University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto Thursday praised the partnership of Gov. Steve Beshear and legislative leaders who are strongly supporting UK's self-financing of a dramatic $275 million transformation of the campus, including a new Academic Sciences building.
Laurence Zwiebel
Professor
Dept. of Biological Sciences and the Center for Molecular Neuroscience,
Institute of Chemical Biology and Global Health and Program
Vanderbilt University
“The Genetics and Genomics of Mosquito Olfaction Drive Novel Approaches Against an Ancient Problem"
April 8 (Monday)
4:00 PM
116 TH Morgan Building
Host: Brian Rymond
BCH/BIO/MI/PLS/PPA 601 Special Topics in Molecular and Cellular Genetics
John Dowling, PhD
Professor
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Harvard University
“What can a Zebrafish see with only an OFF-pathway and other Fish Stories”
Jan. 28, 2013 (Monday)
4:00 PM
116 TH Morgan Building
Host: Brian Rymond, rymond@uky.edu
Refreshments will be served at 3:45pm
"Bidirectional Communication between the Brain and Adipose Tissue"
Timothy Bartness, PhD
Professor
Department of Biology
Georgia State Univeristy
Wednesday, January 9
8:00 am - 9:00 am
University Health Services Bldg. (UHS)
Room 130
Coffee and Refreshments will be available
Schoolwork can get overwhelming for college students, and they need an outlet for fun. For brothers Terren and Skylar Trott, a combination of medical school and research opportunities led them to establish their own extracurricular activity on campus — water polo.
Hiroshi Nakato, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Minnesota
Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
4:00pm
116 THM
University of Kentucky, Dept. of Biology
*refreshments served at 3:45pm
Sponsored by Biology Ribble Endowment
Factulty Host: Doug Harrison
Celeste Berg, Ph.D.
Professor of Genome Sciences
University of Washington, Department of Genome Sciences
4:00pm
116 TH Morgan Bldg.
University of Kentucky, Department of Biology
*refreshments served at 3:45pm
Sponsored by the Department of Biology Ribble Endowment
Faculty Host: Doug Harrison
Alexey Arkov, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Murray State University, Biology Department
4:00 pm
116 TH Morgan Building, University of Kentucky Department of Biology
Sponsored by Department of Biology Ribble Endowment
Faculty Host: Doug Harrison
John P. Wyatt Lecture on Environmental Health and Disease
Global Climate Change and the Emergence of Infectious Diseases
University of Kentucky
Office of the Vice President for Research
Wednesday December 12, 2012, 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
William T. Young Library Auditorium
This Symposium on “Global Climate Change and the Emergence of Infectious Diseases” will present and discuss selected topics including Emerging Pathogens: the Ecology and Evolution in the Invasion of New Species, Invasive Mosquitoes and Human Health, and Biogeography and Infectious Disease Ecology and Climate Change. The Symposium addresses students and faculty participants, with a program of activities consisting of distinguished lectures and a panel discussion of open access for the general public.
PROGRAM
LECTURES
"Climate change, ecology, and disease emergence: A public health perspective"
Dr. Ben Beard
Associate Director for Climate Change
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Chief, Bacterial Diseases Branch
Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/media/subtopic/sme/beard.html
"More than climate: Ecological change and its potential effects on vector-borne disease"
Dr. Steven Juliano
Distinguished Professor of Ecology
School of Biological Sciences
Illinois State University
http://bio.illinoisstate.edu/sajulian/
"Arbovirus emergence - anthropogenic effects and viral-instrinsic factors"
Dr. Christopher Mores
School of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Pathobiological Sciences
Louisiana State University
http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/pbs/mores.htm
PANEL DISCUSSION PARTICIPANTS
Dr. John Cox (UK Forestry) · Dr. Grayson Brown (UK Entomology) · Dr. Stephen Dobson (UK Entomology) Dr. Christopher Mores (Louisiana State U.) · Dr. Steven Juliano (Illinois State U.) · Dr. Brian Stevenson (UK Microbiology) · Moderator: Dr. Dave Westneat (UK Biology)
Reception at the Helen King Alumni House 5-7pm
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Organization Committee:
Phillip H. Crowley, Dave Westneat and Gisela García Ramos
Contact (GGR): ggarc0@uky.edu; Phone: 257-5306
Department of Biology, University of Kentucky
The educational rabbit-hole of entering the medical world can be a time consuming one. Often students feels that they don’t have time to squeeze in an elective of their choice — much less a semester abroad. Jennifer Hamilton however, was able to study abroad twice while earning her undergraduate degree in biology. Hamilton attributes this achievement to her College of Arts and Sciences advisor who guided her through the study abroad process, helped with scholarships, while also keeping her on track academically.
