In these webinars you will find current scientific breakthroughs in biology, botany and zoology and the part plants and animals play in evolution and ecology along with research devoted to the environmental impact related to these species.
DATE: September 26, 2018TIME: 9:00AM PDTClass II biosafety cabinets (BSCs) are important tools in many types of laboratories. In this webinar you will learn about the different t...
Treatments for respiratory diseases represent an enormous, unmet medical need with limited therapies currently approved for use. Despite many compounds demonstrating beneficial effects in ani...
Date: September 8, 2022 Time: 1:00pm PST, 4:00pm EST Recent pandemic related events have proven the value of fast, reliable surveillance testing results to protect worker health and saftey....
Date: December 15, 2021 Time: 11:00am (PST), 2:00pm (EST) Glassware washers (GWW) serve two important roles in today's dynamic laboratory environment. First, by automating a routine task...
DATE: September 11, 2018TIME: 07:00AM PDTWith increasing safety requirements, and time and financial pressure, the development of new drugs, and the execution of basic research p...
DATE: May 22, 2018TIME: 08:00AM PDT The nuclear receptors pregnane X receptor (PXR) and constitutive androstane receptor (CAR) are closely related transcription factors that...
Prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells change and adapt to their environments in ways that genomic characterization methods do not fully capture or predict. Even strains of the same species of mic...
DATE: February 9, 2017TIME: 6:00am PT, 9:00am ETThe University of Michigan’s Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine (ULAM) has a diverse Training Core that teaches a wide varie...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 1:30pm PT, 4:30pm ETIn rabbits, buprenorphine instant release (IR) is commonly used to alleviate pain, especially in surgical models. However, maintenan...
Analgesics are commonly employed drugs for perioperative procedures and are required for painful procedures. They include not only non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) but also opio...
Date: Novermber 2, 2021 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) Fossil fuels such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas are currently the gold standard of meeting our energy needs. High levels of fo...
There is a considerable interest and need for evidence-based recommendations regarding the social housing of laboratory rabbits. This presentation will review the principles surrounding the s...
Neuroscience focuses on the study of the nervous system: a highly complex, dense, and organized network stretching across the whole body of most organisms. Due to this neuroscience can be a...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 3:00pm PT, 6:00pm ETThe Eastern woodchuck (Marmota monax) is a large, burrowing rodent with native territories throughout parts of the US and Canada. Woodchu...
Our MoFlo Astrios serves or multidisciplinary Department of Biology through our open access Bioscience Technology Imaging and Cytometry Core Lab at the University of York. As a core instrumen...
Date: March 23, 2021 Time: 5:00am (PDT), 8:00am (EDT), 2:00pm (CEDT) Using a global targeted method, this lipidomic approach to meat characterization analyzes over 2000 lipid species in both...
Date: November 17, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PST), 2:00pm (EST), 8:00pm (CEST) High pressure freezing offers versatile and deep capability in the study of intricate changes in fine structure or ce...
Concerns about the quality of published animal research include inefficient or flawed study design, inappropriate statistical analysis and incomplete reporting. The ARRIVE guidelines were de...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 7:30am PT, 10:30am ETMany of us who believe in the importance of aseptic rodent surgery have lived through the frustration of trying to implement rodent asep...
DATE: February 9, 2017TIME: 6:00am PT, 9:00am ETThere is no professional area in which CPD is more necessary than in the field of laboratory animals. The continuous advancement of scien...
In the course of the so-called reproducibility crisis, various sources of poor reproducibility of animal research have been identified, including a lack of scientific rigor, low statistical...
Inherent in research, is the simplification of a complex world into a testing space to explore cause and effect. Across preclinical research, questions are being raised on the testing space...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ETThere are many factors involved in rabbit breeding that impact performance. In this evaluation of a Dutch Belted rabbit breeding c...
Conspecific aggression is a common problem amongst laboratory housed male mice. While C57BL/6 are not the most aggressive strain we house, they are exceedingly common, and dealing with...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 6:00am PT, 9:00am ETDevelopment of assisted reproductive technologies in the dog has lagged behind many other domestic and laboratory animal species, due in...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 6:00am PT, 9:00 ETSeveral regulatory bodies require that animals used in biomedical and behavioral research exposed to procedures that may cause more th...