Blue Sky to deep water: the reality and the promise

Proceedings of the 2008 ANZCCART Conference Auckland, New Zealand

Preliminary pages

Introduction

Mark Fisher

Welcome

John Martin

SESSION 1: Sharing experiences (dilemmas and compliance)

• Doing animal experimentation in a national organisation with regional responsibilities under state legislation Dr Chris Prideaux ( See PowerPoint presentation – PDF, 629 kb, 18 pages)

• Meeting animal welfare needs in a biotherapies environment- challenges for the CSL/Pfizer Animal Ethics Committee Dr John Phelps

• Assessing a research project with reference to the big picture Grant Shackell

• International benchmarking: AAALAC International Accreditation Dr Kathryn Bayne

SESSION 2: Transgenics and modelling

• Modelling human muscle activity Professor Andrew Pullan

• Using zebrafish in human disease research: some advantages, disadvantages and ethical considerations Dr Michael Lardelli (See PowerPoint presentation – PDF, 5.6 MB, 26 pages)

• The benefits of using sheep to model human brain disease Jessie Jacobsen et al.

SESSION 3: Great idea but not necessarily what I expected

• Great idea but not necessarily what I expected (Sometimes the techniques worked; sometimes they didn’t) Dr Allan Goldenthal, Dr Glen Harrison (See Powerpoint presentation – PDF, 1MB, 10 pages)

• Julie Hitchens (PowerPoint presentation)

• Dr Jacqueline Keenan (PowerPoint presentation)

• Associate Professor Donald Love

SESSION 4: Challenging ethics

• A brief but practical summary of ethics James Battye

• The Cam Reid Oration: Should we be giving attention to justifying animals in science? Dr Mark Fisher

• Infrared thermography and heart rate variability for non-invasive assessment of animal welfare Dr Mairi Stewart et al. (ANZCCART Student Award winner) (PowerPoint presentation)

SESSION 5: Death as an event, death as a challenge

• Euthanasing animals-the human experience Dr Erich von Dietz (PowerPoint presentation)

• Managing grief associated with euthanasia Dr Dianne Gardner (PowerPoint presentation)

• Recruiting Rats to the Research Resort: the importance of well trained resort personnel Dr John Schofield

SESSION 6: Wildlife and conservation

• The artificial incubation of kiwi eggs: a conservation tool Suzanne Bassett and Claire Travers (PowerPoint presentation)

• Researching wildlife in New Zealand: conservation opportunities are both constraints and opportunities Dr Mark Hauber

• Animal welfare issues in vertebrate pest management and research in New Zealand Dr Penny Fisher et al.

SESSION 7: Fish welfare

• Working towards the development of best practices in fish and fisheries research or The troubles with fish and fish biologists! Howard Gill, Carolyn Ashton and Andrew Rowland

• The fish: What potential for awareness? Dr Colin Johnston (PowerPoint presentation)

• “Pain” and analgesia in fish: What we know, what we don’t know, and what we need to know before using analgesics in fish Dr Don Stevens