Webinars and Meetings Calendar

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

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).

Resources related to the COVID-19 pandemic

Toxicology meetings calendar
Webinars on demand from Charles River
Free recorded webinars for AALAS members
For more references, see the bottom of this page.

Please note that many of the meetings mentioned below may be cancelled, or held as virtual events, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are making changes as we hear about them, but please check the status of all events with the organisers themselves.

September 2020

• Responsible Research 101 Course (online), 14-24 September 2020
• GV-SOLAS/IGTP meeting, 16-18 September 2020 (virtual event)
• ANZLAA conference, Brisbane, 16-18 September 2020
• Assessing and minimizing pain and distress in euthanasia of rodents, webinar, 18 September 2020
• Aquatic Animal Law, webinar, 19 September 2020
• Developing Nonclinical Strategies for Human and Nonhuman Targets, webinar, 21 September 2020
• (Nordic zebrafish meeting and workshop, Stockholm, 21-22 September 2020: postponed, new dates to be announced)
• OpenTox 2020 Virtual Conference, 21-25 September 2020
• The 3Rs across Europe: Webinar series, 22-24 September 2020
• The Journey to Better in the Post COVID World, AALAS webinar, 23 September 2020
• 3rd Symposium on Replacements to CO₂, Bern, 24 September 2020
• (Microbiological monitoring in laboratory animal facilities: new approaches and challenges - Rodents and zebrafish, Milan, 24-25 September 2020: postponed, new dates to be announced)
• Pain management in rodent models of cancer and implications for study validity, webinar, 25 September 2020
• Compassion Fatigue in Laboratory Animal Research, webinar, 26 September 2020
• Animal Research: Critical, Creative & Challenging Thinking (online course), 28 September - 1 October 2020
• Advances in Cell and Tissue Culture (ACTC 2020), virtual meeting, 30 September - 1 October 2020

October 2020

• Annual ICAR3R Symposium (online): Current Debates in 3R Research, (in German), 1 October 2020
• Animal research and the Nobel Prize, webinar, 2 October 2020
• Non-animal methods for biomedical research, online panel discussion, 2 October 2020
• Variability: How to Deal with It, Interpret It, and Learn from It, online seminar, 5-6 October 2020
• ENRIO 2020 Congress on Research Integrity Practice, Helsinki and Espoo, 5-7 October 2020
• UFAW/RSPCA Rodent Welfare Meeting on Cumulative Experiences, online meeting, 7 October 2020
• Meeting the Requirements of the US Animal Welfare Act, webinar, 8 October 2020
• Course in Herpetology, Utrecht and online, 8 October - 5 November 2020
• Welfare benchmarking in laboratory animals with a focus on mice and non-human primates, webinar, 9 October 2020
• Training Techniques for Laboratory Animals: Positive or Permissive?, AALAS webinar, 13 October 2020
• Application of animal-free antibodies, webinar, 15 October 2020
• COVID-19 Research: With or Without Animals?, webinar, 16 October 2020
• Guidelines for improving the quality of animal research and testing: an overview, webinar, 21 October 2020
• 16th Transgenic Technology Meeting, online, 26-29 October 2020
• 71st AALAS National Meeting, virtual meeting, 25-29 October 2020
• ESTIV Applied In Vitro Toxicology Course, Louvain-la-Neuve, 25-30 October
• 11th European Zebrafish Meeting, online event, 26 - 27 October 2020
• The value of preclinical systematic reviews, webinar, 27 October 2020
• Laboratory Rodent Welfare in Housing & Handling, Copenhagen, 27 October 2020

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November 2020

• Aquatic Animal Welfare Conference 2020, 2-6 November 2020 (virtual event)
• Symposium and Workshop: Replacing Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS) in Research and Testing, Munich, 3-4 November 2020
• ABSA 63rd Annual Biosafety and Biosecurity Conference, 4 - 6 November 2020 (virtual event)
• EPAA Annual Conference, 10 November 2020 (virtual event)
• Fondamenti di Gestione di un Moderno Stabulario per Roditori, webinar in Italian, 10-11 November 2020
• Accessibility of recombinant antibodies, webinar, 12 November 2020
• BSTP Annual Scientific Meeting: Pathology of Humanised Mouse Models, 12-13 November 2020
• Denmark's 3R-Center's Annual 3R Symposium, Copenhagen, 12-13 November 2020
• Animal Research 2020 and Beyond, virtual event, 13 November 2020
• Assessing and alleviating pain and distress in laboratory animals, Stockholm, 16-17 November 2020
• Primate Welfare Meeting, online, 18 November 2020
• Organizing and operating activities in a laboratory animal facility: Part II - Critical points and bottlenecks, Milan, 19-20 November 2020
• ESLAV-ECLAM virtual meeting, 24-25 November 2020
• In vitro methods in practice: workshop, Lund, 26 November 2020
• Are there alternatives to antibodies? Copenhagen, 26 November 2020
  
