Dear BERGers As UFAW kindly sponsors our BERG seminars, I share information about them and their upcoming meetings. Please see the line up for their next meeting which looks very interesting - registration is a very reasonable £60. If you are not a member - and wish to find out more, please see www.ufaw.org.uk<http://www.ufaw.org.uk/> All good wishes, Hannah From: Stephen Wickens [mailto:wickens@ufaw.org.uk] Sent: 29 January 2018 13:55 To: Hannah Buchanan-Smith <h.m.buchanan-smith@stir.ac.uk> Subject: Line up of speakers: UFAW Animal Welfare Science Conference 28th June 2018, Newcastle UK UFAW conference 2018: "Recent advances in animal welfare science VI" Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 28th June 2018 Dear colleague, The line up of speakers for the UFAW conference 2018 has now been announced. The conference will feature the following talks: * Andrews C, S Desire and M Bateson (Newcastle University, UK) Time flies when having fun: Could time perception offer a window on affective state? * Clegg ILK, HG Rödel, B Mercera and F Delfour (Université Paris 13, France) Anticipatory behaviour as a welfare measure? Cognitive bias linked to anticipatory behaviour in captive dolphins * Green J and C Witham (Newcastle University, UK) Developing new techniques to assess mental wellbeing in captive primates * Hewson CJ "Come back when it's time": The A-B-C yardstick for veterinary euthanasia decision-making * Khoo SY-S (Concordia University, USA) Local anaesthetic refinement of pentobarbital euthanasia reduces abdominal writhing without affecting immunohistochemical endpoints in rats * Kittelsen KE, EG Granquist, AL Aunsmo and E Tolo (The Norwegian Meat and Poultry Research Centre, Norway) An evaluation of two different methods to manually catch broilers prior to transport and slaughter * O'Neill D, J Summers, D Church, L Collins, D Sargan and D Brodbelt (Royal Veterinary College, UK) New era of evidence-based, comparative welfare-scoring for canine disorders using veterinary clinical record data * Osthaus B, L Proops, S Long, N Bell, K Hayday and F Burden (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK) Weathering the weather: Effects of the environment on donkey, mule and horse welfare * Packer RMA, F Fletcher and MJ Farnworth (Royal Veterinary College, UK) "Could not live without one". Factors driving repeated purchase and recommendation of brachycephalic dog breeds * Petow S, B Eusemann, A Patt and L Schrader (Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Germany) The influence of age, egg production and 17ß-estradiol on keel bone length and fractures * Roughan JV and T Sevenoaks (Newcastle University, UK) Welfare versus scientific costs of mouse identification methods * Sandercock DA, JE Coe, MW Barnett, TC Freeman, P Di Giminiani and SA Edwards (SRUC, UK) Coexpression analysis of dorsal root ganglia from tail amputated pigs at different ages reveals long-term transcriptional signatures associated with wound healing and inflammation, and neuropathic pain pathways * Sinclair ARL, A Renouard, C Tallet, PJ Brunton, RB D'Eath, DA Sandercock and A Prunier (SRUC, UK) Long-term effects of piglet tooth resection on molecular markers of inflammation and pain in tooth pulp * Telkanranta H, E Paul and M Mendl (University of Bristol, UK) Measuring animal emotions with infrared thermography: How to realise the potential and avoid the pitfalls * Williams DL (University of Cambridge, UK) Using the Extended Welfare Assessment Grid to evaluate welfare in clinical settings The conference will start at 9.10, with registration from 8.30, and end at 17.30. In addition, during the lunch break there will be a poster sessions that will feature over 65 presentations. In due course abstracts for all the presentations will be made available on the conference webpage. Further details, including how to register, can be found on the UFAW website www.ufaw.org.uk/recentadvances2018<http://www.ufaw.org.uk/recentadvances2018>. The cost of registration, including lunch and refreshments, is £60. Regards, Stephen Wickens, BSc PhD UFAW Development Officer Contact details: Stephen Wickens, Newcastle 2018, UFAW, The Old School, Brewhouse Hill, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, AL4 8AN, UK. 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