The University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine

Office for Research & Graduate Affairs

Current Prospectus

Week of: 2/6/2012 – 2/10/2012

MONDAY, February 6

Jake Kohlmeier, PhD, presents, “TBD.” Location: Coverdell Building, Room S175. Time: 11:00 a.m. Dr. Kohlmeier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Emory University.
Travis C. Glenn, PhD, presents, “Field Survival Guide to Next Generation DNA Sequencing.” Location: Avian Medicine Building, Room 107. Time: 2:30 p.m. Dr. Glenn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the UGA College of Public Health.
Jack Horner, PhD, presents, “How to Build a Dinosaur.” Location: MLC, Room 102. Time: 4:00 p.m. Darwin Week Seminar. Dr. Horner is a Regents Professor of Paleontology at Montana State University and a Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies.

TUESDAY, february 7

Wallace Marshall, PhD, presents, “Pattern Formation and Regeneration in a Single Cell.” Location: Coverdell Building, Room S175. Time: 11:00 a.m. Darwin Week Seminar. Dr. Marshall is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco.
Susan Williams, DVM, PhD, presents, “Poultry GI tract diseases.” Location: CVM, Room 149. Time: 12:00 p.m. Histology Seminar. Dr. Williams is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine.
Stacey Lance, PhD, presents, “Amphibians living in a contaminated environment: Individual, population, and species level differences in response to chronic copper exposure.” Location: Ecology Auditorium, Room 201. Reception: 3:30 p.m. Time: 4:00 p.m. Dr. Lance works for the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory.

WEDNESDAY, February 8

Wallace Marshall, PhD, presents, “How to Build a Cell.” Location: BioSciences Building, Room 404 A. Time: 12:15 p.m. Darwin Week Seminar. Dr. Marshall is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco.
David Reed, PhD, presents, “Of Lice and Men: New Insights into Human Evolution from a Lousy Perspective.” Location: Life Sciences Building, Room C127. Time: 4:00 p.m. Darwin Week Seminar. Dr. Reed is an Assistant Curator of Mammals at the Florida Museum of Natural History and the University of Florida.
Steve Holland, PhD, presents, “From Shells to Bones: How We Find Fossils.” Location: MLC, Room 248. Time: 4:00 p.m. Darwin Week Seminar. Dr. Holland is a Professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Georgia.

THURSDAY, February 9

Amelia Woolums, DVM, MVSc, PhD, Dip ACVIM, Dip ACVM, presents, “Infection and Immunity in Bovine Respiratory Disease.” Location: CVM, Room 149. Time: 12:00 p.m. Research Seminar. Dr. Woolums is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Large Animal Medicine at the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine.
Michael Habib, PhD, presents, “From Darwin to Biomechanics: New Perspectives on the Origin of Avian Flight.” Location: Ecology Auditorium, Room 201. Reception: 3:30 p.m. Seminar: 4:00 p.m. Darwin Week Seminar. Dr. Habib is an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at Chatham University.
“What Darwin Never Knew.” Location: Life Sciences Building, Room B118. Time: 7:00 p.m. Darwin Week Seminar. A NOVA Presentation – Public Broadcasting System.

FRIDAY, february 10

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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

*AKC Canine Health Foundation Funding Opportunity
Request for Pre-Proposals 2012. Submission deadline: March 1, 2012.
Pre-proposals are now being accepted for CHF's OAK grant program which supports canine health research projects. Submit a pre-proposal by March 1 to participate in the 2012 cycle.
Learn more about OAK grants, qualifications and application procedures at the AKC Canine Health Foundation website, www.akcchf.org.
Questions? Contact the Foundation at chfgrants@akccnf.org or 1-888-682-9696.

*L'Oréal USA Fellowships for Women in Science
The L’Oréal USA Fellowships For Women In Science is a national awards program that annually recognizes and rewards five U.S.-based women postdoctoral researchers at the beginning of their scientific careers who are pursuing careers in the life and physical/material sciences, as well as mathematics, engineering and computer science. Recipients receive up to $60,000 each that they must apply towards their postdoctoral research.

Since its inception in 2003, the L’Oréal USA Fellowships For Women In Science program has awarded 40 fellowships to women scientists across the U.S. Each year, the program attracts a number of talented applicants from diverse scientific fields, representing some of the nation’s leading academic institutions and laboratories. The Award selection process includes a two stage review process, including a first round review by an interdisciplinary panel of 26 scientists and engineers and a distinguished jury of eminent scientists and engineers reviews the top applications and selects the L’Oréal USA Fellowships For Women In Science recipients.

