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UC Davis has an Animal Care Technician position
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Brief Description:
Under supervision in an area of TRACS space that houses animals, provide adequate care following all regulations set forth by federal, state and university policies. Provide animal care by feeding, watering, and cleaning various animal caging and equipment used in biomedical research and teaching. Assess animal health by identifying and reporting all sick animals to veterinary staff. Perform rodent euthanasia. Keep animal rooms/areas clean by utilizing different agents to clean, disinfect and sanitize animal rooms. Maintain and repair animal housing equipment. Perform recordkeeping and transport animals and supplies.
This position is for an alternate schedule and will include full time weekend and holiday work.
For Full Consideration Apply By: 5/12/21
Job ID Number: 17960
Position #: 40233490
Payroll Title: Animal Technician
Department: TRACS
Salary Range: $20.99 - $24.70/hr. (Budgeted salary $20.99/hr.)
Quick Link To This Position: Animal Technician
SVAALAS Online lecture - May 12th at 5:30 pm
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The SVAALAS monthly online lecture series is back Wednesday May 12th at 5:30pm!
Join us comfortably bundled on your couch as Dr. Laurie Brignolo shares her talk:
"Animal Rights, Animal Welfare and Activism"!
Earn CEU credit and maybe a raffle prize or two right from your own home!
Please feel free to share this flyer with your colleagues.
Zoom info to be sent out closer to the event date.
If you have any questions, please contact Taylor at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Current Newsletter
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Current Newsletter:
*Message from the President
*Awards Update
*Meet Our Members with Mickey
*Meet the Board
*District and Trustee Update
Congratulations to our new 2021 SVAALAS Board of Directors
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Congratulations to our new 2021 SVAALAS Board of Directors
We'd like to welcome our incoming SVAALAS 2021 Board of Directors!
President: Emily Slocum
Vice President: Leslie Bauer
Secretary: Taylor Hunsucker
Treasurer: Rhonda Oates
Director (2nd yr): Kelly Sison
Director (1st yr): Vatthana Vongphakham
Past President: Betty Ma
If you're interested in getting involved with SVAALAS or have any ideas for how we can better serve our membership and educate our community about laboratory animal science we'd be happy to have you!
Email Taylor Hunsucker at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we'd be happy to have you join or lead a committee.
Share your knowledge with SVAALAS
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Share your knowledge and expertise with SVAALAS membership!
We're looking for speakers for our monthly lecture series! These one hour presentations are offered as CEU opportunities for our members every second Wednesday of the month from 5:30-6:30pm. We're happy to hear from a wide range of topics such as (but definitely not limited to):
-Research projects
-Case studies
-Information on uncommonly used laboratory animal species
-New technology and techniques
-Tips and tricks you've learned and established to keep your animals happy and produce better research results.
We're happy to hear from every corner of the lab animal world. If you have something you'd be interested in presenting (or a topic you'd like to hear about), please email Taylor Hunsucker at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..