Veterinary Public Health Institute, Animal Welfare Division

Past Seminars

Spring Semester 2017

Date

Speaker and Title

WEDNESDAY
01.03.2017

Tom Smulders
Adult hippocampal neurogenesis: an integrative marker of cumulative welfare experience?

University of Newcastle
Centre for Behaviour and Evolution

 

16.03.2017

 

CANCELLED

30.03.2017

Christopher Gerpe
Assessment of animal welfare during the collection process of depopulation for end of lay hens

Division of Animal Welfare
DCR-VPHI Vetsuisse Faculty
University of Bern

 

06.04.2017

Daniela Frei
Can belly nosing in artifically reared piglets be prevented by artificial sucking and managing dummies?

Zentrum für tiergerechte Haltung
Wiederkäuer und Schweine in Tänikon (ZTHT)

 

27.04.17

Nele Dael 
The Body-Action-Posture (BAP) coding system as a tool for standardized behaviour measurement 

University of Lausanne

website

11.05.17

Piter Bijma
Improving animal welfare using social genetic effects 

University of Wageningen
Department of Animal Sciences

 

TUESDAY

DATE CHANGE
30.05.17

Jane Hurst
Take a walk on the wild side: insights from real wild-type mice

University of Liverpool
Institute of Integrative Biology

 

15.06.17

Jeremy Bailoo
Is more better? Effects of environmental enrichment on measures of welfare and variation of laboratory mice

Division of Animal Welfare
DCR-VPHI Vetsuisse Faculty
University of Bern

 

22.06.17

Silvan Urfer
The Dog Aging Project: Welfare Implications of Increased Lifespan

University of Washington,
Dog Aging Project

website

29.06.17

Janice Siegford
Relating social behavior to genotypes to improve the welfare of group-housed pigs

Michigan State University 
Animal Behavior and Welfare Group