What's New at ILAR

May 2008

Contents:
  Global Animal Research Conference—Update
  ILAR Journal Current and Future Issues
  Recent ILAR Reports
  Workshops and Meetings of Interest
  Other Publications and Resources
  "What's New at ILAR" e-newsletter subscriptions

Early Registration Now Open!

Global Animal Research Conference

ILAR will hold an international conference September 23-26, 2008 at the National Academy of Sciences building in Washington, DC on Animal Research in a Global Environment: Meeting the Challenges. The conference will cover topics such as:

• how to conduct research in countries with different guidelines for animal care and use;
• outsourcing studies;
• cultural differences in veterinary care and training; and
• issues specific to research with mice and nonhuman primates.

There will also be a session in which participants may interact with the Committee to Update the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals to ask questions and provide feedback. More information is available online.

Early registration ends September 1st. Single day registration is also available.

Current Issue
Volume 49(2): Microbial Quality Control for Nonhuman Primates  
Issue editors: Keith Mansfield and Joseph Kemnitz

"In contrast to many other laboratory animal species, infectious diseases have proven difficult to eliminate from nonhuman primate colonies and various pathogens remain a threat to animal and colony health. Moreover, despite significant advances in the diagnosis of infectious diseases, unrecognized or adventitious agents are common in nonhuman primates and have the potential to confound experimental work. This issue of the ILAR Journal is devoted to microbial quality control for nonhuman primates and addresses a number of important concerns facing veterinarians and scientists who use such animals."

Keith Mansfield and Joseph Kemnitz


Articles:

• Introduction: Challenges in Microbial Quality Control for Nonhuman Primates   |
• Specific Pathogen-Free Macaques: Definition, History, and Current Production   |
• Nonhuman Primate Quarantine: Its Evolution and Practice   |
• Development, Application, and Quality Control of Serology Assays Used for Diagnostic Monitoring of Laboratory Nonhuman Primates   |
• New Approaches to Tuberculosis Surveillance in Nonhuman Primates   |
• Impact of Infections and Normal Flora in Nonhuman Primates on Drug Development
  |
• Opportunistic Infections in Immunologically Compromised Nonhuman Primates   |
• Nonhuman Primate Infections after Organ Transplantation   |
• Macaque Models of Human Infectious Disease   |

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Recent Issues
Vol 49(1): Noninvasive Bioimaging of Laboratory Animals
Vol 48(4): Animal Models of Movement Disorders
Vol 48(3): Use of Amphibians in the Research, Laboratory, or Classroom Setting
Vol 48(2): Training and Adult Learning Strategies for the Care and Use of Lab Animals
Vol 48(1): Contemporary Topics for Animal Care Committees


Next issue

Volume 49, Issue 3
Detection and Management of Microbial Contamination in Laboratory Rodents
June 2008



Contents^*:

• Introduction: Microbes and the Evolution of Scientific Fancy Mice
• Role of Housing Modalities on Management and Surveillance Strategies for Adventitious Agents of Rodents
• Opportunistic Infections of Mice and Rats: Jacoby and Lindsey Revisited
• Lurking in the Shadows: Emerging Rodent Infectious Diseases
• Old Enemies: Still with Us after All These Years
• New Building, Old Parasite: Mesostigmatid Mites—An Ever-Present Threat to Barrier Facilities
• Institutional Responsibilities in Contamination Control for Research Animals and Occupational Health and Safety for Animal Handlers
• From Bench to Cageside: Risk Assessment for Rodent Pathogen Contamination of Cells and Biologics
• International Harmonization of Health Monitoring
• Rodent and Germplasm Trafficking: Risks of Microbial Contamination in a High-Tech Biomedical World

^*Contents are subject to change prior to publication


Future issues:

Volume 49, Issue 4
Animal Use Oversight: Balancing Risk Management with Burden
September 2008

Volume 50, Issue 1
Neural Regulation of Social Behavior
January 2009 (publishes in December 2008)

Volume 50, Issue 2
Animal Models in Gene Therapy Studies
March 2009


For Authors:
We welcome your suggestions of future issue topics, or your submission of a manuscript on any of the topics listed above for possible online publication as an e-Journal supplement to the print Journal (for which articles are solicited by the Editorial Board). Submissions for the e-Journal are due 6 months before the print Journal publication date, which is the 1^st of the month shown. All ILAR Journal and e-Journal manuscripts are subject to peer review and approval by the Editorial Board.

