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Department of Pathobiology Monthly Newsletter JULY - AUGUST 2016

PATHOBIOLOGIST

Congratulations

Dozens of University of Guelph research projects will be supported by a new $13-million investment from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). Pathobiology researchers include: John Barta, Claire Jardine, Stefan Keller, John Lumsden, Janet MacInnes, Bonnie Mallard, Leonardo Susta, and awards to pathobiology student, Jamie Rothenburger. >> OVC Bulletin

Congratulations to Drs. Nemeth, Sharif, Susta, Weese and Lumsden on their recent OMAFRA funding.

Dr. Byram Bridle received an additional instalment from BioCanRx of 320k for clinical trials in companion animals.

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2016 Convocation Awards

Dr. Darren Wood - K. M Bhatnagar Memorial Humanitarian Award for a faculty member who best portrays the attributes of the late Dr. Kumar Bhatnager (OVC 1968), by being active in University affairs and supporting students outside the classroom.

Dr. Andrew Peregrine - Ontario Veterinary College “Year 68” Award for Teaching Excellence for exemplary teaching, support and care for students over their four years at OVC.

In June 2016, Dr. Patricia Turner was elected to a 3-year term on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Council on Animal Care. The Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC) is the national peer-review organi-zation responsible for setting, maintaining, and overseeing the implementation of high standards for animal ethics and care in science throughout Canada.

Iman Mehdizadeh Gohari, PhD Candidate with Drs. John Prescott and Patrick Boerlin was awarded the Best Poster Presentation at the 15th annual meeting of the Canadian Animal Health Laboratorians Net-work (CAHLN) at the Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown in early June. His poster title was”Comparative genomic and cgMLsT analysis of netF-postivie clostridium perfringes isolates from foal and canine necrotizing enteritis”.

Paige Vroom, MSc candidate with John Lumsden, received the best student poster presentation (Parasitology, Immunology and Environment section) at the recent Canadian Zoological Society meeting. Her poster title was 'Regeneration in Corallimorpharia'.

Mei-Hua Hwang, MSc student with Dr. Stefan Keller, has received an NSERC scholarship.

Welcome to Bryan Potter, Operations Manager, who will work with Pathobiology and Biomedical

Sciences. He is located in 3832 and will be in his Pathobiology office in the afternoon.

NEWS and MEDIA

Dr. Bonnie Mallard was featured in the first University of Guelph’s Catalyst Centre Newsletter, Created at Guelph. A newsletter dedicated to sharing the compel-ling research at Guelph that is making a global impact.

>> newsletter >> article

Dear Colleagues

Please check the first four research posters that Nathalie and faculty have completed. They are now posted on the first floor near the Second Cup. Please also note that there is a monitor that is waiting patiently for stories, research summaries, etc. Please work with Nathalie to generate these. Be imaginative so that many more topics are available when the students return in the fall.

The second Pathobiology Ice Cream Day is July 12, reminders will come nearer the date. I hope that the temperature outside is warmer than the ice cream this time. All in OVC are invited.

Please wring the most from the summer before fall hits again. Place importance on your relaxa-tion/rest and research/learning (because it's already July)! in addition to anything else that you have prioritized.

Cheers John

Office 365 is a collection of cloud based services that work together to increase productivity through collaboration. Office 365 includes

a web interface for email, calendaring, contacts and tasks that is very similar to the web version of Gryph Mail (Zimbra) you currently use.

In addition to 50GB of email storage, you will also have unlimited, secure cloud storage in OneDrive for all your files! Find out more on the Office 365 Features page.

SUMMER TIME

Office 365 Training Be prepared , sign up for some hands-on training before or after the migration? Register today! University of Guelph (Staff, Faculty and Grad Students) will be migrated from Zim-bra to Office 365 over the weekend of …

July 23/24th 2016

Users will have limited access to email over the migration weekend. Each individual will receive a notification immediately before and after their mailbox is migrated. While their account is being migrated, users should not create or send any email messages.

