Foundation Seeking Auctions Items for National Meeting

If you would like to donate an item for the AALAS Foundation silent and/or live auctions at this year’s National Meeting in Indianapolis, please send a brief description of the item, approximate value, and contributor contact info to April Turner at april.turner@aalas.org or by fax at (901) 334-5152.

Donations must be received in the AALAS national office by October 10, 2008, in order to be shipped to Indianapolis. You may also bring your item to the Foundation Booth in the Indianapolis Convention Center.

Contributors who inform the national office by September 1, 2008, of their intended auction donation will be recognized in the National Meeting Final Program.

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BOT Meeting Notice

The AALAS Board of Trustees Summer Business Session will be held June 20 and 22 in Memphis, Tennessee. Members are encouraged to contact their district trustees if they have any issues they want addressed. Board meetings, except for closed sessions, are open to AALAS members. AALAS does not reimburse expenses for attending the meeting.

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Free Brochure on Dealing with Grief

The Cost of Caring: Recognizing Human Emotions in the Care of Laboratory Animals brochure assists all members of the research team in providing suggestions and resources for managing human emotions in the care of laboratory animals.

The brochure describes some of the emotions that may be felt by staff members, discusses ways staff members may express grief, and provides suggestions for coping strategies that may be helpful in dealing with the grief.

This PDF brochure is available from the Free Downloads section of the AALAS website: www.aalas.org/bookstore/downloads.asp.

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Nobel Prize Winner to Speak at AALAS National Meeting

AALAS is pleased to announce that Nobel Prize-winning scientist Oliver Smithies will serve as keynote speaker for the National Meeting in Indianapolis. On October 8, 2007, Smithies was announced as co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Mario Capecchi of the University of Utah and Martin Evans of Cardiff University for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells.

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AALAS National Meeting Topic Submissions Due March 15

The deadline for AALAS National Meeting topic submissions is March 15. You may view the requirements on the National Meeting website at http://nationalmeeting.aalas.org/callforabs.asp.

All topic submissions--Seminars, Special Topic Lectures, Panel Discussions (formerly Round Table Discussions), Workshops, Technical Trade Presentations--can be submitted through AALAS Abstract Central at http://aalas.abstractcentral.com/.

If you need assistance with the site, please contact Betty Cartwright (betty.cartwright@aalas.org), Carolyn Simonton (carolyn.simonton@aalas.org), or John Farrar (john.farrar@aalas.org).

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Compensation Survey Deadline Extended to March 1

AALAS' 2008 Laboratory Animal Facility Compensation Survey has been extended to March 1.

This survey provides valuable data for AALAS members on 12 positions in the laboratory animal facility. Your institution can still participate. Participants receive a discount when purchasing the survey and an individualized comparison report . The survey can be completed online or faxed or mailed back to the survey company. If you are interested in submitting compensation data for your institution, please contact Pam Grabeel at AALAS for information at info@aalas.org.

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India Celebrates International Tech Week

Dr. K. B. Patel of Zydus Research Center in Ahmedabad, India, provided these photos of India's first International Tech Week celebration. Dr. Patel said there was involvement from top management, and the "animal care people were very happy to have this type of celebration, recognition, and some new learning, too."

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