On Tuesday, March 22, Sigma Xi , the National Scientific Research
Society, will be
hosting a campus visit by
Byron Caughey, Senior Investigator,
NIAID, NIH, Rocky Mountain Labs
Hamilton, Montana
to speak on
Mad Cow (TSE) and other related Prion diseases.
He will offer two lectures, one aimed at the general public:
"BSE, chronic wasting disease,
scrapie and CJD: the perils of prion
diseases"
at 7 PM in Physical Sciences Complex Room 140, with
refreshments served in the
lobby at 6:30 PM,
and one aimed at the scientific community:
"The most infectious prion protein particle and its invasion of
neurons"
at 4 PM in Physical Sciences Room 108.
Both lectures are open to the public, and free of charge.
For abstracts of the talks, visit:
http://www.isu.edu/~boswkenn/sigmaxi/lecturesdetail.html
For a map showing the location of the Physical Science Complex,
Click Here.