Conference presentations
Poster presentation: “Beyond3Rs: Going Beyond Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement for Better Animal Research.” Stanford Bio-X Seed Grants Symposium. Palo Alto, California. (August 2024)
Poster presentation: “Risk factors for barbering in laboratory mice.” UFAW International Animal Welfare Conference. Porto, Portugal. (July 2024)
Poster presentation: “Beyond3Rs: Going Beyond Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement for Better Animal Research.” Stanford Postdoc Symposium. Palo Alto, California. (March 2024)
Oral presentation: “What makes for effective rodent enrichment: Concepts and applied examples.” Canadian Association for Laboratory Animal Science symposium. Montreal, QC. (May 2023)
Oral presentation: “Effects of playpen access on stereotypic behaviour and aggression in conventionally housed female laboratory mice.” Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology. Ohrid, North Macedonia. (September 2022)
Oral presentation: “Playpen access is a positive experience for conventionally-housed laboratory mice.” at UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems Graduate Student Conference. Vancouver, BC. (March 2022); this presentation was awarded third place in the oral competition.
Oral presentation: Let the Stars Shine Workshop: 3Rs Early Career Scientist Award Finalist Presentations. 11th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences (Online, August 2021); I was invited to participate in this workshop after my abstract scored among the top 6 Refinement-related abstracts at the conference as rated by the scientific committee.
Poster presentation: “Get-away lofts for lactating laboratory rats: Is time away from pups beneficial for dam welfare?” at 11th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences. (Online, August 2021)
Oral presentation: “Playpen access for laboratory mice.” Canadian Association for Laboratory Animal Science symposium. Online. (June 2021); this was the session with the highest live attendance during the conference and the highest number of visits to the recorded sessions post-conference.
Oral presentation: “Use of a get-away loft by lactating laboratory rats: Do rat moms need a break from their pups?” at UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems Graduate Student Conference. Vancouver, BC. (March 2021); this presentation was awarded third place in the oral competition.
Oral presentation: “Research highlights from the UBC Animal Welfare Program.” National Animal Welfare Conference. Humane Canada: Ottawa, ON. (April 2020)
Poster presentation: “The effect of an anxiolytic on rat aversion to CO2 in the approach- and aversion-avoidance paradigms.” Animal Behaviour Society conference. Chicago, IL. (June 2019)
Poster presentation: “Paced Mating for Laboratory Rats.” Canadian Association for Laboratory Animal Science symposium. Richmond, BC. (June 2019)
Poster presentation: “Individual Variability in Rat Motivation to Access a Food Reward” Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology. Charlottetown, PEI. (September 2018)
Oral presentation: “Individual Variability in Rat Motivation to Access a Food Reward.” UBC Faculty of Land & Food Systems Graduate Student Conference. Vancouver, BC. (March 2018)
Seminar talks and guest lectures
Invited talk: “What makes a cage ‘enriched’? Concepts and applied examples of environmental enrichment for rodents.” Stanford University, California. (January 2024)
Invited talk: “Environmental needs of rats and mice used in research.” In collaboration with Professor Dan Weary; Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. (online; March 2023)
Invited talk: “What makes a cage ‘enriched’? Approaches to environmental enrichment for mice and rats housed in laboratories.” University of Bern, Switzerland. (March 2023)
Invited talk: “Giving rodent moms a break: Use of get-away areas by mice and rats housed in laboratories.” University of Bristol, UK (online; June 2022).
Guest lecture: “The intersection of animal welfare and scientific research outcomes.” for undergraduate students at the University of British Columbia, taught by Dr. Cathy Schuppli (2018, 2019, and 2020)
Guest lecture: “Improving the environments of laboratory rodents.” for undergraduate students at Evergreen College, taught by Dr. Michael Paros (December 2020)
Guest lecture: “Housing refinements for laboratory rodents.” for undergraduate students at Harper Adams University, taught by Dr. Annabelle Beaver (October 2020)