SFBR Departments: Conferences & Workshops

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Barbara Gault (bgault@sfbr.org)
2nd ICFAR Liason
(210.258.9780)

2nd International Congress on the
Future of Animal Research
Tuesday, August 16 through Friday, August 19, 2005, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

NOTE THE DATE CHANGE

Updated August 3, 2005

Schedule
Tuesday, August 16

9:30–10:30 am	WORKSHOP ON TELEMETRY Applications and Evaluation of Radio-Telemetry Speaker: Klaas Kramer (The Netherlands)
10:30–10:45 am	Break
10:45–11:30 am	EEG Monitoring in Marmosets Speaker: Claudio Queiroz (Brazil)
11:20–12:00 noon	Physiologic Monitoring Via Radio-Telemetry Speaker: Gerardo Sanabria (USA)
12:00–12:30 pm	Discussion
12:30–2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00–2:30 pm	Opening Ceremony of 2nd ICFAR
2:30–3:30 pm	Opening lecture: Great Experiments in Animal Research Speaker: John Hearn (Australia)
3:30–4:00 pm	Break
4:00–5:30 pm	Round Table: In Vitro Alternatives Coord: Octavio Presgrave (Brazil)
5:30–6:00 pm	Improvement of Microenvironmental Control of Housing System for Good Science and Reliable Research Speaker: Marcos Zanfolin, Alesco (Brazil)

Wednesday, August 17

9:30–10:20 am	Invited lecture: Embryo Cryopreservation Speaker: Jose Luiz Rigo Rodrigues (Brazil)
10:20–11:10 am	Invited lecture: Opossum Model for Repair of Spinal Cord Injury Speaker: Norman Saunders (Australia)
11:10–12:00 pm	Invited lecture: The Immunology of HIV Infection: Lessons from the Rhesus Monkey Model Speaker: David Watkins (USA)
12:00–2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00–3:30 pm	Posters and Videos
3:30–4:00 pm	Break
4:00–5:30 pm	Round Table: Fishes as Alternatives to Mammals Coord: Evanilde Benedito Cecílio (Brazil)
5:30–6:00 pm	New Solutions and Technologies for Housing Laboratory Animals for the Present and the Future Speaker: Pedro Yunis Lab Products (USA)

Thursday, August 18

9:30–10:20 am	Contributed papers
10:20–11:10 am	Invited lecture: From Rat to Human - A Concept of Translational Research Speaker: Flavio Henrique Galvao (Brazil)
11:10–12:00 pm	Invited lecture: Contributions of Animal Research to Investigating the Developmental Origins Hypothesis Speaker: Mark Nijland (USA)
12:00–2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00–3:30 pm	Posters and Videos
3:30–4:00 pm	Break
4:00–5:30 pm	Round Table: Stem Cells Coord: Radovan Borojevic (Brazil)
5:30–6:00 pm	Environmental Parameters Required in Individually Ventilated Cages and Biosafety: Advanced Solutions For the Research with Laboratory Animals Speaker: Franco Mondini Techniplast Gazzada (Italy)

Friday, August 19

9:30–10:20 am	Contributed papers
10:20–11:50 am	Round Table: Mouse Models of Human Diseases Coord: William Stone (Spain)
11:50–12:30 pm	Panel summation