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Program Chair Welcome | President's Message | Keynote Speaker | Charles River Lecturer | Rowe Lecturer | Hunter Lecturer | Steris 5k Run/Walk Meeting Schedule: Program
I want to acknowledge Local Arrangements for their efforts in preparing to host the National Meeting. My sincere appreciation goes to the Program Committee and AALAS staff members who dedicated their time and talents to develop an outstanding program. The Program Committee gathered in April to review topic submissions for workshops, seminars, special topic lectures, and panel discussions. We had a difficult time setting the program due to the volume of high-quality submissions this year. With that said, we have an excellent and diverse program that should satisfy the interests of all attendees. This year’s Spotlight Theme Forum selected by AALAS President Deborah Donohoe is Biomedical Research in Space. Submissions for Biomedical Research in Space focus on the research, clinical care, management, and husbandry of animal models used in space. These sessions will be denoted with a To assist you in scheduling your daily meeting schedule, I recommend using the Itinerary Planner at Abstract Central. This can be done simply by going to www.abstractcentral.com and clicking on Itinerary Planner. Don’t forget the Technical Trade presentations on Sunday afternoon, which focus on new technologies in facility, husbandry, colony management, and animal model development. I also encourage all attendees to take time during the meeting to visit the exhibit hall, which will house the vendors, representatives from affiliate organizations and associations, and the poster presentations. Lastly, I would like to draw your attention to a couple of late-breaking topics we hope to have secured by the National Meeting, which will include presentations from both ILAR and AAALAC regarding the updated edition of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. John P. Long, DVM, DACLAM 
Deborah L. Donohoe, BA, RLATG
With wit and deft humor, Dr Paul Root Wolpe previews intriguing topics including genetically engineered foods, artificial organs, lifestyle drugs, neuroscience and cloning for research—all promising vast benefits, yet posing enormous societal and ethical challenges. As the pace of science races far ahead of ethical response time, Wolpe suggests ways for financial planners, insurance companies, health care providers and individual investors to understand the benefit of sensitive technologies. His recommendations encompass genetics, “brain” engineering, cloning and enhancement drugs to meet ethical concerns of the public, reduce risk and enlarge potential market share. Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D. is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics; Raymond Schinazi Distinguished Research Professor of Jewish Bioethics; Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Sociology; and the Director of the Center for Ethics at Emory University. Dr. Wolpe is the Senior Bioethicist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), where he is responsible for formulating policy on bioethical issues and safeguarding research subjects. He is Co-Editor of the American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB), the premier scholarly journal in bioethics, and Editor-in-Chief of AJOB-Neuroscience, and sits on the editorial boards of over a dozen professional journals in medicine and ethics. Dr Wolpe is a past President of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities; a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the country’s oldest medical society; a Fellow of the Hastings Center; and was the first National Bioethics Advisor to Planned Parenthood Association of America. He is the author of over 100 articles, editorials, and book chapters in sociology, medicine, and bioethics, and has contributed to a variety of encyclopedias on bioethical issues. His work focuses on the social, religious, and ideological impact of biotechnology on the human condition. Considered one of the founders of the field of neuroethics, which examines the ethical implications of neuroscience, he also writes about other emerging technologies, such as genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and prosthetics. His teaching and publications range across multiple fields of bioethics and sociology, including death and dying, genetics and eugenics, sexuality and gender, mental health and illness, alternative medicine, and bioethics in extreme environments such as space. Dr Wolpe is the author of the textbook Sexuality and Gender in Society, and is editor and a key author of the Jewish end-of-life guide, Behoref Hayamim: In the Winter of Life. Dr. Wolpe sits on a number of national and international non-profit organizational boards and working groups, and is a consultant to academic institutions and the biomedical industry. A dynamic and popular speaker internationally, Dr. Wolpe has been chosen by The Teaching Company as a "Superstar Teacher of America" and his courses are distributed internationally on audio and videotape. He is also frequent contributor and commentator in both the broadcast and print media, most recently being featured on 60 Minutes and with a profile in the Science Times of the New York Times.
Dr. Bayne is a past president of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM), the Association of Primate Veterinarians (APV), and the District of Columbia Veterinary Medical Association. She served on the boards of the American Society of Laboratory Animal Practitioners (ASLAP), the National Association for Biomedical Research (NABR), and the Lab Animal editorial board, and was vice president of the Scientists Center for Animal Welfare (SCAW). She is past chair of the American Veterinary Medical Association’s (AVMA) Animal Welfare Committee, and recently served as the laboratory animal medicine representative on the AVMA’s Animal Welfare Advisory Committee, charged with developing overarching animal welfare principles for the entire veterinary profession. She is also immediate past chair of ASLAP’s Animal Welfare Committee and serves on the organizing committee for a specialty college in animal welfare planned for recognition by the AVMA. Dr. Bayne is a charter member and vice chair of the International Association of Colleges of Laboratory Animal Medicine. She is a member of the National Academies’ Institute for Laboratory Animal Research (ILAR) Council. She served on the National Academies’ committee to revise the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (1996) and the National Academies’ committees on Psychological Well-Being of Nonhuman Primates, Occupational Health and Safety in the Care of Nonhuman Primates and Guidelines for the Care and Use of Mammals in Neuroscience and Behavioral Research. She was the recipient of the 1993 Henry and Lois Foster Award for high score on the ACLAM certifying examination and a recipient of AALAS’s prestigious Garvey award. She was the 2009 recipient of the AVMA’s Animal Welfare Award and Washington State University’s 2009 Excellence in Research and Teaching Award.
