KEKS seminar: The three Rs in metabolism research

Laboratory Animal Centre (KEKS) seminar, organized by the Animal Welfare Body:

The three Rs in metabolism research

University of Oulu, the medical faculty, Aapistie 7A, Lecture hall F 101

Thursday, 28 January 2016

Programme

9:00 – 9:10       Opening remarks. Continuing education

                         in the use of laboratory animals

                         Sakari Laaksonen, DVM, M.Sc.

                         Professor Hanna-Marja Voipio

                         Laboratory Animal Centre, University of Oulu

9:10 – 9:45       Temperature biology of laboratory rodents

                         Professor Esa Hohtola, University of Oulu

9:45 – 10:20     The effects of ambient light in rodent research

                         Emeritus professor Seppo Saarela, University of Oulu

10:20 – 10:40   Metabolic studies on Hif-p4h-2 hypomorphic mice

                         Docent Raisa Serpi, University of Oulu

11:00 – 11:20   The effects of group and single housing and measuring

                         metabolic performance on stress levels in mice

                         Ghulam Raza, M.Sc., University of Oulu

11:20 – 11:55   The effects of fasting in mice

                         Tanja Lyholm Jensen, DVM

                         Finsen Laboratory / BRIC, University of Copenhagen

11:55 – 12:30   Fruit fly as a model to study metabolism

                         Essi Havula, M.Sc., University of Helsinki