There will be five half-day scientific sessions dedicated to the main topics of the conference. Each session will be opened by two plenary lectures followed by several shorter talks. A special poster party on Monday evening will help to value these important contributions.

 

 

Proceedings (including programme and all abstract) available online now (free access): Proceedings-ISWE-Vienna-2012-WienTierarztlMonat 99 Suppl 1, 1-72

Main topics of the conference/Related plenary speakers and their talks (NOW including the abstracts!):

Reproduction

Janine Brown (Front Royal, US): Hormone monitoring: an important tool for the breeding of wildlife species

Michael Heistermann (Göttingen, Germany): Non-invasive assessment of physiological status: a 30-year contribution to primatology

Stress

Nadja Wielebnowski (Brookfield, US): The role of fecal glucocorticoid metabolite monitoring for welfare assessments and conservation management of wildlife

Chadi Touma (Munich, Germany): Non-invasive monitoring of stress hormones in rodents and its application in biomedical research

Methodological Issues

Erich Möstl (Vienna, Austria): Remnants of stress hormones: Measurement and biological activity

Tobias Deschner (Leipzig, Germany): LC-MS analyses of steroid hormones or their metabolites from feces and urine: Problems and perspectives

New avenues/miscellaneous topics

Martin Dehnhard (Berlin, Germany): Noninvasive pregnancy diagnosis in felids based on faecal prostaglandin F2α metabolites

Tim Ellis (Weymouth, England): Non-invasive monitoring of hormones in fish

Katharina Hirschenhauser (Seewiesen, Germany): Excreted steroid metabolites in bird droppings: behavioral studies using baseline patterns and stimulus-specific responses