SYMPOSIUM 5

Behavioral Phenotyping of Rats and Mice

Oral presentations
Thursday, August 17, 09:00-12:20, Large Auditorium
Chair: W. Crusio (Orleans, France)

09:00

R.E. Brown (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada). Developing standardized behavioral tests for mice.

09:30

A. Holmes and J.N. Crawley (Bethesda, MD, U.S.A.). Multitiered strategy for behavioral phenotyping of transgenic and knockout mice.

10:00

F. Ohl, M.E. Keck and R. Landgraf (Munich, Germany). The modified hole board: a novel behavioral test for rodents.

10:20

Coffee break

10:50

H.P. Lipp and D.P. Wolfer (Zürich, Switzerland). Assessing behavior, memory and learning of genetically modified mice by factor analysis based on track analysis using EthoVision and WinTrack.

11:20

K.L. Seburn and S. Sen Bar (Harbor, ME, U.S.A.). Automated non-invasive home-cage monitoring for detection of novel mutant mice.

11:40

D. Drai, G. Elmer, Y. Benjamini, N. Kafkafi and I. Golani (Tel Aviv, Israel). Phenotyping of mouse exploratory behavior.

12:00

H.K. Gershenfeld and X. Liu (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.). The tail suspension test: a mouse model of stress reactivity and behavioral despair with genetic variability.

Poster presentations and demonstrations
Thursday, August 17, 14:00-17:30

5.1.

E. Dere, C. Frisch, M.A. De Souza Silva and J.P. Huston (Düsseldorf, Germany). Improvement and deficit in spatial learning of the eNOS-knockout mouse (eNOS-/-) dependent on motivational demands of the task: water maze vs. radial maze.

5.2.

S.O. Huh, H.G. Choi, D.K. Song, H.W. Suh and Y.H. Kim (Chunchon, Kangwon-Do, Korea). Behavioral analysis of transgenic mice carrying multiple copies of tryptophan hydroxylase gene.

5.3.

M. van der Meer, H.E. Molewijk, V.Baumans and L.F.M. van Zutphen (Utrecht, The Netherlands). Measuring behaviour of transgenic mice by using the LABORAS system.

5.4.

A.O. Lukashev (Moscow, Russia). Dynamic correlates of searching behaviour of mice in different spatial experimental tasks.

5.5.

K. Anokhin, I. Zarayskaya, E. Alexandrova and A. Lukashev (Moscow, Russia). Characterization of early somatic and neurobehavioral development in two inbred mouse strains.

5.6.

I. Zarayskaya, E. Alexandrova and K. Anokhin (Moscow, Russia). A comparative approach to the early behavior development in mice.

5.7.

F.R. Brush (West Lafayette, IN, U.S.A.). Measuring the expression of emotions in animals (with apologies to C. Darwin).