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.

January 2025

• Culture Club:; Good Culture Chameleon for Your Workplace, webinar (Angela Kerton), 14 January 2025
• Opening up animal science: A guide to open research practices for animal scientists, webinar (Anna Korzeniowska), 15 January 2025
• Demonstration of the Experimental Design Assistant (EDA), webinar (Esther Pearl), 16 January 2025
• ZonMW workshop on Systematic Review of Animal Studies, Nijmegen, 22 January 2025
• Comparative Pathology in Translational Research, webinar (Katja Steiger), 23 January 2025
• Animal Welfare Frontiers: Considering Insect Welfare in Farming and Research, webinar (Meghan Barrett), 24 January 2025
• The Role of Pre-Registrations and Registered Reports in Preclinical Studies, webinar (Randall J. Ellis), 25 January 2025
• The Art of Communicating Animal Research in the 21st Century, webinar (COST TEATIME), 28 January 2025 
• Animal and organ sharing, webinar (Magdalena Czubala), 31 January 2025
• Refinement in laboratory mouse husbandry, webinar (Lars Lewejohann), 31 January 2025
• Home cage-based phenotyping in rodents: innovation, webinar (Stefano Gubarro), 31 January 2025
• Light as an extrinsic factor influencing animal-based research, webinar (Robert Dauchy), 31 January 2025

February 2025

• Introduction to Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Animal Studies, online, 2-4 February 2025
• A Guided Tour of the Norecopa Website, webinar (Adrian Smith), 4 February 2025
• Introduction to the news media, London, 5 February 2025
• USDA ARS 8th International Biosafety and Biocontainment Symposium, Baltimore, 10-13 February 2025
• 1st Annual AALAE Enrichment & Behavior Symposium, 11-12 February 2025
• Communicating animal research on social media, webinar (Gege Li), 14 February 2025
• Preclinical Innovation: Microphysiological Systems, webinar (Peter Loskill), 25 February 2025
• Meeting the Requirements of the US Animal Welfare Act, workshop, 26-27 February 2025

March 2025

• IAT Congress, North-West England, 4-7 March 2025
• Principles of surgery (CLAST course), online, 10-11 March 2025
• Human-animal interactions in farm animals, webinar (Christian Nawroth), 14 March 2025
• 64th SOT Annual meeting (Society of Toxicology) & ToxExpo, Orlando, 16-20 March 2025
• Principles and Practices of Biosafety (ABSA course), Alexandria, 16-21 March 2025
• Shaping the future of LAS Education and Training, Leiden, 18-19 March 2025 (more details later)
• Robust Preclinical Models for Personalized Medicine, webinar (Vibeke Fosse), 25 March 2025
• Best Practice in Non-Animal Research Methods, York, 26-27 March 2025

April 2025

• Meeting the Requirements of the US Animal Welfare Act, workshop, 9-10 April 2025
• 41st LAMA/ATA Annual Conference, Fort Walton Beach, 14-17 April 2025
• Course in Fish Diseases part 1, Copenhagen, 21-25 April 2025
• 3Rs Sharing Conference, Seattle, 23 April 2025
• Replication of null results: Absence of evidence or evidence of absence?, webinar (Samuel Pawel), 29 April 2025

May 2025

• Annual CALAS Symposium, Richmond BC, 1-6 May 2025
• SAALAS Well Being Conference, Muldersdrift, 5-7 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
• Title to be announced, webinar (Nikki Osborne), 16 May 2025
• Principles and Practices of Biosafety, Omaha, 18-23 May 2025
• 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

June 2025

• 16th FELASA congress: Reducing severity in animal research, Athens, 2-5 June 2025
• Microphysiological Systems (MPS) World Summit, Brussels, 9-15 June 2025
• FRAME Training School on Experimental Design, Dublin, 11-13 June 2025
• The 3Hs initiative: housing, handling and habituation methods to benefit rodent welfare, webinar (Emma Robinson), 13 June 2025
• FENS Regional Meeting, Oslo, 16-19 June 2025
• Tools for Responsible (Preclinical) Research, webinar (Nikki Osborne), 17 June 2025
• Swiss 3Rs Day: 3Rs in Neuroscience, Zurich, 24 June 2025
• UFAW International Animal Welfare Conference, online, 24-26 June 2025

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
• ANZCCART conference, Brisbane, 29-31 July 2025

August 2025

• A good life for all animals, ISAE congress, Utrecht, 4-8 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

• European Congress of Toxicologic Pathology (2nd Joint ESTP/BSTP Congress), Manchester, 23-26 September 2025

October 2025

November 2025

• EARA Conference, Berlin, 6-7 November 2025
• 76th AALAS National Meeting, Long Beach, 9-13 November 2025

December 2025

2026

• 5th Austrian 3R Days, Vienna, 5-7 May 2026
• 56th Scand-LAS Symposium, Copenhagen, 26-29 May 2026
• Annual CALAS Symposium, Richmond BC, 3-10 June 2026
• 23rd International ESTIV congress, Maastricht, 28 June - 2 July 2026
• 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)