LFS Animal Welfare Alumni Come Together to Create Wildlife Accreditation Program
Three UBC Animal Welfare Program alumni have joined forces to create an accreditation program that will encourage wildlife and rodent control companies to make ethical decisions when controlling wildlife populations. Sara Dubois (PhD & MSc, Animal Science, 2014 & 2003), Nicole Fenwick (MSc, Animal Science, 2005) and Erin A’tman Ryan (BSc Applied Biology, Major in […]
PhD student Lucia Amendola 1st place in the research poster competition at the 2016 International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE) conference, Edinburgh, UK.
https://awp.landfood.ubc.ca/2016/08/16/animal-welfare-ubc-students-placed-first-and-third-in-the-poster-competition-at-isae-2016-conference/
Adam Schriver public talk: The Neuroethics of Animal Welfare
Thursday, September 22, 3:30pm, Room 40, Food, Nutrition & Health Building, 2205 East Mall. In this presentation I provide an overview of the under-discussed intersection between neuroethics and animal welfare. I consider new developments in applied ethics that can come from (A) what neuroscience can tell us and (B) from what neuroscience allows us to do. […]
“Tiny cages make for sluggish lab rats” UBC research featured in Science Magazine
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/06/tiny-cages-make-sluggish-lab-rats
Animal welfare students in the poster competition at ISAE 2016
Congratulations to PhD student Lucia Amendola for placing first in the poster competition at the International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE) 2016 Conference, in Edinburgh UK. Lucia’s poster was on “Understanding variation in rat responses to CO2 ” Lucia isae16 final. Congratulations also to applied animal biology undergraduate Mari Kondoh, and supervisor Dr Becca Franks, […]
UBC Alumni are Making Animals in Science Count: Launch of New National Institute
How many animals are used in science in Canada each year and for what? Good question! The answer = we don’t really know. And that is why two UBC Alumni, Dr. Elisabeth Ormandy and Dr. Sara Dubois have formed a new national non-profit organization, The Animals in Science Policy Institute. The Animals in Science Policy […]
PhD Candidate is in the June issue of Vancouver magazine!
“[Makowska] gained an interest in lab-animal welfare while an undergrad studying biology and psychology; in her current work, she’s researching the benefits of enriched environments not just for rats, but for the lab technicians who handle them.” Read the full article here.* Way to go, Jo! ***The link, via PressReader, requires an account to access […]
A more humane death for laboratory rats
Euthanasia is one of the most common laboratory procedures, because virtually every animal is killed at the end of a study. A growing body of research has shown that the inhalant anaesthetic isoflurane is a more humane alternative to the commonly used carbon dioxide (CO2) for rendering rodents unconscious during euthanasia. Although isoflurane is more […]
More humane ways to kill laboratory mice
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is often used to euthanize laboratory rodents at the end of a research study. A growing body of research has shown that CO2 is aversive to mice and rats. Inhalant anaesthetics, like isoflurane, are a humane alternative to CO2 for rendering animals unconscious. This allows for a two-step procedure: rodents are first […]
Zebrafish research featured in PLoS ONE’s favorite articles of 2014
A recent paper by AWP alumna Devina Wong, Nina von Keyserlingk, Jeffrey Richards, and Dan Weary was highlighted as a favorite article in 2014 by PLoS ONE editors. This honor was bestowed on just 13 articles published in the journal in 2014. See the list here. Please join us in congratulating Devina and colleagues!