The Bf3R regularly organises seminars on current scientific issues from various fields. The aim is to cover a broad range of topics and to show interfaces to the 3R principle of scientific animal welfare (Replace, Reduce, Refine). Renowned scientists from the respective research fields are invited as guest speakers for the seminars.

All information on the next Bf3R seminars are available here:

Further information on the topics of the Bf3R seminars and information on registration will be available here in due course. You are also welcome to send your questions about the Bf3R seminars by e-mail to bf3r@bfr.bund.de.

Here you can get an insight into the topics of past Bf3R seminars:

2023:

• Prof. Dr. David Owald: The model system Drosophila – towards understanding neural principles underlying sleep and memory
• Prof. Dr. Georgia Mason: Can understanding animal welfare help improve the replicability and translatability of biomedical research?
• Prof. Dr. Michael Sigal: Increasing complexity to model tissues ex vivo- assembloids to study colon tissue organization

2022:

• Prof. Dr. Michael Kirchler: Metascience Approaches
• Dr. Gray Camp: Human organoid development through the lens of single-cell technologies

2020:

• Dr. David Mellor: Strategies for Culture Change and Resources for Best Practice in Open Science

2019:

• Prof. Dr. Craig Jordan: The Discovery and Science of Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators as Multipurpose Medicine

2018:

• Prof. Dr. Malcom Macleod: Improving the ethical position of animal research by increasing benefit

2017:

• Prof. Dr. Nils Hoppe: Die Zukunft der Regulierung tierexperimenteller Forschung
• Prof. Dr. Robert Passier: Human pluripotent stem cells for modelling cardiac disease and toxicity screening
• Prof. Dr. Henrik Bringmann: Studying sleep by using a worm
• Dr. Adelheid Lempradl: Epigenetic Inheritance in Drosophila