apr. 13Dr. Kepalee Saeng-Chuto
Postdoctoral Research Associate, UNL Nebraska Center for Virology
Title: Human poxviruses and their manipulation of host kinase signaling that controls mitosis
Host: Dr. Matthew Wiebe
Apr. 20Dr. Mostafa Hanafy
Postdoctoral Research Associate, UNL School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Title: TBD
Host: Dr. Raul Barletta
Apr. 27Chandan Krishnamoorthy
Graduate Student, UNL Nutrition and Health Sciences
Title: TBD
Host: Dr. Sathish Kumar Natarajan