Seminar Title: "Developmental Transcriptional Programs Establish Layered Immunity of Unconventional T Cells at Barrier Tissues"

By: Dr. Michela Frascoli, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

The Cornell Equine Hospital and Cornell Cooperative Extension are proud to host the Equine Seminar Series. These monthly virtual talks are presented by equine experts on important equine health and management topics.

"Equine Pain Management: From the Farm to the Operating Room to the ICU" Presented by Jordyn Boesch, DVM, PhD, DACVAA Founding Fellow - Pain Management, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine

This lecture will review the various strategies, from systemic medications to advanced regional anesthetic techniques, utilized on an out- or in-patient basis to manage...

Cornell Center for Antimicrobial Resistance Research & Education Fall Seminar Series 2026

Title: Relapsing Staphylococcus aureus Infections: Antibiotic Failure, not just a matter of Resistance

Speaker Bio: Dr Kidd is a teaching and research academic, leading the Bacterial Stress Response research group at Adelaide University. He is also the Director of the One Health focussed and Adelaide-based research centre: the Australian Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Ecology (ACARE). After completing his PhD on the molecular microbiology and gene regulation in Aeromonas hydrophila at the...

Seminar Title: "How Diet and the Microbiome Combine to Induce Intestinal Inflammation"

By: Dr. Timothy Hand, University of Pittsburgh

Cornell Center for Veterinary Business and Entrepreneurship Spark Talk Series: Andrew Quagliata, PhD is an award-winning communication professor with more than 20 years of experience helping students and professionals communicate more effectively. He is a teaching professor of management communication at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and regularly works with leaders and organizations through executive education programs and workshops. His teaching and speaking focus on interpersonal communication, relationship building, influence, storytelling, and presentation skills. Andrew is...

Seminar Title: "Measuring Membrane Diversity in Mycobacteria"

By: Dr. Jessica Seeliger, Stony Brook University

Cornell Center for Antimicrobial Resistance Research & Education Fall Seminar Series 2026

Title: TBD

Speaker Bio: Erin Duffy, Ph.D., is an expert in drug discovery and problem solving in the antibiotic arena. Most of her professional growth was with Melinta Therapeutics (founded as Rib-X Pharmaceuticals), where over 17 years she became Executive Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer and R&D site head. Her entry into the pharmaceutical sector began with Pfizer Central Research. Erin’s formal training was at Yale University, where she completed a Ph.D. in physical-organic chemistry and an...

In recent years, increasing interest in small scale farming in suburban, peri-urban, rural and even urban areas of the U.S. has fueled growing demand for veterinary care provided to small-scale livestock owners. Practical Guide to Adding Livestock to Your Veterinary Practice (Wiley, 2026), co-authored by Michelle Buckley (Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine) and Allison Vander Plaats (College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University), offers veterinarians an accessible starting point to meet this need. Designed for small animal and equine practitioners who are less familiar with...

Seminar Title: "Deciphering the Chemical Crosstalk of Host-Gut Microbiota Interactions"

By: Dr. Pamela Chang, Cornell University

Cornell Center for Antimicrobial Resistance Research & Education Fall Seminar Series 2026

Title: Functional redundancy amongst PBPs confers condition-dependent beta-lactam resistance

Speaker Bio: Petra Levin is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and completed her postdoctoral training at MIT. Focusing on the intersection of the environment and microbial physiology, research in the Levin lab probes the mechanisms governing bacterial growth, cell cycle progression, and antibiotic sensitivity. Leveraging...

Dr. Patrick Murphy, Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Cornell Univeristy, will speak as part of the CoRe Seminar Series with his talk, "Maternal Effect Gene ANP32E Allows for Transcriptional Priming of Young Transposons."

Cornell Center for Antimicrobial Resistance Research & Education Fall Seminar Series 2026

Title: Taming the Hydra: Novel Pharmacologic and Immunologic Strategies to Defeat Mtb Persisters

Speaker Bio: Petros C. Karakousis, M.D., M.A., is Professor of Medicine, International Health and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he also serves as Director of the Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (TRAC) and as an Attending Physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University...

Seminar Title: "New Approaches Against A Re-Emerging Virus (Measles)"

By: Dr. Erica Saphire, La Jolla Institute for Immunology

Dr. Anna Claire Church, a Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cornell Population Center, will speak as part of the CoRe Seminar Series with her talk, "Advancing Understandings of Male Reproductivity."

Seminar Title: "Emergence and Evolution of a Pandemic Canina Parvovirus -- The Control of Viral Host Range and Antibody Neutralization"

By: Dr. Colin Parrish, Cornell University

With programs around the globe, the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health strives to sustain a healthier world by developing and implementing proactive, science-based solutions to challenges at the interface of wildlife health, domestic animal health, human health and livelihoods, and the environment that supports us all.

This session focuses on insect pollinators — a group which includes bees, wasps, butterflies, beetles, flies, and ants — and on efforts to reverse the worrying population declines described in the popular press as part of the “insect apocalypse.” For the purposes...

Cornell Center for Antimicrobial Resistance Research & Education Fall Seminar Series 2026

Title: A balancing act - c-di-AMP as a global regulator of cell wall integrity and metabolism in Listeria monocytogenes

Speaker Bio: Dr. Huynh earned a BS degree in Food Science at the University of New South Wales (Australia), where she discovered love for microbiology research through studies of microbial ecology of cocoa bean fermentation. Huynh got a PhD degree at the University of California - Davis, where she worked with Dr. Valley Stewart on the mechanism of phosphatase reaction in bacterial two...

Seminar Title: "At the Junction of Immunology and Reproduction: Revisiting the Ovary as a Fertile Ground"

By: Dr. Yi Athena Ren, Cornell University

Cornell Center for Antimicrobial Resistance Research & Education Fall Seminar Series 2026

Title: Designing Food for Health: Roles of Plant Bioactives in Gut Functionality, Microbiome Dynamics, and Inflammation Across In Vivo Systems

Speaker Bio: Dr.Elad Tako holds degrees in Animal Science (B.S.), Endocrinology (M.S.), and Physiology/Nutrigenomics (Ph.D.) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He completed his postdoctoral training in the Department of Food Science at Cornell University, followed by an appointment as Lead Physiologist at the USDA-ARS Robert W. Holley Center for...