Webinars and Meetings Calendar

N.B. For information about courses in laboratory animal science, click also 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 speakers and organisers, and it is often possible to contact them for more information.
• Many of these were recorded and can be accessed here.

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.

October 2026

• 39th ECNP Congress, Munich, 10-13 October 2026
• 69th ABSA Biosafety and Biosecurity Conference, Mobile, 10-14 October 2026
• Experimental Design and statistics, online course, 10, 17 & 23 September and 1 October 2026
• Small Changes, Lasting Impacts – How Training and Enrichment Build Resilience and Improve Laboratory Animal Welfare, webinar (Anna Oblasser-Mirtl & Barbara Glatz), 12 October 2026
• AWERB-UK Action Point Workshop: Lack of training and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for members, RSPCA workshop, 13 October 2026
• MorphoPhen-INFRAFRONTIER Workshop on Mouse Pathobiology, Barcelona, 13-15 October 2026
• Improving Culture of Care: maximising learning from events, webinar (Sally Robinson), 14 October 2026
• Laboratory Skills for Animal Technicians, Harwell, 14 October 2026
• Applied Ethology and Wildlife Welfare: Can synergy between these fields advance our understanding of affective states?, webinar (Janice Siegford, María Díez-León, Valentina Bongiorno & Vittoria Elliott), 14 October 2026
• Animal Technology: The Road Ahead, Reading, 15 October 2026
• Epistemic challenges in animal testing law - who decides what?, webinar (Klaus Gärditz), 15 October 2026
• AniMotion: A Guideline for the Selection of the Most Suitable Animal Model, webinar (Sebastian Hartstang), 15 October 2026
• Annual Meeting of Swedish Animal Welfare Bodies, Gothenburg, 15 October 2026
• Zebrafish Husbandry Summit, online event, 15 October 2026
• Experimental design of animal studies & statistics (Nuno Franco & Otto Kalliokoski), Ljubljana, 15-16 October 2026
• Refining surgical procedures through a progressive approach to training and mentoring, webinar (Lucy Whitfield), 16 October 2026
• Nordic-Baltic Symposium on Animal Studies: Present Challenges and Future Endeavours, Lund, 16 October 2026
• When Pigs Fly - filmvisning og samtale i samarbeid med Bergen internasjonale filmfestival (BIFF), Bergen, 19 October 2026
• Hands-on course in transgenesis and mutagenesis in zebrafish, Porto, 19-23 October 2026
• Advanced Media Training for ESLAV Members, webinar, 20 October 2026
• Unlocking the Full Potential of AI in the Laboratory Animal Industry, LAMA webinar (Kiirsa Pokryfke & Danielle Covington), 20 October 2026
• The Validation Journey of NAMs: Practical Examples in Toxicology, symposium, Bern, 20 October 2026
• Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) conference, Newcastle, 20-21 October 2026
• Alternative Methodologies in Pharmaceutical Development, Rockville/online, 20-21 October 2026
• The call of the wild is lost in translation: Welfare, reproducibility, and the unknown, webinar (Kathleen Pritchett-Corning), 21 October 2026
• Thinking 3R Symposium, Bochum, 21 October 2026
• ANZCCART Conference, Sydney, 21-23 October 2026
• Anaesthesia and analgesia for fish in research, webinar (Lynne Sneddon & Sylvia Dimitriadou), 22 October 2026
• Fit for the decision: Where preclinical evidence stands and what it needs next, webinar (Szczepan Baran), 22 October 2026
• Epistemic challenges in animal testing law—who decides what?, webinar (Klaus Gärditz), 22 October 2026
• Storytelling in science communication, UAR webinar, 22 October 2026
• Animal ethics in animal research – through the lens of animal welfare, webinar (Helena Röcklinsberg), 22 October 2026
• Recent Developments in Human-Based Models, Rockville/online, 22-23 October 2026
• Keeping it Going: Maintaining and Improving a Select Agent Program Over the Long Term, ABSA workshop, 22 & 29 October 2026
• How to talk about the challenging aspects of animal research, webinar (Hannah Hobson), 25 October 2026
• 77th AALAS National Meeting, Houston, 25-29 October 2026
• Mouse Necropsy and Tissue Processing, Harwell, 26-27 October 2026
• Power Analysis Workshop, FIN3R online event, 27 October 2026
• What Does Animal Research Really Look Like?, EARA webinar, 27 October 2026
• AWERB-UK Action Point Workshop: Insufficient time for all those directly and indirectly involved in AWERB activities, RSPCA workshop, 27 October 2026
• Annual FIN3R Symposium & Workshop, Kuopio, 27-29 October 2026
• Replacing Rodents with Microfluidics: Human Vasculature-on-Chip for Cardiovascular Research, webinar (Tomasz Navarra), 29 October 2026
• Trustworthy by design: building robust AI guidelines for ethical research, online workshop, 29 October 2026
• Engineering human heart tissue for functional diagnosis, drug testing, and therapy, webinar (Lisa Nolte), 29 October 2026

