BASIC TRAINING COURSE FOR LABORATORY ANIMAL VETERINARIANS

March 6 - 10, 2023. Venue: inStem campus

                  Bangalore Life Science Cluster (BLiSC)

     

        TRAINING SCHEDULE

TIME

TOPIC

SPEAKER

DAY 1 – March 6th 2023, Monday

9 to 9:30

AM

Registrations.

9:30 to 10

AM

Course introduction.

Dr. Mohan

Chief Veterinarian & SO-F NCBS-TIFR, Bengaluru.

10 to 11

AM

Ethics, animal welfare and regulation governing the

care and use of laboratory animals.

Coffee/Tea Break

11.30 to 1 PM

 

Biology and husbandry of laboratory mice and rats.

Dr. Yogesh

Lab Animal Veterinarian, NCBS-TIFR, Bengaluru.

Lunch Break

 

2 to 3.30 PM

Laboratory Mice Bio-methodologies; Demonstration and hands on practice- Animal handling and Restraining, Sexing and Identification methods and biopsy collection for genotyping in

Mice.

Srinivas, Manjunath,Lalitha & Abhirup Dutta

Facility Assistants, NCBS- TIFR, Bengaluru.

Coffee/Tea Break

 

4 to 5 PM

 

Quality control of Laboratory Animals.

Dr. Mahesh Sahare, Scientist-D & Head, MGEF,

inStem, Bengaluru.

5 to 5.30

PM

Q&A sessions, Discussions.

 

DAY 2 – March 7th 2023, Tuesday

 

9 to 10 AM

Planning and Designing of Laboratory Animal Facilities.

Dr. Mohan

Chief Veterinarian & SO-F NCBS-TIFR, Bengaluru.

 

 

10 to 11 AM

 

Biology and husbandry of laboratory Rabbits.

Dr. Prakash R G

Sr. Technical Officer, JNCASR, Bengaluru.

Coffee/Tea Break

 

11.30 to

12.30 PM

 

Surgical Models of Laboratory Animals.

Dr. Shakti Devan, Principal Scientist, Syngene International ltd.

Bengaluru.

Lunch Break

1:30PM to

2:30PM

ACRC – vivaria tour.

Srinivas, Sharath, Unnikrishnan and Manjunath

Facility Assistants, ACRC, NCBS-TIFR, Bengaluru

 

2.30 - 3.30

PM

Demonstrations and hands on practice -Animal handling and Restraining, Sexing and Identification methods and biopsy collection for genotyping in

Rats.

Coffee/Tea Break

4 to 5 PM

Mouse Genetics and Breeding.

Dr. P Nagarajan,

Faculty, NII, New Delhi.

5 to 5.30

Q&A sessions, Discussions.

 

 

DAY 3 – March 8th 2023, Wednesday

 

09:00 AM –

11.00 AM

 

Basic biostatistics for animal research.

Dr. Venkataramanan R Associate Professor & Technical Officer to VC,

TANUVAS, Chennai.

Coffee/Tea Break

11.30 to

12.30 noon

Visit to ACRC user laboratory.

Lunch Break

1.30 to 3.30

PM

Demonstration and hands on practicing of different

dosing/injection methods in laboratory animals.

ACRC technicians

Coffee/Tea Break

 

4 to 5 PM

 

Pre-clinical imaging of laboratory animals.

Dr. Pradip Chaudhari, Scientific Officer –G ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, Navi Mumbai.

5 to 5:30

PM

Q&A sessions, Discussions.

 

 

 

DAY 4 – March 9th 2023, Thursday

9.00 - 10.30

AM

Common bacterial and parasitic diseases of laboratory animals.

Dr. M Jerald Mahesh Kumar Sr. Principal Scientist,

CCMB, Hyderabad.

Coffee/Tea Break

 

11 - 12.00

noon

 

Introduction to MGEF and Assisted reproductive technologies of laboratory animals.

Dr. Aurelie Jory,

Skill Development, Training & Workshops Coordinator, inStem, Bengaluru.

Lunch Break

1.30 – 3.30

PM

Demonstrations and hands on practice: Anesthesia,

blood collection in mice and rats.

Facility Assistants, ACRC,

NCBS-TIFR, Bengaluru

Coffee/Tea Break

 

4 to 5 PM

 

Import & Export procedure of Laboratory Animals.

Dr. Sachin Atole,

Sr. Scientific Manager, Aragen Life sciences, Bangalore

5 to 5.30

PM

Q&A sessions, Discussions.

 

DAY 5 – March 10th 2023, Friday

9.00 - 10.30

AM

Occupational health hazards and disaster management in laboratory animal facilities.

Dr. Samarendra Narayanan, Consultant Bioscience,

Bengaluru.

Coffee/Tea Break

11 to 12:30PM

 

Laboratory Animal Nutrition.

Dr. Rahul Thorat,

Scientific Officer –E, ACTREC, Mumbai.

Lunch Break

 

1:30 PM to

3:30 PM

 

Demo: Blood collection methods, Euthanasia and necropsy procedures in mice and rats.

Dr. Yogesh

Lab Animal Veterinarian, NCBS-TIFR, Bengaluru

Coffee/Tea Break

4 to 5 PM

Validation of Bio-methodologies learnt by the participants.

5 to 5:30 PM

Discussion, Closing remarks and Participants feedback on the workshop.