Useful Migration Links

Migration Process

Pre-Migration Checklist

Migration FAQ

Communication Emails

Call of OVMA 2017 'Lunch With' speakers Attention OVC faculty and clinicians, we are look-ing for your input for the popular “Lunch With…” sessions presented by the OVC in partnership with the 2017 Ontario Veterinary Medical Association (OVMA) Conference and Trade Show. Two days of Lunch with sessions are available: Friday, Janu-ary 27 and Saturday, January 28, 2017 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. each day. >> more details

Upcoming Events

Pathobiology Seminars August Student Seminars will take place at 10:00 am in PAHL rm 1810 (30 min per presentation)

PABI*6440 Student presentations topics to be emailed closer to the dates. Hosted by Dr Jan MacInnes

Jul 29 Jaramar Balmori-Cedeno Jon Kotwa

Aug 5 Mei-hua Hwang Ryan Snyder

Aug 12 Rachel Imai a” Amanda AuYeung Pauline Zhang

OVC and UofG Events

Aug 7-9 Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses 71st Annual International Conference for Public Health and Zoonosis at OVC >> more

Registration is open for the 71st International Conference on Diseases in Nature Communicable to Man (INCDNCM) and will close July 22, 2016! This year's INCDNCM meeting, co-hosted by the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative and the Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses, will be held at the University of Guelph from, August 7-9, 2016. The meeting brings together the medical, veterinary and public health communities to dis-cuss multidisciplinary topics including viral, rickettsial, bacterial, parasitic, and prion-related diseases acquired from natural sources, including animals (wild or domestic), contaminated water or food supplies, arthropod vectors and other sources.

For more news and events go to the OVC BULLETIN

Other Events

July 1 3rd International Symposium on Parasite Infections in Poultry >> more

Aug 21 PIC partnered with Zoetis to deliver a Poultry Health Day to farmers and industry representatives Stratford, ON. >> more

GRAD STUDENT CORNER

SEMINARS (listed under Upcoming Events) UP COMING DUE DATES

July 31 Fall 2016 Registration open reopens Registration is in two parts using WebAdvisor:

Part One: Register into UNIV*7510 Full-Time or UNIV*7520 Part-time Part Two: UNIV*7500 - Research and Writing plus any courses that you are taking in Fall 2016

Tuition:

Sep 16 deadline for payment Aug 19 (approx. date ) for tuition payroll de-

duction use Graduate Settlement through WebAdvisor

July 8 Last day to drop a course for S16 Sep 7 Approved thesis submission deadline for Fall 2016 Convocation

FINAL DEFENSE REMINDER

Defending Summer 2016? Register through WebAdvisor. Graduation request must be submitted to be processed. $60 late fees apply. Final Defense Forms have an 8 week deadline prior to proposed date of defense. Graduate Student Evaluation Reports required every semester. It is advised that you have a committee meeting every semester.

REMINDERS

Protect your passwords: Be aware of attempts to get your personal information. No one from the University will ask you to provide your login and password in an email. Go to the IT Security website for information on the latest scams.

READ YOUR UoG Email DAILY: This is how the Department of Pathobiology and other Departments of the University of Guelph contacts you.

MAILBOX: Pick up your mail on a daily or weekly bases. If you are not here, please make arrange-ments to have your mail picked up for you.

MOVING? Let the Graduate Student Office know. PLEASE refrain from wearing any and all fragrant products to work, as there are people in our Depart-ment that are extremely sensitive.

ICE CREAM DAYS

3 pm on

July 12 and Aug 16

Wednesday Evening Walks For the months of June, July and August we have Wednesday Evening Walks that will begin at 7 p.m. at the J.C. Taylor Nature Centre. These 1 ½ hour walks will be on a different topic each week and are $2 / person however children under 5 are free. Below is a schedule with the topics for each week for 2016:

July 6 - Nature’s Marks July 13 - Nature In Da House! July 20 - Arboretum Wars July 27 - Insect Inspectors August 3 - More Than Just Fish Bait August 10 - Friends Forever August 17 - Fungi and Lichens August 24 -Who Needs A Camera Anyways? August 31 - Insect Inspectors

>> details and registration

Guest Network Access New Self-Serve Registration Process for Guest Network Access at U of G

There is a new process for issuing guest net-work access on campus. Starting June 18th, guests can complete a simple self-registration process and will require the approval of a sponsor to complete this pro-cess. Any U of G faculty or staff member can be a sponsor.

1) Connect to the uog-guest wireless network

and open a web browser.

2) On the guest portal, click on the “Register” button to start the self-registration process.

3) Please provide your main email address and choose a password.

4) Specify the name and email address of your sponsor (typically the U of G staff or faculty member you are here to see) who can ap-prove your guest access, then click on “Register”.

The first 4 department posters are now up on the walls

on the first floor. Take the time to check them out. Nathalie

is available during the summer to work on posters and

websites. Contact her to get yours set up.