Webinars and Meetings Calendar

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

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

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
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 Ellegaard Göttingen Minipigs
Webinars on demand from AALAS
Recorded webinars on behavioural research from Noldus

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.

March 2023

• Infectious diseases of laboratory animals, online course, 14-23 March 2023
• 62nd Society of Toxicology (SOT) Meeting, Nashville, 19-23 March 2023
• Course for wildlife scientists (designed for UK licensees), online, 20-30 March 2023
• IAT Congress, UK, 21-23 March 2023
• Collaboration, Personal Power and Trust: Imperatives of Effective Leadership, ESLAV/SVM/ECLAM meeting, Lidingö, 22-23 March 2023
• Cleansing and decontamination, online course, 23 March 2023
• Introducing a novel, syndrome-based approach for depression modeling in translational neuropsychiatry: opportunities and challenges, webinar (Iven von Mücke Heim), 23 March 2023
• Humane Intervention Points: Refining Endpoint Terminology to Incorporate Non-euthanasia Intervention Options to Improve Animal Welfare and Experimental Outcomes, webinar (Wendy O. Williams), 24 March 2023
• FRAME Training School on Experimental Design, Bergen, Norway, 27-29 March 2023
• Simple Tips to Significantly Improve Rodent Surgical Outcomes, webinar (Marcel Perret-Gentil), 28 March 2023
• Revolutionizing translational psychiatry through rodent neuroethology, COST TEATIME webinar (Yair Shemesh), 28 March 2023
• Assessing and Alleviating Pain and Distress in Laboratory Animals, online course, 28-30 March 2023
• Introduction to the role of the Named Veterinary Surgeon, Birmingham, 28-29 March 2023
• Exploratory versus confirmatory research, EQIPD webinar (René Bernard), 29 March 2023
• Occupational health: An overview, webinar (Michelle Kom Gochnour), 29 March & 5 April 2023
• Researching Animal Research conference, online event, 30-31 March 2023
• Clicker training as a refinement for mice, webinar (Nadine Baumgart), 31 March 2023
• Stronger together: the role of the Portuguese network of animal welfare bodies in raising and harmonising standards across the country, webinar (Nuno Franco), 31 March 2023

April 2023

• World Aquatic Animal Day, Washington, DC and online, 3 April 2023
• CeLAT course in Operant Training of Laboratory Animals, Copenhagen, 11-13 April 2023
• A hitchhiker's guide to experimental design and statistics, EQIPD webinar (Martin Michel), 12 April 2023
• "It takes a village" - the shared responsibility in an establishment for the reliability and relevance of animal experiments, webinar (Nuno Franco), 13 April 2023
• What does ASPA require from the named veterinary surgeon? A workshop for NVSs, Birmingham, 17 April 2023
• Re-evaluating the need for monoclonal antibody (mAb) chronic toxicity studies, NC3Rs/EPAA webinar, 17 April 2023
• 39th LAMA/ATA Annual Conference, Clearwater, 17-20 April 2023
• Rabbit anaesthesia and post-operative care, Loughborough, 19 April 2023
• Guide to enhancing the rigour and reproducibility of personalised medicine research, webinar (Vibeke Fosse), 19 April 2023
• 3D Cell Culture 2023, London, 25-26 April 2023
• Anaesthesia workshop (Paul Flecknell), virtual event, 25-27 April 2023
• The EQIPD framework for research rigour, EQIPD webinar (Jan Vollert), 26 April 2023
• Phasing Out Animal Experiments: Options for a National Policy, online event, 26 April 2023
• 3Rs Sharing Conference, Somerset NJ, 26 April 2023
• 53rd Scand-LAS Symposium, Uppsala, 25-28 April 2023
• 33rd Annual SETAC Europe meeting, Dublin/online, 30 April - 4 May 2023

May 2023

• Meeting the Requirements of the US Animal Welfare Act, AWIC online workshop, 3 May 2023
• CCAC National Symposium, Montréal, 4-5 May 2023
• Optimizing Animal Model Selection for Human Translation: The Animal Model Quality Assessment, webinar (Alan Olzinski), 5 May 2023
• Annual CALAS Symposium, Montréal, 6-9 May 2023
• Critreria for translational validity, EQIPD webinar (Magali Haas), 10 May 2023
• Maximising the effectiveness of your AWERB, Manchester, 12 May 2023
• The digital biomarker journet in preclinical research: opportunities, barriers and future developments, webinar (Stefano Gaburro), 12 May 2023
• It's all about communication: how humans and animals interact, 44th Annual BCLAS Symposium, Namur, 15-16 May 2023
• 10 steps from research study to paper, webinar (Jennifer de Beyer), 17 May 2023
• Demonstration of the Experimental Design Assistant, NC3Rs webinar, 17 May 2023
• What you should know about your rodent facility, Online course, 17-18 May 2023
• 10th Annual 3Rs Symposium "The 3Rs in Action", online, 17-19 May 2023
• JRC Summer School on Non-Animal Approaches in Science, Ispra, 23-26 May 2023
• Industry perspective on using tools like EQIPD, EQIPD webinar (Rita Balice-Gordon), 24 May 2023
• Review of rodent euthanasia methods and their impact on research parameters, webinar (Nirah H. Shomer), 26 May 2023
• The culture of care within the Directive 2010/63/EU, webinar (Susanna Louhimies), 26 May 2023 (to be confirmed)
• 1st CELAS Conference (Central-East European Laboratory Animal Science Conference), Prague, 30 May - 1 June 2023
• ECHA workshop on New Approach Methodologies: Towards an animal free regulatory system for industrial chemicals, Helsinki/online, 31 May - 1 June 2023

