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Interests:

I have a strong interest in biocontainment, education (curriculum development and post-graduate and professional education), diagnostic imaging, facility design and construction, environmental enrichment, and infectious disease research.

Responsibilities within the Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine include:

• Providing for and helping to oversee the clinical care of multiple species of animals utilized in scientific research at the University of Michigan.
• Instruction of Postdoctoral Fellows and veterinary student interns and externs
• Director, Clinical Postdoctoral Training Program in Laboratory Animal Medicine
• Coordinator, Clinical/Research Veterinary Student Summer Program
• Facilitating the appropriate and humane use of animals employed in research studies by directly assisting research personnel.
• Overseeing issues within ULAM related to conducting animal studies involving hazardous substances (chemical or biologic).
• Director, Animal Biosafety Level 3 Facility
• Supervising the ULAM Office of Veterinary Technicians.

Selected Publications:

Turner PV, Colby LA, Gaertner DJ, Vandewoude S, Vasbinder MA.  Perspectives on Curriculum Needs in Laboratory Animal Medicine.  Submitted to JVME June 2008.

Xiang Z, Todd T, Ku KP, Kovacic BL, Larson CB, Chen F, Hodges AP, Tian Y, Olenzek EA, Zhao B, Colby LA, Rush HG, Gilsdorf JR, Jourdian GW, He Y.  VIOLIN: Vaccine Investigation and Online Information Network. Nucleic Acids Res. 36(Database issue):D923-8, 2008; Epub 2007 Nov 19.

Colby LA, Turner P, Vasbinder MA.  Training strategies for laboratory animal veterinarians:  challenges and opportunities.  ILAR. 48(2):143-155, 2007

He Y, Rush HG, Liepman RS, Xiang Z, Colby LA.  Pathobiology and management of laboratory  rodents administered CDC Category A agents.  Comp Med. 57(1):18-32, 2007.

Jortner BS, Hancock SK, Hinckley J, Flory L, Colby L, Tobias L, Williams L, Ehrich M. Neuropathological studies of rats following multiple exposure to tri-ortho-tolyl phosphate, chlorpyrifos, and stress. Toxicologic Pathology 33:378-385, 2005.

Colby LA, Morenko BJ. Clinical considerations in rodent bioimaging. Comp Med. 54(6):623-30, 2004.

Newsom DM, Bolgos GL, Colby LA, Nemzek JA. Comparison of body surface temperature measurement and conventional methods for measuring temperature in the mouse. Contemp Topics 43(5):13-8, 2004.

Colby L, Schurig GG, Elzer PH. An indirect ELISA to detect serologic response of elk (Cervuselaphusnelsoni) inoculated with Brucellaabortus strain RB51. J Wildl Dis. 38(4):752-9, 2002.

Cook WE, Williams ES, Thorne ET, Kreeger TJ, Stout GW, Bardsley K, Edwards H, Schurig G, Colby L, Enright F, Elzer PH. Brucellaabortus strain RB51 vaccination in elk I. Efficacy of reduced dosage. J Wildl Dis. 38(1):18-26, 2002.

Cook WE, Williams ES, Thorne ET, Kreeger TJ, Stout GW, Schurig G, Colby L, Enright F, Elzer PH. Safety of Brucellaabortus strain RB51 in bull elk. J Wildl Dis. 36(3):484-488, 2000.

Elzer PH, Enright FM, Colby L, Hagius SD, Walker JV, Fatemi MB, Kopec JD, Beal VC, Schurig GG. Protection against infection and abortion induced by virulent challenge exposure after oral vaccination of cattle with Brucellaabortus strain RB51. Am J Vet Res. 59(12):1575-1578, 1998.

Childs J, Colby L, Krebs J, Strine T, Feller M, Noah D, Drenzek C, Smith JS, Rupprecht CE. Surveillance and spatiotemporal associations of rabies in rodents and lagomorphs in the United States, 1985-1994. J. Wildl Dis. 33(1):20-27, 1997.