Dear colleagues Welcome to the July issue of the Davis-Thompson Foundation Newsletter, with the compliments of Jeann Leal and Javier Asin, our outstanding managing editors. Thank you Jeann and Javier. I want to start this message with a long-due heart-felt thanks to Drs Katherine Watson (Cover Image Editor) and Donald M. McGavin (Cover Image Composition Analyst), who month after month have been doing a fantastic job with the Monthly Cover Photograph Contest. Thank you Kate and Donald!!! And congratulations to Drs Brianne Taylor, Ruth Scimeca and Sarah Myers, winners of this month contest; that is an amazing picture! Another very successful version of the Current Literature and Image Interpretation Course (CLIIC) was just concluded under the expert direction of Dr Linden Craig. Looking forward, please remember that the Current Laboratory Animal Science Seminar (CLASS) and Pathology of Laboratory Animals (POLA) courses come up very soon. Both courses are a must for trainees preparing for board certification. And talking about training opportunities, there are still a few seats available for the hands-on workshop on necropsy of racehorses (August 18-19 in San Bernardino, California). If you are considering attending please register soon while seats last! This month we were extremely fortunate to have another master piece in the series “Things I didn’t learn in the library” by Dr Roger Kelly (University of Queensland); this time on the “Hatchet job”. Look it up in the Expert’s Corner. Thank you Roger. And last but not least, please peruse the whole Newsletter with, as usual, myriad training opportunities for everybody. Looking forward to see you in one of our upcoming training activities. With my warmest regards Francisco Uzal, DVM, MSc, PhD, Dipl. ACVP Chief Executive Officer Davis-Thompson Foundation Ph: 951 751 0027 E-mail: fauzal@ucdavis.edu<mailto:fauzal@ucdavis.edu> www.davisthompsonfoundation.org<https://www.davisthompsonfoundation.org/> [https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1oticUQZYjDPU-1vMA4wHKvLb2SScHV-J]