7:00 -  8:00 am

Vendor Breakfast

8:00 –  8:45 am

Breakfast Buffet / Vendor Exhibits

8:00 –  8:30 am

Poster Set-Up

8:45 –  9:00 am

Opening Remarks – Bob Quinn

Moderator:  (morning sessions) Mary Martin

9:00 –  9:45 am

Keynote Speaker- Gary Borkowski- “Work-Life Balance – Do I Have It? Do I Want It?”

9:30 – 12:00 pm

10:00 – 10:30 am

Poster Viewing

Authors w/Posters

9:45 – 10:30 am

Vendor Exhibits / Beverage Break

10:30 – 11:30 am

Jeffery Mogil- “Pain in Mice and Man: Ironic Adventures in Translation.” 

Session Raffle after morning talks

11:45 –12:45pm   

12:45-1:10pm

Lunch

Dessert/ Vendor Area to remain open until 4:00 pm

1:15 –   2:05 pm  

Breakout Sessions

1. Bob MacGregor-“ The Destruction and Rebuilding of Cayo Santiago (Monkey Island) after Hurricane Maria”

Moderators:  Ramaswamy Chidambaram

2. Kristina Carter Bartley- “Innovative and Strategic Solutions to Troubleshoot Your Enrichment Program”

Moderators:  Ann Turner

3.  Karen Strait- “Pigs and sheep and cows, oh my! Medical device development in large animal models.” 

Moderators: Philippe Baneux

Session Raffle after 2^nd Breakout (3)

1:30 –   4:00 pm

Poster Viewing

2:15 –   3:05 pm

Breakout Sessions: Repeat as above

3:15 –   4:00 pm

Beverage Break

3:30 –   4:45 pm

QUAD Tech Challenge- Robert Quinn, Rebecca Benz

Session raffle at the end of Challenge

6:15 – 7:45 pm

Reception, Dinner Buffet, Auction

    May 3rd, 2019

7:30 –   8:30 am

Breakfast Buffet

Moderator: (morning sessions) Lyn Patrylak 

8:45–  9:15 am

Freddy De La Garza- “ Swine Training Program Enhances Animal Welfare and Research Efficiency”

9:15 – 10:00 am  

Emily Nielsen-  “Retiring Research Companion Animals: What you need to know about the laws and partnering with a rescue organization”

9:30 – 11:00 am

Poster Viewing

10:00 – 10:45 am

 Break

10:45 – 11:30 am

Jenn Asher-  “When Two Become One: Refinements in Parabiosis”

11:30 – 11:45 am

12:00-12:30 pm

12:30- 1:30 pm

1:30-  2:30 pm

2:45- 3:45 pm

3:45- 4:45 pm

Closing Comments / Session Raffle

Mini-management:

Lunch (provided)

Morag Mackay- "Diversity in the Workplace: How to understand, value, communicate and motivate each other"

Diana Scorpio – The do’s and don’ts of using social media to spread the word about animals used in biomedical research”

Penny Devlin – “5 Steps for a More Organized

 Work Place” 

Scott Mischler- “My Favorite Critical Skills for

the Motivated Leader”