ANZCCART Conference 2008

Blue Sky to deep water: the reality and the promise

Proceedings of the 2008 ANZCCART Conference Auckland, New Zealand

• Preliminary pages
• Introduction
  Mark Fisher
• Welcome
  John Martin

SESSION 1: Sharing experiences (dilemmas and compliance)

• Doing animal experimentation in a national organisation with regional responsibilities under state legislation 3
  Dr Chris Prideaux
  PowerPoint presentation
  
  
• Meeting animal welfare needs in a biotherapies environment— challenges for the CSL/Pfizer Animal Ethics Committee 7
  Dr John Phelps
  PowerPoint presentation
  
  
• Assessing a research project with reference to the big picture 11
  Grant Shackell
  PowerPoint presentation
  
  
• International benchmarking: AAALAC International Accreditation 15 PowerPoint presentation
  Dr Kathryn Bayne
  
  

SESSION 2: Transgenics and modelling

• Modelling human muscle activity 21
  Professor Andrew Pullan
  
  
• Using zebrafish in human disease research: some advantages, disadvantages and ethical considerations 23
  Dr Michael Lardelli
  PowerPoint presentation
  
  
• The benefits of using sheep to model human brain disease 29
  Jessie Jacobsen et al.
  
  

SESSION 3: Great idea but not necessarily what I expected

Great idea but not necessarily what I expected 33
(Sometimes the techniques worked; sometimes they didn’t)

• Dr Allan Goldenthal
  
  
• Dr Glen Harrison
  Powerpoint presentation
  
  
• Julie Hitchens
  PowerPoint presentation
  
  
• Dr Jacqueline Keenan
  PowerPoint presentation
  
• Associate Professor Donald Love
  
  

SESSION 4: Challenging ethics

• A brief but practical summary of ethics 41
  James Battye
  
  
• The Cam Reid Oration: Should we be giving attention to justifying animals in science? 47
  Dr Mark Fisher
  
  
• Infrared thermography and heart rate variability for non-invasive assessment of animal welfare 55
  Dr Mairi Stewart et al. (ANZCCART Student Award winner)
  PowerPoint presentation
  
  

SESSION 5: Death as an event, death as a challenge

• Euthanasing animals—the human experience 59
  Dr Erich von Dietz
  PowerPoint presentation
  
  
• Managing grief associated with euthanasia 67
  Dr Dianne Gardner
  PowerPoint presentation
  
  
• Recruiting Rats to the Research Resort: the importance of well trained resort personnel 71
  Dr John Schofield
  
  

SESSION 6: Wildlife and conservation

• The artificial incubation of kiwi eggs: a conservation tool 79
  Suzanne Bassett and Claire Travers
  PowerPoint presentation
  
  
• Researching wildlife in New Zealand: conservation opportunities are both constraints and opportunities 83
  Dr Mark Hauber
  
  
• Animal welfare issues in vertebrate pest management and research in New Zealand 89
  Dr Penny Fisher et al.
  
  

SESSION 7: Fish welfare

• Working towards the development of best practices in fish and fisheries research or The troubles with fish and fish biologists! 97
  Howard Gill, Carolyn Ashton and Andrew Rowland
  
  
• The fish: What potential for awareness? 105
  Dr Colin Johnston
  PowerPoint presentation
  
  
• "Pain" and analgesia in fish: What we know, what we don’t know, and what we need to know before using analgesics in fish 115
  Dr Don Stevens