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ADDL toxicology graduate student Christina Wilson
accepts the award for best presentation by a graduate student
at the annual American Association of Veterinary Laboratory
Diagnosticians meeting in Hershey, Pennsylvania, November, 2001.
Presenting the award is Purdue ADDL Director Leon Thacker. Ms.
Wilson's work was titled "Species comparison of the warfarin-sensitive
enzyme vitamin K12,3-epoxide reductase". |
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| Dr. Marlon Rebelatto has completed his residency
program at Purdue ADDL/ Veterinary Pathobiology and has accepted
a position at MPI Research in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Please join
us in wishing him well in his next endeavor. |
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| Congratulations to Serology technicians Cheryl
Parker, Barb McDonald, Brenda Turner, and Tammy Crowell who
successfully completed check tests for Equine Infectious Anemia,
Bluetongue, Bovine leucosis, Brucellosis, and Pseudorabies (by
latex agglutination, serum neutralization, particle concentration
fluorescent immunoassay, and G-1 FA. These Purdue technicians
achieved 100% accuracy on all tests. |
Dr. Leon Thacker, ADDL Director, participated in the State of
Indiana Animal Health Emergencies Exercise in October, 2001.
Several agencies that would be involved in responding to the
occurrence of a foreign animal disease in Indiana livestock
were involved in this program. |
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Dr. Zheko Kounev joined the Purdue ADDL faculty
in October, 2001 as Avian Diagnostician and Food Safety Specialist.
Dr. Kounev received his DVM from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria
and his PhD in Food Safety Microbiology and Meat Technology
from the National Agricultural Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria. Since
1991, Dr. Kounev has served as Corporate Manager of the Biotechnology
Center at Maple Leaf Farms, Milford, Indiana. Prior to that
he worked for the World Health Organization at the Collaborating
Center on Food Virology at the Food Research Institute, University
of Wisconsin, Madison WI. |
| Drs. Leon Thacker, Randy White, Bob Everson, Duane
Murphy, Steve Hooser, Ching Ching Wu , Charles Kanitz and Christina
Wilson, Steve Vollmer and Linda Hendrickson attended the annual
meeting of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory
Diagnosticians in Hershey, Pennsylvania, November, 2001. |
| Drs. Christine Hanika, Tom Bryan and Tsang Long
Lin attended the North Central Avian Disease Conference in Grand
Rapids, Michigan, October, 2001 |
| Dr. Christine Hanika attended the Foreign Animal
Disease pathologists training course at Plum Island, New York,
October, 2001 |
| Dr. Ching Ching Wu attended the National Poultry
Improvement Plan meeting in Athens, Georgia, November, 2001
and the Antimicrobial Colloquium in Albuquerque, New Mexico,
November, 2001 |
Drs. Evan Janovitz and Marlon Rebelatto
attended the American College of Veterinary Pathologists annual
meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, December 2001. |
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