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
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 2023

• Responsible Animal Research Training, online course, 2-5 October 2023
• Course for wildlife scientists (designed for UK licensees), online, 2-12 October 2023
• Best Practice in In Vivo Research, Zurich, 3 October 2023
• Key aspects to design an environmental enrichment program for lab rodents, online, 4-5 October 2023
• Breaking Barriers to Accelerate NAMs Adoption (Animal Free Research UK conference), Cambridge, 4-5 October 2023
• Improving in vivo research rigor to impact reproducibility, webinar, 5 October 2023
• ecopa Annual Meeting and General Assembly, Helsinki/online, 5-6 October 2023
• Joint Fincopa and ecopa workshop: Replacing animal experiments in science and in regulative testing, online/Helsinki, 6 October 2023
• Health Monitoring in Rodent Colonies: Implications for Mouse Norovirus, Mouse Parvovirus, Rodentibacter, Helicobacter, and Pinworms in Experimental Results, webinar (Cory Brayton), 6 October 2023
• NIH Trust Your Gut Series: Webinar 3 – Evaluating Potential Allergenicity, webinar, 6 October 2023
• Intensive course on experimental design and biostatistics, online, 29 September, 6 October and 13 October 2023
• JAX Short Course on the Application of Machine Learning for Automated Quantification of Behavior, Bar Harbor/online, 9-12 October 2023
• 10th Annual International Zebrafish Husbandry Course, Buguggiate, 9-13 October 2023
• Measuring Cortisol in Zebrafish: Progress and Future Directions, webinar (Sara Silva Jorge), 10 October 2023
• 39th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Surgical Research, Nashville, 10-12 October 2023
• CLAST course on Introduction to genetically modified animals, 11 October 2023
• The positive welfare impacts of playpens and ball pits in laboratory rats, webinar (Megan Jackson), 11 October 2023
• Meeting the Requirements of the US Animal Welfare Act (including guidance for searching for 3R resources), AWIC workshop, 11-12 October 2023
• Trust Your Gut: Establishing Confidence in Gastrointestinal Models, Bethseda/online, 11-12 October 2023
• IPAM2023: 3 days for 3Rs, online meeting, 12, 19 & 26 October 2023
• Focus on severe suffering - Cumulative severity, RSPCA event, Leiden, 12-13 October 2023
• 66th ABSA Annual Biosafety and Biosecurity Conference, Omaha/online, 13-18 October 2023
• UK Animal Law and Policy Update, 16 October 2023
• 3rd Preclinical Models Imaging Workshop, Athens, 16-20 October 2023
• CSI: Compliance, Security, Implementation: LASA PELH meeting, London, 17 October 2023
• Anaesthesia and Perioperative Care of Laboratory Rodents and Rabbits workshop, online, 17-19 October 2023
• MRC course on microinjection and electroporation, Harwell, 17-19 October 2023
• LASA Care and Welfare Section one day meeting: I'm only Humanised!, Manchester, 18 October 2023
• Introducing the 12Rs framework for humane and ethical animal research, webinar (Tiaan Brink, Dave Lewis & Nikki Osborne), 18 October 2023
• Ethical issues in the application procedure for animal experiments, webinar (Matthias Eggel), 20 October 2023
• Gentle Mouse Handling workshop, Zurich, 20 October 2023
• 74th AALAS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, 22-26 October 2023
• ASCCT 12th Annual Meeting - Spotlight on NAMs: Elevating New Approaches in Risk Assessment, Silver Spring, 23-25 October 2023
• Behavioral testing: a good practice guide, webinar, 25 October 2023
• Altertox and CEHTRA: Integrating NAMS into Next Generation Risk Assessment, Brussels, 26-27 October 2023
• Leveraging Knowledge of Research Animal Behavior to Enhance Welfare, webinar (Kathryn Bayne), 27 October 2023
• The Animal Free Research UK Animal Free Antibody Database, webinar (Stephanie Modi), 30 October 2023
• 30th RSPCA/UFAW/IAT Rodent Welfare Group Meeting, London, 31 October 2023
• Applying the 3Rs to urinalysis assessments in toxicity studies: refining procedures and adopting a case-by-case approach, London, 31 October 2023

November 2023

• Danish 3R-Center's Annual Symposium, Copenhagen, 6-7 November 2023
• Fin3R Annual Symposium: Improving the quality and translatability of biomedical research through the 3R principle, Helsinki/online, 6-7 November 2023
• GA Rodent Colony Management, London, 6-7 November 2023
• CBMAlt 2023, Rio de Janeiro, 6-9 November 2023
• The COLAAB: The Author Guide for Addressing Animal Methods Bias in Publishing, webinar, 8 November 2023
• The new OECD (Q)SAR Assessment Framework: guidance for assessing (Q)SAR models and predictions, webinar, 9 November 2023
• Altertox and EPITHELIX: Lung in vitro models, Geneva, 9-10 November 2023
• Systematic review and meta-analysis of animal studies, workshop, 10 November 2023
• Designing a good score sheet for animal welfare assessment, webinar (Philippe Bugnon), 10 November 2023
• 18th Transgenic Technology Meeting, Houston, 12-15 November 2023
• Practical course in zebrafish husbandry and procedures, Stockholm, 13-15 November 2023
• EPAA annual conference, Brussels, 15 November 2023
• RSPCA Focus on Severe Suffering: Humane Endpoints in Regulatory Toxicology, Surrey, 16 November 2023
• Importance of systematic assessment of scientific validity in in vivo study design, webinar, 16 November 2023
• Networking meeting for Nordic zebrafish managers, Stockholm/online, 16-17 November 2023
• Practical approaches and challenges for microbiological monitoring of rodents and zebrafish, Milan, 16-17 November 2023
• Mice learning in social interaction and consequences for welfare and data quality, webinar (Benjamin Lang), 17 November 2023
• Online media training for veterinarians, EARA webinar, 20 November 2023
• 6th Annual SAAE-India Conference: Alternatives to Higher Animals in Biological Research, Aligarh/online, 20-21 November 2023
• Oxford / Berlin Autumn School on Open and Responsible Research, Oxford, 20-24 November 2023
• LASA Annual Meeting, 21-23 November 2023
• Göttingen Minipigs Academy: Christmas seminar, Copenhagen, 23 November 2023
• EALAS-2023 (European Academy of Laboratory Animal Surgery), congress and wetlabs, Rome, 22-24 November 2023
• Pain Recognition and Analgesia in Zebrafish, webinar (Lynne Sneddon), 27 November 2023
• Rodent Surgery Course (3 or 5 days), Almere, 27 November - 1 December 2023
• Assessment, Prevention and Alleviation of Pain in Laboratory Animals workshop, online, 27-30 November 2023
• SGV Annual Meeting, Zurich, 28-29 November 2023
• Lab Animal Publication School, online course, 28-30 November 2023
• CLAST course on Researching data and using information, start 30 November 2023

