A Snapshot seminar hosted by the School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience

Male mouse aggression is a common problem and can lead to social stress, injury and even death. It has always been assumed that mice are a social species and therefore must be housed in groups but is this really true? We know surprising little about the natural behaviour of the laboratory mouse and as such may well have made assumptions about their optimal housing conditions and management. Having developed objective methods to quantify affective state in rodents, we have been investigating how different housing conditions impact on the cumulative experience of laboratory mice and methods which could be used to improve their welfare and reduce the impacts of in cage aggression.  In this talk, I will provide an update on work on our NC3Rs funded project investigating male mouse aggression and also share some of the other approaches we have developed and validated which can reduce cumulative suffering in rodents and benefit the scientific objectives.

Location: C42 and https://bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4798119105?pwd=MlZRZEt6aWhQb0NYT2pXd3N5aVRvQT09

Prof. Emma Robinson (https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/emma-s-j-robinson)