Reception at 5:00 PM

Dinner at 6:00 PM

 

Speaker Information

Date: March 19, 2008

Title: Infectious Disease

Speaker: Dr. Thomas Russo

Comments:

 

Date: January 16, 2008

Title: Animal Research and Depression

Speaker: Jolie R. Giardino, LCSW

Comments:

 

Date: November 14, 2007

Title: Bird Studies in South America

Speaker: Dr. Albert Uy, Syracuse University

Comments:

 

Date: September 26, 2007

Title: Awards Program and Technician Night

Speaker:

Comments:

 

Date: March 21, 2007

 

Title: Animal Models for Alcohol Toxicity Research

Speaker: Dr. Michael Miller, Chair, Department of Neuroscience & Physiology, Upstate Medical University

Comments:

 

Date: January 17, 2007

 

Title: Sepsis, Ventilator Induced Lung Injury and Magic Bullets

Speaker: Dr. Gary Nieman, Department of Surgery, Upstate Medical University

Comments:

 

Date: November 15, 2006

 

Title: BioSafety

Speaker: President NE. Biosafety Association

Comments:

 

Date: September 27, 2006

 

Title: Hurricane Katrina Experience and Awards Dinner

Speaker: Ben Arts, LAT

Comments:

 

Date: March 15, 2006

 

Title: Mercury & Migration: Conservation Through the Lives of Adirondack Loons

Speaker: Amy Sauer, Program Manager, Adirondack Cooperative Loon Program

Comments:

 

Date: January 18, 2006

 

Title: Making and Using Enrichment Objects and Toys for Non-human Primates

Speaker: Christopher Louie, Center for Aging and Development Biology, University of Rochester Medical Center

AND
Title: Keeping Our Future Happy by Dr. Y. N. Richment

Speaker: presented by Warren Ball, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Scotts Distributing, Inc.

 

Date: November 16, 2005

 

Title: AALAS Foundation

Speaker: Dr. Dennis Stark

Comments:

 

Date: September 21, 2005

 

Title:Saving Lemurs and Habitat in Madagascar

Speaker: Jeff Wyatt, DVM, MPH, DACLAM

Comments: Jeff Wyatt is the Executive Director of the Animal Resource and Department of Comparative Medicine at the University of Rochester

 

Date: September 21, 2004

 

Title:The New York River Otter Project

Speaker: George V. Kollias, and J. Hyman

Comments:

 

Date: March 17, 2004

 

Title:" Fish Don't Smell"

Speaker: Guy Burn

Comments: Guy Burn is from Marine Biotech

 

Date: January 21, 2004

 

Title: Security Options for High Risk Facilities

Speaker: Douglas Dryden, Director of Corporate Security, Marshall Farms and Bruce Roloff, Associate Director of Corporate Security, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

Comments:

 

Date: November 19, 2003

Title: Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases in the Lab Animal Facility:Alternative Methods of Decontamination and Housing.

Speaker: Dr. Roger Orcutt

Comments: Director of the two largest Lab Animal Diagnostic Laboratories in the world, BioReliance (1982-84) and Charles River (1972-81).
Past President of the Association for Gnotobiotics and Representative to the AALAS.
Exclusive consultant to TACONIC in the animal supply industry since 1988.

 

Date: September 17, 2003

Title: To be announced

Speaker: To be announced

Comments:

 

Date: March 19, 2003

Title: Bi-Directional Pathologic Transmission between Human and Non-human
Primates on the Indonesian Island of Bali

Speaker: Dr. Douglas Cohn

Comments: Why doesn't everyone everyone who handles non-human primates in Bali get sick.

Date: January 15, 2003

Title: Update on Heaves (COPD) in the Horse

Speaker: Dr. Dorothy Ainsworth

Comments: Large Animal Department Internal Medicine at Cornell

 

Date: November 20th, 2002

Title: Sex, Eyes and Videotape: Vision in Humans and Horseshoes Crabs

Speaker: Dr. Robert Barlow

Comments:

 

Date: September 18th, 2002

Title: "Life with Mickey Mouse: "Tails" from the BSL-3"

Speaker: Michelle DeStefano

Comments: Michelle has a B.S., CBSP, NRM, and is from the Syracuse VA hospital. Her presentation will describe her work with a murine model for tuberculosis.

Past Speakers

Date: March 20th, 2002

Title: Considerations in the Care, Maintenance and Healing of Distressed Wildlife in Preparation for Release

Speaker: Cynthia J. Page

Comments: Cynthia is a licensed wildlife rehabilitator will supplement her talk with slides and raptors (live, non-releasable) from Page's Wildlife Center.

Date: January 16th, 2002

Title: Olfactory function following peripherally induced lesions in the rat: A model for the study of dysosmia in humans.

Speaker: Dr. Steven L. Youngentob

Comments: Dr. Youngentob is Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology at the SUNY Upstate Medical University.

Date: November 28, 2001

Title: Managing the Modern Zoo

Speaker: Dr. Ann Baker

Comments: Dr. Baker is from the Rosamond Gifford Zoo.

Date: September 19, 2001

Title: Research Animal Adoption at Cornell - A Success Story

Speaker: Luce Guanzini

Comments:

Date: March 21, 2001

Title: Canine Models of Inherited Bleeding Disorders

Speaker: Lisa Spagnoletti

Comments:

Date: January 17, 2001

Title: Coyotes and Wolves in New York State

Speaker: Dr. Robert Chambers

Comments:Dr. Robert Chambers is Professor Emeritus from SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry College here in Syracuse. He has done extensive field research here in New York and Canada involving coyotes.