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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Meeting ID: 924 6860 3808
Passcode: 814171
| Jan. 26 | Krista 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. 2 | Dr. 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. 9 | Dr. David Steffen Professor, UNL Nebraska Veterinary Diagnostic Center Title: Congenital Disease of Cattle Trends and Approaches |
| Feb. 16 | Dr. Lisa Rohde Associate Director, UNL Graduate Studies Title: Goal Setting and Creating Individual Development Plans Host: Dr. Greg Somerville |
| Feb. 23 | Dr. 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. 2 | Dr. 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. 9 | Dr. 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. 23 | Dr. Carol Bagnell Professor, Rutgers Department of Animal Science Title: Maternal programming of development: The impact of mother’s milk Host: Dr. Amy Desaulniers |
| Mar. 30 | Dr. Renee McFee Associate Professor, UNL School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Title: TBD |
| Apr. 6 | Dr. 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. 13 | Dr. 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. 20 | Dr. Mostafa Hanafy Postdoctoral Research Associate, UNL School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Title: TBD Host: Dr. Raul Barletta |
| Apr. 27 | Chandan Krishnamoorthy Graduate Student, UNL Nutrition and Health Sciences Title: TBD Host: Dr. Sathish Kumar Natarajan |