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Dedicated to the advancement of responsible care and use of laboratory animals through education, training and information exchange for the benefit of human and animal health"

  

TBAALAS Board Elections

January 15-31

 

Voting has begun!.  Please make sure your email is correct on your membership profile to ensure receipt of  your ballot and voting information. Candidates and bios

 

 

 

Technician Assistance Award

 

AALAS National 2012

 

Applications are now being taken for the Technician Assistance Award.   The Technican Assistance Award provides a stipend of up to $1600 toward expenses to attend the AALAS National Meeting in Minneapolis.  Applications accepted through February 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

International Laboratory Animal Technician Week January 29 - February 4

 

 

 

 

 


Hot off the presses! Jan 2012

 

Newsletters!

 

 

 

 

 


Whyville

 

Join the fun!

 

 

 

Help Needed

 

At least 15 colleagues have lost their homes to the Bastrop wildfires.

 

To provide temporary relief an MD Anderson Caring Fund has been established.  Payments can be made using either credit card payment or by check.

 

In addition, you can help by sending $25 and $50 gift cards for Wal-Mart, Target, HEB etc. to:

 

UTMDACC

Attention: Darcy Long

1808 Park Road 1C

P.O. Box 389

Smithville, Texas 78957

(place the gift card(s) within a greeting card, so the card cannot be felt from the outside of the envelope)

 

Please continue to support the Central Texas Red Cross

 

 

 


In the News

 

 

A&M may be on way to becoming transmissible? vaccine powerhouse

 

Vet med reality show features Navasota veterinarian

 

Alzheimer's transmissable? - UT Houston

 

Chagas disease may be more common in Texas than thought

 

TAMU researchers expand mammalian tree of life

 

Nobel winner to head Dallas lab

 

PETCO moving headquarters from San Diego to San Antonio


New compound kills deadly flu virus - UT Southwestern


AAEP releases performance horse treatment guidelines

 

Research shows promise toward development of vaccine against Chikungunya virus - UTMB

 

UTMB researchers and potential universal flu vaccine

 

Mouse study shows how smoking keeps people thin - TAMU


 
50th Anniversary Meeting!

Join us in College Station

February 29-March 2

 

 

Program (preliminary)

Registration and Information

Commercial Members 2012

Hotel Information

Area Airports

Workshops and Tours (a second tour has been opened)


 

Early (Discounted)  Registration 

ends Jan. 31st!

 

 

 



2012 Texas Branch Calendar

 

Order yours here.  Branch members' pets on parade plus important dates at your fingertips. 


Calendar sales benefit 50th Anniversary meeting in February.


 


 

In the News

 

 

University research vital to the future of Texas

 

New biotech clusters in the US scramble to challenge established regions

 

Bacterial "Chatter" curbs infectious slime - TAMU

 

HB 1451 establishes licensing for dog and cat breeders in Texas


HIV killer compound - TAMU

 

TVMF 2011 Texas Animal Hall of Fame inductees

 

FBI profiler sheds light on animal abuse

 

Study shows $45B benefit from biomedical research

 

 

Naked mole rat immune system in study - UT San Antonio HSC


 

Coral snake venom used in pain studies - National Natural Toxins Research Center TAMU Kingsville

 

Texas Biomed seeking ebola vaccine

 

 

 


Research academy boosts budding scientists - UT San Antonio


Plans unveiled for UT-Austin medical school

 

Emails circulate myths about snakes

 

SwRI receives $4.4 million grant to develop treatment for cyanide exposure

 

No blockheads at TAMU vet school - Forbes

 

Natural defense mechanisim may help fight Clostridium - UTMB

 

BCM scientists get major new data analysis resource

 

Few replicas as first cloned cat reaches 10 years old

 

 

Pfizer animal health for sale?

 

TAMU equine initiative receives $2.5 million grant

 

TCH develops continuous flow artificial heart

 

 

 

 



TBAALAS and TSBR are now on Facebook.

 

 
 
 
 
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