Program - BCLAS

20 May 2019: Workshops

only accessible to professionals and PhD students

10:15-11:00	BCLAS General Assembly (for BCLAS members only)
11:00-12:30	Room 13 Workshop A Software Support for Excellence in Animal Research and Testing: A Practical Approach for Planning, Management and Welfare Maria Lacalle, NorayBio Software	Room 15 Workshop B Dealing with the unexpected positive results – be prepared, keep calm and take immediate actions! Stephanie Durand, Kerstin Fiebig and Alex Popovic, Charles River	Room 14 Workshop C Animal Welfare Bodies Tasks & Responsibilities Organizer: Animal Welfare Body Platform (BCLAS)Target audience: AWB members and institutional officials/managers
12:30-13:30	Sandwich Lunch (registration needed)
13:30-14:30	Room 15 Workshop D groups a and b Part 1 Non-Technical Summaries and Transparency Organizer: Ethical Committee Platform (BCLAS) (link to detailed program) Target audience: EC members, institutional officials/managers, researchers		Room 14 Workshop E Operational and Technical Husbandry Aspects in Rodent Gnotobiology Tecnilab
14:30-15:15			Room 14 Workshop F The Big Impact of Bedding and Enrichment on the Security of Research Georges Hasson, SAFE®
15:15-16:00	Coffee/Tea Break
16:00-17:30	Room 15 Workshop D group a Ethical Committees (NTS) Part 2 (in English) Ethical Committee Platform (BCLAS)	Room 13 Workshop D group b Ethical Committees (NTS) Part 2 (in French) Ethical Committee Platform (BCLAS)	Room 14 Workshop G The Real Key to Experiment Success: Genetic Stability over Time Robert Leblanc, Janvier Labs

With exception of Workshop D part 2, workshops will be given in English. No simultaneous translation will be provided, but, if they prefer, participants can express themselves in Dutch or French.

20 May 2019: Evening Event

17:30-18:30	Reception in the exhibition areas of the Floréal Centre (free but registration required)
18:30-19:00	Walk to the Pier of Blankenberge
19:00-20:00	Guided visit of the Pier of Blankenberge + drink
20:00-24:00	Dinner at the Pier followed by dance

21 May 2019: Symposium – Be prepared to PREPARE guidelines

Time	Presentation	Language	Presentation	Language
07:30-08:25	Registration of participants – Welcome coffee/tea
08:25-08:30	Opening of the meeting by the symposium coordinator			E
08:30-09:15	Keynote lecture: Introduction to PREPARE guidelines Adrian Smith, NORECOPA			E
09:15-09:45	Is the Belgian ethical matrix far from PREPARE? Anne Vermeylen, UNamur	FR	Room 14 Special forum for animal caretakers and technicians: see below (part 1)**	NL/FR
09:45-10:30	Coffee/Tea Break – Commercial exhibition – Posters
10:30-11:00	Literature search Sandrine Vandenput, FMV, ULiège	FR	Special forum for animal caretakers and technicians: see below (part 2)**	NL/FR
11:00-11:15	The RE-PLACE platform Vera Rogiers, VUB	NL
11:15-11:45	Experimental design and statistics Etienne Hanon, UCB	FR
11:45-12:00	President talk on BCLAS activities Dr. Guy De Vroey, BCLAS			E
12:00-12:30	Poster presentation session (3 min/poster) Prevalence and consequences of vaginal septa in a breeding colony of C57Bl6/J mice (NL) Stéphanie De Vleeschauwer, KULeuven Care to bring around osteo-articular surgical models in rodents to improve their well-being Philippe Stordeur, CERGroupe A Mouse Model of Peanut Allergy Induced by Oral Sensitization Philippe Stordeur, CERGroupe Preclinical Nuclear Imaging as a smart minimally invasive read-out to reduce and refine animal utilization in multiple research fields Coraline De Maeseneire, ULB RE-Place: An online tool to gather New Approach Methodologies Nancy Liodo Missigba, VUB Effects of testing moment in the circadian sleep-wake rhythm on learning, memory and behavioral flexibility (ENG) Aurélie Zaros, Université de Liège How to catch a mouse: tail versus tunnel handling (ENG) Zsuzsanna Callaerts-Vegh, KULeuven			NL/FR/ENG
12:30-14:00	Lunch – Commercial exhibition – Posters
14:00-14:20	Scoring sheet for experimental procedures Claire Diederich, UNamur			FR
14:20-14:40	Evaluation of competencies of staff Olivier Nicaise, GSK/Kris Meurrens, KULeuven			FR/NL
14:40-15:10	Assessment of the husbandry and environment management practices Samuel Vidal, VetAgroSup/AAALAC (to be confirmed)			FR
15:10-15:40	Refinement of euthanasia techniques Henri Bertrand, Cambridge University			E
15:40-16:30	Coffee/Tea Break – Commercial exhibition
16:30-17:15	Closing lecture: Dealing with ethics in Ethics Committees on Animal Experimentation Johan de Tavernier, KULeuven			NL
17:15-17:30	Closure of the meeting – Poster awards – Competition prizes			E

Speakers will give their presentation in their own language. Simultaneous translation will be provided from French to Dutch and from Dutch to French. There will be no translation for English presentations.

** SPECIAL FORUM FOR ANIMAL CARETAKERS

Animal caretakers and technicians who register for the symposium are given the opportunity to register for a dedicated morning workshop for animal caretakers which will be held between 10:30 and 11:45. The workshop will be presented in two different rooms for Dutch and French speaking participants on the subject:

NL: Uitwisseling van Ervaringen
FR: Echange d’expériences

We received 7 proposals of topics for the Dutch speaking forum:

Complexiteit van het beheren van een quarantaine (Bart Swinnen, KULeuven)
Cage change app (Ine Adriaensen, Janssen)
Uitdagingen bij de huisvesting en verzorging van landbouwhuisdieren (Inez Feytons, KULeuven)
Het effect van hanteren via cupping of tunnel op muizen (Angèle Pouwels, Janssen & HAN Hogeschool Van Arnhem & Nijmegen)
Communicatie met onderzoekers in een universitaire setting (KU Leuven)
pH metingen maag hond: techniek, uitdagingen, ervaringen (Gert Martens, Janssen)
Hanteren & socialiseren van ratten (Mathias Cox, Janssen)

As all these topics are valuable it has been decided to start the forum at 09.15AM already instead 10.30AM as announced in the original symposium program.

As there were no proposals from French-speaking volunteers, there will not be a session in French. People who already registered for the French-speaking forum for animal caretakers and technicians may of course attend the Dutch speaking session or contact the BCLAS administration to modify their registration accordingly.