Interested authors should follow the ILAR Journal Instructions to Authors, email their manuscript to ILAR@nas.edu, and include "vol no. (issue no.) MS submission" in the subject line of the email (e.g., "49(3) MS submission").

ILAR e-Journal is the peer-reviewed electronic supplement to our print journal that expands upon our mission of providing pertinent information for investigators in biomedical and related research, institutional officials for research, veterinarians, and members of animal care and use committees by publishing additional laboratory animal research content online in conjunction with the quarterly printed issues of the ILAR Journal.

 Recognition and Alleviation of Distress in Laboratory Animals

The first in a two-part update of ILAR's 1992 report, Recognition and Alleviation of Distress in Laboratory Animals, focuses on the distress experienced by animals used in laboratory research. This book aims to educate laboratory animal veterinarians, students, researchers, animal care staff, and animal welfare officers on the current scientific and ethical issues associated with stress and distress in laboratory animals. The report evaluates pertinent scientific literature and generates practical and pragmatic guidelines for the recognition, alleviation, and minimization of distress for animals in the laboratory setting.

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Calendars, Meetings, and Workshops

AAALAC Conference Calendar
www.aaalac.org/news/calendar.cfm

AALAS Meetings and Events Calendar
www.aalas.org/calendar/index.asp

IAT/LASAT Calendar
http://www.lasat.org.uk

Jackson Laboratory Courses, Meetings, and Workshops Calendar
http://www.jax.org/courses/current.html

University of Utrecht Course Calendar
http://www.lasat.org.uk/



Selected 2008 Events

2008 Annual IACUC Pre-conference Educational Program
March 25-26, 2008
Atlanta, Georgia
For more information, visit www.primr.org

2008 Annual IACUC Conference
March 27-28, 2008
Atlanta, Georgia
For more information, visit www.primr.org

Experimental Biology 2008
April 5-9, 2008
San Diego, California
For more information, visit www.eb2008.org

AACR Annual Meeting
April 12 - 16, 2008
San Diego, California
For more information, visit www.aacr.org

Scientists Center for Animal Welfare (SCAW) IACUC-Advanced Workshop
May 7, 2008
Bethesda, Maryland
For more information, visit www.scaw.com

SCAW IACUC-Advanced Workshop
June 4, 2008
Columbus, Ohio
For more information, visit www.scaw.com

Charles River Annual Short Course
June 16-19, 2008
Newton, Massachusetts
For more information, visit www.criver.com/shortcourse2008

Utrecht International Laboratory Animal Science course
July 7-18, 2008
Utrecht, The Netherlands
For more information, visit www.vet.uu.nl/las (Education and Training > International course)

Animal Research in a Global Environment: Meeting the Challenges
September 23-26, 2008
Washington, DC
Program and registration information forthcoming

SCAW IACUC-Advanced Workshop
October 8, 2008
Las Vegas, Nevada
For more information, visit www.scaw.com

AALAS National Meeting
November 9-13, 2008
Indianapolis, Indiana
For more information, visit www.aalas.org

Society for Neuroscience (SFN) Annual Meeting
November 15-19, 2008
Washington, DC
For more information, visit www.sfn.org

Scientists Center for Animal Welfare (SCAW) Winter Conference
December 8-9, 2008 (formerly December 1-2, 2008)
San Antonio, TX
For more information, visit www.scaw.com/conference.htm


OTHER PUBLICATIONS & RESOURCES

OLAW brochure, What Investigators Need to Know About the Use of Animals, provides a succinct resource for investigators to quickly grasp the expectations and requirements when using animals in research supported by the PHS. Contact OLAW at olaw@od.nih.gov for hard copies, include number of copies needed and a complete mailing address. OLAW offers booklets on enrichment for nonhuman primates commonly used in education, research, and entertainment. The series of six booklets were co-developed with the Association of Primate Veterinarians, American Society of Primatologists, and USDA Animal Care. Download booklets or request hard copies from grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw. OSERA offers a one-day training program for IACUCs tailored to your organization and scheduled at a mutually agreeable time. For more information, visit www.osera.org, or e-mail Dr. Harold Stills at harold.stills@wright.edu.

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