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May 21, 2018

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2nd Pan-American Conference for Alternative Methods

August 23-24, 2018
Windsor Florida Hotel
Rio de Janeiro

Venue details: Windsor Florida Hotel, Rio 

Registration Still Open: Register HERE

Download the flyer (PDF) - please feel free to distribute!

We are still considering abstracts for poster sessions (not oral presentations) until June 30th. To submit an abstract, visit this link

Abstract evaluation is ongoing. Abstracts submitted until May 31st will still be considered for presentations if slots are available (giving priority to those submitted by the May 15th deadline). 

Abstract Submission and Registration

 

Preliminary Program Details
(proposed, subject to change)

The program will consist of two concurrent sessions.

Thursday August 23rd

Opening Ceremony: Thomas Hartung (CAAT)
Sessions may include: 3D models for safety toxicology, evidence-based toxicology, skin sensitization, mini-brains, CNS studies, cosmetics, and cell quality control. Roundtables and open-mic sessions will be associated with many of the sessions. 
Plenary Lecture: José Granjeiro (Inmetro)
 

Friday August 24

Opening Plenary Lecture: Vanessa Rocha (Natura)
Sessions may include: validation centers, in silico and computational toxicology, organs-on-a-chip and bioprinting, machine learning, agrochemicals, education, fragrances, drugs, and vaccines. Roundtables and open-mic sessions will be associated with many of the sessions. 
Closing Plenary Lecture: Charu Chandrasekera (Canadian Centre for Alternatives to Animal Methods)

 

Current Sponsors

Sponsorship Opportunities

Your sponsorship will enable us to provide the optimal experience for all of our participants, including dinners, special events, and travel grants to participants requiring financial support. To become a sponsor, please contact caat@jhu.edu

Questions? Email caat@jhu.edu or visit the Pan-American Conference for Alternative Methods Website

 

REGISTER NOW! Registration Deadline is May 28th!

5th Annual Symposium on Social Housing of Laboratory Animals

June 4-5, 2018
USDA National Agriculture Library, Beltsville, MD
 

The goal of this symposium is to bring together experts in the behavior and science of laboratory animal species to exchange information with scientists, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) members, veterinarians and animal care technicians about the social needs of social laboratory animal species and the means to achieve optimal social housing conditions in a variety of settings. 

The agenda now includes a pre-conference visit to the National Zoo in D.C. PLEASE let us know now if you are interested, as the even has limited capacity.  

Details and Registration
 
 

Three Road Maps for Alternatives—One Goal 
Streaming Keynote Talk Featuring: 

 

Louis "Gino" Scarano (EPA)
Suzy Fitzpatrick (FDA)
Warren Casey (NIEHS)

Wednesday, May 30
4-5:30pm
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Becton-Dickinson Hall (W1020)
Baltimore, MD 21205
 

FDA, EPA, and NTP have published draft roadmaps over the last six months to further the use of alternative methods. Here we examine a unique opportunity to compare and understand the synergies that together can transform safety testing in the US.

Join us in person in Baltimore or follow the streaming link here
 

New ALTEX Series: Benchmarks
 

This new series, coordinated by Marcel Leist, covers technical issues with in vitro assays. 

The first installment is Normalization of data for viability and relative cell function curves by Alice Krebs, Johanna Nyffeler, Jörg Rahnenführer, and Marcel Leist. 
 


Chemical Watch 2018: Global Chemical Regulations
June 12-13, 2018
Brussels, Belgium

 

The second annual two-day event designed to bring together stakeholders from across the regulatory community to help companies meet global compliance obligations and achieve safer chemicals in products and throughout the supply chain.

CAAT-Europe's Costanza Rovida will present on "Scientific dialogue with ECHA during the Substance Evaluation Process" on June 12th at 11:30am. 
 
 

Award for Early-Career Scientist to Attend the 20th International Congress on In Vitro Toxicology
 

Early-career scientists are invited to apply for an award to attend the 20th International Congress on In Vitro Toxicology (ESTIV2018). This award, presented by the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd., will give a postgraduate student, postdoctoral fellow, or new researcher the opportunity to gain a better understanding of state-of-the-science non-animal testing strategies.

The conference will include lectures and poster presentations by experts in the field of in vitro and in silico toxicology. Attendees will explore new developments in in vitro models of systemic and local toxicity, toxicokinetics, read-across, in vitro to in vivo extrapolation, and regulatory applications of non-animal methods. The event will take place at the Estrel hotel in Berlin, Germany from October 15-18th, 2018.

Click here for more details about the conference. For a flier about the award, click here.
 



 

Linz 2018/EUSAAT 2018
September 23-26, Linz, Austria

Deadline for Abstract Submissions is May 31st!


Best wishes from all of us,

The CAAT Team
     
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Upcoming Events


OpenTox Asia
May 24-25, 2018
Tokyo

Altertox Academy Training:
Update in In Vitro Liver System: Cells to Organoid - Application in Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics (DMPK) and Toxicology
May 31-June 1, 2018
Paris, France

Improving Science, Advancing Animal Welfare: Towards Better In Vitro Practices
June 1, 2018
Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Social Housing Workshop
June 4-5, 2018
Beltsville, MD
Email: kherrma1@jhu.edu

2018 In Vitro Biology Meeting
June 2-6, 2018
Saint Louis, Missouri

LIVe2018: Lung In Vitro Event for Innovative & Predictive Models
July 5-6, 2018
Nice, France

2nd Pan-American Conference for Alternative Methods
August 23-24, 2018
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 
Email: caat@jhsph.edu

12th International Conference and Workshop on Biological Barriers
August 27-29, 2018
Saarbruecken, Germany

Eurotox 2018
September 2-5, 2018
Brussels, Belgium

Biosystems Engineering: Bioreactors and Cell Factories (Course)
September 9-14, 2018
Braunwald, Switzerland

7th Annual American Society for Cellular and Computational Toxicology (ASCCT) Meeting
Predictive Toxicology: Strategies for Implementing New Approaches

September 11-12, 2018
Bethesda, MD

Altertox Academy Training:
PBPK Modelling for Quantitative In Vitro-In Vivo Extrapolation
October 4-5, 2018
Leuven, Belgium

20th International Congress on In Vitro Toxicology (ESTIV2018)
October 15-18, 2018
Berlin

Altertox Academy Training:
3DTissue Engineering Quality Control – From the Bench to the Bedside
October 25-26, 2018
Montpellier, France

Altertox Academy Training:
Culture of human highly relevant cells according to Good In Vitro Method Practices (GIVIMP) including Good Cell Culture Practice (GCCP)
October 30-31, 2018
Vienna, Austria

Altertox Academy Training:
3DTissue Engineering Quality Control – From the bench to the bedside
November 8-9
Montpellier, France

Altertox Academy Training:
In Vitro Lung Models 
November 15-16
Geneva, Switzerland

Altertox Academy Training:
Skin Sensitization
November 22-23, 2018
Ludgwighshafen, Germany


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