Time

Agenda item

Speaker

10.00 - 10.15

Arrival – refreshments

10.15 - 10.20

Welcome and Introduction

Dr Jonathan Guy

Senior Lecturer

School of Natural and Environmental Sciences

Newcastle University

Prof Malcolm Mitchell

Chair in Physiology and Animal Welfare

SRUC

Chair

Prof Malcolm Mitchell

10.20 - 10.45

Insights from the wild: thermography as a tool for monitoring metabolic heat production, tagging and handling

Dr Dominic McCafferty

Senior Lecturer

Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine

University of Glasgow

10.45 - 11.10

Stress is cool: thermography as a non-invasive approach to assess welfare in birds

Dr Dorothy McKeegan

Senior Lecturer Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine

University of Glasgow

11.10 - 11.25

Looking through the rainbow: Practical tips and technical info to get the most out of thermal imaging in livestock science

Marianne Farish

Experimental Manager and Senior Technician

Animal & Veterinary Sciences Research Group

SRUC

11:25 - 11:45

Coffee break

Demonstrations of IRT offered by:

Marianne Farish, SRUC

George Coles, Miracle Tech

Kelly Jewell, Digatherm UK 

11:45 - 12:05

Variation in baseline surface temperature and stress 

Dr Katherine Herborn

Research Associate

Institute of Neuroscience

Newcastle University

12:05 - 12:30

What can mother hens teach us about using thermography to measure welfare?

Dr Joanne Edgar

BBSRC Fellow

School of Clinical Veterinary Science

University of Bristol

         12.30 – 13:15                          Lunch

Chair

Dr Jonathan Guy

13:15 - 13.40

Explorations in clinical vascular optics and thermography – hot topics to share

Dr John Allen

Lead Clinical Scientist / Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer

Institute of Cellular Medicine at Newcastle University

Northern Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering at Freeman Hospital

13:40 - 14:00

Infrared Thermography to characterise injury and disease in pigs

Dr Pierpaolo Di Giminiani

Research Associate

School of Natural and Environmental Sciences

Newcastle University

14.00 - 14.15

Industry needs and priorities

David Brass

CEO

The Lakes Free Range Egg Co.

14.15 - 15.00

General discussion and identification of areas of common interests

15.00- 15.15

Conclusions and actions

Dr Jayshree Johnstone

Business Development Manager

Newcastle University