Invited

2024 Statistical Strategies for Robust Research in the Life Sciences (European Molecular Imaging Meeting, EMIM, Porto, Portugal).

2023 Methoden der Datenwissenschaften für eine objektivere Belastungsbeurteilung von Versuchstieren (Nuvisan GmbH, Neu-Ulm).

2023 Models and Insights in Translational Research 2023 Symposium: The Translational Power of Data Science in Severity Assessment (Faculty of Medicine, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main).

2023 12th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences: Leveraging Data Science for Better Severity Assessment in Laboratory Animal Science (Niagara Falls, Canada).

2023 12th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences: The RELSA Score - An Evidence-Based Tool for Better Severity Assessment in Animal Research (Niagara Falls, Canada).

2023 Charité 3R Lecture: RELSA - Relative Severity Assessment in Laboratory Animals (Charité, Berlin).

2023 Oxford 3Rs Symposium (University of Oxford, GB): Analysis of longitudinal data and its application to welfare monitoring/scoring.

2022 Max Planck Lab Animal Science Lectures (Max Planck Institute of Immunbiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg): The Digital Fingerprint of Evidence-Based Methods in the Severity Assessment of Laboratory Animals.

2022 2nd Digital Vivarium Forum: Use of activity measurements for severity assessment (Tecniplast, Buguggiate (VA), Italy).

2022 3R Summerschool: The Digital Fingerprint of Severity in Laboratory Animals (Charité, Berlin).

2021 DECIDE Statistics Consensus Workshop: Towards best practice in preclinical confirmatory animal research.

2021 3R-Webinar (Berlin). The severity of “stress” in animal models: science & technologies - 3R-supporting approaches improving the validity of biomedical studies: The RELSA Algorithm: Approaching the Comparative Quantification of Severity in Laboratory Animals.

2021 27. Essener Informationstreffen für Tierschutzbeauftragte, Tierexperimentatoren und mit Tierversuchen befasste Behördenvertreter (Online Tagung): Künstliche Intelligenz - Zukunft und Chancen.

2020 58. Wissenschaftliche Tagung der Gesellschaft für Versuchstierkunde GV-SOLAS und 19. Fortbildungsveranstaltung der IGTP. Neue Strategien für das Composite Scoring zur Belastungsbewertung in der Versuchstierkunde (Online Workshop).

2019 Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung (BfR, Berlin): Quantitative Charakterisierung der Belastung von Versuchstieren (48. Seminar über Versuchstiere und Tierversuche der GV-SOLAS).

2019 Institute of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Pharmacy (Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich): Conquering human bias - Feature selection for severity assessment.

2019 Institut für Mathematik (Universität Zürich, Zurich): An Example for Computational Methods in the Animal Sciences - Tackling Severity Assessment.

2019 Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung (BfR, Berlin): Body weight – a “good” predictor for severity in animal models?

2018 FOR2591 Meeting in Rostock: Use-case „Small Data“: Online Repository & Analyis of mouse body weight data for potential severity assessment.

2018 Institut für Versuchstierkunde (MHH, Hannover): Ratten, Tumore und Aktien - Mit Risiko dem Ende entgegen.

2018 Institut für Versuchstierkunde (MHH, Hannover): FOR - FOR2591 Online Repository.

2017 Institut für Versuchstierkunde (MHH, Hannover): Stress level prediction - a classification approach.

2016 Institut für physiologische Chemie (MHH, Hannover): Predicting Myosin Dynamics using GROMACS.

2015 Institut für Chemie und Biologie des Meeres (ICBM, Wilhelmshaven): The ESP as an example for marine ecogenomic sensors.

2015 Institut für Chemie und Biologie des Meeres (ICBM, Wilhelmshaven):The problem of feature loss as a potential bottleneck in the detection of pathogenic bacteria.

2011 Fraunhofer Institut für Toxikologie und Experimentelle Medizin - ITEM (Hannover): Multivariate Statistik und Analysemethoden.

2009 Wehrwissenschaftliches Institut für Schutztechnologien - ABC Schutz (Munster): Identifikation potentieller bakteriologischer Kampfstoffe mit Ramanspektroskopie unter Nutzung von multivariater Statistik.

