FW: spring walk-through scheduling

[Lance T. Yonkos]

Please forward to frank and Kristan to allay their concerns about images in the presentation and thesis.

 

From: Pamela Jean Lanford
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 4:22 PM
To: Lance T. Yonkos
Subject: Re: spring walk-through scheduling

 

Hi Lance,

 

Thanks for getting in touch – it is true that we’ve been considering the issue of photography/video of research animals and facilities, however there is no problem with including these images in a PPT presentation or thesis. We would consider this in the category of “scientific use” (e.g., publication in a scientific journal, thesis or conference presentation/abstract), and this is a use that we certainly don’t want to get in the way of. 

 

We are looking at establishing some policy regarding the publication of photos or videos on the internet or other general public kind of forum, - for example, one of the Gemstone groups wanted to take pictures of their mice to use in a “kickstarter” style fund raising effort. That is the kind of situation that I think we’d want to proceed cautiously, and in that case I told them that I thought including images of research animals might work against them, since some folks disagree with the use of animals in research. 

 

So, no problem using these images in their presentation and paper, please tell them to go ahead.  

 

Cheers, Pam 

 

Pamela Lanford PhD

Director of Animal Research Support & Manager, IACUC

Division of Research

1200 Marie Mount Hall

University of Maryland

College Park, MD 20742

t: 301-405-7295

 

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From: "Lance T. Yonkos" <lyo...@umd.edu>
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 4:06 PM
To: PAMELA LANFORD <plan...@umd.edu>
Subject: RE: spring walk-through scheduling

 

Hi Pamela,

 

I received word from my Gemstone team that there was a potential concern among Gemstone program folks about using pictures of dissected fish in their thesis Powerpoint presentation this Friday and written thesis due next week.  Is this a legitimate concern?  All fish were handled according to our approved IACUC protocol.  The images are demonstrative of the methods the students employed in their research and make understanding the protocol more accessible to the audience.  If this is a problem they are not essential to the talk and can be removed.

 

Below are examples illustrating mature gonad of male and female fish.  Identification of these tissues is an important aspect of the research, an important aspect of the research

 

 

Any opinion?

 

Best,

Lance