CVM This Week
January 8, 2007
CVM This Week is a weekly newsletter for faculty, staff, and students of the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine. Please submit news and calendar items for next week's issue to Sue Kirchoff, editor, at kirch004@umn.edu before noon Friday. To view CVM This Week online and access back issues, go to http://www.cvm.umn.edu/newsandevents/publications/cvmthisweek/home.html.
Welcome to the College
Congratulations!
AHC offers summer fellowships in clinical research
Clinical studies currently enrolling in the VMC
Applications sought for postdoctoral training program
College kicks off series of personal and professional development seminars
About 30 people attended "Personal and Family Emergency Preparedness," the first in a monthly series of Friday noon personal and professional development seminars, on Jan. 5. If you missed the seminar, visit www.meret.umn.edu for more information. The next seminar, scheduled for noon Feb. 2, will be about time management, led by Jessica Miller.
A special request
Temporary room rental sought for faculty member's son
Elizabeth Noyes is seeking a temporary room rental for her son, Adrian Pijoan, the son of a CVM faculty member. A mature, responsible 18-year-old, Adrian is a senior at Roseville High School and needs a room for five to six months so he can finish his senior year of high school in Roseville. He is studious, has his own car, and is very neat. His mother lives in a different country but will be in Minnesota this week to help Adrian find a room to rent. Over the next five to six months, she will be coming to Minnesota frequently to visit and help with any issues that arise. Elizabeth and Adrian also have many adult friends and a support network of adults in the Twin Cities area.
They are looking for a month-to-month rental in the $400-600 range that would be all-inclusive for five to six months. Please contact Elizabeth Noyes at 787-948-4339 (cell) or enoyes94@hotmail.com.
Monday, January 8
Employee Orientation
8:30 a.m.-noon
458 Veterinary Medical Center
Tuesday, January 9
Faculty meeting
3 p.m.
125 Animal Science/Veterinary Medicine
Thursday, January 11
Veterinary Clinical Sciences Grand Rounds
BP Monitoring in Horses, presented by Dr.Carolina Ricco
Dogs and Humans: the Aging Brain and What Does Sex Have to Do With It? presented by Dr. Lorna Reichl
8-9 a.m.
125 Animal Science/Veterinary Medicine
Candidate Seminar
Modulation of Immune Responses by Salivary Gland Extracts and Proteins of the Stable Fly
Presented by Dr. Mehrdad Ameri, candidate for clinical pathology position
11:30 a.m.
280 Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Portrait Photo Session
3-5 p.m. (drop in; no reservation required)
458 Veterinary Medical Center
Friday, January 12
Large Animal Grand Rounds
Presented by Galbreath, Husman, Larson, and Swan
8 a.m.
215 Veterinary Science
Hill's pet food orders due
Noon
Monday, January 15
Martin Luther King Day (University holiday): January 15
What's ahead
Risk Communication: Public Engagement in Public Health Practice, presented by Dr. Will Hueston, director of the Center for Animal Health and Food Safety: January 17, noon-1:30 p.m., Coffman Memorial Union, Mississippi room. This is the first in a series of monthly emergency readiness and response seminars you can attend in person, via live webcast, or stored webcast. You can choose to receive continuing education credits or academic credit. For more information, visit http://cpheo.sph.umn.edu/cpheo/meret/rounds/rounds_011707.html.
CVM Seminar on Teaching: Jan. 19, noon, 280 Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.
Hill's pet food distribution: January 24, 7-7:50 a.m. and noon-12:50 p.m., Large Animal Hospital by the Gortner Avenue dock
Hill's pet food distribution: January 25, 7-7:50 a.m. and noon-12:50 p.m., Large Animal Hospital by the Gortner Avenue dock
Hill's pet food distribution: January 26, 7-7:50 a.m. and noon-12:50 p.m., Large Animal Hospital by the Gortner Avenue dock
Minnesota Veterinary Medical Association (MVMA) Annual Meeting: Feb. 1-3, Hilton Minneapolis. For more information, contact the MVMA at 651-645-7533 or info@mvma.org.
CVM Seminar on Teaching: Feb. 2, noon, 280 Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory
Friday Professional Development Seminar: Feb. 2, noon-1 p.m., 135 Animal Science/Veterinary Medicine. Topic: Time Management, presented by Jessica Miller.
Mather Lecture Series-How to Help Puppies Become Better Dogs: Feb. 8, 7:00-8:30 p.m., 135 Animal Science/Veterinary Medicine. Presented by Margaret Duxbury. For more information about the Mather Lecture Series, go to www.cvm.umn.edu/outreach/events/mather.html.
In his Dec. 24 column in the Florida newspaper Venice Gondolier, Larry Allan wrote about a bald eagle that had been a patient at The Raptor Center. Allan later sent TRC a donation and letter of support.
