Health and Colony Management of Laboratory Fish with scholarships (August 15-19, 2011 - Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine)

Health and Colony Management of Laboratory Fish
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine
15 - 19 August 2011

Applications are being accepted for this 1-week educational opportunity for individuals with maintenance, management or research responsibilities in which fish are used as laboratory animals.

Significant tuition fellowships are available to graduate students and trainees including residents in veterinary medicine or laboratory animal medicine, and postdoctoral fellows.

The course is offered at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Salisbury Cove, Maine during the period of 15 - 19 August 2011. Topics to be discussed will include general system design and water quality management, anatomy and histology of fish, general fish diseases and disease management strategies. Infectious and non-infectious diseases common to all fish as well as specific diseases of importance to laboratory-maintained zebrafish will be discussed. The course will consist of lecture, laboratory exercises and discussions. During the course there will be an opportunity for students to discuss unusual and/or unsolved diagnostic case experiences from their home laboratories as problem-solving exercises. The course should be particularly valuable to technical staff, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, junior faculty and investigators needing skills to monitor the health of a colony of aquatic organisms.

For more information on the course, please see the course web site at:

http://www.mdibl.org/courses/Health_and_Colony_Management_of_Laboratory_Fish/182/