Topic: Behavior, Enrichment and Welfare of Laboratory Mice
Speaker: Dr. Joe Garner
Location: University of Rhode Island
Social event and Clam Bake to follow the meeting!
Registration $20 for Members
If you are not a member please visit the SNEAALAS website for full ticket price
Why not just stay for the weekend and do D1?
Hotel rooms are be blocked off for this event
AALAS District 1 Training Seminar
Saturday, August 29th, 2015
Topic: Rodent Reproduction, Breeding, & More!
Location: University of Rhode Island
Registration Deadline: 8/21/2015
Event Agenda:
4:30pm - Registration
5pm - Lectures Begin
7pm - Yaw Goo Clam Bake
Location:
University of Rhode Island
Center for Biotechnology & Life Sciences
Room 100
120 Flagg Road
Kingston, RI 02881
Speaker: Dr. Joe Garner
Topic: Behavior, Enrichment and Welfare: First Principles and Real Solutions for Laboratory Mice
This session will introduce the audience to the range and adaptability of normal behavior in wild mice, and the central role these behaviors play in adapting to harsh environments. In particular we will explore thermal stress in rodents and the challenges and rewards of designing a nesting enrichment that mice will actually use!
We will then expand the discussion to consider the impact of modern mouse husbandry on behavior, the limitations this places on mice’s ability to cope with the stress of captivity. We will use this perspective to assess mouse housing and enrichment from the mouse’s point of view. Consequences for well-being and scientific validity will be explored.
The goal of the session to is to get to know the mouse from a new perspective, and to provide audience members with a rationale, arguments, and examples to help with the implementation of enrichment in their home institutions.
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Hotel Information:
Hampton Inn - Coventry/Warwick
850 Centre of New England Blvd.
Coventry, RI 02816
TEL: (401) 823-4041
Call and Refer to Group Code: SNEAALAS
$119/night
(Reserve by: 8/3/15 to get this room rate)