SGV Course 2004

Hygiene in the Animal House

November 16 to 17, 2004

Congress Center Biel /Bienne

 

Registration: French or German


The SGV committee is pleased to announce a two day session to be held in Biel from November 16 to 17, 2004. The theme is devoted to Hygiene in the Animal House. Talks will be given in English but interventions from the audience are welcomed in German, French and Italian too. You are mostly welcome to this important 2004 training session.

November 16th, 2004 

Time

Title

Speaker

8.00 – 9.00

Registration

 

9.00 – 9.45

FELASA recommendations

W. Nicklas

9.45 – 10.15

Quality control of health status tests

R. Boot

10.15 - 10.45

Break & Commercial exhibition

 

10.45 – 11.15

Health status in animal facilities : a Swiss overview

B. Illgen-Wilcke

11.15 – 12.00

Effects of infections on animal experimentation

R. Boot

12.00 – 12.30

Medication of infected laboratory animals

R. Pfister

12.30 – 14.00

Lunch & Commercial exhibition

 

14.00 – 14.30

Management of risk factors

W. Nicklas

14.30 – 15.15

Avoidance of contamination and cross-contamination in large multi-purpose, experimental rodent colonies

Part 1 : Surveillance and measures

Th. Burge

15.15 – 15.50

Break & Commercial exhibition

 

15.50 – 16.10

Part 2 : Sanitization of rodent colonies

T. Weiss

16.10 – 16.30

Part 3 : Technical aspects of sanitization

B. Heller

16.30 – 17.00

Building an animal house : The point of view of the architect

A. Perakis

17.00 – 18.00

Annual meeting of the Association

 

 

November 17th, 2004 

Time

Title

Speaker

8.00 – 8.30

Registration

 

8.30 – 9.00

Traditional barrier systems

F. Bootz

9.00 – 9.30

Barrier system: the example of the IVI

L. Bruckner

9.30 – 9.50

Other barrier systems : isolators

P. Hardy

9.50 – 10.10

Other barrier systems : individually ventilated cages

R. Strub

10.10 – 10.45

Break & Commercial exhibition

 

10.45 – 11.15

Importation and exportation of laboratory animals and biological samples

G. Allgφwer

11.15 – 11.45

Of viruses and worms :  same game in computers

Ch. Bolliger

11.45 – 12.15

Swiss Lab Animal Science Association Award

R. Pfister

12.15 – 13.45

Lunch & Commercial exhibition

 

13.45 – 14.30

What kind of preventive measures when working with laboratory animals ?

A. Flόckiger

14.30 – 15.15

Zoonoses in laboratory animal research

P. Hardy

15.15 – 15.30

Break

 

15.30 – 16.15

Allergies when working with animals

A. Bircher

16.15 – 16.30

Conclusions

 

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