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SUMMARY:CALAS - 64th Annual Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The Annual CALAS/ACSAL Symposium is the premier networking and education event for the Canadian Laboratory Animal Science community.   \n\n\n\nREGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN \n\n\n\nThe Annual Symposium is taking place May 3 – 6\, 2025\, in Richmond\, British Columbia at the Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel. The Symposium is a unique 2-and-a-half-day event\, 2 dedicated days of programming with networking and social events\, a Trade Show consisting of 50+ exhibit booths\, a dedicated Trainers’ Lunch\, 2 Keynote presentations from highly sought-after speakers\, over 30 concurrent sessions and optional 2 full days of pre-symposium hands-on workshops. The Symposium regularly attracts 300 – 500 participants from across Canada and internationally.
URL:https://lsindex.co.uk/event/calas-64th-annual-symposium/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Anaesthesia for minor procedures
DESCRIPTION:This unit provides guidance and information to individuals who\, during their work with animals\, will need to apply sedation or short-term anaesthesia for a brief period and mild pain level procedure. \nOnline only – 6th and 7th of May 2025. \nCourse Details\nCourse length: 200 hours \nCredits: 20 \nTeacher: Paul Flecknell \nYou will cover\n\nAnatomy and physiology\nAnaesthesia\nAnalgesia\nHealth and safety\n\nKey Skills you will develop\n\nAbility to define key terms and principles linked to anaesthesia\nKnowledge and understanding of the importance of minimising stress prior to anaesthesia in reducing the likelihood of complications due to anaesthesia\nAbility to describe and demonstrate the correct set-up\, operation and maintenance of anaesthetic equipment appropriate to the species concerned\n\n  \n*Further IAT fees may apply
URL:https://lsindex.co.uk/event/anaesthesia-for-minor-procedures/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Training and CPD Events
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SUMMARY:Advanced anaesthesia for surgical or prolonged procedures
DESCRIPTION:This unit provides information on the use of anaesthetics for surgical procedures. It also includes information on the use of anaesthetics to provide humane restraint during other\, non-painful\, procedures\, such as imaging. After completion of this module\, learners should have an understanding of factors influencing the selection and application of anaesthesia for these procedures. \nOnline only – 12-14th May 2025. Materials will release two weeks in advance. \nWe highly recommend completion of the level 5 unit Anaesthesia for minor procedures before attending this unit. \nCourse Details\nCourse length: 200 hours \nCredits: 20 \nTeacher: Paul Flecknell \nYou will cover\n\nAnaesthesia for both surgical and non-surgical procedures\nBalanced anaesthesia\nPost anaesthetic recovery\n\nKey Skills you will develop\n\nAn understanding of why anaesthesia is required for both surgical and non-surgical procedures\nAbility to describe how different drug classes interact to produce the three components of the anaesthetic triad to different degrees\, and how balanced anaesthesia might be best achieved by using combinations\nAbility to describe methods to optimise post anaesthetic recovery to ensure a smooth and rapid recovery from anaesthesia\n\n  \n*Further IAT fees may apply
URL:https://lsindex.co.uk/event/advanced-anaesthesia-for-surgical-or-prolonged-procedures/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Training and CPD Events
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Anaesthesia and Perioperative Care of Laboratory Rodents
DESCRIPTION:Research Animal Training (RAT) will be hosting another of our anaesthesia workshops in May 2025. As previously it will be  delivered using a combination of pre-recorded webinars\, “live” webinars and e-learning modules. \n\nNew for this workshop – a discussion of the use of local anaesthetics as anaesthetic adjuncts in small laboratory rodents.\n\nThe workshop will be hosted on the Research Animal Training website and the workshop facilitator will be Professor Paul Flecknell
URL:https://lsindex.co.uk/event/workshop-anaesthesia-and-perioperative-care-of-laboratory-rodents/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Training and CPD Events
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SUMMARY:Role of the periphery and non-neuronal cells in Parkinson’s pathogenesis
