Monday, October 26, 2009

This Week's DSS


The next Distinguished Scientist Seminar will be presented by Dr. Frank F. (Skip) Bartol on Oct. 29, 2009, at 4 p.m. in the Medical Sciences Building auditorium. His seminar is titled, “Maternal Lactocrine Programming of Neonatal Development: Implications for Fertility and Health.”

Currently, Dr. Bartol serves as associate dean for research and graduate studies at the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine.

Dr. Bartol’s research focuses on identification of factors affecting and mechanisms regulating development and function of the female reproductive tract, with a particular focus on reproductive efficiency and health in domestic ungulate species.

In 2005, Dr. Bartol was named the Donald Henry Barron Lecturer by the UF-IRB program at his doctoral alma mater "for outstanding research and scholarly activities in the field of reproductive biology."  He was named Alumni Professor at Auburn University in 2009.

Dr. Bartol received a bachelor of science degree from Virginia Tech. He received both his master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Florida through the Interdisciplinary Reproductive Biology (UF-IRB) program. He also received advanced training in molecular biology as a visiting scientist in the Center for Animal Biotechnology at Texas A&M University.

For more information on Dr. Bartol’s research, visit http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/faculty/app-faculty/bartol-frank-f .

For additional information, contact Natalie Kent at 461-1548.