ASAB Easter meeting 2012
University of Aberystwyth, UK
11th-13th April 2012
All are welcome and, as is traditional, the meeting will include a Postgraduate Workshop on the first day (Wednesday 11th). This is a general meeting whose theme is simply Animal Behaviour and welcomes contributions from all areas of the field (defined as those falling within the remit of our journal). Further details, abstract submission and booking details can be found on the website. If you have any queries, please contact the hosts, Dr Rupert Marshall (rmm@aber.ac.uk) or Dr Roger Santer (rds5@aber.ac.uk).
VI ECBB, 2012
Essen, Germany
20th-22nd July 2012
The next European Conference on Behavioural Biology will take place in Essen, Germany, from Friday, July 20, to Sunday, July 22, 2012. The meeting is organized by Hynek Burda, Sabine Begall, Marcus Schmitt, Marie-Therese Bappert, and Philip Dammann. The call for Symposium Proposals is already open and will close on December 31st. ASAB members can find all information on the meeting web site: www.ecbb2012.org.
2013 IEC/ASAB Summer meeting
Newcastle Gateshead, UK
4th-8th August 2013
This meeting will be hosted by Newcastle University's Centre for Behaviour and Evolution. Please contact Melissa Bateson for further information, and visit the conference website: http://iec2013.com/
Other meetings
UFAW Animal Welfare Conference
Recent advances in animal welfare science III
York Merchant Adventurers’ Hall, 21st June 2012
As part of its on-going commitment to improving the way we understand and care for animals, the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW) is pleased to announce the third of its series of unthemed one day conferences on ‘Recent advances in animal welfare science’ which is to be held on 21st June 2012 in York, at the UK city’s medieval Merchant Adventurers’ Hall , Fossgate. The conference aims to provide a forum at which the broad community of scientists, veterinarians and others concerned with animal welfare can come together to share knowledge and practice, discuss advances and exchange views. In keeping with this aim, registration for this meeting has been kept low - £25.00 (lunch not included).
Call for papers:
We would like to hear from anyone interested in making a contribution to the conference on the open subject of recent advances in applied ethology, veterinary and physiological science and the other disciplines that inform our understanding of animals and their welfare; both from those who are well established in this area and from those just beginning to make a contribution.
Submission of interest should include the title of the proposed contribution, the nature of the contribution – talk or poster, the name and full contact details of all contributors and an abstract, which must be in English, and should be no longer than 400 words. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 1st November 2011.
Further details, including a registration form can be found on the UFAW website: http://www.ufaw.org.uk/animal-welfare-conference.php
Joint Meeting with ASAB, Society for Experimental Biology, and the National Centre for the 3Rs (NC3Rs)
4-5th July 2012
The Wellcome Trust, London, UK
Implementation of the 3Rs in Behavioural and Physiological Research
Registration free
Spoken and poster presentations: Please see NC3Rs website
http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/event.asp?id=1673
This meeting will emphasise the importance of apply the principles of the 3Rs (reduction, replacement and refinement) in experimentation. Speakers will focus on how they have implemented one or a number of the 3Rs and how the science was unaffected or possibly improved. Please e-mail Dr Lynne Sneddon (lsneddon@liverpool.ac.uk) with a title and short abstract. Poster presentations are also welcome from established researchers, postdoctoral scientists and postgraduates.
Topics:
• Use of invertebrates and embryos to replace adult vertebrates
• Enrichment
• Behaviour and welfare
• Non-invasive sampling
• Improved handing methods
• Behavioural phenotyping
• Neuroscience
• Development
• Toxicology
Confirmed speakers
- Jane Hurst , UK. Reduction of variability with improved handling of rodents
- Craig Franklin , Australia. Field based monitoring of physiology and reduced handling of animals
- Julie Lane , UK. Measuring welfare using non-invasive sampling
- Lynne Sneddon, UK. Non-invasive measures of stress: impact of transport on ornamental fish
- Peter Hubbard , Portugal. Water hormone measurements: Male urinary pheromones induce endocrine responses in females in the Mozambique tilapia
- Daniel Osorio , UK. Recent developments in welfare of cephalopods
- Mark Briffa , UK. Replacing vertebrates in behavioural and physiological experiments
- Kath Sloman , UK. The consideration of early life stages in predicting lifetime welfare of zebrafish
- Joseph Garner, USA. Mouse phenotyping
- Rob Deacon , UK. Phenotyping of mice using behavioural measures
- Alex Weiss , UK. Personality, well-being, and the health of captive animals
- Rod Wilson , UK. To enrich or not to enrich? Evidence for cold and warm water laboratory fish
- Matt Leach, UK. Pain faces: pain assessment in laboratory animals
- Vicky Macrae, Roslin Institute. Use of cell lines to replace mouse models of vascular calcification.
- Nic Bury , UK. FIGCS: An in vitro model to replace ecotoxicity testing of fish to pharmaceuticals
- Andrew Cossins, UK. Physiological research: using embryos and C. elegans to replace adult vertebrates.
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