December 2023

• Reduction by Design: Three Statistical Principles for Minimising Animal Use, webinar (Penny Reynolds), 1 December 2023
• Experimental Design and Analysis of Data from Animal Experiments, Porto, 5-7 December 2023
• Austrian 3R Days, Innsbruck, 5-7 December 2023 (and EU3Rnet meeting 6 December)
• 1st Annual Meeting of the 3R Competence Network of North Rhine-Westphalia, Vaals, 7-8 December 2023
• Do we need animals for scientific research?, webinar (Brian Burlinson), 8 December 2023
• ZHA Feed Protocol and Water Quality Survey - Results and Trends, webinar (Stephen Frederickson), 12 December 2023
• How to improve dialogue facilitation between caretakers, AWB, scientists and the public across animal research, webinar (Beth Greenhough), 15 December 2023

2024

January 2024

• PhD Course on Animal Pain, Lyngby, 15-19 January 2024
• CLAST course on Physiology of pain and distress in animals, online, 23-24 January 2024
• Status of the 3Rs and New Approach Methodologies across Europe, webinar (Winfried Neuhaus), 25 January 2024
• Cognitive biases in pain assessment: how does your brain influence your evaluation?, webinar, 25 January 2024
• PREPARE for Better Science, online course, 29-31 January 2024

February 2024

• 4th Italian Zebrafish Meeting, Palermo, 7-9 February 2024
• Preregistration and open science - maximizing the knowledge gain from animal research, webinar (Céline Heinl), 16 February 2024
• CLAST course on Advanced animal husbandry, care and enrichment practices, Oxford/online, start 23 February 2024
• MRC course on Mouse Genetics and Colony Management for Researchers, Harwell, 26-28 February 2024
• World Organoid Research Day, Cambridge, 27-28 February 2024

March 2024

• 4th FSVO/UFAW Symposium - Humanely Ending the Life of Animals, Bern, 6-7 March 2024
• ESLAV-ECLAM Winter School: Comparative Medicine: Predictivity of in vivo models to the clinic, Cambridge, 6-8 March 2024
• IAT Congress, Scotland, 12-15 March 2024
• Tierische Produkte in der Petrischale:  Auf dem Weg zu einem wahrhaft tierfreiem Labor, webinar (Tilo Weber), 15 March 2024

April 2024

• Welfare and Reproducibility in Research Studies with Zebrafish, Exeter, 9-11 April 2024
• CLAST course on Genetics for Laboratory Animal Research, start 15 April 2024

May 2024

• Openness in Animal Research: A conference to celebrate a decade of the Concordat, West Midlands, 2-4 May 2024
• Scand-LAS, Finland, 21-24 May 2024

June 2024

• 22nd International ESTIV congress, Prague, 3-6 June 2024
• Annual Meeting of Norecopa, hybrid event, 4 June 2024 (details to follow)
• Virtual CCAC National Workshop, 6 June 2024
• MPS World Summit, Seattle, 10-14 June 2024
• Swiss 3Rs Day, Lausanne, 13 June 2024
• Behavioral Science is not BS, webinar (Mu Yang), 14 June 2024
• ESLAV/ECLAM/AAALAC Conference: Quality in animal care and facility management, The Netherlands, 17-18 June 2024
• ESLAV/ECLAM Summer School on Facility Management, The Netherlands, 19-21 June 2024
• LIVe 2024 (Lung In Vitro Event), Nice, 20-21 June 2024
• Annual CALAS Symposium, Saskatoon, 22-25 June 2024
• FENS Forum 2024, Vienna, 25-29 June 2024

July 2024

August 2024

18th International Zebrafish Conference, Kyoto, 17-21 August 2024

September 2024

• EUROTOX 2024 (58th Conference of the European Societies of Toxicology), Copenhagen, 8-11 September 2024
• ANZCCART Conference, Christchurch, 10-12 September 2024
• EUSAAT congress, Linz, 18-20 September 2024

October 2024

November 2024

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

December 2024

2025

• Annual CALAS Symposium, Richmond BC, 1-6 May 2025
• 16th FELASA congress: Reducing severity in animal research, Athens, 2-5 June 2025
• 13th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal use in the Life Sciences, Rio de Janeiro, late August (more details coming)
• 11th AFLAS Congress (more details coming)

2026

• Scand-LAS, Denmark
• Annual CALAS Symposium, Richmond BC, 3-10 June 2026

2027

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

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)