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EPV Symposium 2025 – Provisional Scientific Programme

Day 1 – 18th of September

Time Title
08:00 Registration
09:00 Welcome
09:10 Sponsors Presentation
Session 1 - Supply of NHPs - a critical resource and its challenges
09:20 Enhancing Public Understanding and Policy Engagement on NHP Research
09:50 Non-Human Primate Welfare, Breeding and Management for High Quality Research Output
10:20 The role of non-human primates in preclinical and translation research: An African Perspective
10:50 Coffee Break
11:20 Europe still needs Primates – But, where shall they come from? How we as a supplier of Non-Human Primates try to overcome the current challenges
11:50 Issues and challenges related to the sourcing, management and distribution of macaques used for scientific purposes in EU
12:30 Lunch
Session 2 - Colony management
13:30 The challenges of new M. fascicularis breeding group formation
14:00 Using Autonomous Testing Devices to Study and Manage Primate Social Hierarchies
14:00 Biotechnology-Based Inbreeding Avoidance in Captive Nonhuman Primates
14:30 Acm (flow cytometry) and ELISA kits to define sperm quality and predict male fertility in Primates
15:00 Coffee Break
Session 3 - Facility design, operation and welfare
15:30 Facility Design, Operations and Welfare
16:00 Facility Design, Operations and Welfare - Part 2
16:30 EPV Business Meeting
19:00 Dinner

Day 2 - 19th September

Time Title
Session 4 - Health and Welfare
09:00 Fibrosarcoma on the leg of an adult rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta).
09:15 Hepatic lipidosis in a cynomolgus macaque
09:30 Improving animal welfare: a Six Sigma approach for managing diarrhea in cynomolgus macaque
09:40 Primate Case Reports Round
09:50 Primate Case Reports Round
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Nutritional strategies to improve welfare in rhesus macaques with chronic diarrhea: evidence for a role of lactose and fiber content
11:00 A Rapid, Affordable, and Reliable Method for Profiling Microbiome Biomarkers from Fecal Images in Rhesus Macaques
11:30 Best practices for diagnosing tuberculosis in NHPs
12:20 Meeting Closure
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Bus Departure to SILABE
16:30 Bus Departure return to Town

"Thank you to our sponsors"