The Division of Laboratory Animal Resources (DLAR) is responsible for administering the university's laboratory animal care and use program. Oversight of the program is the joint responsibility of the DLAR and the Institutional Animal and Care Use Committee (IACUC). The DLAR directly operates and maintains animal facilities at the university and John Dingell Veteran's Administration Center. Under contractual agreement, the DLAR also provides veterinary care service to Detroit VA Medical Center which has a major affiliation with the WSU School of Medicine. Animals, cages, supplies and/or equipment are purchased by the DLAR for the facilities it operates. All animal purchases are placed through the DLAR for quality assurance reasons and to ensure that all animals are used only in approved IACUC protocols.
Events
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- Investigating the Rat and Mouse
- March 24 2010 at 10:00 AMThis session will provide hands-on, species specific training for research staff who utilize rats or mice in the course of their research. Topics covered will include basic handling and restraint techniques, injection techniques, blood collection, anesthesia, and other common methodologies. If you will be working with both rats and mice, you must attend the lecture portion only once, but must register for and attend the lab (hands-on) portion for the second species.
- Investigating the Rat and Mouse
- April 1 2010 at 10:00 PMThis session will provide hands-on, species specific training for research staff who utilize rats or mice in the course of their research. Topics covered will include basic handling and restraint techniques, injection techniques, blood collection, anesthesia, and other common methodologies. If you will be working with both rats and mice, you must attend the lecture portion only once, but must register for and attend the lab (hands-on) portion for the second species.
- Nobel Laureate Sir John Walker to speak on molecular machine that produces the “energy currency of life”
- April 20 2010 at 1:00 PMDiscussing the molecular machine that synthesizes the energy necessary to sustain life, 1997 Nobel Chemistry Laureate Prof. Sir John E. Walker will be the featured speaker for Wayne State University’s 2010 Ahmed H. Zewail Gold Medal Award and Lecture. The event will take place April 20, 2010, in the Danto Engineering Development Center (EDC) Auditorium, located at 5050 Anthony Wayne Drive, from 1 to 3:30 p.m. A poster session for science and engineering will kick off the event in the EDC lobby and activity center areas at 1 p.m., followed by an introduction and presentation of the Zewail Medal at 2 p.m. in the EDC auditorium, and concluding with Walker’s lecture from 2:30 to 3:30. The event is free and open to the public. Registration is requested Walker received his Nobel Award, along with American chemist Paul D. Boyer, for elucidating the mechanism that produces adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, the molecule which is the energy currency for most metabolic processes in living organisms. His talk, “The mosaic structure of ATP synthase,” will discuss the state of the research on the the structure and mechanics of the highly complex molecular machine known as ATP synthase, which is instrumental to the synthesis of ATP. In order to provide energy to sustain life, the human body produces a quantity of ATP by this mechanism every day that is approximately equal to its body weight. Walker received a B.A. in chemistry from St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, in 1964. He began studying peptide antibiotics with Edward Abraham at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford in 1965 and received his Ph.D. in 1969. He worked abroad from 1969 to 1971 at the School of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin, and from 1971 to 1974 in France, was supported by fellowships from North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Molecular Biology Organization, first at the French National Centre for Scientific Research at Gif-sur-Yvette, and then at the Institut Pasteur. In 1974 he joined the Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry Division at the Medical Research Council (MRC). In the late 1970s, he began the work that would lead to his discoveries on ATP synthase. Walker is currently the director of the MRC’s Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge, and a fellow of Sidney Sussex College. Walker and Boyer share the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Danish chemist Jens C. Skou.
- Investigating the Rat and Mouse
- April 21 2010 at 10:00 PMThis session will provide hands-on, species specific training for research staff who utilize rats or mice in the course of their research. Topics covered will include basic handling and restraint techniques, injection techniques, blood collection, anesthesia, and other common methodologies. If you will be working with both rats and mice, you must attend the lecture portion only once, but must register for and attend the lab (hands-on) portion for the second species.
- Principles of Aseptic Surgery in Rodents
- April 29 2010 at 1:00 PMYou are registered for "Principles of Aseptic Surgery in Rodents". This session provides didactic and hands-on training for those performing survival surgery in rodents. Topics covered by this course include pre, intra, and post-operative care, anesthetic administration and monitoring, tissue handling, wound closure, pain management and record keeping.
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