2008 Hannover Messe/German Bioperspectives (Hannover) - Identification of potential bacterial biological warfare agents with spectroscopic methods using multivariate statistics.

2008 Robert-Koch Institut (RKI, Berlin) - Classification of potential biological warfare agents.

2007 Institut für Technische Chemie (TCI, Hannover) - Identifikation von potentiellen BWA mit spektroskopischen Verfahren Identifikation von potentiellen biologischen Kampfstoffen mit Ramanspektrometrie.

2007 ANGCCP Meeting (Sanitätsakademie der Bundeswehr, München) - Identification and Classification of Pathogens with Raman Spectroscopy.

Contributions & Posters

2023 Steven R. Talbot, Christine Häger, Heidrun Potschka, Kerstin Schwabe and André Bleich. Leveraging data science for better severity assessment in laboratory animal science. WC12 Congress Niagara Falls.

2023 Steven R. Talbot, Christine Häger, Anne Mallien, Dietmar Zechner, Simone Kumstel, Brigitte Vollmar and André Bleich. The RELSA score: An evidence- based tool for better severity assessment in animal research. WC12 Congress Niagara Falls.

2023 Christine Häger, Steven R. Talbot and André Bleich. Multimodal welfare assessment in laboratory mice after surgery. WC12 Congress Niagara Falls.

2023 Heidrun Potschka, Maria Reiber, Lara von Schumann, Maarten van Dijk, Verena Buchecker, Vanessa Philippi, André Bleich and Steven Talbot. Development of composite measure schemes for evidence-based severity assessment and refinement in neuroscientific research. WC12 Congress Niagara Falls.

2023 Alina Ottlewski, Christine Häger, Elvis Hermann, Marion Bankstahl, Steven R. Talbot, Joachim K. Krauss, André Bleich and Kerstin Schwabe. Evaluation of running wheel behavior as a reliable marker for severity assessment and humane endpoint detection in a rat model with intracranial tumor. WC12 Congress Niagara Falls.

2023 Anne Stephanie Mallien, Steven R. Talbot, Laura Becker, Christiane Brandwein, Natascha Pfeiffer, Anna Munk, Verena Buchecker, Anne Rix, Jasmin Baier, Renee Girbig, Sarah Neunecker, Miriam Vogt, Rupert Palme, Andre Bleich, Fabian Kiessling, Heidrun Potschka, Sabine Chourbaji and Peter Gass. Group versus individual housing in male and female laboratory mice: A multicenter study reveals only subtle differences in severity. WC12 Congress Niagara Falls.

2023 Christine Häger, Steven R. Talbot and André Bleich. Improved post-operative pain and welfare assessment in sheep. WC12 Congress Niagara Falls.

2023 Eva Zentrich, Steven R. Talbot, André Bleich and Christine Häger. alidation of clinical scoring and home-cage monitoring in a mouse model of acute colitis. WC12 Congress Niagara Falls.

2023 Verena Buchecker, Lena Boldt, Ines Koska, Isabel Seiffert, Christina Möller, Katharina Aulehner, Rupert Palme, André Bleich, Steven R. Talbot and Heidrun Potschka. Evidence-based severity assessment in epilepsy models as a basis for refinement? WC12 Congress Niagara Falls.

2023 Christine Häger, Steven R. Talbot and André Bleich. Insights from the home cage: Data science-driven activity analysis enables sensitive welfare assessment in colitis models. WC12 Congress Niagara Falls.

2021 Schmidt, Teresa; Meller, Sebastian; Talbot, Steven Roger; Berk, Benjamin Andreas; Law, Tsz Hong; Hobbs, Sarah; Packer, Rowena Mary Anne; Volk, Holger Andreas. Urinary neurotransmitter patterns are altered in canine epilepsy. 33rd ESVN-ECVN Symposium.

2021 Schmidt, Teresa; Meller, Sebastian; Packer, Rowena Mary Anne; Talbot, Steven Roger; Volk, Holger Andreas. Urinary neurotransmitter analysis in canine behavioural disorders. 33rd ESVN-ECVN Symposium.

