AALAS members, read about the latest educational and networking opportunities with your association. Please note upcoming deadlines.
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The AALAS Serves column highlights LAS professionals making a difference in their communities. We want to share your stories. Are you a volunteer? Know a colleague who is? Tell us your story and maybe you will be featured in an upcoming issue. Click below to read the two AALAS Serves articles from the March magazine.
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AALAS and You: Getting Involved
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Harness the power of your association to make an impact on your career. Take advantage of these opportunities.
AALAS Awards:
Nominate a colleague for a 2019 AALAS Award.
To learn more about the awards and the nomination and selection process click
here
. Nominations must be submitted by April 3, 2019. For helpful tips on how to put together an outstanding awards nomination packet, read our December
LAS Pro
article,
Time to Shine: Making the Most of an AALAS Award Nomination
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AALAS Election:
March 15 is the deadline for Trustee or Alternate Trustee nominees to submit the online application and nominating petition. Click
here
for complete details and form links. After the candidacy of all applicants is confirmed, the names will be disclosed to the membership.
Board of Trustee positions open are:
- Trustees for District 5, 6, and 8
- Trustee for At-Large seat 3
- Alternate Trustees for Districts 4, 7, and 8
Please note, the Nominations Committee is seeking members with global experience for At-Large Trustee seat 3. All terms commence at the close of the AALAS National Meeting in the year of the election.
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Join Us in Denver
Here is your invitation to join us in Denver, Colorado for the 70th AALAS National Meeting! Take a look and save the date.
The meeting will be held at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO from October 13-17, 2019.
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AALAS has expanded our social media presence by adding Instagram
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Follow us there for exclusive content about your association. Search for AALASnational.
Want to participate in the Instagram account? We are looking to highlight branch and district activities every Monday under the #WeAreAALAS hashtag and posts. Submit your pics and descriptions to
laspro@aalas.org
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Does your salary matter to you?
Compensation matters to everyone. Since 1997, the AALAS Compensation Survey has been an important tool for facility management to compare staff compensation levels by type of facility across the U.S. and to justify to institutional administrations the need for increasing staff compensation. The 2019 survey is now in full swing. It is conveniently online and straightforward to complete. It analyzes 18 positions in the laboratory animal field from director to cage wash technician. Typically, a director or a human resource administrator completes the survey because these individuals have the compensation data about each of the positions included. The more institutions contribute data to the survey, the better and more useful the report will be.
This survey is important! Its report is the sole resource on employee compensation for the lab animal field, so everyone at a U.S. facility should see to it that their institution participates in this year’s survey. Talk to your management to ensure someone is. You can also contact AALAS to determine whether your institution has signed up to fill out the survey. For more info, contac
t
info@aalas.org
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Share Your Tech Week Fun
LAS Pro
will be accepting photos and recaps from your Tech Week celebrations to feature in the June magazine.
Submit 1-2 photos (must be 300 DPI jpegs or tiffs) and a 75-100 word recap of your event to
laspro@aalas.org
.
Also,
LAS Pro
will offer a cover contest again!
We
are looking for a June cover photo that highlights the 2019 Tech Week celebrations. Please note, cover images require special composition:
- Photographs must be submitted in a vertically framed shot.
- No more than two people should be featured.
- Room must be left in the image for text overlays.
- Photos must be sent as jpeg or tifs at 300 DPI and measuring 8.75" x 11.125".
Questions? Contact us at
laspro@aalas.org
. Deadlines to submit is April 9. Photo selections will be determined by the graphic design team.
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Order the February and March Webinars
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February's webinar is
Mice, Mice Baby: Normal Behavior in the Laboratory Mouse
and will be held on February 27 from 12:00-1:30 PM CT. This webinar will familiarize the audience with the natural history and normal behaviors of the domesticated house mouse and its wild counterpart so that the appropriate measures can be implemented to alleviate stress and provide biologically relevant enrichments in their captive environment.
April's webinar,
Right Numbers for Animal Protocols
, will be held on Wednesday, April 24 from 12-1:30 PM CT. The webinar will review types of outcome variables, hypotheses testing, and sample sizes.
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Vote for the Fan Favorite in Video Essay Contest
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It is time to vote for the fan favorite in the 2018 Celebrate the Mouse Biomedical Research Video Essay contest. The AALAS Foundation judges are currently reviewing and judging entries for category winners, but need your help determining the fan favorite winners for each of the two contest categories.
Go to the YouTube channel links below and give a “thumbs-up” for your favorite video essays in each category. The video receiving the most “thumbs-up” in its category will win the fan favorite award!
Deadline to vote for your favorite is February 28, 2019.
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AALAS has been asked to disseminate the following information from the US National Authority for Containment of Poliovirus (NAC) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
The
NAC has launched its survey, the National Inventory for Poliovirus Containment, to identify facilities in the United States that possess any materials that could potentially contain poliovirus.
Laboratories, storage sites, and other facilities should complete the survey if they test, extract, handle, or store biological samples from humans, experimentally infected animals, sewage, or environmental waters. The survey will help you to determine whether any of your samples may be contaminated with poliovirus. Material is considered potentially infectious for poliovirus based on where and when the specimens were collected, not on the basis of any test results.
To complete the National Inventory for Poliovirus Containment, please click
here
. For additional information or questions, you may contact the NAC at 404.718.5160 or
poliocontainment@cdc.gov
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