Animal Technician Conference 2023: Seizing Opportunities, Enhancing Careers

The Babraham Institute

A conference for animal technicians, promoting excellence in animal care, enhancing careers and technician welfare.

<h3>The Animal Technician Conference 2023 has been designed to support the professional development of animal technicians. </h3><h3>This is a free event for delegates, with invited speakers from a range of academic and industry organisations (including the Francis Crick Institute,  F-Star Therapeutics, the Gurdon Institute, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, PetMedix, the Royal Veterinary College, University of Cambridge and VenomTech) who will highlight research and animal care activities in diverse model organism species. </h3><h3>The conference will additionally be offering key talks focused on technician well-being and career development provided by the Institute of Animal Technology (IAT) and The Learning Curve.</h3><h3>All attendees are encouraged to engage in networking sessions to build relationships with technicians across different specialisms and backgrounds, and to participate in career development 1:1 conversations with senior professionals from a range of related careers.</h3><h3>This conference has been coordinated by early-career animal technicians at the Babraham Institute and tailored for the benefit of those in equivalent academic and commercial roles.</h3><h3></h3><h3>Registration closes on the 2nd November </h3><h3></h3><h3></h3><h3>This event has been kindly sponsored by:</h3>

Agenda

Registration, coffee and networking​

Welcome

Session One: Excellence in animal care: Species-insights

Ms Mollie Millington, Aquatics Facility Manager at the Francis Crick institute

Show me the guppies: Establishing a new CL2 facility

Dr Toby Buttress, Postdoctoral Scientist at the Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge

How do animals develop? Lessons from tiny worms

Mr Colin Windle, Bio-facility Manager and NACWO at the University of Cambridge

The Common Marmoset (Callithrix Jacchus)

Coffee and networking​

Session Two: Careers

The Essential Animal Technician

Mr Stuart Newman, Head of In Vivo Biology at PetMedix

Animal technology - A view across industry settings

Mr Martyn Rhoades, Manager of in vivo Operations at F-Star Therapeutics Inc.

The Rhodes to F-Star

Mr Steven Cubitt, Managing Director at CCTech Ltd and the Institute of Animal Technology (IAT) & Miss Adele Kitching LSSU Facility Manager at the University of Durham and the Institute of Animal Technology (IAT)

IAT Higher Education CPD - a new beginning

 Lunch​

 Session Three: Technician Welfare​ and more species insights

Dr Alex McSloy, Deputy Manager and Research Fellow at the Royal Veterinary College

Care and Use of Camelids in Research: Understanding a Novel Species

Dr Mary Angani, Investigator Scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB)

The Use of Camelid Nanobodies in Structural Biology and Drug Discovery

Mr Adrian Woodhouse, Chair of Communications Group at the Institute of Animal Technology (IAT)

IAT: How we support our members

Ms ​Angela Kerton, Managing Director at Learning Curve

Making more time for emotional resilience and self-care

Afternoon Coffee and Break-Out Sessions  

Conference end and networking in the bar

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