2021 Eva Zentrich, Steven R. Talbot, Andre Bleich, Christine Häger. Digital Ventilated Cage (DVC®) System – A useful tool for severity assessment in mice in an acute DSS-induced colitis model? 59. GV-SOLAS und 20. IGTP.

2021 T. Schmidt, S. Meller, S.R. Talbot, B.A. Berk, T.H. Law, S.L. Hobbs, R.M.A. Packer, H.A. Volk. URINARY NEUROTRANSMITTER PATTERNS ARE ALTERED IN CANINE EPILEPSY. ESVN symposium 2021.

2021 T. Schmidt, S. Meller, R.M.A. Packer, S.R. Talbot, H.A. Volk. Urinary neurotransmitter analysis in canine behavioural disorders. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine (JVIM); ACVIM (American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine).

2019 Ines Koska, R. Maarten van Dijk, Steven R. Talbot, Isabel Seiffert, Valentina di Liberto, Christina Möller, André Bleich and Heidrun Potschka; Developing composite measure schemes for the assessment of severity in animal models, Vetpharm Symposium Munich.

2019 Simeon O.A. Helgers, Ann-Kristin Riedesel, Laura Wassermann, Christine Häger, Steven R. Talbot, Joachim K. Krauss, André Bleich, Kerstin Schwabe; Telemetric measures in a rat model with intracranial tumor, FELASA Prague.

2019 L. Wassermann, Ann-Kristin Riedesel, Simeon Helgers, Steven R. Talbot, André Bleich, Kerstin Schwabe, Christine Häger; Experimental procedures and their impact on heart rate and activity in rats, FELASA Prague.

2019 Guanglin Tang, Nico Seume, Steven R. Talbot, Christine Häger, Simone Kumstel, Kerstin Abshagen, André Bleich, Brigitte Vollmar, Xianbin Zhang and Dietmar Zechner; A multifactorial distress analysis of animal models for liver fibrosis, FELASA Prague.

2019 S. Helgers, S. R. Talbot, A. - K. Riedesel, J. K. Krauss, A. Bleich, K. Schwabe; Humane endpoint determination in rat models with intracranial tumor using body weight course analysis.

2018 Häger, C., L. Keubler, S. Talbot, S. Biernot, N. Weegh, M. Büttner, S. Glage, A. Bleich. Severity assessment through classification of wheel wheel-running behaviour in laboratory mice. 56th Annual Meeting of the Society for Animal Laboratory Science (GV-SOLAS), 2018, Munich, Germany

2018 Leonie Zieglowski, Anna Kümmecke, Mareike Schulz, Lisa Ernst, Steven Talbot, René H. Tolba, GV-Solas Munich, Titel: Severity Assessment after visceral surgery in rats.

2018 Simone Kumstel, Guanglin Tang, Ahmed Abdelrahman, Steven Talbot, Johanna Eichberg, Edgar Wendt, Nico Seume, Kerstin Abshagen, Xianbin Zhang, Andre Bleich, Brigitte Vollmar, Dietmar Zechner; Grading of distress in gastrointestinal animal models.

2017 Adrian Schwarzer, Steven R Talbot, Juliane W Schott, Anton Selich, Axel Schambach, and Michael Rothe; Molecular immortalization signature of murine HSPC.

2016 Schwarzer, A., Talbot, S. R., Dittrich-Breiholz, O., Thrasher, A. J., Gaspar, B., Modlich, U., Baum, C., Schambach, A., & Rothe, M. (2016). New Molecular Surrogate Assay for Genotoxicity Assessment of Gene Therapy Vectors (SAGA). Blood, 128(22), 4710.

2013 Gerhard Sartorius, S. R. Talbot; Fast classification process MAE+.

2009 Steven R. Talbot, Heiko Russmann, Thomas Scheper, Medizinische B-Schutztagung, Sanitätsakademie der Bundeswehr; Identification of potential biological warfare agents with Raman spectroscopy.

2007 Steven R. Talbot, Heiko Russmann, Thomas Scheper, Medizinische B-Schutztagung, Sanitätsakademie der Bundeswehr; Inactivation and detection of potential bacterial biological agents based on the spore simulant Bacillus atrophaeus.