USTAR Veterinary Diagnostics and Infectious Disease Team Hosts Seminar

The Utah State University Veterinary Diagnostics and Infectious Disease USTAR team is hosting a seminar by Nicole Meissner-Pearson on her research involving bone marrow failure. The seminar is Monday, Nov. 8, at 10:30 a.m., in the Merrill Cazier Library, Room 154, on the university campus. The seminar is free and open to the campus community. A mixer will immediately follow.

 

Meissner-Pearson is an assistant research professor in the department of veterinary molecular biology at Montana State University. She received an MD from the University of Wurzburg Medical School, Germany, and conducted her post-doctoral research at Humboldt University of Berlin, Institute for Laboratory Medicine. Her research focuses on understanding the role of preventing bone marrow failure during the systemic responses to Pneumocystis-lung infection and analyzing response to other fungal infections.

 

The Utah Science Technology and Research initiative (USTAR) is a long-term, state-funded investment to strengthen Utah’s “knowledge economy” and generate high-paying jobs. Funded in March 2006 by the state legislature, USTAR is based on three program areas. The first area involves funding for strategic investments at the University of Utah and Utah State University to recruit world-class researchers. The second area is to build state-of-the-art interdisciplinary facilities at these institutions for the innovation teams. The third program area involves teams that work with companies and entrepreneurs across the state to promote science, innovation and commercialization activities.

 

Contact Jean Edwards for more information on the seminar, 435-797-2162 or jean.edwards@usu.edu.

 

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