Laboratory Animal Enrichment Symposium 2012

Agenda

Program is Free to MSMR Members

Register here.

 

7:00 AM           

Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:00 AM           

Alan Dittrich, PhD
President
MSMR, Inc.

Welcome

8:10 AM           

Paul McKellips
Executive Vice President
Foundation for Biomedical Research

Title - TBA

Paul McKellips is a motivational speaker and has written, directed and produced three motion pictures and numerous television shows. He has received 16 Telly Awards and his recent documentary on breast cancer research for FBR has received a 2011 Emmy nomination. Since 2007 McKellips has produced 10 television shows, a daily radio show and a quarterly magazine for FBR that have reached more than 100 million US households on the benefits of humane & responsible animal research. He is the author of the hugely successful thriller, Uncaged, “A believable novel about bioterrorism and the ethical dilemma posed by animal research”.

 

9:00 AM          

Bio SERV       RAFFLE!       RAFFLE!       RAFFLE!                     

 
9:10 AM           

Christian Lawrence

Aquatic Resources Program Manager

Children’s Hospital Boston

Using data on natural history and behavior to build better management

strategies for laboratory zebrafish

 

9:40 AM         

PURINA LABDIET   RAFFLE!          RAFFLE!                RAFFLE!  

               
9:50 AM           

Brianna N. Gaskill, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

Charles River Laboratories

The good the bad and the ugly: environmental enrichment for laboratory mice

10:20 AM       

RAFFLE!          RAFFLE!                      RAFFLE!          RAFFLE!

 

 

10:25 AM – 10:55 AM                           

BREAK – VENDORS – POSTERS!!!

 

10:55 AM         

Kimberly Wasko, CVT, VTS, RLATg, SRS

Certified Veterinary Surgical Nurse

Translational In-Vivo Research Manager

Director, Animal Surgical Education Program
Drexel University College of Medicine

Department of Surgery, Philadelphia, PA

Free Range Rabbits: The Environmental Transformation.

11:25 AM       

RAFFLE!          RAFFLE!                      RAFFLE!          RAFFLE!

 

11:30 AM         

Natalie Bratcher

3Rs Scientist and Alternatives Coordinator

Abbott Laboratories

Abbott's Enrichment Program for Dogs: Innovative Approaches to Advancing Welfare

 

Noon       

PROCESS CONTROL Solutions    RAFFLE!   RAFFLE!   RAFFLE!       

 

12:05 PM                                     

LUNCH … VENDORS … POSTERS!!!

 

1:15 PM           

Jamie Wells, BS, RLAT

Animal Husbandry Supervisor

Tufts University  

Are your pigs happy?  One facility’s approach to swine enrichment

1:45 PM         

RAFFLE!          RAFFLE!                      RAFFLE!          RAFFLE!

 

1:50 PM           

Brianna N. Gaskill, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

Charles River Laboratories
Rat Enrichment

 

2:20 PM – 2:45 PM                  

BREAK … VENDORS … POSTERS!!!

                                   

2:45 PM           

Evelyn Skoumbourdis, MS, LATG

Veterinary Technician

Thomas Jefferson University

Philadelphia, PA

Fitting Square Pegs into Round Holes:  Tactics for Seemingly ‘Unenrichable’ NHP Biomedical Environments.

3:05 PM

RAFFLE!          RAFFLE!                      RAFFLE!          RAFFLE!

3:15 PM           

EVALUATIONS

3:30 PM           

WRAP-UP!

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