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Ramsey Lecture Archive

2012 Ramsey Lectures

February 2012
Tuberculosis & Diabetes:  The Convergence of Two Epidemics
Randall J. Basaraba, DVM, PhD, Colorado State University

March 2012
H3N8 Canine Influenza Virus Epidemiology
Cynda Crawford, DVM, PhD

April 2012
Pathobiology of Lysomal Disorders of the Brain
Steven U. Walkley, DVM, PhD, Einstein College of Medicine

September 2012
Stem Cells to Organs
Jan Nolta, PhD

October 2012
Ecology of emerging disease in the people, primates and livestock of Western Uganda
Tony L. Goldberg, PhD, DVM, MS

November 2012
From Gene Discovery to Therapy:  Understanding the Molecular Basis and Treatment of Inherited Blindness
Gustavo D. Aguirre, VMD, PhD

2011 Ramsey Lectures

February 2011
Microbial Endocrinology: Why the Intersection of Microbiology, Endocrinology and Food Science Matters to Animal Health
Mark Lyte, PhD, Texas Tech University
 
March 2011
Wnt Signaling as a Therapeutic Target
Randall Moon, University of Washington School of Medicine

April 2011
Diversity of the HIV epidemic in Africa:  consequences for AIDS treatment programs
Phyllis Kanki, DVM, Harvard School of Public Health

September 2011
Progress Toward a High-Performance, Brain Machine Interface
Andy Schwartz, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

October 2011
Spinal Muscular Atrophy - Pathogenesis and development of pre-clinical models
Rashmi Kothary, PhD, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (Canada)
 
November 2011
Moelcular Pathways Promoting T-cell Responses to Self-Antigens
Pamela Ohashi, PhD, University of Toronto
 
Ecology and Evolution of West Nile Virus
Laura Kramer, PhD, State University of New York-Albany

2010 Ramsey Lectures

February 2010
Emerging Therapies for Brain Disease
Beverly Davidson, PhD, University of Iowa
 

March 2010
Canine Model of Cancer
Chand Khanna, DVM, PhD, National Cancer Institute

April 2010
Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration: Basic Science to Therapeutic Leads
Harry Orr, PhD, University of Minnesota School of Minnesota

September 2010
Bluetongue and Orbovirus Emergence in the U.S.
David E. Stallknecht, PhD, University of Georgia

October 2010
A Time for Change:  The Mutation Rate of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in Active and Latent Disease
Sarah Fortune, MD, Harvard School of Public Health

Livestock and Small Holder Development
Alice Pell, PhD, Cornell University

November 2010
Life in the Fast Lane:  Regulation of Fast Axonal Transport and Degeneration
Scott Brady, PhD, University of Illinois School of Medicine

2009 Ramsey Lectures

January 2009
Homophilic Antibiodies: How to Make and Use Them
Heinz Kohler, MD, PhD, University of Kentucky

February 2009
Endogenous Morphine in Animals
George Stefano, PhD, State University of New York

March 2009
Deceptive Immunological Imprinting
Peter Nara, DVM, PhD, Iowa State University

Genetic Nonsense: From Bench to Bedside
Allan Jacobson, PhD, University of Massachusetts

April 2009
Genetic Diseases in Horses
Ernie Bailey, PhD, University of Kentucky

September 2009
The Blind Leading the Obese: The Molecular Biology of Bardet-Biedel Syndrome
Val Scheffield, MD, PhD, University of Iowa

October 2009
New Targets for Antimicrobials and Rational Design of Enzymatic Inhibitors of These Proteins
Tom Ellenberger, DVM, PhD, Washington University - St. Louis School of Medicine

November 2009
From Barnyard to Food Table: The Omnipresence of Hepatitis E Virus and Risks for Zoonosis and Food Safety
X.J. Meng, MD, PhD, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine

2008 Ramsey Lectures

September 2008
One World, One Health, One Medicine
James H. Steele, DVM, MS, University of Texas, Professor Emeritus

Genetic Disease Therapy
Mark Hoskins, VMD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

October 2008
The Concept of One Medicine
Roger Mahr, DVM, Former AVMA President

November 2008
The Role of Helicobacter in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Kenneth Simpson, MRCVS, PhD, Cornell University