Animal Ethics Committees and animal use in a monitored environment: is the ethics real, imagined or necessary?

Day 1: Sunday, 26 June

1:30–2:30pm

REGISTRATION

Light refreshments

2:30–2:40pm

CONFERENCE COMMENCES

Welcome from ANZCCART

2:40–2:50pm

Welcome to Wellington

 2:55pm

SESSION 1

Break-out groups to discuss general theme

Ethics Committees: what do they really do, what should they do, why should they do it.

This discussion will be preceded by two speakers who will introduce the theme.

Dr John Schofield, University of Otago

Animal ethics committees: a help or hindrance?

Prof Graham Nerlich, University of Adelaide

Where has all the ethics gone?

Case examples of AEC “projects”

Delegates self-stream to groups and are assigned an AEC case study.

5:30 pm

Cocktails

Day 2: Monday, 27 June

SESSION 2

Ethics committees: their function

9:00–9:45 am

Cam Reid Oration: Professor Don Evans, University of Otago

Are animals our equals?

9:45–10:30 am

Dr Deborah Middleton, Australian Animal Health Laboratory

Animal ethics committees: getting it all to work

10:30–11:15 am

MORNING TEA

SESSION 3

Animal Ethics Committees: the Social Dimension

11:15–11:45 am

Dr Mark Fisher, Kotare Bioethics

The real, imagined and necessary aspects of an AEC

11:45am–12:15 pm

Dr Tim Dare, University of Auckland

Ethics and animals: personal atitudes and public regulation

12:15–1:30 pm

LUNCH

SESSION 4

Animals in research: the laboratory

1:30-2:15 pm

Dr Simon Festing, RDA

Safeguarding the future of animal research in the UK

2:15-3:00 pm

Dr Ailsa McGregor, University of Auckland

Neurodegenerative disease modeling: why is it necessary?

3:00-3:30 pm

AFTERNOON TEA

SESSION 5

Alternatives and Cost

3:30–4:15 pm

Dr Richard Clothier, FRAME

The development of acceptable alternative methods

4:15–4:45 pm

Dr Robert Baker, University of Adelaide

Public accountability in animal use for scientific purposes in Australia - national data and auditing for AECs

7:00–11:00 pm

CONFERENCE DINNER

Day 3: Tuesday 28 June

SESSION 6

Out of the lab and into the wild

9:00–9:45 am

Dr Bruce Warburton, Landcare Research

Vertebrate pest control research:it's more about killing kindly than keeping alive

9:45–10:30 am

Mr Peter Mason, NZSPCA

Animal welfare at home: considerations and perspectives

10:30–11:15 am

MORNING TEA

 11.15– 11.45am

 Ms Katja Geschke, Wellington Zoo Trust

Health assessment of free ranging Hector's Dolphins captured for satellite telemtry in New Zealand.

11:45–12:30 pm

Report back to Conference on outcomes of the Christchurch “recommendations”

CONFERENCE CLOSURE