DESCRIPTION:This online seminar will focus on the role of the periphery and non-neuronal cells in Parkinson’s pathogenesis\, offering key insights and an opportunity for further discussion. The seminar will be held on Monday 12 May 2025\, 4:00-5.30pm BST.  \n\n\n\nHosted by: Dr Tim Bartels (UK DRI at UCL) and Dr Dayne Beccano-Kelly (UK DRI at Cardiff) Talks by: Prof Alessandro Sette (La Jolla Institute for Immunology) – ‘Role of T cells in neurodegenerative disease’ Prof Ashley Harms (The University of Alabama at Birmingham) – ‘The role of tissue resident macrophages in T cell mediated neurodegeneration’ Pauline Vessiere (University of Cambridge) – ‘Vitras: A Novel Mouse Model for Studying the Peripheral Origins of Parkinson’s Disease’
URL:https://lsindex.co.uk/event/role-of-the-periphery-and-non-neuronal-cells-in-parkinsons-pathogenesis/
LOCATION:Virtual Event (Zoom)
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SUMMARY:DNA to Disease: Genetics for Beginners
DESCRIPTION:What is a gene? What is DNA? How do these make proteins? What goes wrong and causes disease in the human body? This course provides a comprehensive introduction into genetics\, covering the genetic code and how this leads to protein formation\, as well as how errors in DNA can lead to disease. \nAfter this course\, you will be able to:\n\nUnderstand the concept of DNA and how genetic traits are inherited from one generation to the next\nUnderstand what genes are and how they code for different proteins\nUnderstand the role of different proteins in making different cell types\nUnderstand some of the processes by which genetic disease can occur\n\nWho is this for\n\nAnimal Technicians\nTechnical Staff\nThose who are new to genetics
URL:https://lsindex.co.uk/event/dna-to-disease-genetics-for-beginners/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mary Lyon Centre at MRC Harwell":MAILTO:training@har.mrc.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Recognition of pain\, suffering and distress
DESCRIPTION:This unit prepares individuals to be able to identify normal condition and behaviour of experimental animals and enable them to differentiate between a normal animal and one which is showing signs of pain\, suffering or distress which could be a result of factors including environment\, husbandry or the effect of experimental protocols. It will also provide information regarding severity classifications\, cumulative severity and the use of humane endpoints. \nOnline only – 20th to 22nd May 2025. \nWe highly recommend completion of the level 4 unit Physiology of pain and distress in laboratory animals before attending this unit. \nCourse Details\nCourse length: 200 hours \nCredits: 20 \nTeacher: Paul Flecknell / Matt Leach \nYou will cover\n\nAssessment of the animal\nHumane end points\nRefinement\n\nKey Skills you will develop\n\nmethods for assessing and recording the welfare of the animals in your care\nKnowledge and understanding of humane end points and their use\nAbility to describe the use of anaesthesia or analgesia to reduce animal pain\, suffering\, distress or lasting harm
URL:https://lsindex.co.uk/event/recognition-of-pain-suffering-and-distress/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Training and CPD Events
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SUMMARY:Laboratory Animal Welfare Workshop 1: Foundations of Pain and Distress Management in Rodents and Rabbits
DESCRIPTION:Our regular workshops on prevention and alleviation of pain and distress have dealt primarily with post-surgical pain. Although we’ve had overwhelmingly positive feedback\, we have had frequent requests to include more information on other sources of pain and distress. Matt Leach\, Jon Gledhill and I have been working to achieve this\, and have redeveloped and updated our workshops for 2025. We will now present two\, linked workshops on pain and distress and the first of these will run in May this year (21-22nd for the zoom sessions). We will retain the successful on-line format of a mix of e-learning\, pre-recorded webinars and live\, problem based sessions using zoom and mentimeter. This first workshop focusses on optimising the welfare of laboratory rodents and rabbits and will discuss both procedure-related and other sources of pain and distress. It will provide an overview of animal welfare and the nature of stress and distress\, together with the practical application of this knowledge to optimise animal welfare.
URL:https://lsindex.co.uk/event/laboratory-animal-welfare-workshop-1-foundations-of-pain-and-distress-management-in-rodents-and-rabbits/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Training and CPD Events
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