Athens,
Ga.– Dr. Tony Goldberg, a pathobiologist at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is presenting two
lectures at the University of Georgia this week as part of a joint effort by the Biomedical
and Health Sciences Institute and the College of Veterinary
Medicine. His seminar, “Ecology of Health and
Disease in the People, Primates and Domestic Animals of Kibale National Park, Uganda,”
will be presented on March 6 at 4 p.m. in the Ecology Building Auditorium. This lecture is part of the monthly Ecology of Infectious Disease
Lecture Series sponsored by the BHSI and the College of Public Health.
In addition, Dr. Goldberg also will present a seminar, “Fish
n’ Chimps: Adventures of an Evolutionary Anthropological Veterinary Epidemiologist,”
on March 7 in room H237 of the College
of Veterinary Medicine.
This seminar is part of a new Science of Veterinary Medicine Lecture Series
developed by Dr. Margie Lee and Dr. Susan Sanchez for recruiting graduate
students for combined D.V.M./Ph.D. programs and the Veterinary Scholars Program.
Dr. Goldberg’s research focuses on the epidemiology and
evolutionary ecology of infectious disease. His laboratory employs
epidemiological and molecular techniques to help reconstruct patterns by which
pathogens spread within and between host populations, across complex landscapes
and over time. This involves a combination of evolutionary biology,
epidemiology, ecology and molecular biology. Dr. Goldberg is involved in
training students in his research, which focuses on four distinct areas:
primates, pigs, West Nile virus and fish.
One of his most highly published studies has been on people
employed in chimpanzee-focused research and tourism in a western Uganda park
who were exchanging gastrointestinal bacteria—E. coli—with local chimpanzee
populations. Some of the E. coli strains migrating to chimps have been
resistant to antibiotics used by humans in Uganda.
Dr. Goldberg is a graduate of the University of Illinois
College of Veterinary Medicine. He received a Ph.D. in biological anthropology
from Harvard University
and an M.S. in epidemiology from the University
of Illinois.
Both lectures are open to the public. For more information, see
www.biomed.uga.edu or www.vet.uga.edu.
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