The recipients of the L’Oréal USA Fellowships For Women in Science program participate in a week of events that include an awards ceremony, professional development workshops, media training and networking opportunities. In 2012, these workshops, which are facilitated by the program’s partner, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), will encompass job search techniques, interviewing skills, budget development for grant requests, and strategies for submissions to peer-reviewed publication.

The L’Oréal USA Fellowships For Women in Science program is open only to women postdoctoral researchers. Applications will be accepted starting October 18, 2011. Application process closes December 15, 2011. Candidates interested in applying may visit the L’Oréal USA Fellowships For Women in Science website at http://www.lorealusa.com/forwomeninscience. All applications must be submitted online by December 15, 2011. Transcripts must be postmarked no later than December 15, 2011.

*USDA-NIFA Funding opportunity: Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases
As a collaborative interagency effort, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the U.K. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) request applications for the Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID) Program for fiscal year (FY) 2012. The amount available for support of this program in FY 2012 will be approximately $15 million, pending availability of funds.

Full Proposal Deadline is December 7, 2011 (5 p.m. proposer’s local time), and the 1st Wednesday in December in subsequent years. No letter of intent is solicited.

For the entire Program Announcement, including submission and contact information, click on the link labeled “Ecology Evolution of Infectious Diseases FY 2012.” http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf11580 Applications must be submitted through NSF’s FastLane. The Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program supports research on the ecological, evolutionary, and socio-ecological principles and processes that regulate the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases.

*The Canadian Studies Grant Program
The Canadian Government, through the Embassy in Washington, DC and its Consulates throughout the United States, supports research, conferences, teaching, and program activity related to Canada and/or Canada-U.S. relations. The Canadian Studies Grant Program encourages comparative research and teaching, faculty exchanges, student mobility, and collaboration between American and Canadian researchers. We also seek to build stronger ties between American and Canadian universities and colleges.
We ask that you forward this notice to faculty and doctoral students who may be interested in our grant program. More information on the grant program is available below.
We are particularly interested in projects that have policy relevance for Canada and Canada-U.S. relations. Such topics include:

North American economic competitiveness
Energy and environments
Security
Arctic issues

Doctoral Student Research Award offers doctoral students an opportunity to conduct part of their dissertation research in Canada. The program is intended for students whose dissertations are related in substantial part to the study of Canada. Applications due: December 1, 2011.
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/washington/studies-etudes/doctoral-doctorat.aspx?lang=eng
Faculty Enrichment Program provides faculty members an opportunity to develop or update a course with substantial Canadian content that will be offered as part of their regular teaching load. Applications due: December 1, 2011.
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/washington/studies-etudes/enrichment-complement.aspx?lang=eng
Prospective applicants are encouraged to discuss their interest in the grant program with a Canadian government officer in their area.

*NIFA Releases First of Seven Requests for Applications to the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative
This is the first request for applications (RFA) to the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) funding opportunity to support research, education and extension in fundamental and applied food and agricultural sciences.

The newly released RFA is for the AFRI Foundational Program. Projects funded through this program address the six AFRI priority areas to continue building a foundation of knowledge in fundamental and applied food and agricultural sciences critical for solving current and future societal challenges.

The six priority areas include:

Plant health and production and plant products
Animal health and production and animal products
Food safety, nutrition and health
Renewable energy, natural resources and environment
Agriculture systems and technology
Agriculture economics and rural communities

AFRI is NIFA's flagship competitive grant program and was established under the 2008 Farm Bill. In FY 2011, approximately $262 million is available to support the AFRI program. Approximately $78 million will be made available to support the Foundational Program.

During the next several months, NIFA will release six more RFAs through the AFRI program. Five RFAs will continue to support societal challenge areas where research, education, and extension can achieve significant and measurable outcomes. These challenge areas include: childhood obesity prevention, agricultural adaptation to climate variables, sustainable bioenergy, food safety and global food security. In addition, a seventh RFA will fund opportunities for pre- and postdoctoral fellowship grants.

All AFRI program information, including the anticipated release date of the challenge area RFAs and the NIFA Fellowships Grant Program RFA, is available online at www.nifa.usda.gov/afri.

Through federal funding and leadership for research, education and extension programs, NIFA focuses on investing in science and solving critical issues impacting people's daily lives and the nation's future. More information is available at: www.nifa.usda.gov.

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Additional funding opportunities can be found at:
http://ovpr.uga.edu/osp/funding/external

Program announcements are kept on file in the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Affairs office. If you would like to obtain a copy of an announcement, please stop by Room 227.

This page was last updated on February 3, 2012.