Program
Thursday, December 7th | Day 1
8.00 am - 9.00 am Registration
9.00 am - 9.30 am Welcome Ceremony
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9.30 am - 11.15 am Session 1: Presentations of the eight network members
Aachen, Bielefeld, Bochum, Bonn, Duesseldorf, Essen, Cologne, Muenster
11.15 am - 11.30 am Coffee Break
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11.30 am - 1.00 pm Session 2: Reduction
Ulrich Flögel (Duesseldorf): 3R by Non-invasive Magnetic Resonance Techniques
Stephan Leisengang (Giessen): Pain research in a petri dish? - Chances and limitations of cell culture models in pain research
Lydia Wachsmuth (Muenster): Living up to the 3Rs – Non-invasive imaging in experimental animal research
1.00 pm - 2.00 pm Lunch Break
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2.00 pm - 3.30 pm Session 3: New thinking in 3R's
Björn Gerlach (Mannheim): On the way to 3Rs with the EQIPD Quality System
Sabine Bischoff (Jena): CIRS-LAS – Redefining animal welfare: the impact of critical incident reflection
Bernhard Schermer (Cologne): 3R in kidney research
3.30 pm - 4.30 pm Poster Session & Coffee Break
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4.30 pm - 6.00 pm Session 4: Refinement
Stephanie Krämer (Giessen): Refinement research - State of Affairs?!
Lisa Ernst (Aachen): Components for Establishing Refinement Strategies in Large Animal Models: A practical example
Marta Stei (Bonn): Refinement and Validity of a Cardiological Surgical Mouse Model
7.30 pm - 10.00 pm Get-Together with prize ceremony
at "Das Liebig" in Aachen
Friday, December 8th | Day 2
8.30 am - 9.00 am Registration
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9.00 am - 10.30 am Session 5: Keynote Lecture
David Morton (Birmingham, GB): The use of clinical signs to determine the severity of experimental procedures on an animal
10.30 am - 11.30 am Coffee Break
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11.30 am - 1.00 pm Session 6: Replacement
Johannes Wurm (Bielefeld): Human Microglia Models: An Alternative to Animal Testing?
Jochen Salber (Bochum): Do engineered human tissue constructs for in vitro biocompatibility analysis achieve sufficient complexity to replace animal testing? – Painful and instructive lessons from HyMedPoly and EVPRO
Björn Scheffler (Essen): Adding two P’s to the three R’s – How about prospective prevention in animal research?
1.00 pm - 1.15 pm Wrap-up and Closing Remarks
Speakers
Sabine Bischoff
Staff unit animal welfare
University Hospital Jena
Lisa Ernst
Institut for Laboratory Animal Science
RWTH Aachen
Ulrich Flögel
Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy
University of Düsseldorf
Björn Gerlach
Institute for Psychopharmacology
Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim
Stephanie Krämer
Laboratory Animal Science and Animal Welfare
University of Giessen
Stephan Leisengang
Institute of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry
University of Giessen
Jochen Salber
Experimental Surgery
Ruhr University Bochum
Björn Scheffler
Translational Oncology - Neurooncology
University Hospital Essen & German Cancer Research Center
Bernhard Schermer
Nephrolab Cologne at Kidney Research Center Cologne
University of Cologne
Marta Stei
Department of Molecular Cardiology
University of Bonn
Lydia Wachsmuth
Experimental Magnetic Resonance
University of Münster
Johannes Wurm
Anatomy and Cell Biology
Bielefeld University
Abstract Book
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