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Webinar
Enhancing data quality: The influence of handling and data refinement during anxiety testing
In Noldus’ next webinar Ylva Marie Vik, PhD student from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences will present her experiences in using the elevated plus maze and open field test to test anxiety in rodents. She will elaborate on how she handled the mice in her experiments and how it impacted her results. Furthermore, Ylva will also talk about how she refined her dataset to more accurately reflect the effect
Date | Thursday, 26 September 2024
Time | 4pm CEST / 10am EDT
Duration | 50 minutes
Presentor: Ylva Vik
Ylva Vik is a PhD candidate at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), where she focuses on nutrition, immunology, and cancer research. During her master's degree in animal biology, also from NMBU, Ylva dedicated her project to understanding the complexities of animal handling and its impact on data quality.
Her work includes contributions to the NORMA-project, investigating the relationship between the gut microbiota and Anorexia nervosa. It was here that Ylva developed her skills in assessing anxiety-like behaviors in mice and realized the profound effect of animal handling on data quality.
She is currently researching the relationship between the consumption of red and processed meat, as well as alcohol, on the development of colorectal cancer, still using mouse models.
Host: Huib van den Heuvel
Huib van den Heuvel received his Masters in Animal Sciences at the University of Wageningen, The Netherlands. He specialized in animal behavior and specifically the use of sensors in quantifying behavior of chickens.
After his studies, Huib came to work at the marketing department of Noldus IT. Here he is responsible for writing and conceptualizing marketing materials for the animal market and especially PhenoTyper and CatWalk XT.