Science with feeling: animals and people

Proceedings of the 2011 ANZCCART Conference Rotorua, New Zealand

• Contents and Foreword

Opening Address

• Reflections on the use of animals in research, testing and teaching in New Zealand – a historical perspective – Dr A. C. David Bayvel, Linda Carsons, Paula Lemow and Dr Mark Fisher

• International reflections: looking back over the last 20 years – Dr Judy A. MacArthur Clark

Session 1: I don’t like pain but what can we do about it?

• What’s special about pain? – Dr John Schofield

• “I’ll have the fish and shrimps”: pain and analgesia in invertebrates and fish – Dr Kurt K. Sladky

• The recognition and relief of pain in birds – Associate Professor Brett Gartrell

• Analgesia in ruminants – Dr Paul Chambers

• Cam Reid Oration 2011: Does the fetus feel pain, and why do we care to know? Professor Laura Bennet

Session 2: Resolving the dilemmas

Serving on an Animal Ethics Committee – a hospital pass or a valued distinction?

• Dr Mark Oliver

• Dr Geoff Dandie

Serving on an Animal Ethics Committee – the system and pot pourri of issues

• Who qualifies as an investigator? – Dr Erich von Dietze and Dr Ted Rohr

• Animal Ethics Committees: a veterinary practitioner’s point of view – Dr Tim Mather

• Animal welfare in a new world – Jeanette Crosado

• Reflections on an Animal Ethics Committee – Dr Mandy Paterson

ANZCCART New Zealand Animal Care Technicians’ Awards

Compassion fatigue – Debbie Chesterfield

Welfare in a chronic model of cardiac disease in sheep – Linley Nisbet

Session 3: The importance of people

• Euthanasia in the workplace – impacts on staff – Professor Peter Davie

• Caring for the carers: compassion fatigue and disenfranchised grief – Dr Peter Huggard

• Reviewing the reviews: an update on the analysis of the process of ensuring regulatory compliance in the use of animals in science in New Zealand – Dr Virginia Williams and Linda Carsons

• Seeking nature in the city: the implications of feeding wildlife – Associate Professor Darryl Jones

• Female students’ attitudes towards the use of animals in scientific research and teaching – Sally Birdsall and Dr Beverley France

• Student and university perspectives on animal rights and wrongs – Dr Ngaio J. Beausoleil

• Animal models: their role in understanding brain dysfunction – Dr Ruth M. A. Napper

Session 4: Science with feeling

• Science with feeling: relevance of animal emotions to research, testing and teaching – Dr Jim Webster

• Methodologies to measure affective states in animals: a focus on cognitive approaches – Dr Else Verbeek and Dr Caroline Lee

• What is it like to be a rat? Providing good environments for experimental animals – Dr Emily Patterson-Kane and Professor David J. Mellor