Topics include but are not limited to:

• KEYNOTE - Cultivating leadership: Lessons from diverse experiences and volunteerism
• Ground squirrel husbandry
• Studying daylight vision in ground squirrels
• Improving management interactions through opportunities to connect, relate, and engage with others
• Exploring neurodiversity in veterinary medicine
• Future challenges facing the research community
• Updates from USDA APHIS Animal Care
• Daily operations in a growing NHP facility
• Successful pairing of vervets and macaques
• Current practices in utilizing immunodeficient mouse models
• Reprogramming lipogenic metabolism and inflammation for the prevention and interception of breast cancer