June 2023

• Responsible Animal Research Training, online, 5-8 June 2023
• The EQIPD quality system and auditing, EQIPD webinar (Björn Gerlach & Anton Bespalov), 7 June 2023
• 47th AFSTAL Congress, Bordeaux, 7-9 June 2023
• Course for wildlife scientists (designed for UK licensees), online, 12-22 June 2023
• Statistical Analysis Course: for in vivo and in vitro scientists, online, 12-14 June 2023
• Dyrevelfærdsorganernes Årsmøde 2023, Copenhagen, 13 June 2023
• Introduction to the role of the Named Veterinary Surgeon, location to be announced, 13-14 June 2023
• 3rd Joint SLAS - Cro-LASA meeting, Ljubljana, 15 June 2023
• The principles of rigorous and reproducible animal research, webinar (Hanno Würbel), 16 June 2023
• Assessment, Prevention and Alleviation of Pain and Distress in Laboratory Animals Workshop, online, 19-23 June 2023
• Frontiers Forum Deep Dive: Organoid Intelligence, online event, 21 June 2023
• Recent Advances in Animal Welfare Science IX: Virtual UFAW Conference, online, 20-21 June 2023
• 3rd International Student Symposium on Animal Behaviour and Cognition, Mexico City/online, 21-23 June 2023
• How the pharmaceutical industry is working to avoid and replace the use of animals for scientific purposes, EFPIA/RSPCA online event (more information to follow), 22 June 2023
• 2nd Microphysiological Systems World Summit, Berlin, 26-30 June 2023
• ESLAV-ECLAM Annual Meeting, Tallinn, 26-27 June 2023
• ESLAV-ECLAM Summer School, Tallinn, 28-30 June 2023

July 2023

• Advanced Training School in the Use of Home-Cage Technologies to Monitor Rodents, Porto, 10-14 July 2023
• How to share research in a free, fast and fair way, webinar, 12 July 2023
• Maternaler-, prä- und perinataler Stress: Der Vogel als exzellentes Modell zur Untersuchung von Langzeitfolgen, webinar (Barbara Tzschentke), 15 July 2023

August 2023

• ISAE 2023 (56th Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology), Tallinn, 1-5 August 2023
• Biosafety and Biosecurity Training Course, Fort Collins, 7-11 August 2023
• ANZCCART conference, Adelaide, 8-10 August 2023
• WC12 - 3Rs over the Edge: Regulatory Acceptance and Next-Gen Education, Niagara Falls, 27-31 August 2023

September 2023

• 60th Annual Meeting of GV-SOLAS and 21st Advanced Training Course of the IGTP, Mainz, 6-8 September 2023
• Introduction to the role of the Named Veterinary Surgeon, location to be announced, 11-12 September 2023
• 9th LAS EU Functions Course (FELASA accredited - functions ABCD for mice and rats), online/Athens, Athens, 11-22 September 2023
• Centro 3R IV Annual Meeting: The role of 3Rs in the age of One Health: where we are and where we’re going, Milan, 13-15 September 2023
• AFLAS Congress, Jeju Island, South Korea, 13-15 September 2023
• Monitoring von Stress und Wohlergehen bei Labortieren, webinar (Neele Meyer), 22 September 2023
• Veterinary Ethics Conference, Vienna, 27-29 September 2023

October 2023

• Course for wildlife scientists (designed for UK licensees), online, 2-12 October 2023
• Focus on severe suffering - Cumulative severity, RSPCA event, Leiden, 12-13 October 2023
• 3rd Preclinical Models Imaging Workshop, Athens, 16-20 October 2023
• 3Rs and Harm-Benefit-Analysis in animal research, webinar (Matthias Eggel), 20 October 2023
• 74th AALAS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, 22-26 October 2023

November 2023

• Danish 3R-Center's Annual Symposium, Copenhagen, 6-7 November 2023
• Mice learning in social interaction and consequences for welfare and data quality, webinar (Benjamin Lang), 17 November 2023
• LASA Annual Meeting, 21-23 November 2023

December 2023

• How to improve dialogue facilitation between caretakers, AWB, scientists and the public across animal research, webinar (Beth Greenhough), 15 December 2023

2024

• PREPARE for Better Science, online course, 29-31 January 2024
• Scand-LAS, Finland
• Annual CALAS Symposium, Saskatoon, dates to be fixed
• 75th AALAS National Meeting, Nashville, 3-7 November 2024

2025

• Annual CALAS Symposium, Richmond BC, 3-6 May 2025
• 16th FELASA congress, Athens, 2-5 June 2025

2026

• Scand-LAS, Denmark
• Annual CALAS Symposium, Richmond BC, 6-9 June 2026

2027

• Scand-LAS, Norway
• Annual CALAS Symposium, Montreal, dates to be fixed

2028

• 17th FELASA congress

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)