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Biomedical workshop to focus on livestock and domestic
model contribution
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[OCT.
11, 2004]
URBANA --
Two nationally known University
of Illinois researchers will be speakers at an Oct. 29-31 conference
at Michigan State University focusing on use of livestock species as
biomedical models. Janice Bahr and Harris Lewin, both in the
Department of Animal Sciences, will be among several leading
researchers making presentations.
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The workshop seeks to provide a forum
for the exchange of ideas between scientists and federal
administrators who oversee funding of agricultural and biomedical
research.
"The workshop will also emphasize the
scientific importance of domestic species as biomedical models that
contribute to human and animal health and well-being and animal
agriculture," said Bahr, a professor of reproductive physiology. "It
will seek to identify high-priority research areas that could be
advanced by using domestic animals as biomedical models in research
in reproduction, nutrition, immunity and genomics."
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Lewin is the head of the U of I's
Institute of Genomic Biology. Genomics and advanced technology is
one of the topics on the agenda. Other topics are reproductive
physiology and developmental biology, nutrition, and health and
disease.
More information about the workshop is
available online at
http://www.adsbm.msu.edu.
Sponsors
include Michigan State University, Texas A&M University, the USDA
and the National Institute of Health.
[University
of Illinois news release]
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