CoMO organizes annual seminars from the current topics for researchers who use animals in their studies.
CoMO Seminars
Ethics, transparency and rigor in research with animal models
Ulrich Dirnagl (Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany):
“Your lab is closer to the patient bed than you think”
Merel Ritskes-Hoitinga (Radboud University Medical Center, The Netherlands):
“How can preclinical systematic reviews improve ethics, transparency and rigor in research?”
Lluis Montoliu (Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain):
“Transparency agreement on animal research - 3 years of experience in Spain”
Satu Kuure (University of Helsinki):
“Ethics and assurity of genome editing in CRISPR era”
“Ethics and assurity of genome editing in CRISPR era”
Hanna-Marja Voipio (University of Oulu):
“Severity classification – nuisance or beneficial tool in experiments?”
“Severity classification – nuisance or beneficial tool in experiments?”
Kirk Leech (The European Animal Research Association):
“Animal Research: Time to Talk!”
“Animal Research: Time to Talk!”
Reproducibility and reliability of animal experiments
Timo Nevalainen (Prof. emeritus, Laboratory Animal Center, University of Eastern Finland):
"Why and how laboratory animals are being used?"
"Why and how laboratory animals are being used?"
Emily Sena (Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK):
"Navigating preclinical research: directions from meta-research"
Adrian Smith (Norecopa and Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Norway):
"PREPARE before you ARRIVE: how to plan animal experiments from day one"
Natasha Karp (Quantitative Biology, Discovery Sciences, IMED Biotech Unit, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK): "Standardization - a cause of poor replicability?"
Ville Hietakangas (Department of Biosciences and Institute of Biotechnology, Head of Drosophila Lab, University of Helsinki): "Controlled genetic experiments with Drosophila"
Peter Hohenstein (Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands):
"Use of GM-models in biomedical studies: 3R rule in scientifically sound research"
"Use of GM-models in biomedical studies: 3R rule in scientifically sound research"