At Emory, Dr. Speck serves as the IACUC chair and is a member of the Immunology & Microbial Pathogenesis Executive Committee. He was co-director and later acting director of the Microbiology & Molecular Genetics Program, and also served as chair of the program's admissions committee. Prior to joining the staff at Emory, he worked for the Department of Pathology and Molecular Microbiology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, where he served on the Institutional Biosafety Committee, the Animal Studies Committee, and the admissions committees for the Graduate School and the Immunology Program. Before that, he worked for the Department of Pathology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, where he also served on the Committee of Virology. Dr. Speck received his BS in Physical Sciences from Michigan State University and his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Northwestern University. His postgraduate training was conducted in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL and in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He is the recipient of seven NIH grants and has received the NIH National Research Service Award (1983-1985), the DFCI Richard Smith Award for outstanding research (1986), and the Washington University Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring (2000). Dr. Speck is a member of the American Society of Microbiology (ASM). He has served on several conference committees, including the International Herpesvirus Workshop, the Leukemia Society of America meeting, the International Conference on EBV and Associated Diseases, the International Congress of Virology, and the International KSHV and Related Agents Workshop. He has also served on the LSA grant review subcommittee. Additionally, he has served as a reviewer for the NIH Expt Virol Study Section (1990, 1991); the American Cancer Society Microbiology and Virology Study Section (1991, 1992); and the NIH Microbiology and Immunology Study Section (1991). He has been named an American Cancer Society Fellow (1982-1983), a Leukemia Society Special Fellow (1986-1989) and Scholar (1991-1996), and Stohlman Scholar of the Leukemia Society of America (1994-1995). Dr. Speck has published more than 130 research articles and nearly 20 invited publications. Additionally, he has served on the editorial boards of Journal of Virology and Virology, and has served as an ad hoc reviewer for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Cell, Nature Medicine, Immunity, and Science. He currently serves as associate editor for PLoS Pathogens.
Together with Dr. Aaron Katcher, he edited the book, New Perspectives on Our Lives with Companion Animals, and co-authored Between Pets and People: The Importance of Animal Companionship, first published in 1983 and revised in 1996. Beck has published numerous articles on the nature of our relationship with animals and is a founding board member of the Delta Society. Beck directed the animal programs for the New York City Department of Health for 5 years and was the Director of the Center for the Interaction of Animals and Society at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine for 10 years. In 1990, he became the Dorothy N. McAllister Professor of Animal Ecology and Director of the Center for the Human-Animal Bond in the School of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
Check-in: 6:00 a.m. All proceeds go to the AALAS Foundation; please make checks payable to AALAS/5K Run. Awards will be given to the top three finishers in each division and category for the race only. Awards will be given to the top male and female walkers. Team awards will be given to the top three teams (minimum three people per team) for the race only. Pre-registrants receive a free t-shirt! Mail: 5k Registration Form
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On behalf of the National Meeting Program Committee (NMPC), I would like to extend the warmest southern hospitality to all planning to attend the 61st annual AALAS National Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia this coming October 10–14. 
symbol in the preliminary and final programs. 
Welcome to Atlanta, Georgia, my home town! Fall in the Atlanta area is beautiful—the gold hues and red overtones will provide a perfect backdrop for the 2010 AALAS meeting. During your visit to Atlanta, I hope you take full advantage of the local attractions, from the Coca-Cola Museum to Historic Stone Mountain Park, and take in the history of the old South. 
Dr Paul Root Wolpe frames the fascinating field of bioethics, its promises and perils and how it is revolutionizing life today.
Kathryn Bayne, MS, PhD, DVM, DACLAM, CAAB is Global Director for the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International (AAALAC International). In this role, she directs the accreditation program worldwide and travels extensively to advance AAALAC’s accreditation program and laboratory animal welfare. Prior to accepting this position, she worked at the National Institutes of Health leading a research program on nonhuman primate psychological wellbeing and environmental enrichment programs for primates, dogs, cats and swine. She has published over 40 articles on the subject, is a certified applied animal behaviorist, and is internationally renowned for her work in laboratory animal behavior. She has also published extensively on accreditation of laboratory animal care and use programs. 
Samuel H. Speck, PhD, is the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Molecular Pathogenesis and a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Emory University School of Medicine. His research focuses on γ-herpesviruses, particularly Epstein-Barr virus and murine γ-herpesvirus 68. 
Alan M. Beck received his BA from Brooklyn College, MA from California State University at Los Angeles, and his ScD in Animal Ecology from The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. His book, The Ecology of Stray Dogs: A Study of Free-Ranging Urban Dogs is considered a classic in the field of urban ecology and was republished by Purdue University Press in 2002.
Join us Tuesday, October 12, 2010 for the 21th Annual Steris 5k Walk/Run. Register by mail, online, or on-site. To register by mail, complete and mail the form below; you can also register online. You may also register on-site Monday, October 11, from 9:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m. in the lobby of the Georgia World Congress Center. Credit cards not accepted at this time. |
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