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Sacramento Valley AALAS
15th Annual Awards Banquet
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SVAALAS Presents:
The 15th Annual Awards Banquet
February 5, 2021 from 6:00pm-8:00pm
Via ZOOM
Keynote Address Featuring:
Dr. Mikel Delgado, PhD
University of California, Davis
Overcoming Early Adversity: What We Can Learn from Orphaned Kittens
Please join us for an amazing talk and raffle prizes as we celebrate our award winners and the end of Technician Appreciation Week!
$10 New/Renew SVAALAS Membership
Please fill out the membership form on our website https://www.svaalas.org/index.php/membership
Please RSVP to Emily Slocum at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 209.756.8763 by February 1, 2021
A copy of this flier can be downloaded here
UC Davis has An Animal Technician (Animal Care Technician) position
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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.
For Full Consideration Apply By: 12/31/20
Job ID Number: 13907
Payroll Title: Animal Technician
Department: TRACS
Salary Range: $20.99 - $24.70 (budgeted rate: $20.99)
Quick Link To This Position: Animal Technician (Animal Care Technician)
UC Davis has a Staff Research Associate 1 (Colony Manager) position
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Staff Research Associate 1 (Colony Manager) position has posted for recruitment.
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Under supervision, maintenance of mouse colonies including breeding, timed breeding, collection of samples for genotyping, weaning, aging and sexing of pups, and retiring of mouse colonies. Routinely handle live mice to perform all colony management duties, including but not limited to superovulation injections, plug checks, post-operative care, and identification and aging of new litters. Regular communication with other core labs and investigators. Assist other vivarium personnel with laboratory duties.
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For Full Consideration Apply By: 1/4/2021
Job ID Number: 13952
Payroll Title: Staff Research Associate 1
Department: Mouse Biology Program
Salary Range: $23.34 - $27.85 hourly
Quick Link To This Position: Staff Research Associate 1 (Colony Manager)
UC Davis has a Staff Research Associate 3 (Microinjectionist CRISPR) position
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Under general supervision, perform pronuclear, CRISPR, 8-cell and blastocyst microinjections or electroporation, harvest/prepare embryos for micro injection and/or electroporation, inject embryos and surgically transfer injected embryos into recipient mice and rats. Includes preparation of microinjection and transfer needles. Communicate and coordinate with investigators and their staff, and other members of the Mouse Biology Program, schedule microinjections, purify DNA and RNA construct for pronuclear injection, collect embryos and tissue, order mice and supplies. Perform surgical transplantation of embryos for rederivation and resuscitation. Perform record keeping and data entry. Training and instruction of all aforementioned tasks. Prepare documents to track costs and rate information for the financial performance of the MTGL laboratory. In addition, this position will attend meetings, provide reports both written and verbal, and is expected to participate in developing new methodology. |
For Full Consideration Apply By: 12/31/2020
Job ID Number: 13905
Payroll Title: Staff Research Associate 3
Department: Mouse Biology Program
Salary Range: $27.99 - $45.02 hourly (budgeted range: $27.99 - $29.71 hourly)
Quick Link To This Position: SRA 3 (Microinjectionist CRISPR)
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.