Abstract
This year's annual meeting ‘GV-SOLAS 2021’ will take place! Unfortunately, it will not be an attendance meeting this year, the overall situation in these corona times is still too uncertain. Therefore, we present the 59th Scientific Conference of the Society for Laboratory Animal Science GV-SOLAS and the 20th Advance Training Course of the IGTP as an online conference on 22–24 September 2021. Conference languages will be English and German. [Welcome – GV-SOLAS 2021 (gv-solas2021.de)]
We are planning many interesting topics, sessions, workshops and discussions, but unfortunately we cannot offer the inspiring atmosphere of a face-to-face meeting this year. To give you the opportunity to see as many presentations as possible, the recorded presentations will be available again for another 2 weeks after the end of the conference, i.e. until 8 October 2021.
On the one hand, the conference will focus on animal facility management topics such as dealing personally and emotionally with the issue of animal experimentation, challenging public relations, as well as hygiene management and staff training. On the other hand, we will offer animal experimentation topics such as the performance and impact of behavioral tests, opportunities and problems with imaging techniques, stress assessment in laboratory animals, the topic of 3Rs with special attention paid to replacement and supplementation methods, transparency in experimentation, and the importance of the microbiome of laboratory animals. For the first time, we will address the very specific challenges researchers have when working with wildlife or planning field trials with livestock.
IGTP will address current topics such as automation in animal husbandry, refinement in laboratory animal science, and animal models in COVID-19 research. [Key Topics – GV-SOLAS 2021 (gv-solas2021.de)].
We will also have a virtual industry exhibition with expanded opportunities to interact with attendees and are offering five different sponsorship packages to exhibitors for this purpose. [Virtual Industrial Exhibition – GV-SOLAS 2021 (gv-solas2021.de)]
Please note the following deadlines: 1 June 2021: Deadline abstract submission; 1 August 2021: Start late registration fee.
We are looking forward to your abstracts, posters and talks!