Monday, January 24, 2011
A free public lecture by Andrew Read, professor of biology and entomology, and an Eberly College of Science senior scholar at Penn State, titled "The Future of Infectious Disease in a Pharmaceutical Age" will be given on Jan. 29, on the Penn State University Park campus. The event is the second of six lectures in the 2011 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science, a free minicourse for the general public with the theme "Epidemic: Infectious Disease on a Changing Planet." No registration is required. The lectures take place on consecutive Saturday mornings from 11 a.m. to about 12:30 p.m. in 100 Thomas Building. (more)
Thursday, January 13, 2011
A free public lecture titled "Just When You Thought You Were Safe . . . New Emerging Diseases Appear" by Peter Hudson will be given at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 22, in 100 Thomas Building on the Penn State University Park campus. Hudson is Willaman professor of biology and director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at Penn State. The event is the first of six lectures in the 2011 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science, a free minicourse for the general public with the theme "Epidemic: Infectious Disease on a Changing Planet." No registration is required. All the lectures take place from 11 a.m. to about 12:30 p.m. on six consecutive Saturday mornings in 100 Thomas Building. (more)
Monday, July 12, 2010
A researcher in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences will lead a seven-year, $14.5-million project to fight malaria in Southeast Asia. Liwang Cui, professor of entomology, is the principal investigator for the Southeast Asia Malaria Research Center, one of 10 International Centers of Excellence for Malaria Research announced July 8 by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health. (more)
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
A team of scientists, including Penn State Alumni Chair in the Biological Sciences Bryan Grenfell, has won a $10 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to evaluate the potential of vaccines to control deadly infectious-disease outbreaks worldwide. The grant will fund the creation of computer simulations of epidemics -- showing worst-case and best-case outbreak scenarios -- and will be used to evaluate new vaccine technologies and modes of vaccine delivery. (more)
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
All Penn State faculty, graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who are interested in infectious diseases research are invited to attend the third annual Penn State Intercampus Infectious Diseases Retreat "Pathogen Evolution and Transmission" on May 29-30, at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey. Everyone interested broadly in infectious diseases is invited and welcome to attend. A major goal is to encourage interactions among faculty, postdocs and graduate students in cross-disciplinary areas of research.
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