Webinars and Meetings Calendar

N.B. For information about courses in laboratory animal science, click here.

The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in an enormous increase in the number of webinars and online meetings. Many of these are recorded and can be accessed here.

Past meetings: A complete list of links to past webinars and meetings can be accessed here. Many of these links will eventually die out, but they still give a useful overview of organisers and locations of relevant webinars and meetings within laboratory animal science, and it is often possible to contact the organisers for more information.

Do you know of a meeting that should be on this Calendar? Please let us know!

Resources related to the COVID-19 pandemic
Toxicology meetings calendar
Global collection of recorded webinars on testing and regulatory toxicology from Taiwan Alternatives to Animal Testing (TAAT)
Home Office L/E1, PIL AB and PIL C Live Webinars, Pre-recorded Webinars, Face-to-face and Online Courses arranged by The Learning Curve
Webinars on demand from FELASA
Webinars on demand from Charles River
Webinars on demand from ABSA International (Association for Biosafety and Biosecurity)
Webinars on demand from Data Sciences International
Webinars on demand from Ellegaard Göttingen Minipigs
Webinars on demand from AALAS
Recorded webinars on behavioural research from Noldus
Webinars about research integrity from UKRIO (special section on animal research ethics)  

GV-SOLAS meetings calendar
IAT events calendar
LAVA meetings and events
NC3Rs events calendar
ECLAM events calendar

For more references, see the bottom of this page.

April 2025

• Ex vivo, de novo & in silico models in biomedical research , Stuttgart, 1-2 April 2025
• EBVS Congress, Belgrade, 2-4 April 2025
• The Transparent Transition - The future of animal and animal-free research, Amsterdam, 3 April 2025
• Animal welfare from a practical perspective - sharing is caring!, Bergen, 8 April 2025
• From crisis to opportunity - systematic heterogenization as a tool to improve reproducibility and reduce animal use, webinar (Helene Richter), 8 April 2025
• 1st Finnish Culture of Care Symposium, Helsinki, 9 April 2025
• Antibodies and Beyond: The Power of Animal-Free, Recombinant Antibodies, webinar (Esther Wenzel), 9 April 2025
• Meeting the Requirements of the US Animal Welfare Act, workshop, 9-10 April 2025
• 17th Minipig Research Forum, Amsterdam, 9-11 April 2025
• TEATIME Experimental Design Workshop, online event, 9, 16 & 23 April 2025
• Care-Full Stories workshop, Helsinki, 10 April 2025
• How to convince your colleagues to work under aseptic conditions, EFAT/ESLAV webinar (Bertrand Lussier), 10 April 2025
• Stress-reduced handling of rats and mice, webinar (Therése Ahlström), 11 April 2025
• 41st LAMA/ATA Annual Conference, Fort Walton Beach, 14-17 April 2025
• Environmental Monitoring & Database Management, webinar (Zoltan Varga & TBC), 18 April 2025
• Course in Fish Diseases part 1, Copenhagen, 21-25 April 2025
• 3Rs Sharing Conference, Seattle, 23 April 2025
• 46th Annual BCLAS Symposium: Stress and emotions in animals, Namur, 23-24 April 2025
• Advancing 3R Innovations in Organoid-Based Research, FIN3R webinar, 24 April 2025
• Publishing animal use statistics, UAR webinar, 24 April 2025
• Replication of null results: Absence of evidence or evidence of absence?, webinar (Samuel Pawel), 29 April 2025
• All you ever wanted to know about registered reports, webinar (Nonia Pariente), 30 April 2025