November 2026

• 13th Annual 3Rs Symposium (AWIC/CAAT/OLAW/Washington University), online, 2, 4, 10 & 11 November 2026
• Reconstructing the Neurovascular Unit in Human Brain Organoids for Next-Generation Preclinical Stroke Models, webinar (Egor Dzyubenko), 3 November 2026
• Necropsy skills (Maz Yon), CLAST hybrid event, 3 November (online) & 16 November 2026 (Harwell)
• iBraiN International Symposium on 3D Cellular Models in Neiroscience & Technical Innovations, Tours, 3 November 2026
• Basiskursus i træning af forsøgsdyr, Copenhagen, 3-5 November 2026
• The Multidimensional Battle for Reproducibility in Animal Research, webinar (Romain-Daniel Gosselin), 4 November 2026
• Diversity Matters - How to Embrace Variation in the Design of In Vivo Studies, Norecopa/R3FINED webinar (Natasha Karp), 4 November 2026
• Designing Reproducible Spheroid and Organoid Models with 3D Bioprinting, CELLINK webinar (Isabella Roos), 4 November 2026
• Preclinical reporting practices for rigorous science, webinar (Esther Pearl & James Barker), 4 November 2026
• Best Practices in Laboratory Management, Harwell, 4 November 2026
• 3Rs and Best Practice in Marine Mammal Research, online event, 5 November 2026
• From Concept to Practice: Defining Animal Discomfort as a Foundation for Refinement in Livestock Research and Sustainable Production, webinar (Guilherme Franchi), 5 November 2026
• Refinement of commonly used metabolic tolerance tests to improve animal welfare, webinar (Jens Lund), 5 November 2026
• From Sensors to Welfare: Opportunities and Limitations of Modern Technologies for Animal Welfare Assessment, webinar (Katharina Kirsch), 5 November 2026
• Practical approaches and challenges for microbiological monitoring of rodents and zebrafish, Milan, 5-6 November 2026
• 1st International Online Conference on Fishes, 5-6 November 2026
• Updating Anaesthesia and Analgesia for Laboratory Rats and Mice, online event, 9-10 November 2026
• Advanced Zebrafish Husbandry Course, Stockholm, 9-11 November 2026
• René Remie Rodent Surgery Training Course (3 days), 9-11 November 2026
• René Remie Rodent Surgery Training Course (5 Days), 9-13 November 2026
• Institutional Infectious Substance Shipping Program Assessment and Development, ABSA workshop, 9-13 November 2026
• AWERB-UK Action Point Workshop: The need for greater professionalisation of the AWERB role, including career development opportunities, RSPCA workshop, 10 November 2026
• Animal experimentation in France: Ethical and legal aspects, online workshop, 10 November 2026
• ASC-Derived Lung Organoids for Respiratory Infection Research, webinar (Anna Löwa), 12 November 2026
• Where are we heading with New Approach Methodologies?, webinar (Hanna Vuorenpää), 12 November 2026
• Principles of surgery, CLAST online course, 12-13 November 2026
• HMA / EMA multistakeholder AI and Data forum: Build trustworthy AI on strong data foundations, Amsterdam/online, 12-13 November 2026
• Data-Science-Driven Monitoring of Animal Welfare and Severity Assessment, webinar (Steven Talbot), 13 November 2025
• Seminar series on "Understanding and Improving Animal Experiments", 13 November 2026
• CLAST course in necropsy skills, 16 November 2026
• 63rd LASA Annual Conference, Scotland, 16-18 November 2026
• New In Vitro Models: Alternatives to Animal Models in Research, 3rd Edition, online course, 16 November - 9 December 2026
• Animal Pain (PhD course), Billund, 16-20 November 2026
• ANR-FC3R Symposium on Non-Animal Methods, Paris, 17 November 2026
• From Organ Models to Routine Use: NAM Education in Australia, webinar (Wojciech Chrzanowski), 17 November 2026
• EU og rettens funksjon på dyrevernområdet, Oslo, 17 November 2026
• Experimental Design and Analysis of Data from Animal Experiments, 8th Edition, Porto, 17-19 November 2026
• Practical Laboratory Skills, Harwell, 18 November 2026
• Meeting for Swedish Animal Technicians, online, 18 November 2026
• LASA Annual Meeting, Scotland, 16-18 November 2026
• Forsøksdyrkomitéens møte med dyrevelferdsenhetene, Oslo, 19 November 2026
• Animal testing and alternative methods in toxicological research, webinar (Peter Kramer), 19 November 2026
• Implementation of the 3R in Regulation, webinar (Michael Oelgeschläger), 19 November 2026
• We Built the BSL-3...Now What? Operational Management, Sustainability, and Risk-Based Decision Making for High-Containment Laboratories, ABSA webinar, 19 November 2026
• Nordic Zebrafish Meeting, Copenhagen, 19-20 November 2026
• Non-Human Primate specific Laboratory Animal Science Course, Göttingen, 23-27 November 2026 (online preparation 21 October - 18 November)
• 6th RSPCA UK Focus on Severe Suffering meeting: Retrospective Assessment, Birmingham, 23 November 2026
• FELASA Train-the-Trainer Severity Classification Workshop, online, 23 November 2026 (more information)
• AWERB-UK Action Point Workshop: Limited liason with Research Integrity Committees and other relevant institutional bodies, RSPCA workshop, 24 November 2026
• How to talk about the challenging aspects of animal research, webinar (Hannah Hobson), 25 November 2026
• 4th Annual Meeting of the Competence Network NRW, Vaals, 25-27 November 2026
• More Alike Than We Think? - Psychological Stress across Professions in a Laboratory Setting, webinar (Sonja Rumpel), 26 November 2026
• AI as an Alternative to Animal Testing – Is It really an “Ethical” Alternative?, webinar (Fabio Sciascia), 26 November 2026
• Monitoring Matters: From Vital Signs to Better Research - The Role of Intraoperative Monitoring in Rodent Surgery, webinar (Marc Zünd), 27 November 2026
• Refinement in Focus: Bias Reduction Through iMouse Retrofit for Modern Animal Husbandry, webinar (Janine Kah & Mirko Lampe), 27 November 2026
• Mouse necropsy, Harwell, 30 November 2026

