Preliminary Programme

Tuesday 30 May 2023

Opening
Klas Abelson: FELASA‘s mission and role at the European global level
Maria Vlastara: Communicating Your Animal Research with the Media – the Importance of Transparency
Vasileios Ntafis: Communication and health considerations in mouse phenotyping facilities
Serban Morosan: From emotion to communication
Karen Mulkijanyan: Implementing the Directive 2010/63/EU in the absence of national legislation
Viola Galligioni: Team management – the key to proper animal welfare

Avishag Tuval: The emotional cost of working with laboratory animals
John Hasenau: Improving Animal Model Translation, Welfare and Operational Efficiency with Appropriate Housing and Infrastructure Design
Gabriela Dumitrita Stanciu: Advanced Research and Development Center for Experimental Medicine: ”Prof. Ostin C. Mungiu” - Infinite Solutions
Alberto Gobbi - Benefits and Savings of a Microbiological Monitoring Program Based on EAD Testing
KEYNOTE SPEAKER – Jan-Bas Prins

Klas Abelson - FELASA-EFAT Working Group: Harmonisation of Education, Training and CPD for laboratory animal caretakers and technicians
Dasa Seveljevic-Jaran: The ethical challenges of human organoids creation and use in biomedicine
Olga Gewartowska: Implications of advanced genome engineering techniques on refinement in animal research
Giorgi Phichkhaia: Refinement of Streptozotocin‐Induced Diabetic Model in Mice
Sigal Meilin: The importance of diversity in animal studies- focus on neuroscience

Piotr Podlasz: Zebrafish embryos and larva's in behavioral studies
Anastasia Tsingotjidou: Animal models in neuroscience, with focus on behavioral assessment
Yaron Vagima: Monitoring Group Activity of Hamsters and Mice as a Novel Tool to Evaluate COVID-19 Progression, Convalescence, and rVSV-ΔG-Spike Vaccination Efficacy
Sara Fuochi: Phenotyping spontaneous in cage activity and place preference in inbred and outbred mice using DVC®
KEYNOTE SPEAKER - Anna Olsson

Joana Bom - Gnotobiology: Current Technologies and welfare considerations
Sigal Meilin: Using animal models to study and develop therapies for pain
Radoslaw Kowalski: Overview of the recent advances in environmental enrichment for fish in the sciences. Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research. Polish Academy of Sciences