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Annual Midwestern
Conference of Parasitologists

June 5-7, 2008
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Co-sponsored by Dr. Norman D. Levine and Dr. Jorge and Mary Anne Guerrero lecture series in veterinary parasitology

Thursday, June 5, 2008

  6:00-9:00 p.m. Opening Social
Jupiter's at the Crossing , 2511 Village Green Pl., Champaign
NOTE: THIS IS A NEW LOCATION

Friday, June 6, 2008

  7:30 a.m. Conference Check-In
Continental Breakfast
Poster Presentation Set Up
  8:30 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
  8:45 a.m. Oral Presentations
  10:15 a.m. Break
  10:45 a.m. Oral Presentations
  Noon Lunch
  1:15 p.m. Oral Presentations
  2:30 p.m. Break
  2:45 p.m. Identification of genes necessary for chronic infection by a parasite
Laura J. Knoll, PhD
University of Wisconsin-Madison
  3:45 p.m. Endemic leishmaniasis in foxhounds
Alexa C. Rosypal, PhD
University of North Carolina

Dr. Rosypal's lecture and the following reception are sponsored by Dr. Norman D. Levine and Dr. Jorge and Mary Anne Guerrero lecture series in veterinary parasitology.
  4:45 p.m. Reception
Poster Viewing
  6:00 p.m. Break
  7:30 p.m. Banquet
Biaggi's Ristorante Italiano, 2235 S. Neil St., Champaign
    P.C. (Post Cable) Parasitology at Purdue
Dennis J. Minchella, PhD
Purdue University

Saturday, June 7, 2008

  8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
  8:15 a.m. Oral Presentations
  11:30 a.m. Business Meeting
Awards Presentation
  Noon Adjourn