May 11th, 2010

7:00 – 7:30am  Vendor Set-Up

7:30 – 8:30am  Breakfast Buffet / Vendor Exhibits

8:00 – 8:30am  Poster Set-Up

8:45 – 9:00am  Opening Remarks – Laura Conour

Moderator: Ann Turner

9:00 – 9:45am   F. Claire Hankenson – University of Pennsylvania “Genotyping by Gorillas: Current guidance for tissue sampling of mice”

9:30 – 1:00pm   Poster Viewing

9:45 – 10:30am Vendor Exhibits / Break

10:30 – 11:00am Dian Funk – University of Pittsburgh “The Bigger They Are, the Harder They Fall: Handling Large Swine in Surgical Protocols”

11:00 – 11:30am Jennifer Camacho  Massachusetts General Hospital “Response Plan for Primate Behavior”

11:30 – 11:40am Essay Contest Winners

11:45 – 1:10pm  Lunch

Moderator: Holly Collette

1:15 – 2:00pm   James Macy – Yale University “Factors Affecting Mouse Parvovirus Spread in Colonies”

1:30 – 4:00pm    Poster Viewing

2:00 – 2:30pm    Julieanne Brandolini – Partners Healthcare System “Standardizing the Definition of a Dirty Rodent Cage”

2:30 – 3:00pm  Julie Watson – Johns Hopkins School of Medicine “Aquaria as Enrichment for Nonhuman Primates” 

3:00 – 3:45pm   Vendor Exhibits / Break

3:45 – 5:00pm   QUAD Tech Challenge

5:45 – 7:15pm   Reception, Dinner Buffet, Auction

May 12th, 2010 

7:30 – 8:30am Breakfast Buffet / Vendor Exhibits

Moderator: Robert Quinn, DVM

8:45 – 9:15am Deborah Donohoe – AALAS President “How the AALAS Registry Works for Me”

9:15 – 10:00am  Jason Villano – Pennsylvania State University “Experimental Endpoints: A Review”

9:30 – 11:00am Poster Viewing

10:00 – 10:45amVendor Exhibits / Break

10:00 – 10:30am Authors with Posters

10:45 – 11:10am Susan Ogeka-Crowley –Children’s Hospital Boston "Automatic Water Valves: Keeping the Flow But Not Too Much"

11:10 – 11:35am Laura Conour – Charles River “Animal Care and Use Operational Efficiencies in Lean Times”

11:35 – 11:45am

Closing Comments / Evaluation Drawing

Speakers

F. Claire Hankenson, DVM, DACLAM

Senior Associate Director

University Laboratory Animal Resources

3800 Spruce St., University of Pennsylvania SVM

177E Old Vet Quadrangle

Philadelphia, PA 19104-6009

215-573-6325 Work

215-573-9998 Fax

fclaire@upenn.edu

Title: Genotyping by Gorillas: Current guidance for tissue sampling of mice

Diann Funk, CVT, LAT

Manager, Surgical Research Facility

University of Pittsburgh

S1040 Thomas E. Starzl Biomedical Science Tower

3500 Terrace Street

Pittsburgh, PA 15261

412 648-9337 Work

412 609-7013 Cell

412 648-8751 Fax

dff8@pitt.edu

Title: The Bigger They Are, the Harder They Fall: Handling Large Swine in Surgical Protocols

Jennifer N. Camacho, LVT, RLATg

Animal Enrichment Program Manager

Massachusetts General Hospital

Center for Comparative Medicine

149 Thirteenth Street -Suite 5254

Charlestown, MA 02129

Phone: (617) 726-0697

Fax: (617) 726-5705

JNCAMACHO@PARTNERS.ORG

Title: Response Plan for Primate Behavior

Laura Conour, DVM, DACLAM

Senior Director, Veterinary Services

Preclinical Services Massachusetts

Charles River

334 South Street, Shrewsbury, MA 01545

Main: 508.925.6000 Direct: 508.925.6340

Mobile: 978.270.8106 Fax: 508.925.6701

Laura.Conour@crl.com

Title: Animal Care and Use Operational Efficiencies in Lean Times

Julie Watson MA VetMB Dipl ACLAM

Asst Professor, Dept of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology

Director, Rodent Clinical Programs

Director, Laboratory Animal Medicine Clinical Training Program

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Baltimore, MD

410-955-3275 Work

410-502-5068 Fax

julie.watson@jhu.edu

Title: Aquaria as Enrichment for Nonhuman Primates

James D. Macy, Jr., DVM, DACLAM

Assistant Professor & Director

Animal Resources Center

Yale University

P.O. Box 208016

New Haven, CT 06518

203-737-1657 Work

203-785-7499 Fax

james.macy@yale.edu

Title: Factors Affecting Mouse Parvovirus Spread in Colonies

Deborah L. Donohoe, BA, RLATG

Lab Manager

Neuro-Oncology Translational Brain Tumor Program

Department of Radiology

MFRC rm 6048

Medical College of WI

8701 Watertown Plank Rd.

MIlwaukee, WI 53226

414-456-4794—lab

ddonohoe@mcw.edu

Title: How the AALAS Registry Works for Me

Jason So Villano, DVM, MSc

Resident, Department of Comparative Medicine

Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

College of Medicine

500 University Drive, HO54

Hershey, PA 17033

Phone: 717-531-8460

FAX: 717-531-5001

jvillano@hmc.psu.edu

Title: Experimental Endpoints: A Review

Susan Ogeka-Crowley

ARCH Supervisor, Karp Bldg

Children's Hospital

Boston, MA 02115

Phone: 617-919-2791

Fax: 617-730-0090

Susan.Ogeka@childrens.harvard.edu

Title: Automatic Water Valves: Keeping the Flow But Not Too Much

Julieanne Brandolini

Team Lead, BS, LAT

Partners Healthcare System

CCM 149-8 13th Street

Charlestown, Ma 02129

Phone: 617-726-5262

JBRANDOLINI@PARTNERS.ORG

Title: Standardizing the Definition of a Dirty Rodent Cage