April 2013 Events

1
Seminar
EID
11:30 a.m.
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Lecture Room C
Ecology of Sin Nombre Virus: Understanding Pathogen Transmission Dynamics in Natural Host Populations
Erin M. Lehmer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology, Fort Lewis College

1
Course
LRC
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
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D2013
EndNote Basics
You may sign up for this class by visiting http://www.lrc.usuhs.mil/content/training_reg.php

1
Meeting
FACSEN
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
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BOR Conference Room
SOM Executive Curriculum Committee
 

3
Seminar
AFRRI
10:30 a.m.
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AFRRI Conference Room
Update on understanding macrophage responses to ionizing radiation and PAMPS
Joel Lowy, PhD, Principal Investigator, AFRRI

3
Course
LRC
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
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D2013
EndNote Web
You may sign up for this class by visiting http://www.lrc.usuhs.mil/content/training_reg.php

3
Seminar
MPS
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
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Lecture Room C
Military Chaplain
LCDR Christopher Martin

3
Seminar
PMB
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
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Sanford Auditorium
SNAKES ALIVE! Introduction to Venomous Snakes and Snakebite
Mr. Bruce Shwedick, Director, Reptile Discovery Programs, Plant City

4
Seminar
NES
3:30 p.m.
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Lecture Room B
Psychological Control of Pain and its Disruption in Chronic Pain
Presented by Catherine Bushnell, PhD, Scientific Director, NCCAM/NIH

5
Seminar
MED
9:00 a.m.
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Room A2052
Role of Late Sodium Current and Heart Failure
Michael Klein, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Cardiology Division, USU

8
Seminar
MIC
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
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Lecture Room F
New Concepts in Immunity to Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Can We Outwit a Well-adapted Pathogen?
Michael Russell, PhD, Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, and Oral Biology, University of Buffalo

9
Seminar
BIO
11:30 a.m.
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Lecture Room D
Enzymology of Precursor tRNA Processing
Carol Fierke, PhD, Jerome and Isabella Karle Collegiate Professor of Chemistry, Professor and Chair of Chemistry, College of Literature, Science and Arts, Professor of Biological Chemistry, Medical School, University of Michigan

9
Seminar
CHAMP
12:00 p.m.
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Lecture Room C
A Revolution in Medical Education
Dr. VA Shiva Ayyaduri, Ph.D.

9
Course
LRC
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
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LRC Classroom
Formatting Your USU Dissertation or Thesis
You may sign up for this class by visiting http://www.lrc.usuhs.mil/content/training_reg.php

9
Seminar
CNRM
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
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Lecture Room A
Predicting Outcome in TBI and Adaptive Deficits in mTBI/Adaptive deficits in mild TBI: the role of coping in outcome
Dr. Bram Jacobs and Dr. Joukje van der Naalt, University of Groningen

10
Course
LRC
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
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D2013
Systematic Reviews
You may sign up for this class by visiting http://www.lrc.usuhs.mil/content/training_reg.php

10
Seminar
MPS
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
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Lecture Room C
High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU): A novel animal model of mTBI
LTJG Brendan Finton, USN, Medical & Clinical Psychology Graduate Student, USU

10
Seminar
PMB
12:00 – 12:50 p.m.
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Lecture Room B
Outsourcing health care services in the Israeli military: dilemmas and lessons learned
Colonel Erez Barenboim, MD, Commander, Medical Services and Materiel Center, Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps

11
Seminar
PED
7:45 – 8:45 a.m.
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Lecture Room C
Is Graduate Medical Education of Value to DOD Healthcare?
Woodson "Scott" Jones, M.D., FAAP, Dean, Designated Institutional Official (DIO), Chief Executive Officer (CEO), San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium (SAUSHEC), Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA), Associate Professor of Pediatrics

11
Meeting
USU
1:00 p.m.
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Sanford Auditorium
USU Town Hall Meeting
Dr. Charles L. Rice, President, USU

11
Meeting
FACSEN
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
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Room A2052
Faculty Senate Meeting
 

15
Seminar
MIC
11:30 a.m.
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Lecture Room C
Anti-phage defense co-opted for pathogenesis
David S. Weiss, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine and Emory Vaccine Center

15
Course
LRC
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
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D2013
Diagnosis Resources & Apps
You may sign up for this class by visiting http://www.lrc.usuhs.mil/content/training_reg.php

15
Meeting
FACSEN
3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
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Room A2011
Research Policy Committee
 

16
Meeting
FACSEN
7:00 – 8:00 a.m.
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President's Office
Senate Officers Meeting
 

16
Meeting
FACSEN
8:15 – 9:15 a.m.
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Bldg E, Dean's Office
Senate Officers Meeting with Dean GSN
 

16
Event
EEO
9:00 a.m.
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USU Cafeteria
Special Emphasis Observance
The Honorable Jonathan Woodson, MD, Assistant Secretary of Defense/Health Affairs and Director, TRICARE Management Activity

16
Meeting
FACSEN
9:30 – 10:30 a.m.
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Dean's Office, SOM
Senate Officers Meeting with Dean SOM
 

16
Course
LRC
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
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D2013
Getting the Most from Google Apps
You may sign up for this class by visiting http://www.lrc.usuhs.mil/content/training_reg.php

