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Faculty PromotionsThree faculty members in the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology have been promoted to full professor: Dr. Cory Teuscher, Dr. Ronald Weigel, and Dr. James Zachary. Two faculty members in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine have been promoted to associate professor: Dr. Peter Constable and Dr. Dawn Morin. Congratulations to all.
Graduate Students Recognized at Conference
Three graduate students in veterinary pathobiology received awards for their posters presented at the Second Annual Conference on New and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases: Dr. Tetsya Furuya, “Myristoylation and differentiation-associated membrane localization of phospholipase C of Trypanosoma cruzi”; Dr. Brian Bailey (with Benjamin Moreno, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “Studies of high energy phosphate compounds in intracellular pathogenic eukaryotes: Composition, distribution and the use of analogs as possible new chemotherapeutic agents”; and Dr. Julie Johnson, “Cryptosporidium parvum sporozoite-host cell receptor from plasma membrane vesicles.”
Undergraduate Research Fellows
Percy Morales, a junior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, received a Goldwater Scholarship, $7,500 toward his senior year of studies. Morales works in the laboratory of Dr. Marianela Segre, veterinary pathobiology, through a Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Haris Jahic, a U of I senior, is also a Howard Hughes Fellow. He worked with Dr. Barbara Kitchell, veterinary clinical medicine, on cloning the MMP2 gene in dogs.
Dr. Gary Althouse, veterinary clinical medicine, gave an invited talk on quality control in extended porcine semen at UNCEIA in Paris, France, in February. In March he spoke on swine reproduction with swine producers at the Belstra Milling Annual Producers Meeting in DeMotte, Ind., and at the Fairmont Animal Breeders Annual Producers Meeting in Fairmont, Minn. He also gave an invited talk at the VI International
Symposium on Porcine Reproduction and AI in Madrid, Spain.
Dr. Val Beasley, veterinary biosciences, was elected chair of the American Veterinary Medical Association Committee on Environmental Affairs.
Dr. Peter Constable, veterinary clinical medicine, has been appointed to a three-year term on the editorial board of Toxicological Sciences. On February 14 he gave eight lectures on such topics as bovine abdominal surgery, calf diarrhea, and coliform mastitis at the Arkansas State Veterinary Medical
Association Meeting in Little Rock.
Dr. Roberto Docampo, veterinary pathobiology, was recognized in April at the 40th anniversary of the Center for Advanced Study for his role as corresponding member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Lyle Hanson, professor emeritus in veterinary pathobiology, received the 1999 Distinguished Veterinary Alumnus Award from the College of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan State University. The award recognizes one who is held in high esteem by his colleagues and who has excelled in practice, teaching, research, service, and organized veterinary medicine.
Dr. Wanda Haschek-Hock, head of veterinary pathobiology, has been named vice-president elect of the Comparative Veterinary Specialty Section of the Society of Toxicology. The term is for four years. She also recently gave a talk on mycotoxicosis in swine at the University of Utrecht in The Netherlands.
Dr. Rex Hess, veterinary biosciences, gave an invited symposium lecture, titled “Estrogen receptor localization and function in the male,” at the annual meeting of the American Society of Andrology in Louisville, Ky., on April 12.
Barbara Huffman, a staff secretary in veterinary clinical medicine, has been named winner of the 1999 Robert P. Larsen Human Development Award by the University of Illinois Counseling Center for her guidance to professional and post-doctoral students. She has devoted 19 years to the personal and career development of vet medicine students. The Larsen Human Development Award recognizes contributions to the campus toward enhancing student development and maximizing students’ abilities to make satisfying life choices.
Dr. Richard E. Isaacson, veterinary pathobiology, was among 35 participants invited to participate in a colloquium entitled “Microbial Genome Sequencing: Current Status and Future Needs.” It was sponsored by the American Academy of Microbiology and was held March 19 to 21 in New Orleans. He is also serving as panel manager for the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Research Initiative competitive grants panel on food safety and as an external reviewer of the swine research programs at the National Animal Disease Center, Ames, Iowa.
Dr. Michael Kinsel has been named chief of the Zoo Pathology Program. This position includes an appointment as a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Veterinary Pathology and as a veterinary pathologist (zoo) in the Laboratory of Veterinary Diagnostic Medicine. Dr. Kinsel has been with the Zoo Pathology Program since 1996.
Dr. Barbara Kitchell, veterinary clinical medicine, led a panel on enhancing your annual teaching report through a teaching portfolio at a campus-wide faculty retreat on teaching in February.
In March she spoke at a veterinary post-graduate institute on advances in cancer medicine in Phoenix, Ariz., and gave an overview of telomerase in cancer at a campus seminar on environmental toxicology. On April 5 she attended a meeting of the Feline Vaccine-Associated Sarcoma task force at the headquarters of the American Veterinary Medical Association; Dr. Kitchell chairs the molecular etiology subgroup.
Eight members of her lab attended a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Philadelphia, April 10-14, where they presented a poster on telomerase expression in spontaneous tumors of cats and dogs. In May Dr. Kitchell attended the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Atlanta, Ga.
Dr. H. Fred Troutt, veterinary clinical medicine, presented an invited paper on “Prevalence of Salmonella in cull dairy cows” at the Ruminant Health-Nutrition Conference sponsored by the New York State Veterinary Medical Society and the Eastern Federation of Feed Merchants. In April he participated in Fair 2002: Symposium on Food Animal Research Priorities, held in Baltimore, Md., and sponsored by the Federation of Animal Science Societies and the Animal Agriculture Coalition. In May he served on review panels for the USDA-CSREES Multicultural Grant Proposals and for the Center of Animal Health and Productivity at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Dick Wallace, Continuing Education- Public ervice/Extension, Director of Instructional Programming and Distance Learning, and veterinary clinical medicine, has been asked to chair the Information Management Committee for the American Association of Bovine Practitioners. The term is for three years. Dr. Wallace has been a member of that committee for three years and has overseen the Web browsing room at the annual AABP meeting for the last two years. He is one of five list moderators for AABP-L, a members-only list serve reaching 5,000 bovine veterinarians world-wide.
Mitzi Williams, veterinary librarian, made a presentation at the April 16 Environmental Horizons 99 conference at the University of Illinois. She demonstrated the Environmental Studies Virtual Library, a Web site she developed to unite reference materials relating to environmental study: www.library.uiuc.edu/envi/.
Dr. Srikanth Yellayi, veterinary biosciences graduate student, received a $500 travel award from the Endocrine Society to attend the ENDO’99 meeting in San Diego, Calif., in June. He presented an abstract on the role of estrogen receptor alpha in the development and progression of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) in male mice.
Dr. Federico Zuckermann, veterinary pathobiology, has been appointed to the editorial board of Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology.
