Thursday May 4, 2000

Welcome Session
Auditorium, Main building


Chair: Ann-Christine Eklöf & Timo Nevalainen

14.00 Opening ceremony and Welcome
Timo Nevalainen (FIN) & Lennart Lindberg (S)

14.10 Welcome and Introduction
Ann-Christine Eklöf (S)


KJ Öbrink Memorial Lecture
14.15 Cancer and The New Biology
Georg Klein (S)

Short break


15.00 The road to an understanding of how urinary tract infection causes renal scarring.
Anita Aperia (S)

COFFEE BREAK

16.00 Poster Session and Scand-LAS open
Elisabeth Norin (S)

18.00 DINNER

19.00 Continue Poster session and Scand-Las open





Friday May 5, 2000

The Bengt Gustavsson Symposium
SeregÂrden

Chair: Margareta Blombäck & Tore Midtvedt

08.30 Introduction
Tore Midtvedt (S)

08.40 Laboratory animals in the future. A vision
Max Lang (USA)

09.30 Is splendid isolation splendid?
Elisabeth Norin (S)

10.00 COFFEE BREAK


Chair: Max Lang & Lars Wass

Life after Losec
Håkan Wennbo (S)

10.40 The need for defined diets and refined feeding methods.
Merel Ritskes-Hoitinga (DK)

11.05 Special diets for rodents. Individual feeding of the animals, pellets, quality control, sterilization of diets
David Ford (UK)

11.30 Free papers:
Persson A-K (S): New SRI-isolators for short term (1)
Garcia JC (Cuba): Obtainment of gnotobiotic dogs...(2)

11.50 Final discussion and conclusions

12.00 LUNCH


ìThe Lars Wass scholarshipî Auditorium, Main building

Chair: Otto Kugelberg & Lars Wass

13.00 Presentation and hand over of the 2000 scholarship
Report from 1999 scholar Cecilia Broddling


Friday May 5 cont.
Ethology and Animal Welfare Session
Auditoium Main building

Chair: Steven Schapiro & Robert Murison

New developments in Primate housing and husbandry
Steven Schapiro (UK)

14.10 Optimisation of primate husbandry
Claudia Fahlke (S)

14.30 Enrichment and experimental variation
Timo Nevalainen (FIN)

14.50 Anaesthesia Before, Now and in the Future
Patricia Hedenquist (S)

15.10 Free papers:
Krohn TC (DK): Development of a method for short-term
Evaluation of welfare of rodents (3)
Eskola (FIN): Grid floor or solid bottom: which is better? (4)

15.30 COFFEE BREAK

Farm Animals and Transplantation Session

Chair: Marianne Jensen-Waern & Krister Martin

16.00 Introduction,
Marianne Jensen Waern (S)

16.15 The development of Xenotransplantation:from the lab to the clinic.
Annika Tibell (S)

16.45 Free paper:
Hagelin J (S): Students acceptance of xenotransplantation (5)
Johnson D (USA): Canine parenchymal transplantable tumor model. (6)

18.00 DINNER

19.30 Exhibitors evening


Saturday May 6, 2000

Health Monitoring Session
Auditorium Main building
Chair: Ricardo Feinstein & Anders Forslid

09.00 Introduction
Ricardo Feinstein (S)

09.15 Rodent Health Monitoring: Yesterday and Tomorrow
Terrie Cunliffe-Beamer (USA)


09.45 New developments in health monitoring methodology
Axel Kornerup Hansen (DK)

COFFEE BREAK


Transgenic Session
Auditorium Main building

Chair: Johannes Wilbertz & Ulla Marjoot Jaakola

10.45 Introduction
Johannes Wilbertz (S)

11.00 Cloning by nucleus transfer: the biotechnique of this century
Gottfried Brem (AU)


Transgenic research in the 21st century
Urban Lendahl (S)

12.15 Free paper:
Dagnæs F (DK): Gene gun delivered gene therapy model SCID,
Retroviral tranduction and multi-lineage engraftment.


12.30 LUNCH



3 R Session
Auditorium Main building


Chair: Jann Hau & Adrian Smith

13.15 Introduction, FELASA and the 3Rs
Jann Hau (S)

13.30 The 3Rs: Past, Present & Future
Jon Richmond (UK)


14.10 FELASA education and accreditation
Timo Nevalainen (FIN)

14.30 COFFEE

15.00 Scientific background to changes in the Council of Europe
revised guidelines
Axel Kornerup-Hansen (DK)

15.30 Free papers:



Brattelid T (S): Refinement of fish research
Høglund U (S) A rat model for study of pain receptors
Koebaek-Larsen M (DK): Refinement of animal models for
study of colorectal cancer.
Kokkonen (FIN): Effect of urinary catheters on stress in goats
Warming (DK): Characterisation of a new reeler mouse type.





17.00 Annual Meeting Scand-LAS

20.00 Conference dinner

Sunday May 7, 2000
Auditorium Main building


Presentation of Research Profile of Nordic Professors in
Laboratory Animal Sience

Chair: Otto Kugelberg & Hans Jørgen Skovgaard-Jensen

09.00 Axel Kornerup Hansen, DK
09.10 Merel Ritskes-Hoitinga, DK
09.20 Timo Nevalainen, FIN
09.30 Adrian Smith, N
09.40 Jann Hau, S
09.50 Marianne Jensen-Waern, S
10.00 Coffee

Ethics Committees and Licensing of Projects in the Nordic Countries and the UK: Present status and future trends

Chair: Robert Murison & Adrian Smith

Introduction to the procedure in:
10.20 United Kingdom: Jon Richmond
10.30 Denmark: Merel Ritskes Hoitinga,
10.40 Finland: Pirkko Skutnabb
10.50 Norway: Tore Wie
11.00 Sweden: Eva Eriksson
11.10 Estonia: Aavo Lang, Estonia
11.20 Free papers:
Simkevicience & Osvaldos Ruksenas: Ethical evaluation of research protocols in Lithuania
Price H: Local ethical review process, United Kingdom
Jacobsson. Ethical reviews in Sweden
Shapiro S (USA): Attitudes of undergraduate students to animal experimentation

12.00 Closing of Symposium
A-C Ekløf L Lindberg T Nevalainen

Lunch and Departure