UGA BHSI Division of One Health

March 21-24, 2013 - The University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education and Conference Center, Athens, Georgia, USA. This three-day event brings together national and international disease ecology experts with the purpose of sharing the latest research at the nexus of human, animal and environmental health. View Flyer

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VetHeart Mission: To promote the stewardship of animals and their environments, to support public education and awareness of veterinary care, and to provide assistance programs for underserved animals.

Thank you!

The BHSI Division of One Health would like to thank its attendees and sponsors for making the 2013 One Health Symposium, held last month in Athens, Ga., such a success. Stay tuned for future One Health events at the University of Georgia, as well as for the next One Health Symposium to be held at the University of Liverpool, UK, in June 2014.

We will keep our pre-symposium content posted and will soon have video of the Symposium’s three featured speakers available online. If you have any photos or stories to share, we’d love to see them. Either email us at 1health@uga.edu or share via Facebook or Twitter.

Program and Abstract Book

View Final Program and Abstract Book (.pdf)

Invited Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Guy Palmer
Washington State University

Ralph Tripp
University of Georgia

Matthew Bonds
Harvard Medical School

Microbiome

Rex Gaskins
University of Illinois

Michael Brockhurst
University of York, UK

Jessica Kissinger
University of Georgia

Margie Lee
University of Georgia

Biodiversity & Infection

Jonathan Sleeman
U.S. Geological Survey

Malcolm Bennett
University of Liverpool, UK

Morgan Scott
Kansas State University

Erin Lipp
University of Georgia

Microbe-Pathogen-Host Interaction

Andy Fenton
University of Liverpool, UK

Diana Williams
University of Liverpool, UK

Rick Tarleton
University of Georgia

Vanessa Ezenwa
University of Georgia

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Poster Awards

Congratulations once again to our “Best Poster” winners, who stood out among the 50 poster competition participants. The winners were:

First Place ($500): Patricia Jorquera, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, “A Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Microparticle Vaccine Containing the RSV G Protein CX3C Motif Protects Against RSV Infection in Mice”

Second Place ($250): Sarah Zohdy, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Third Place ($100): Amanda Jo Williams-Newkirk, Doctoral Student, Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution, Emory University, and ORISE Fellow, Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Bacterial Community Composition and Structure in the Tick Vector Amblyomma americanum”

Honorable Mention: Clement Gnanadurai, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, “Presence of Virus Neutralizing Antibodies in Cerebral Spinal Fluid Correlates with Non-Lethal Rabies in Dogs”