16
Seminar
EID
2:00 p.m.
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Lecture Room C
Regulation of TCR Signaling to NF-kB
Suman Paul, PhD Degree Candidate, Emerging Infectious Diseases Graduate Program, USU

17
Seminar
MPS
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
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Lecture Room D
Measuring Unsafe Driving Behavior Through a Novel Virtual Reality Driving Simulator: A Pilot Study
CPT Steven Brewer, USA, Medical & Clinical Psychology Graduate Student, USU

17
Seminar
PMB
12:00 – 12:50 p.m.
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Lecture Room B
Prostate Cancer in the Agricultural Health Study
Stella Koutros, PhD, MPH, Research Fellow, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute

18
Seminar
USU
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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Lecture Room A
Medical Myths
Esti Schabelman, MD, MBA, FACEP, Assistant Director, Howard County General Hospital Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins Dept. of Emergency Medicine

18
Seminar
NES
3:30 p.m.
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Lecture Room B
Optogenetic Measurement of Striatal Calcuim Transients in Vivo and in Brain Slices
David M. Lovinger Chief, Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience National Institute on Alchohol Abuse & Alcoholism, NIH

19
Seminar
MED
9:00 a.m.
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Room A2052
The Role of Unique Lipids Produced by Commensal Bacteria in Multiple Sclerosis
Robert B. Clark, M.D., Associate Professor, Departments of Immunology and Medicine, University of Connecticut Medical School

19
Seminar
EID
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
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Lecture Room A
Oral Intoxication of Mice with Shiga Toxin Type 2 (Stx2)
Lisa Russo, Senior EID Student, USU

19
Seminar
EID
2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
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Lecture Room C
Why Bats? - From Virus to Genomics
Linfa Wang, Ph.D., FTSE, OCE Science Leader, CSIRO Livestock Industries, Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Professor and Director, Program in Emerging Infectious Disease, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School

22
Seminar
EID
11:30 a.m.
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Lecture Room C
Syphilis: How the 'Great Imitator' Does Its Thing
Sheila A. Lukehart, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Global Health, University of Washington

23
Seminar
BIO
11:30 a.m.
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Lecture Room C
The origin of chromosomal translocations: nuclear contacts vs. DNA damage frequency
Rafael Casellas, PhD, Adjunct Investigator, Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH

23
Conference
CSTS
8:00 a.m.
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Sanford Auditorium
8th Annual Amygdala, Stress and PTSD Conference
Dr. James Barrett, Derexel University, COL Paul Bliese, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Dr. Seth Norrholm, Emory University, Dr. Gregory Quirk, University of Puerto Rico, and Dr. Daniela Schiller, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

24
Seminar
AFRRI
10:30 a.m.
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AFRRI Conference Room
Identification of effective countermeasures against mixed neutron/gamma radiation: Progress and challenges
Lynnette Cary, PhD, Staff Scientist, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Radiation Countermeasures Program, AFRRI

24
Course
LRC
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
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D2013
EndNote Basics
You may sign up for this class by visiting http://www.lrc.usuhs.mil/content/training_reg.php

24
Seminar
MPS
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
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Lecture Room C
Cognitive and Emotional Functioning after Traumatic Brain Injury: an fMRI Investigation
Ms. Lindsay Reinhardt, Medical & Clinical Psychology Graduate Student, USU

24
Seminar
PMB
12:00 – 12:50 p.m.
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Lecture Room B
HIV Antiretrovirals: An evolving paradigm in the fight to end AIDS
Robert Ferris, DO, MPH, Chief, Division of Technical Leadership Research, Organization Agency for International Development, Adjunct Assistant Professor, USU

25
Seminar
PED
7:45 – 8:45 a.m.
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Lecture Room C
Impact of Parental Deployment and Injury on Children / Income and Outcomes of Pediatric Renal Transplant Recipients from 1997-2006 / Intimate Partner Violence Increases Risk for Adverse Outcomes in Early Infancy
Elizabeth Hisle-Gorman, Ph.D. / MSW, John McDonnell, M.D., LT, MC, USN / Ashleigh Pavey, M.D., CPT, MC, USA

25
Seminar
PAT
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
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Lecture Room A
Role of MicroRNAs in Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus Pathogenesis
Manish Bhomia, BITS Pilani Graduate Student, USU

25
Seminar
MCB
3:30 p.m.
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Lecture Room C
Deinococcus Mn2+ Complexes: New Frontiers
Michael Daly, PhD, Professor of Pathology, Chairman, RSC, School of Medicine, USU

26
Seminar
EID
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
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Lecture Room A
Litomosoides sigmodontis infection protects mice from immune complex-mediated inflammation in a mouse ovalbumin allergy model
Holly Evans, Senior EID Student, USU

26
Seminar
SOM
1:00 p.m.
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Outdoor Amphitheater
White Coat Ceremony: Class of 2016
All University personnel are invited to attend

26
Seminar
BIO
2:30 p.m.
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Lecture Room C
Clearance of stress granules by autophagy: Implications for mechanisms of neurodegeneration
Roy Parker, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator and Cech-Leinwand Endowed Chair of Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado