3R seminar: Study design

Programme

                                       Chair: Reetta Hinttala

8:30 – 8:35                 Opening of the seminar

                                       Professor Hanna-Marja Voipio, Director,

                                       Laboratory Animal Centre, University of Oulu, Finland

8:35 – 9:30                 PREPARE before you ARRIVE: planning and reporting animal experiments

                                       Professor Adrian Smith, Secretary of Norecopa, Norway

9:30 – 10:00               Coffee break

10:00 – 10:40            Embracing variation to improve replicability of in-vivo research

                                       Dr Natasha Karp, Associate Principal Scientist - Statistician,

                                       Quantitative Biology, IMED Biotech Unit, AstraZeneca, UK

10:40 – 11:30            Unstable p values are causing lack of repeatability in animal experiments

                                       Dr Lewis Halsey, University of Roehampton, UK

11:30 – 12:30            Lunch

                                       Chair: Kari Mäkelä

12:30 – 13:25            Sleep and Circadian rhythms in research: Why should we care?

                                       Dr Henna-Kaisa Wigren, Postdoctoral fellow / Junior Group leader,

                                       Sleep Team Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Finland

13:25 – 14:15            Unconscious bias in scientific research - Cautionary tales from psychology’s replication crisis

                                       Dr Stuart Ritchie, King’s College, London, UK

14:15 – 14:45            Coffee break

14:45 – 15:45            Sex bias in pre-clinical research

                                       Dr Natasha Karp

15:45                           Closing remarks