Environmental Health Monitoring
Presentations

NA3RsC and other key stakeholders have organized a number of presentations about rodent health monitoring and replacing soiled bedding sentinels with environmental health monitoring. At the top of this page is a list of upcoming relevant presentations. Below, you can view PDFs or recordings of past presentations.

Previous Presentations

  • AALAS 2023 – Environmental Health Monitoring: A Holistic Approach for All Housing Types
    • In this session, 5 presenters discussed updates from the 3RsC EHM systematic review, research & case studies from 3 varied institutions with mixed house, 3RsC resources, and a brief note on a recently published article.
  • Responsible Research in Practice September 27, 2023 – Guide to Environmental Health Monitoring.
    • During this session, Dr. Kerith Luchins (Director of Rodent Clinical Services, University of Chicago) discusses a systematic review of the scientific evidence behind environmental health monitoring (EHM) and shares her experience of implementing EHM as a replacement for rodent sentinels. She also answers questions from the audience.

      Attend this webinar to learn about:
      – why research institutions are increasingly replacing their soiled bedding sentinel rodents with environmental health monitoring (EHM);
      – a systematic review of the scientific evidence behind EHM;
      – common challenges and solutions including options for racks that have cage level filtration;
      – free resources developed to support facilities to implement this replacement.

  • AALAS – Oct 25, 2022 – NA3RsC Session on Making the Switch to Environmental Health Monitoring: Evidence, Data, & Practicalities
    • Systematic review evidence for environmental health monitoring
    • Benchmarking, barriers, & solutions for environmental health monitoring
    • Sentinel free soiled bedding sampling
    • Academic perspectives on making the switch across caging types
    • Industry perspectives on making the switch across sites & caging types
A title slide showing a row of rodent cages and logo. Title:Making the Switch to Environmental Health Monitoring: Evidence, Data, & Practicalities. The North American 3Rs Collaborative. AALAS 2022
  • FELASA – June 16, 2022
    • Genetic & health quality care for mouse & rat breeders
    • Use of sentinel-free agitated soiled bedding as a means to detect rodent pathogens
    • Standardization of a sentinel-free bedding dust collection procedure for rodent pathogen PCR Detection
    • Towards non-invasive health monitoring of laboratory mouse colonies with lucia-patriot sentinels
    • Murine Chapparvovirus DNA & antibody detection in soiled bedding sentinel mice is dose dependent
  • FELASA – June 16, 2022
    • Genetic & health quality care for mouse & rat breeders
    • Use of sentinel-free agitated soiled bedding as a means to detect rodent pathogens
    • Standardization of a sentinel-free bedding dust collection procedure for rodent pathogen PCR Detection
    • Towards non-invasive health monitoring of laboratory mouse colonies with lucia-patriot sentinels
    • Murine Chapparvovirus DNA & antibody detection in soiled bedding sentinel mice is dose dependent

IDEXX Webinar – May 2022

Making the change from traditional health monitoring to environmental diagnostics.

AALAS 2021

At the 2021 National Meeting of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science the NA3RsC organized a panel session titled “Switching to Environmental Health Monitoring for Rodents; How, Why & Will It Cost More.” Click on the image below to see the PDF of this 2.5 hour panel presentation.

NC3Rs 2021

On November 9, 2021 Dr. Kerith Luchins and Dr. Megan LaFollette presented a 1 hour webinar on environmntal monitoring for rodent health surveillance with practicalities for rack-level or cage-level filtration systems.

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