May

6–10:

The American Association of Immunologists will hold its 90th Anniversary Meeting in Denver, CO. Contact: email: aai03@faseb.org; http://www.faseb.org/meetings/aai03.

6–10:

The Jackson Laboratory will conduct a workshop on phenotyping new mouse models for heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders in Bar Harbor, ME. Contact: Karen Grant, tel: 207-288-6263; email: kgk@jax.org; http://www.jax.org/courses/phenotypespring_03.html.

7–11:

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory will host a conference on “Genome Informatics” in Cold Spring Harbor, NY. Contact: http://meetings.cshl.org/2003/2003info.htm.

15:

A symposium entitled, “Animal research in the news: just one side of the coin?” will take place in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Contact: J.G. Wolters, tel: +31 20 444 9043; email: j.wolters@dienst.vu.nl; http://www.proefdierkunde.nl.

22–25:

The 33rd Annual Symposium and Educational Days of the Scandinavian Society for Laboratory Animal Science will take place in Lahti, Finland. Contact: Tarja Kohila, email: tarja.kohila@helsinki.fi; http://www.scandlas.org.

31–June 4:

The 2003 Congress on In Vitro Biology will be held in Portland, OR. Contact: http://www.sivb.org/meetings.asp.

June

2:

The Scientists Center for Animal Welfare is holding its IACUC-Advanced workshop in Minneapolis, MN. Contact: tel: 301-345-3500; email: info@scaw.com; http://www.scaw.com.

4–5:

The Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC) workshop “Meeting the Information Requirements of the Animal Welfare Act” will be held in Beltsville, MD. Contact: AWIC, tel: 301-504-6212; email: awic@nal.usda.gov; http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/awicworkshops/workshopinfo.htm.

5–7:

The International Conference on Exotics will take place in Palm Beach, FL. Contact: ICE 2003, tel: 800-946-4782; http://www.exoticdvm.com/conference.asp.

8–10:

The 2003 Tribranch Symposium, “Biotechnology in the 21st Century and Beyond,” will be held in Philadelphia, PA. Contact: http://www.tribranch.org.

10–12:

The Institute for In Vitro Sciences, Inc. is sponsoring its 2003 Workshop, “Practical Methods in In Vitro Toxicology”, in Gaithersburg, MD. Contact: Amanda Lawrence, tel: 301-947-5578; email: alawrence@iivs.org.