Webinar 1 – 2026: Thursday, 29 January 2026

Animal Research at a Crossroads: Strengths, Weaknesses, and the Path Forward
Speaker:
Sally A. Thompson-Iritani, DVM/PhD, CPIA, CHABP, CFE, CCFP
Animal Care, Outreach & 3Rs, Office of Research, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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Webinar 2 – 2026: Thursday, 19 February 2026

Reduction in Action: Optimizing Mouse Breeding to Save Animals, Time and Budget
Speaker:
Thorsten Buch, PhD
Institute for Laboratory Animal Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland
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Webinar 3– 2026: Friday, 13 March 2026

Welfare in Laboratory Fish: From Assessment to Euthanasia
Speaker:
Professor Lynne Sneddon, PhD
Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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Webinar 4 – 2026: Thursday, 9 April 2026

Designing Robust Animal Experiments: Embracing Biological Variation to Improve Validity and Translatability
Speaker:
Bernhard Voelkl, PhD,
Animal Welfare Division, Veterinary Public Health Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland
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Webinar 5 – 2026: Thursday, 21 May 2026

Anaesthesia and Analgesia in Laboratory Animals: When Will Best Practice Become Standard?
Speaker:
Paul Flecknell, MA, VetMB, PhD, DLAS, DECLAM, FRSB, (Hon), DACLAM, (Hon), FRCVS, Dr (h.c.)
Emeritus Professor, Newcastle University
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Webinar 6 – 2026: Thursday, 4 June 2026

The Validity of Animal Models: What We Get Right, What We Get Wrong, and Why It Matters
Speaker:
Prof. Joseph Garner, D.Phil
Department of Comparative Medicine, Stanford University, U.S.A.
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Webinar 7 – 2026: Thursday, 18 June 2026

The Score Sheets Problem: Do We Really See What the Animal Shows us?
Speaker:
Dr. Philippe Bugnon, DVM, Dipl. SVLAS
Head of Education and Continuing Education, Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, University of Zürich, Switzerland
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Webinar 8 – 2026: Thursday, 27 August 2026

Anaesthesia and Analgesia of Large Animals in Research - A Curated Q&A on Pigs, Sheep, Goats and Cattle
Speaker:
Professor R. Eddie Clutton, BVSc (Hons), DVA, DipECVAA, FRCVS
Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK.
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Webinar 9 – 2026: Thursday, 10 September 2026

Pathology and Biosampling to Support Reproducible Animal Modelling
Speaker:
Professor Emeritus of Pathology Jeff Everitt
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
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Webinar 10 – 2026: Thursday, 8 October 2026

From Anaesthesia to Euthanasia - Better Choices for Zebrafish
Speaker:
Dr. Jean-Philippe Mocho
Daniovet, UK
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Webinar 11 – 2026: Wednesday, 4 November 2026

Diversity Matters - How to Embrace Variation in the Design of In Vivo Studies
Speaker:
Natasha Karp
Director of Hit Discovery and Biostatistics, AstraZeneca, UK
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