Dear LFS graduate students,
Thank you to those who have participated in the Animal Welfare Search faculty interviews. Our 3rd candidate interview concludes today.
We’d welcome your feedback on our 3 candidates using feedback forms below, by Monday, Sept 23 (noon).
The seminar recordings are posted on the LFS Job Talks canvas site (feedback forms also included there).
To self-enrol use this link: https://canvas.ubc.ca/enroll/PD3LEG
Users with previous access can sign into canvas to access this course site.
Alessia’s recordings will be posted by tomorrow.
Best,
Melanie
Dr. Carolin Adler (Sept 10-11)
Carolin Adler is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science, Poultry Management and Welfare Lab at the University of Saskatchewan. She is engaged in projects examining perch space requirements for pullets, heat stress in broilers, and activity monitoring in turkeys. Her previous research concentrated on environmental enrichment and activity measurement in broilers, making substantial contributions to the field with several peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Adler completed her PhD in Agricultural Science from the University of Bonn (Germany) in 2021. Her PhD research focused on innovative housing systems in broiler production, which sparked her deep interest in poultry management and welfare. In 2020, Carolin joined the Chamber of Agriculture of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany), where she worked on poultry research with practical implications for producers and policymakers. She has also been involved in teaching, having served as a course instructor for undergraduate and graduate courses, and as a mentor for bachelor’s and master’s students.
Teaching Seminar: Behaviour as a Tool in Animal Welfare Science: Social Groupings in Horses
September 10, 11:30-12:30pm
Swing Space 405 – 2175 West Mall
Research Seminar: A Love for Animals, a Vision for Change: My Animal Welfare Journey
September 11, 11:00-12:30pm
Buchanan (BUCH) – B215, 1866 Main Mall
Feedback Form: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6lfmNyviOpc0AQu
Dr. Anna Ratuski (Sept 12-13)
Anna Ratuski is a Laboratory Animal Welfare Research Fellow in the Department of Comparative Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Ratuski specializes in laboratory animal welfare and behaviour, with a particular interest in refinement of housing and husbandry procedures for animals in captivity. She completed her PhD in animal welfare at the University of British Columbia in 2023. Her published research has focused on topics such as environmental enrichment for animals housed in laboratories and refinement of euthanasia and anesthesia procedures for rats and mice. She has additionally served as an Animal Care Committee member and taught a third-year undergraduate course on Ethics and Welfare of Using Animals in Science at UBC. At Stanford, she is developing the new Beyond3Rs initiative and researching a variety of topics related to mouse welfare and the 3Rs of animal research.
Teaching Seminar: Critically Evaluating Behavioural Measures of Affective States in Rats and Mice
September 12, 11:30-12:30pm
Swing Space 405 – 2175 West Mall
Research Seminar: Housing and Husbandry Refinements for Animals used in Science
September 13, 11:00-12:30pm
Orchard Commons (ORCH) – 4018, 6363 Agronomy Rd
Feedback Form: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9LT49nDHimFfzv0
Dr. Alessia Diana (Sept 16-17)
Alessia Diana is an ethologist interested in studying animal behaviour to improve the welfare of companion, farm and zoo animals. Dr. Diana is currently is a postdoctoral research associate at Purdue University. Her work focuses on evaluating the behaviour and welfare of dogs and puppies in commercial breeding kennels in the U.S. She is also investigating the relationship between early-stage stress susceptibility indicators and performance outcomes in detection dogs to inform selection and management practices that may help to optimize their breeding, selection and training. She completed a Ph.D in Veterinary Medicine in 2019 with a major in Animal Welfare and Behaviour from the University College Dublin (UCD) and Teagasc (Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority) in Ireland. She explored the link between health, welfare and antimicrobial use in pigs by employing aspects of applied ethology, social sciences and automated animal welfare monitoring. She then worked as a postdoctoral research assistant at the University of Padova (Italy) to investigate the impact of animal welfare standards and biosecurity practices on antimicrobial use in beef cattle.
Research Seminar: Animal Welfare Science: My Interdisciplinary Journey to Improve the Life of Animals under Human Care
September 16, 1:30-3:00pm
Swing Space (SWNG) – 307, 2175 West Mall
Teaching Seminar: Using Behaviour to Assess Animal Welfare in Pig Farming
September 17, 11:30-12:30pm
Swing Space 405 – 2175 West Mall
Feedback Form: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6SuzuuN5jya5Nd4
Thank you,
Melanie
Melanie Train
Human Resources Manager (Faculty) | Faculty of Land and Food Systems
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus
248-2357 Main Mall | Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
Phone 604-822-3105 | Fax 604-822-6394
Email: melanie.train@ubc.ca
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