AHC Information Systems
Lisa Furr, desktop support technician
Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory
Jeremy Joseph Jones, principal office and administrative specialist
Veterinary Medical Center
Amber Violet Marie Gack, senior veterinary technician
Susan Loly, principal veterinary technician
Bridget O'Connor Monson, VMC manager
Susan Rae Seltz, principal office and administrative specialist
The Paul and Sheila Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Center has awarded the Gregory Marzolf Jr. Muscular Dystrophy Training Grant to Ph.D. student Lisa Borgia for her proposal, "Triheptanoin as a Novel Therapy for Metabolic Myopathies and Muscular Dystrophies." Congratulations, Lisa!
Zhiming Ouyang successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, "Studies on the Function and Regulation of a Novel Gene Cluster Associated with Iron Transport in Escherichia Coli." Zhiming's advisor was Dr. Richard Isaacson. In March, Dr. Ouyang will begin a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, where he will work in Dr. Michael Norgaard's laboratory. Congratulations, Zhiming!
AHC offers summer fellowships in clinical research
The Academic Health Center Office of Clinical Research is offering paid summer fellowships and training in clinical and translational research for pre-doctoral students. Anyone currently completing a doctoral degree is eligible. Fellows will receive a weekly stipend of approximately $430. Travel funds of up to $750 will also be available. For more information, go to www.ahc.umn.edu/research/funding/predoc/home.html or contact Nancy Johnson at 612-625-1651 or nancyj@umn.edu.
Applications sought for postdoctoral training program
The College is accepting applications from veterinarians seeking state-of-the-art research training in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) postdoctoral training program in Comparative Medicine and Pathology. The application deadline is Feb. 1. For details, go to http://www.cvm.umn.edu/about/humanresources/employment/Postdoc.html.
Clinical studies underway in the VMC
For a list of clinical studies currently enrolling in the Veterinary Medical Center, visit the Clinical Investigation Center Web site at http://www.cvm.umn.edu/cic/current.
Black lab-collie mix dogs
Born February 25, 2006, brother and sister Jack and Jasmine are part black lab and part collie. They are neutered/spayed, up-to-date on their shots, house trained, know commands such as sit, stay, and come, and spend most of their time outdoors, but are in the house at night. They have been around children and other dogs and a cat and are very friendly and loving. They would probably do best on a property with lots of room to run and play. Contact: Wendy at whit1010@umn.edu or Karen at kjarmes@hotmail.com.
Veterinary Medical Center blood donors need foster homes
The Veterinary Medical Center has a small number of dogs and cats that live in the hospital and provide life-saving blood products for patients. Rescued from area shelters, these in-house donors are young, healthy, fully vaccinated, neutered, temperament-tested animals that donate blood about once a month and serve as blood donors for about two years years. While they are blood donors, they are “owned” by the Companion Animal Blood Donor program, which takes care of minor medical problems they may have while in foster care. Foster parents are needed to provide them a loving, safe, home while they are donors and bring them back once a month for blood donation. The foster family is then the first on the list to be able to adopt them permanently. These blood donors need foster homes:
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| Chili, a neutered male black lab/husky cross, 3-4 years old, with one blue and one brown eye. Smart and sweet, he likes to run and play ball, but is a bit shy. He came from the Crossroads Animal Shelter. |
Tracker, a neutered male coonhound , is 1-2 years old and likes to bay like a beagle when he is excited. He loves people and playing with other dogs. He will need to stay on leash or in a fenced yard at all times given his tracking tendancies. With a little obedience training and lots of TLC, he will make someone a great friend. |
If you are interested in providing a foster home for Chili or Tracker, please contact Dora or Beth at 612-625-9726, extension 2, and leave a message or stop by the Intensive Care Unit.
CVM This Week
Back issues of CVM This Week, from June 2004 to today's issue, are at http://www.cvm.umn.edu/newsandevents/publications/cvmthisweek/home.html.
Hills pet food distribution program
For more information about the Hill's Pet Food Distribution program, contact Melissa Caid at caid0002@umn.edu or Jaime Nett at nett0049@umn.edu.
Housing
For information about student and off-campus housing, including a housing and roommate search service, go to http://www.housing.umn.edu/.
Job openings
For information about positions available at the College, visit www.cvm.umn.edu/About/HumanResources/Employment /. For detailed information about current job openings, how to apply, and application materials, go to the University of Minnesota Office of Human Resources at http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/employment/index.html.
The VMC Pulse
Issues are available online by logging in at http://www.cvm.umn.edu/vmc/staffresources/Pulse.html.
Veterinary conferences
Dates, places, and links for national and international veterinary conferences are on the College Web site at http://www.cvm.umn.edu/newsandevents/conferences/home.html.
Veterinary Medical Library
For information about the Veterinary Medical Library, including new acquisitions, visit http://www.vetmed.lib.umn.edu/news.
Veterinary Practice News
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CVM This Week is a weekly newsletter for faculty, staff, and students of the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine. Please submit news and calendar items for next week's issue to Sue Kirchoff, editor, at kirch004@umn.edu before noon Friday.
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