One Health lecture on canine distemper and human measles, Oct 16
Join us for a free, public lecture from UGA’s own Elizabeth Uhl. Professor Uhl is associate professor of pathology in UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine. In this lecture she will discuss how canine distemper virus may have originated with human measles during the discovery of the New World.
The lecture will be on Wednesday, October 16, 2013 at 1:00 P.M. in the Paul D. Coverdell Center, room 175.
Uhl is a veterinary pathologist with interests in the evolutionary origins of disease susceptibility across species and animal paleopathology. Her current projects include investigating the role of codon usage in morbillivirus host adaptation and characterizing disease in animal remains excavated from archaeological sites.