December 2026

• Automated Human Neuromuscular Organoid Models as a 3R Alternative for Disease Modeling and Preclinical Drug Discovery, webinar (Ines Lahmann), 1 December 2026
• Modeling the Glioblastoma-Hijacked Brain: Replace the Mouse, Not the Biology, webinar (Phillip Koch), 3 December 2026
• In Silico Trials and credibility assessment of computational physiological models, webinar (Phillip Rostalski), 3 December 2026
• International Symposium on Medical AI (ISMAI 2026), Florence, 3-4 December 2026
• Alternatives to surgery: Moving away from surgical routes at Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, EALAS webinar, 7 December 2026
• RSPCA Lay Members' Forum, London, 8 December 2026
• Representing the animal: how committees can support animal welfare and refinement initiatives, webinar (Charlotte Burn), 9 December 2026
• Bridging animal studies and regulatory approval: the role of systematic reviews in advancing replacement and refinement, webinar (Benjamin Ineichen), 10 December 2026
• Training and Enrichment for Laboratory Animal Welfare: Small Changes, Lasting Impact, RepRefRed webinar (Anna Oblasser), 10 December 2026
• Hands-On Toxicology with Agentic AI tools, CAAT/PCRM webinar, 10 December 2026
• The 3Hs Initiative: 'Handling, Housing and Habituation’, webinar (Megan Jackson), 10 December 2026
• 3R implementation for laboratory fish, webinar (Jean-Philippe Mocho), 11 December 2026

2027

January

STEP4NAMs Organ-On-Chip training course, Tübingen, 25-27 January 2027

February

• Advanced Swine Course, Charleston, 1-3 February 2027
• 3rd Annual Behavior Management Symposium (AALAE), online, 8-10 February 2027
• EUSAAT Congress, Linz, 17-19 February 2027
  
  

March

• Leading Excellence in Biomedical Research: A Leadership Development Program, Buguggiate, 1-3 March 2027
• IAT Congress, West Midlands UK, 9-12 March 2027

April

• 5th ACURET International Workshop/Conference: Enhancing Laboratory Animal Welfare, Mbarara, 19-22 April 2027
• Human Specific Research Conference, Newcastle, 21-22 April 2027
• SETAC Europe 37th Annual Meeting, Geneva, 25-29 April 2027
• Measuring Behavior 2027, Düsseldorf, 28-30 April 2027

May

• Annual CALAS Symposium, Montreal QC, 12-19 May 2027

June

• 17th FELASA congress: Innovation, Ethics, and the 3Rs in a Changing World, Cologne, 5-10 June 2027
• CCAC National Workshop, Toronto, 16-18 June 2027

July

August

• 14th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences (WC14), Seoul, 15-19 August 2027
• AquaNor, Trondheim, 24-27 August 2027

September

• 40th ECNP Congress, Barcelona, 25-28 September 2027

October

• 78th AALAS National Meeting, Charlotte, 17-21 October 2027

November

• EARA Conference, Lisbon, 4-5 November 2027

December

2028

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

2029

• 79th AALAS National Meeting, Kansas City, 21-25 October 2029

2030

• 80th AALAS National Meeting, Philadelphia, 3-7 November 2030
  
  

2031

• 81st AALAS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, 12-16 October 2031

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)