May 2025

• Annual CALAS Symposium, Richmond BC, 1-6 May 2025
• Ask the Experts, EALAS webinar, 5 May 2025
• SAALAS Well Being Conference, Muldersdrift, 5-7 May 2025
• The Art of Communicating Animal Research, COST TEATIME webinar, 7 May 2025
• ZonMW-workshop on Systematic Review of Animal Studies, Nijmegen, 7 May 2025
• 35th Annual SETAC Europe meeting, Vienna, 11-15 May 2025
• Anaesthesia and Perioperative Care of Laboratory Animals, online workshop, 12-15 May 2025
• Larviculture, Water Quality and Zebrafish Physiology, webinar (Claire Allen & Rod Wilson), 13 May 2025
• Cell Culture Days, Graz, 14-15 May 2024
• 3rd AUGUST symposium, 15 May 2025
• Fish as experimental animals - zebrafish CRISPR and in vivo imaging, Copenhagen, 15-23 May 2025
• Why culture of care matters for you and your animal's welfare, webinar (Nikki Osborne), 16 May 2025
• Principles and Practices of Biosafety, Omaha, 18-23 May 2025
• CLAST course in Genetics for Laboratory Animal Research, start 19 May
• JRC Summer School on Non-Animal Approaches in Science, Ispra, 19-23 May 2025
• Insights into the Regulatory Landscape and Drug Discovery, webinar (Christoph Conrad), 20 May 2025
• Laboratory Animal Welfare Workshop 1: Foundations of Pain and Distress Management in Rodents and Rabbits, online event, 21-22 May 2025
• Understanding and improving animal experiments, online seminar, 23 May 2025
• International Congress Biopharm Nonclinical Development BioNCID, Cuba, 25-29 May 2025
• BIOEMTECH workshop on Reduction and Refinement, Athens, 29 May 2025
• ESLAV-ECLAM-BRFAA Summer School (The art and science of surgical technique and experimental design), Athens, 29-31 May 2025

June 2025

• Biennial LAWTE conference, Raleigh, 1-4 June 2025
• 16th FELASA congress: Reducing severity in animal research, Athens, 2-5 June 2025
• Laboratory Animal Welfare Workshop 2: Managing Post-Operative Pain and Distress in Rodents and Rabbits, online event, 2-5 June 2025
• Leveraging Technology to Enrich Animals' Lives, webinar (Rebecca Kleinberger), 4 June 2025
• Experimental Design for in vivo Research, Harwell, 9-12 June 2025
• Microphysiological Systems (MPS) World Summit, Brussels, 9-13 June 2025
• Nutrition and Aging, zebrafish webinar (Miguel G. Ferreira & TBC), 10 June 2025
• FRAME Training School on Experimental Design, Dublin, 11-13 June 2025
• Upskill Toolkit for Animal Technicians Symposium, London, 12 June 2025
• Dyrevelfærdsorganernes Årsmøde, Valby, 12 June 2025
• The 3Hs initiative: housing, handling and habituation methods to benefit rodent welfare, webinar (Emma Robinson), 13 June 2025
• UK Home Office Training Course for Wildlife Researchers, Edinburgh, 16 June 2025 (start)
• 3rd Workshop on the Commission roadmap towards phasing our animal testing for chemical safety assessments, Helsinki/online, 16-17 June 2025
• FENS Regional Meeting, Oslo, 16-19 June 2025
• Tools for Responsible (Preclinical) Research, webinar (Nikki Osborne), 17 June 2025
• 2nd Beginners Training School on the Use of Home-Cage Technologies to Monitor Rodents, Bratislava, 17-20 June 2025
• Swiss 3Rs Day: 3Rs in Neuroscience, Zurich, 24 June 2025
• UFAW International Animal Welfare Conference, online, 24-26 June 2025
• ENROL - International Conference on Engineering for Life Sciences, Vienna, 29 June - 4 July 2025

July 2025

• Summer School: Advanced In Vitro Models: Organoids meet organs-on-a-chip, Utrecht, 7-11 July 2025
• Behavior, zebrafish webinar (Matt Parker & TBC), 8 July 2025
• SUMM3R School (Centro 3R), Genova, 9-11 July 2025
• Principles and Practices of Biosafety: A Comprehensive, Interactive 5-Day Course, Pittsburg, 13-18 July 2025
• Enhancing Research Reproducibility in Preclinical Research, webinar (Fanglian He), 15 July 2025
• Active implementation of the 3R principle in musculoskeletal research, webinar (Annemarie Lang), 18 July 2025
• ANZCCART conference, Brisbane, 29-31 July 2025

August 2025

• A good life for all animals, ISAE congress, Utrecht, 4-8 August 2025
• Environment Enrichment, Light/Photoperiod, webinar (Chloe Stevens & TBC), 5 August 2025
• From Neurons to Networks: Human Stem cell-based Models in Neurotoxicology and Neuroinfectiology, webinar (Bettina Seeger), 15 August 2025
• Summer School on Systematic Reviews and Literature Searching, Bergen, 19-22 August 2025 
• 13th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences (WC13), Rio de Janeiro, 31 August - 4 September 2025

