Meetings

Meeting Announcements

5-Nov-2025

ITU at COP30: Driving Green Digital Action for a sustainable future

International Telecommunication Union
Meeting Announcement

UN agency for digital technologies urges collective action in Belém to harness digital technologies and achieve sustainability goals

5-Nov-2025

World Conference of Science Journalists 2025 to tackle misinformation and fake news crisis

World Conference of Science Journalists 2025
Meeting Announcement

Misinformation and disinformation remain the top-ranked global risks for 2025, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report. As the world continues to face extreme weather disasters, geopolitical tensions, and societal fragmentation. This alarming trend amplifies other crises and threatens public trust in science and democratic governance. Against this backdrop, the 13^th World Conference of Science Journalists (WCSJ) 2025, to be held in Africa for the first time, will focus on combating misinformation and fake news, a critical and escalating challenge globally undermining science communication and public health. The conference will be at the CSIR in Pretoria, South Africa, and will run from 1 - 5 December 2025.

5-Nov-2025

ELSI to host first PCST Symposium in Japan, advancing science communication across Asia

Institute of Science Tokyo
Meeting Announcement

The Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo is proud to announce that it will host the PCST Japan Symposium 2025, to be held from 11–13 November 2025. This joint international symposium marks the first time the Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) Network brings a symposium to Japan, and the seventh conference of the Japan SciCom Forum (JSF).

4-Nov-2025

Registration and Abstract Submission Open for “20 Years of iPSC Discovery: A Celebration and Vision for the Future,” 20-22 October 2026, Kyoto, Japan

International Society for Stem Cell Research
Meeting Announcement

The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) today announced that registration and abstract submission are open for the ISSCR International Symposium: 20 Years of iPSC Discovery: A Celebration and Vision for the Future, co-sponsored by the Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine. The symposium will take place 20–22 October 2026 in Kyoto, Japan.

Developed in partnership with the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) at Kyoto University, the scientific program is chaired by Shinya Yamanaka, recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), an honor he shared with the late Sir John Gurdon.

4-Nov-2025

Incorporating universal screening and school based mental health initiatives in the classroom

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
Meeting Announcement

The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) invites teachers, counselors, parents, and educators to join a webinar on Wednesday, November 12, 2025, at 7 p.m. ET, to explore how a public-health approach can help strengthen mental health in schools.

3-Nov-2025

16th International Congress on Skin Ageing & Challenges 2025: Innovation. Strategies. Translation.

Mitochondria-Microbiota Task Force
Meeting Announcement

The 16th International Congress on Skin Ageing & Challenges will convene on November 11–12, 2025, in Valencia, Spain, uniting top experts in dermatology, skin biology, longevity science, and dermocosmetic innovation to advance skin health research.

This year's theme, “Innovation. Strategies. Translation.,” emphasizes bridging foundational science with practical applications in skin ageing and rejuvenation. The program will Explore the key mechanisms, including cellular senescence, mitochondrial dysfunction, microbiome-skin interactions, and regenerative approaches to enhance skin vitality and combat age-related decline.

3-Nov-2025

Targeting Microbiota 2025: Decoding the microbiome to shape the medicine of tomorrow

Mitochondria-Microbiota Task Force
Meeting Announcement

Targeting Microbiota 2025 (Valencia, Spain) will explore how microbiome science drives predictive, preventive, and personalized medicine uniting global experts, innovators, and the journal Microbiome and Host

3-Nov-2025

Autism: What does the latest science tell us?

Society for Neuroscience
Meeting Announcement

Experts are raising the alarm on the resurgence of unproven claims related to the causes of autism. Unverified assertions about Tylenol® usage during pregnancy and vaccines administered to infants are leading to confusion for families and distrust in science. Autism clinicians and researchers will be available to take questions about this very timely topic at Neuroscience 2025, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) and the world’s largest source of emerging news about brain science and health.

Meeting: Neuroscience 2025

31-Oct-2025

Lisbon to host world’s largest conference on ecosystem restoration in 2027, led by researcher from the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon

Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon
Meeting Announcement

Lisbon, October 31^st, 2025 — The city of Lisbon has been selected to host the 12th World Conference on Ecological Restoration (SER2027), the largest global event dedicated to ecosystem recovery, taking place in September 2027. The successful bid was led by Dr. Alice Nunes, researcher at the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (CE3C), based at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon.

30-Oct-2025

Frontiers Forum Deep Dive series: Scientists on ‘urgent’ quest to explain consciousness as AI gathers pace

Frontiers
Meeting Announcement

Explore consciousness science as it enters a new phase—moving beyond debate toward testable theories and collaborative research—and discover why this transition matters more than ever.

29-Oct-2025

Join thousands of researchers in Houston as they share the latest developments in fluid dynamics

American Physical Society
Meeting Announcement

In less than a month, thousands of scientists from around the world will meet to present new research on the physics of fluids at the 78th annual meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics. The conference will be held in person only at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston Nov. 23-25.

Meeting: 78th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics

29-Oct-2025

Pennington Biomedical researchers head to Atlanta for ObesityWeek 2025

Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Meeting Announcement

Pennington Biomedical researchers are preparing to head to Atlanta for ObesityWeek 2025, presented by The Obesity Society, or TOS. Taking place Nov. 4-7, ObesityWeek is the preeminent international conference for obesity researchers and clinicians, featuring the latest developments in evidence-based obesity science.