Laboratory Animal Science - Species Specific Course on Fish

Course schedule

Dates	Start time	End time	Location	Coordinator	registrations app/max
22-23-24 January 2025	09:00	17:00	Carus Building, Wageningen Campus	WIAS	8 / 15	Apply

Course description

Course description: This course is intended for researchers and professionals who are currently working with, or are planning to work with, fish in an experimental setting.

The course meets the standards for the species-specific education and training requirements for persons designing projects and procedures for fish.

Course objectives: The objective of this course is to present basic and appropriate biology, care, health and management of fish, recognition of pain, suffering and distress in these animals and minimally invasive procedures to be applied on these animals.

Learning goals: Learning outcomes in accordance with the EC Training and Education Document relating to Directive EU/2010/63, EU/2010/63, https://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/lab_animals/pdf/Endorsed_E-T.pdf

General Information

Target Group	PhDs, WUR staff and non-WUR participants
Course level	In-depth, postgraduate
Group size	A minimum of 10 and a maximum of 20 participants
Course duration	3 days and is given around September every year
Prior knowledge	MSc in a biological, bio medical or zootechnical field. We recommend to follow the basic Laboratory Animal Science course before the species-specific course. In case this is not practically feasible for each participant, we also allow starting with this species-specific course.
Homework/ self- study	Active participation and preparation on the lectures and practicals
Language	English
Credit points	0.8 ECTS
Name lecturers	Janneke Arts, Geert Wiegertjes, Roel Maas, Sylvia Brugman, Maria Forlenza, Menno ter Veld, Ronald Booms and Johan Schrama
Course content coordinator	Janneke Arts
Teaching method	Lectures and practicals
In-person	Wageningen University campus, Wageningen, the Netherlands. Carus building

Programme

Day 1

09.30 – 10.00	Welcome, introduction	Janneke Arts
10.00 – 10.10	Break
10.10 – 11.00	Fish health	Geert Wiegertjes
11.00 – 11.10	Break
11.10 – 12.30	Practical anesthesia/ euthanasia, anatomy and health	Menno ter Veld, Ronald Booms, Sylvia Brugman/Maria Forlenza
12.30 – 13.00	Lunch
13.00 – 16.30	Practical anesthesia/ euthanasia, anatomy and health continued	Menno ter Veld, Ronald Booms, Sylvia Brugman/Maria Forlenza

Day 2

09.30 – 10.15	Nutrition and physiology	Marit Nederlof
10.15 – 10.30	Break
10.30 – 12.00	Recirculation systems	Roel Mass
12.00 – 12.30	lunch
12.30 – 16.30	Practical housing and water quality	Menno ter Veld and Roel Mass

Day 3

09.00 – 10.45	Welfare	Sylvia Brugman
10.15 – 11.00	Break
11.00 – 11.45	Fieldwork	Nanneke vd Wal
11.45 – 12.00	Break
12:00 – 12:45	Reproduction	Arjan Palstra
12.45– 13:15	Lunch
13:15– 14:15	Transitional Models	Maria Forlenza
14:15 – 14:45	Certificates, evaluation	Janneke Arts

Fee (includes study and training material, coffee/tea and lunches)

Reduced fee: WGS PhD candidates with a TSP	€325
University fee: Other PhDs, postdocs and WGS staff	€690
External fee: All other participants	€1015

Cancellation condition

You may cancel free of charge up to 1 month before the start of the course. After this date you will be charged with the University fee, unless:

You can find someone to replace you in the course and supply the course coordinator with the name and contact information of your replacement. In this case you will be charged a €50,- cancellation fee.
You are a PhD of Wageningen University with a valid reason to cancel (illness or death in the family 1st or 2nd degree). In this case you will be charged the reduced fee and your supervisor/PI must send a mail indication the reason for cancellation.

Information: For more information please contact: paddy.haripersaud@wur.nl, tel: +31317486836 or wias@wur.nl