  

December 2020

• 46th AFSTAL Congress, Marseille, 1-3 December 2020
• Research Reproducibility 2020: Educating for Reproducibility, Pathways to Research Integrity, virtual conference, 2-3 December 2020
• Systematic reviews and meta-analyses in animal research - an introduction, online course, 2-3 December 2020
• Towards replacement of animals for scientific purposes (EU Commission Scientific Conference), Brussels, 10-11 December 2020

January 2021

• Course in Experimental Design and Analysis of Data for Research with Animals, 20-22 January 2021
• ESLAV/ECLAM Winter School on Laboratory Animal Genetics, January 2021

February 2021

• Tickling rats for better welfare: practical applications of heterospecific play, webinar, 16 February 2021

March 2021

• Fish anaesthesia - Time to re-convene (LASA and FVS meeting), Edinburgh, 4 March 2021
• Meeting the Requirements of the US Animal Welfare Act, Beltsville, 24-25 March 2021

April 2021

• Scand-LAS symposium, Tallinn, 13-15 April 2021 (postponed from 12-16 May 2020)
• 37th LAMA/ATA Annual Meeting, Clearwater, 19-22 April 2021
• ABSA International 1st Biosecurity Symposium, Minneapolis, 20-23 April 2021

May 2021

• SETAC Europe 31st Annual Meeting, Seville, 2-6 May 2021
• Meeting the Requirements of the US Animal Welfare Act, webinar, 6 May 2021
• 3rd Pan-American Conference for Alternative Methods, Windsor, 12-14 May 2021
• JRC Summer School on non-Animal Approaches in Science: The Three R...evolution, Ispra, 18-21 May 2021
• ANIMOD 2021 (Animal Models and Preclinical Research), Varadero, 23-27 May 2021
• 7th World Congress on Research Integrity, Cape Town, 30 May - 2 June 2021

June 2021

• LIVe2021 (Lung In Vitro event), Nice, 14-15 June 2021
• 16th International Zebrafish Conference, Montreal, 16-20 June 2021
• ESLAV/ECLAM Summer School: Diseases and Diagnostics, Bologna, 21-25 June 2021
• AFLAS Congress, Chiang Mai, 21-27 June 2021
• Animal welfare: Emerging challenges and solutions (UFAW International Animal Welfare Science Symposium), Edinburgh, 29-30 June 2021
• Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) Annual Conference, Antwerp, 29 June - 2 July 2021 

August 2021

• Course in Animal, General, and Plant Biosafety and Biosecurity, Fort Collins, 2-6 August 2021
• ISAE2020 (54th Congress of the International Society for Applied Biology), Bangalore, 2-6 August 2021
• 11th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences, Maastricht, 22-26 August 2021

September 2021

• EUROTOX 2021 Congress, Ljubljana, 12-15 September 2021
• Miniseminar om vilde dyr i forsøg (Miniseminar on the use of wild animals in research), Kerteminde, 22 September 2021

October 2021

• Meeting the Requirements of the US Animal Welfare Act, Beltsville, 6-7 October 2021
• 72nd AALAS National Meeting, Kansas City, 16-21 October 2021

November 2021

• Denmark's 3R-Center's Annual 3R Symposium, Copenhagen, 16-17 November 2021
• LASA Annual Conference, 23-25 November 2021

2022

• 15th FELASA congress: Communication in Animal Research, Marseille, 13-16 June 2022
• 73rd AALAS National Meeting, Louisville, 23-27 October 2022
• 21st International Congress of the European Society of Toxicology In Vitro (ESTIV), Barcelona, 21-25 November 2022

2023

• Scand-LAS, Uppsala
• 74th AALAS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, 22-26 October 2023

2024

• Scand-LAS, Finland
• 75th AALAS National Meeting, Nashville, 3-7 November 2024

2025

• 16th FELASA congress

2026

• Scand-LAS, Denmark
  
  

2027

• Scand-LAS, Norway
  
  

2028

• 17th FELASA congress

To be announced:

• NETS2020: 8th Norwegian Environmental Toxicology Symposium, Bergen, 23-24 April 2020, postponed, new dates to be fixed
• FRAME Training School in Experimental Design, Edinburgh, 28-30 April 2020, postponed until 2021, dates to be fixed

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)