September 2025

• Necropsy skills, hybrid event, start 2 September 2025
• The Art of Reproducible Experimental Surgery in Rodents, EALAS webinar (Thomas Svava Nielsen), 8 September 2025
• Zebrafish Health, webinar (Marcus Crim & J-P Mocho), 9 September 2025
• EUROoCS Organ-on-Chip Summer School, Tübingen, 15-19 September 2025
• Next Gen3Ration Research (Centro 3R meeting), Genova, 18-19 September 2025
• European Primate Veterinarians (Er på vei!) 23rd Scientific Seminar, Strasbourg, 18-19 September 2025
• The legal significance of surplus animals, webinar (Tobias Wagenknecht), 19 September 2025
• Responsible Research in Action - A multi-stakeholder unconference to improve research culture and practice, Berlin, 22-24 September 2025
• European Congress of Toxicologic Pathology (2nd Joint ESTP/BSTP Congress), Manchester, 23-26 September 2025
• LASA Large Animal Research Network (LARN) meeting, 24-25 September 2025
• Advanced animal husbandry, care and enrichment practices, hybrid event, start 26 September 2025
• UK Home Office Training Course for Wildlife Researchers, Edinburgh, 29 September 2025 (start)
• Training School on 3Rs Education, Porto, 29 September - 1 October 2025

October 2025

• AAALAC Global Virtual Conference, online event, 7-8 October 2025
• 38th ECNP congress, Amsterdam, 11-14 October 2025
• Colony Management, zebrafish webinar (TBC), 14 October 2025
• Ethical and scientific aspects of managing old-age rodents, webinar (Esther Mahabir-Brenner), 17 October 2025
• Laboratory skills, hybrid event, start 24 October 2025

November 2025

• Zebrafish Welfare, webinar (Lynne Sneddon & Ana Valentim), 4 November 2025
• EARA Conference: shaping the future of animal research communication, Berlin, 6-7 November 2025
• Understanding and improving animal experiments, webinar, 7 November 2025
• 76th AALAS National Meeting, Long Beach, 9-13 November 2025
• Toward a Bigger Reach with the 3Rs, webinar (Johan Lauwereyns), 14 November 2025
• LASA conference, West Midlands, 18-19 November 2025

December 2025

• SGV meeting, Zurich, 2-3 December
• Round Table with Journal Editors, zebrafish webinar (TBC), 9 December 2025
• Ethical and Practical Aspects of the Transition to New Approach Methodologies (NAMs), webinar (Aurélie Thomas), 12 December 2025

2026

• Can trained behavior serve as indicator of animal welfare?, webinar (Jennifer Mein), 16 January 2026
• Farm Animal Models for Biomedical Research; Sheep and Pig Surgical Models in Trauma and Transplantation, webinar (Rene H Tolba), 16 February 2026
• Careful breeding planning of mice colonies, webinar (Kurt Reifenberg), 20 March 2026
• 5th Austrian 3R Days, Vienna, 5-7 May 2026
• 56th Scand-LAS Symposium, Copenhagen, 26-29 May 2026
• Annual CALAS Symposium, Toronto ON, 3-10 June 2026
• Openness in Animal Research Conference, West Midlands, 9-10 June 2026
• 23rd International ESTIV congress, Maastricht, 29 June - 2 July 2026
• FENS Forum, Barcelona, 4-8 July
• 77th AALAS National Meeting, Houston, 25-29 October 2026 

2027

• Scand-LAS, Norway
• Annual CALAS Symposium, Montreal QC, 12-19 May 2027
• FELASA congress, Koln, 5-10 June 2027
• 14th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences (WC14), venue and dates to be announced
• 78th AALAS National Meeting, Charlotte, 17-21 October 2027

2028

• 78th AALAS National Meeting, Phoenix, 5-9 November 2028

Further reading

• Guidance on preparing a presentation for a meeting
• Boosting the signal in scientific talks
• The 11-step guide to running effective meetings
• Ten tips for productive online meetings
• Advice for attending your first meeting (from the Physiological Society)
• An informal guide to arranging a scientific meeting (written in 2003 and reflecting the technology available at that time, it contains some general advice which is still relevant)