Department of Clinical Sciences Spring 2011 Seminar Series
Sponsored by gift support from Nestle Purina PetCare
Thursday, March 10, 2011 SPECIAL SEMINAR 12:00 PM
Location: Lecture Hall II, Veterinary Educational Center
Speaker: R. Balfour Sartor, M.D., Midgett Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology Director, University of North Carolina, Multidisciplinary Center for IBD Research and Treatment Co-Director, Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease
Title: “Host Microbial Interactions in Immune Mediated Intestinal Inflammation”
Hosted by: Kenneth Simpson, kws5@cornell.edu, phone #3-3251
Friday, March 11, 2011
Location: Room C2-537
Speaker: Nate Sutter, Assistant Professor of Medical Genetics, Department of Clinical Sciences; Section of Medical Genetics, College of Veterinary Medicine
Title: “SINE investigations for gene mapping in the dog”
Hosted by: Sharon Center, sac6@cornell.edu, phone #3-3030
Friday, March 18, 2011
Location: Room C2-537
Speaker: Rory Todhunter, Professor of Surgery, Department of Clinical Sciences; Section of Small Animal Surgery
Title: “Complex Inheritance”
Hosted by: Sharon Center, sac6@cornell.edu, phone #3-3030
Friday, March 18, 2011
Location: Room C2-537
Speaker: Sylvia Bedford-Guaus, Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences, Section of Theriogenology
Title: “Molecular Characterization of Equine Phospholipase C-zeta: A Protein Required for Sperm Fertility”
Hosted by: Susan Suarez, sss7@cornell.edu; phone #3-3589
APRIL 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
Location: Room C2-537
Speaker: Nena Winand, Sr. Research Associate, Department of Molecular Medicine
Title: "Inheritance of Simple Mendelian Traits"
Hosted by: Rory Todhunter, rjt2@cornell.edu, phone # 3-3041
Friday, April 1, 2011 CANCELLED
Location: Room C2-537
Speaker: Anna Kukekova, Principal Research Scientist, Baker Institute for Animal Health
Title: “Genetics of Behavior in Canids”
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 SPECIAL SEMINAR 8:00am-9:00 am
Location: Room C2-537
Speaker: Sarah Pownder, DVM, Clinical Fellow, Department of Clinical Sciences, Section of Large Animal Surgery
Title: "Musculoskeletal MRI: Innovation and application"
Hosted by: Lisa Fortier, laf4@cornell.edu, phone #3-3102
(Dr. Pownder’s CV can be obtained in Dr. Fortier’s office)
Friday, April 15, 2011
Location: Room C2-537
Speaker: Becky
Tallmadge-Ingram, Research Associate, Department of Clinical Sciences; Section
of Large Animal Medicine
Title: “Developmental progression
of equine immunoglobulin diversity”
Hosted by: Douglas Antczak, dfa1@cornell.edu, 256-5621
Friday, April 15, 2011
Location: Room C2-537
Speaker: Gillian Perkins, Sr.
Lecturer, Department of Clinical Sciences, Section of Large Animal Medicine
Title: "The Equine Stomach Harbors an Abundant and Diverse
Microbial Flora"
Hosted by: Dorothy Ainsworth, dma2@cornell.edu; #3-3232
Friday, May 6, 2011 (Canceled due to illness)
Location: Room C2-537
Speaker: Daniel Fletcher, Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences; Section of Emergency & Critical Care
Title: "Canine Spontaneous Hemoperitoneum - Investigations into Optimal Surgical Timing and Hemostasis"
Hosted by: To be Determined
Friday, May 6, 2011
Location: Room C2-537
Speaker: Jon Cheetham, Research Scientist, Department of Clinical Sciences; Section of Large Animal Surgery
Title: “Early diagnosis of upper airway disease in horses”
Hosted by: Rory Todhunter, rjt2@cornell.edu, phone # 3-3041
May 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
Location: Room C2-537
Speaker: Eric Ledbetter,
Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences; Section of
Ophthalmology
Title: “Acanthamoeba keratitis in
domestic cats"
Hosted by: Thomas Kern, tjk3@cornell.edu, phone # 3-3029
Friday, May 20, 2011
Location: Room C2-537
Speaker: Bruce Kornreich, Sr. Research
Associate, Department of Clinical Sciences; Section of
Cardiology
Title: Terminating Atrial Fibrillation:
Pharmacy or Physics?
Friday, June 3, 2011
Location: Room C2-537
Speaker: Ursula Krotscheck,
Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences; Section of Small Animal
Surgery
Title: Kinetic Gait Analysis in Canine Orthopedics
Hosted by: Rory Todhunter, rjt2@cornell.edu, phone # 3-3041
Friday, June 3, 2011
Location: Room C2-537
Speaker: Joe Wakshlag, Assistant
Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences; Section of
Nutrition
Title: Chronic Inflammation of Obesity: Of dogs and
mice?
Hosted by: Rory Todhunter, rjt2@cornell.edu, phone # 3-3041
