| On September 30, 2004 the expanded
Ithaca facilities and the new Molecular Laboratory were
opened with a reception, open house and ribbon cutting.
It was a great event, with large numbers of people, wonderful
food, tours through the lab, posters to explain a day in
the life of a field tech and a milk sample, squeezy cows,
and lots more. Lisa took pictures, some of which you will
find in this newsletter. We also have a special logo for
the new Molecular Laboratory. |
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On September 30 and October
1, 2004 we also hosted the two-day symposium on “Molecular
Methods in Milk Quality”. The first day was held in
the Ramada Inn, and attended by at least a hundred people.
Use of molecular and bacteriological methods in tracking
of food borne disease outbreaks, in vaccine development,
in monitoring of antimicrobial resistance and in trouble
shooting milk quality and udder health problems were discussed.
In addition, we were well fed, as those of you that were
there know! |
| The second day was held at
the Vet School, and attended by so many people that it was
standing room only during the day. Throughout both days,
we handed out QMPS pens, cows and tri-folds. The audience
included representatives from Ag & Markets, milk inspectors,
farmers, veterinarians, researchers, the Dean of the Veterinary
College, assemblyman Bill McGee (who went as far as saying
that “Quality Milk” should become the state
wide milk promotion theme), Dr. Alfonso Torres from the
Diagnostic Laboratory, representatives from pharmaceutical
companies, and many of you. |
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Thanks so much to all of you for helping to prepare the symposium
and the open house, and for your presence during the day(s)
of the reception and the symposium. To give you a flavor of
the feedback we received, here are some comments from people
that participated in the symposium and the open house, and even
from those that did not attend but only received proceedings:
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“Just a quick note
expressing my appreciation to all of you for making my
recent visit to QMPS enjoyable. Your hospitality as always
was superb.”
”You have a great amount of momentum
at QMPS and Cornell and I expect to see MANY great things
happen in this exciting area”
“Thanks for organizing such
a wonderful symposium.”
”Thank you for organizing the molecular methods
symposium. I enjoyed the mixture of speakers.
They provided a really nice overview of diagnostics.
It was the right information at the right time for me.”
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”There must have been 150 people
there, including many visiting scientists), industry representatives,
veterinarians, farmers, etc. Assemblyman McGee was present
and helped to cut the ribbon along with Drs Torres, Gilbert
and me (i.e. Dean Smith of the Veterinary College). It
was a splendid event”
” It was so good to be with others
so interested in mastitis and motivated me to get up to
speed!! I was pretty content doing bench to micro
and am looking forward to taking it to the next level.
Thanks again so very much!”
“It looks like it was a great
symposium. I've just had time to scan the titles, but
really look forward to getting into the papers. I think
this is going to be a really BIG effort in future mastitis
research.”
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