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Bob Storey, a lab manager II in Dr. Kaplans' lab was recently featured in a UGA news story, titled "New test may help address costly parasite in sheep industry".

Garry Coulson, a doctoral student in Dr. Mary Hondalus' lab recently won Best Poster award for his poster entitled "Novel Virulence Determinants of the Opportunistic Intracellular Actinomycete Rhodococcus equi" at the 2009 Southeastern Branch American Society for Microbiology meeting held in Savannah, GA on November the 6th, 2009.

Dr. Renee Barber, a doctoral student in Dr. Scott Schatzberg's lab recently won 1st place in the Oral Presentation category at the 2009 Science of Veterinay Medicine Symposium.

Daniel Dlugolenski, a doctoral student in Dr. Egbert Mundt's lab recently won 2nd place in the Poster Presentation category at the 2009 Science of Veterinay Medicine Symposium.

VACCINE DEVELOPMENT AWARD

Drs. Eric Lafontaine and Jeff Hogan received funding for their grant, “Development of an adhesin-based vaccine to protect against melioidosis and glanders”, through the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Joint Science and Technology Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JSTO-CBD) and the Department of Defense.   Total funds are $1,119,346. Read the UGA press release.

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