Managing Mouse Colonies: Genetics, Breeding and Welfare
Workshop - Cambridge, United Kingdom
This popular workshop is a collaboration between MRC Harwell, the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), the RSPCA Transgenic Training Working Group (TTWG) and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. It aims to introduce experienced technicians and scientific staff involved with the management of GM mouse colonies to best practice with respect to the 3Rs and animal welfare. The programme covers historical and current best practice in the maintenance of GM mouse colonies for scientific research and the differing disciplines involved in production, phenotyping and archiving.
The three-day programme of presentations and interactive workshops will cover:
- Basic Genetics: what you need to know
- Fundamentals of Colony Management (including basic breeding calculations, e-resources & nomenclature)
- Mice in Biological Research (including establishing & maintaining GA and conditional lines, cryopreservation and archiving, mouse anatomy and necropsy)
- Health Monitoring and Wellbeing of Murine Colonies (including, GA resources, maintenance of high health status colonies, experimental design and what’s wrong with my mouse?)
All of these will be presented with particular attention to improving animal welfare and application of the 3Rs.
(Courtesy of Mouse colonies, via ball-pythons.net)
Full details at: www.wellcome.ac.uk/hinxton
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 to Friday, May 10, 2013
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, UK
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