Meetings

Meeting Announcements

In-person, online event highlights applied strategies for advancing food animal welfare

University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture
Meeting Announcement

A practical approach to improving welfare outcomes in food animal production is the focus of the Center for Food Animal Wellbeing’s 11^th annual symposium, Oct. 2, at the Don Tyson Center for Agricultural Sciences in Fayetteville, featuring talks from veterinarians on topics from animal welfare audits to the metapneumovirus impact on turkeys.

MD Anderson and Nature to co-host conference on the tumor ecosystem

University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Meeting Announcement

MD Anderson and Nature to co-host conference on the tumor ecosystem

Pennington Biomedical invites health care providers to childhood obesity conference “Be the Reason Kids Greaux Healthy,” Oct. 2-3

Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Meeting Announcement

Pennington Biomedical is proud to host the 2025 Childhood Obesity Conference, presented by the Greaux Health initiative, on Oct. 3 at its C.B. Pennington, Jr. Conference Center. Guests are also invited to a pre-conference Motivational Interviewing Workshop on Thursday, Oct. 2. Registration is now available on the event’s designated Whova page or at bit.ly/2025BeTheReasonConference.

Save the date: where breakthroughs begin - Nobel Laureates, young scientists to converge in Japan for landmark life science summit

Human Frontier Science Program
Meeting Announcement

STRASBOURG, FRANCE and TOKYO, SENDAI and KYOTO, JAPAN — From October 1 to 4, the HFSP Science Summit Japan 2025 will bring together 15 Nobel Laureates and HFSP Nakasone Award winners with the next generation of researchers in Japan to explore the unpredictable power of discovery-driven science. Hosted by some of Japan’s most prestigious universities and institutes — including the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Tohoku University, and RIKEN — this unprecedented four-day event showcases how interdisciplinary, high-risk research is shaping the life sciences of the future.

NCCN Policy Summit explores whether artificial intelligence can transform cancer care safely and fairly

National Comprehensive Cancer Network
Meeting Announcement

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)—an alliance of leading cancer centers devoted to patient care, research, and education—hosts a Policy Summit exploring where artificial intelligence (AI) currently stands as a tool for improving cancer care, and where it may be going in the future.

Frontiers Forum Deep Dive series: Well-publicized polar geoengineering ideas will not help and could harm, warn experts

Frontiers
Meeting Announcement

Examine the scientific and policy challenges of deploying five well-publicized polar geoengineering tools as a climate mitigation strategy.

European legume breeding is taken to next level for competitive seed market and sustainable protein production

INRAE - National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment
Meeting Announcement

Enhancing the competitiveness and sustainability of the European legume breeding activities and output is the goal of the BELIS innovation project launched in October 2023. The project's key objectives are to develop cost-effective breeding tools, improve the economic and regulatory environment for legume breeding, and ensure efficient innovation transfer through a collaborative platform for public private partnership. BELIS project has its annual meeting from 9-11 sept at the premises of the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops (IFVC) in Novi-Sad, Serbia. The meeting is gathering together all the project partners to present advancements achieved so far, to plan for next activities and to reflect on some of the key avenues for improving and innovating in legume breeding. The programme will also include an open day for the BELIS Network stakeholders to hear about and discuss on the BELIS approaches and advances and to visit the IFVC legume experimental fields and a commercial farm.

Transformation in research and society: Leopoldina Annual Assembly dedicated to artificial intelligence

Leopoldina
Meeting Announcement

Rapid developments in artificial intelligence (AI) are leading to profound changes in research and development as well as in society and everyday life. Machines now analyse huge amounts of data, and assist with image and text creation, medical diagnoses, and decision-making processes. This year’s Annual Assembly of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina focuses on the opportunities and risks associated with these developments. In Halle (Saale)/Germany on Thursday 25 and Friday 26 September, international experts will discuss the progress that artificial intelligence has made, the ways in which various AI applications are revolutionising research, and the resulting challenges facing society.

Japan-led initiatives for a sustainable future

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University
Meeting Announcement

From Japan to the world—scientific innovation and collaboration aimed at solving global challenges will take center stage at the Science Summit, held alongside the 80th United Nations General Assembly from September 9 to 26, 2025. In response to a call from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), eight Japanese institutions will present six official programs at the summit. These sessions will feature a diverse range of speakers—from PhD students and university presidents to medical professionals, scientists, and engineers—addressing topics such as food and water security, rare and common diseases, inclusive education, and research ethics.

Ocean Sciences Meeting will convene in Glasgow Scotland, February 2026

American Geophysical Union
Meeting Announcement

The biennial Ocean Sciences Meeting, co-sponsored by the American Geophysical Union , the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography , and The Oceanography Society , brings together 6,000 scientists, students, policymakers and educators to discuss breaking research across the ocean sciences and critical issues affecting a sustainable future for our oceans.

Meeting: Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026

Reminder: Final media invitation for EPSC-DPS2025 and details of media briefings on RAMSES and Juno missions

Europlanet
Meeting Announcement

The Europlanet Science Congress 2025 will be held jointly with the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division of Planetary Science (EPSC-DPS2025) from 7–12 September 2025 at Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland. With around 1800 participants expected to join in person and online, it will be the largest planetary science meeting held to date in Europe. Press briefings will be livestreamed and press notices on presentations of interest to the media will be issued by the EPSC-DPS2025 Press Office during the meeting.

Meeting: EPSC-DPS2025

Addition of progesterone leads to increased breast growth for those taking gender-affirming hormones

Amsterdam University Medical Center
Meeting Announcement

The addition of the hormone progesterone to gender-affirming hormone therapy leads to increased breast growth for transgender people following feminising hormone therapy. This is demonstrated by an Amsterdam UMC-led trial among 90 participants and these results are presented today at the European Professional Association for Transgender Health (EPATH) annual congress in Hamburg.

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