Laboratory Liaison Meeting 6/14/19

1. Laboratory Liaison Meeting 6/14/19 • Animal facility security • LAR staffing changes • Update on LAR provided N-95 masks • Update on animal management system training/ roll-out • Animal Welfare Concerns Website • RICRO staffing changes • Animal Users E-mail Listserv • Compassion fatigue discussion

2. Animal Facility Security Our facilities are vulnerable to animal rights activities • Vandalism • Infiltration Everyone who works in an animal facility has a responsibility to keep our animals, research, and personnel safe.

3. Maintain restricted access to facilities • Don’t prop doors, if you see a propped door close it • Don’t let someone piggyback on your key card • Good pre-employment screening • Zero tolerance for animal mistreatment • If you see something suspicious, speak up • Avoid posting sensitive information on social media, pictures, etc. • Examples of job postings for animal facility infiltrators follow on the next 2 slides.

6. LAR Staffing Updates • Main/ south campus animal care supervisor – Janel Trumble • Rodent health care and breeding colony support – Sarah White • Training coordinator – Ashley Creighton • LAR_training@mail.colostate.edu • 1st year residents - Elizabeth Houston & Mollie Burton

7. Update on LAR provided N-95 masks LAR will provide any regularly ordered N59 mask types to research staff. If you do not see the mask type that you need, ask an LAR supervisor If the type you need is not part of LAR’s regular inventory, you will need to provide it yourself. LAR’s regular inventory is subject to change at any time. This does not effect IDRC operations, they still provide all needed mask types by request.

8. Update on Animal Management System There have been set backs in the development that were not expected. Testing and training will pick up later this year, likely in the fall.

9. Animal Welfare Concerns Website • https://www.research.colostate.edu/ricro/iacuc/reporting-animal-welfare-concerns/ • People can always contact Elaine directly for these if they prefer.  IACUC has policies in place on how to handle these as well.  

10. RICRO Staffing Updates • Laura Hinds is no longer with RICRO, Elaine and JJ are adjusting IACUC duties. • Use the RICRO_IACUC@mail.colostate.edu address for any IACUC questions.

11. Animal Users E-mail Listserv If you are in an editing role on a current IACUC protocol or you attended the Lab Liaison Meeting on 6/14/19, then you should be getting these emails.  LAR (Megan C.) sends out monthly reminders for billing purposes, and other emails get sent out about meeting notifications.  People can also subscribe on their own here: https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/animal_users

12. Compassion Fatigue Discussion • Please take this survey to gauge interest in this topic at future Lab Liaison meetings.  It will take you less than 5 minutes! • If anyone is interested in co-leading discussions on this topic during future Lab Liaison meetings, please email me directly. • Current plans are to secure a speaker from Argus Institute to speak about this topic at the next Lab Liaison meeting, if there is interest—take the survey! • FYI, if you are interested, here is a link to University of Washington Compassion in Science website: https://sites.uw.edu/d2c