A pre-conference workshop focusing on animal TSEs will be held on the 16th May 2011, just prior to the Prion 2011 conference.

Together with support from the NeuroPrion Association, the EU project GoatBSE, the VLA-Weybridge and the Colorado State University, a workshop "TSEs in animals and their environment" was held September 8th 2010, a day before Prion 2010 congress in Salzburg.

Co-hosted by PrioNet Canada and the Alberta Prion Research Institute, Prion 2011 the world’s largest international prion research conference, will be held on May 16-19 at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Quebec.