2021

19 / 26 November
3 / 10 December
 Registration, participation and certificate

This online conference consists of 4 half-days (Friday

afternoons) from the end of November to the beginning
of December 2021.

In your registration you have selected a number of half-

days of this conference.

You will be invited to each of the half-days until you reach

the number of half-days you have registered for.

If you are not interested in one of the half-days, simply

ignore the invitation for that one.

The certificate will be issued at the end of the conference,

based on your registration and your attendance in this
online conference.
 SGV2021 meeting
Friday November 19th, 2021
Zoom

14:00 WELCOME SGV President

14:05
Nutrition and Microbiota session Chairpersons: S. Zeiter; I. Desbaillets
14:05 Choose the diet carefully for your gut microbiome
M. Pellizzon (Research Diets, USA)
14:30 research (25min)
Identifying and Overcoming Threats to Reproducibility,
14:30
Replicability, Robustness, and Generalizability in Z. Al Nabhani (University of Bern, CH)
15:00
Microbiome Research (30min)
15:00
Wildlings, a model for human immune responses (25min) S. Rosshart (UniKlinik Freiburg, DE)
15:25

COFFEE BREAK

Presentation of Labodia SA – Dale Smith (15 min)

Reproducibility crisis: where are we now? Chairpersons: F. Schütz

15:55
Center of Reproducible Science (CRS) UZH (25min) E. Furrer (University of Zürich, CH)
16:20
C. Winchester (Cancer Research UK
16:20 Integrity Officers – a key role in our institutions to Beatson Institute)
16:45 facilitate research quality and reproducibility (25min) A. Porter (Cancer Research UK
Manchester Institute)
16:45
Moving to a World Beyond “p<0.05” (25min) F. Schütz (University of Lausanne, CH)
17:10
17:10 16 years after “Why Most Published Research Findings
J. Ioannidis (Stanford University, USA)
17:35 Are False”. (25min)
5 min Take home message SGV President

This course is accredited as continuing education in Switzerland for experimenters and study directors.
 SGV2021 meeting
Friday November 26th, 2021
Zoom

13:00
WELCOME SGV President
13:05
Chairpersons: B. Ledermann; Bjoern
News from the lab and animal facilities
Lex
13:05 Refining husbandry and experimental procedures A. Bergadano (Experimental Animal
13:30 GV-SOLAS Analgesia factsheet (25 minutes) Center, University of Bern, CH)
13:30 The Animal Welfare Officer Network Blood Collection
M. Heimann (AWO network, CH)
13:55 Guideline (25min)
13:55 Identification decision tree. Justification and ethical F. Chabaud/P. Bugnon (Swiss
14:15 justification, refinement (20min) Education Network, CH)
14:15 Micropipette-guided drug administration (MDA)
U. Meyer (University of Zürich, CH)
14:40 procedure in mice Pros and Cons (25min)

COFFEE BREAK

Presentation of J. Rettenmaier & Söhne (15 min)

Chairpersons: Paulin Jirkof, Fabienne

News from the lab and animal facilities
Chabaud
15:10 Tunnel handling implementation in Swiss animal facilities
P. Jirkof (Swiss3RCC, CH)
15:25 (20min)
15:25 Methods of mouse restraint and their consequences on
R. N. Labitt (Cornell University, USA)
15:45 the heart (20min)
15:45 Body temperature measurement: transponder versus
Jie Mei (Freie Univ. Berlin, DE)
16:05 surface infrared thermometry (20min)
16:05 Mouse and rat vascular access button for multiple blood
R. Remie (Surgical Skill Center, NL)
16:30 sampling, Pros and Cons (25min)
5 min Take home message SGV President

This course is accredited as continuing education in Switzerland for experimenters and study directors.
 SGV2021 meeting
Friday December 3rd, 2021
Zoom

13:00 WELCOME SGV President

13:05
Can animal experimentation take advantage of deep
Chairpersons: Paulin Jirkof, P. Cinelli
learning tools?
13:05 Measurement of animal behavior in neuroscience
M. Mathis (EPFL, CH)
13:30 (25min)
13:30 Towards an automated facial expression analysis in mice K. Hohlbaum, Manuel Wöllhaf, Niek
13:55 using deep learning (25min) Andresen (Freie Universität Berlin, D)
13:55 Ultrasonic signals associated with different types of social J. Neunuebel (University of Delaware,
14:15 behaviour of mice (25min) USA)

COFFEE BREAK

Presentation of Tecniplast Suisse – Alessandro Tomani (15 min)

Coronavirus Pandemic
Chairpersons: Alessandra Bergadano; P.
Cinelli
14:45
Synthetic mRNA vaccines S. Pascolo, (University Hospital UZH, CH)
15:10
Were we ready to face a pandemic? Article 28 OPAn
15:10 **Swiss Animal facilities disaster planning. X. Warot (Swiss Animal Facility Network,
15:45 (35 min) CH)
15:45 How to design a disaster plan in a AAALAC animal facility
G. Itter (Sanofi, F)
16:10 (25 min)
16:10 J.L Tremoleda (Queen Mary University of
Culture of Care in pandemic times (25 min)
16:35 London, UK)
5 min Take home message SGV President

This course is accredited as continuing education in Switzerland for experimenters and study directors.
 SGV2021 meeting
Friday December 10th, 2021
Zoom

13:00
WELCOME SGV President
13:05
Home-cage new technologies Chairpersons: X. Warot, M. Gyger
13:05 Rodent Big and Little brother: home-cage monitoring of J. Douglas Armstrong (University of
13:25 mice and rats (20 min) Edinburg, UK)
13:25 B. Ulfhake (Karolinska Institute,
Ins and outs of mice’s home-cage life (20 min)
13:45 Sweden)

13:45 Welfare implications of home-cage digitalization in

F. Scorrano (Novartis, Basel, CH)
14:10 laboratory rodents (25 min)

J-B Prins
14:10 Technological innovations: evolution of the animal/ (Biological Research Facility, Francis
14:40 human relationship (30 min). Crick Institute, UK & Leiden University,
NL)

COFFEE BREAK

Presentation of Vigilitech – Marc Zünd (15 min)

Initiative and Communication session Chairpersons: M. Gyger; X. Warot

Animal experimentation: analysis of the
15:10 F. Crettaz-von-Roten (University of
controversy from 1950 to the present day in Switzerland
15:40 Lausanne, CH)
(30 min)
15:40 Initiative and counter project(s): where are we now?
B. Ledermann (SGV President, CH)
16:00 Summary of the National Council discussions (20 min)
16:00 What are the current barriers to animal experimentation
F. Dehmelt (Pro-Test press officer, D)
16:25 communication? (25 min)
16:25 STAAR, the Swiss transparency agreement on animal
S. Wyssenbach (Swiss Universities, CH)
16:40 research (15 min)
5 min Take home message SGV President

This course is accredited as continuing education in Switzerland for experimenters and study directors.
 SGV Meeting 2022
CHUV Lausanne
29 -30 of November
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