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The 21^th congress of the European Society of Toxicology In Vitro (ESTIV) is themed “Key enabling non-animal technologies for research, education and testing”. Abstracts can be submitted for oral or poster presentation. Authors will be invited to write an original research manuscript or review paper, which will be taken into consideration for the ESTIV 2020 proceedings to be published in the journal Toxicology In Vitro.

Following the annual ESTIV congress, the ASPIS cluster is organising a two-day scientific symposium.

• Day 1: Presentations about NAMs applications (e.g. qAOP, omics technologies...)
• Day 2: Implementation and dissemination of NAMs

The main goals are to promote the adoption of NAMs regulation and to determine the impact of ASPIS on these regulatory issues.

While machine learning / artificial intelligence  models are gaining popularity across scientific fields, their inner workings are not transparent to everyone, and hence they are often approached with hesitation. This workshop aim to make the construction, and use, of machine learning models clear to a non-expert audience with a general life science background.

During this webinar, Paul Whaley (Evidence-Based Toxicology Collaboration) and Sofia Batista Leite (European Comission, Joint Research Centre) will present the following topics:

• PRIVAT: A tool for improving the peer-review of in vitro studies
• Increasing reliability of science with open and dynamic methods in academic publications

The Belgian Society for Tissue Engineering is organising its 9th symposium in December 2022. The topics discussed will include various innovative technologies such as stem cell-based therapies, biomaterial development, computational modelling, biomedical imaging and image analysis, etc. The symposium is open to all Belgian researchers as well as their international collaborators.

Deadline for abstract submission: 21 August 2022

During the symposium, two projects will be presented:

- The 3R TOXFLOW project aims to standardize the use of small organisms (nematodes, fish and cells) for hazard assessment of substances.
- The DARTpaths project comprises an in silico platform that allows integration of chemical, in vitro and in vivo toxicity data.

The symposium will assess various topics linked with the 3R principle such as:

• 3R principles
• Research reproducibility
• Science communication
• Reduction of laboratory animals
• Power analysis
• Restimation statistics

Practical workshops are foreseen and the symposium is open to all researchers.

This webinar is being held jointly with the sixth webinar of the NURA DyNAMic Discussions series.

Presenters: Nicole Kleinstreuer, NTP Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods (NICEATM), and Tala Henry, EPA Office of Pollution Prevention & Toxics.

Panelists: João Barroso, European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), & Warren Casey, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).