Global emergence and re-emergence of major infectious diseases is a growing and potentially gigantic world problem. A consequence of globalization is that events in one part of the world may rapidly impact on the local health status of multiple other world locations. This program bridges medical, biological, and geographical aspects of infectious disease epidemiology. This unique multidisciplinary Master course (held in English), which is given in collaboration with the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI), is designed for science/medical students with special interest in spread and control of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.
The application procedure is now open until April 15, 2009. For application documents and information material please email to: Magnus Johansson magnus.johansson@sh.se
The availability of complete genome sequences of an increasing number of species is having a major impact on novel biomedical approaches to human disease. Biomedical sciences and animal model system-based research will thus be of high significance for future human medicine.
The international Biomedical Genomics Master course is a collaboration between the School of Life Sciences at Södertörn University and the Karolinska Institute Medical University, covering biological and medical aspects of genome sequence, gene expression and function in development, physiology and disease.
This unique biomedical Master course covers modern approaches to couple genes to diseases, and vice versa, e.g. translating genome structure and sequence into epigenetic regulation and gene function in cells, tissues and organs throughout animal development and in physiology. The course content is strongly based on animal model systems, e.g. D. rerio, C. elegans, and D. melanogaster. All courses are in English.
Applications are accepted now, until April 15, 2009. Applications after April 15 are accepted on a space availability basis. For application documents and information material please email to: Per Kylsten per.kylsten@sh.se
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the Wellcome Trust are pleased to announce the Zebrafish Phenome Project Workshop, March 12Ð14, 2010, at the Doubletree Bethesda Hotel in Bethesda, Maryland.
In March 2009 we held a small workshop at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. The point of this meeting was to assess the feasibility of systematically mutating every protein-coding gene in the zebrafish genome and then phenotypically characterizing each mutation. The consensus that emerged from the meeting was that current mutagenesis technologies were capable of mutating the majority of zebrafish genes, and high-quality phenotyping of the mutations would be a difficult but achievable goal given certain advances in high-throughput characterization. The timeline for such a project would be on the order of 10 years.
The next logical step was to open the discussion of the value of this project to the entire zebrafish community. Thus a second meeting in Bethesda will have two purposes: 1) to review for all attendees the major points discussed in Hinxton (adding new information from other researchers), and 2) to determine if there is strong support to proceed with a ÒZebrafish Phenome ProjectÓ and if so, to generate a concrete plan of action with a defined set of priorities.
Registration is now open and you may begin reserving your hotel rooms (room reservations are the responsibility of the attendees). Please click on the linkfor additional information and to register online:
http://www.blsmeetings.net/zebrafish/
Please note: The Workshop is scheduled to begin at approximately 1:30 p.m. on Friday, March 12, and end at approximately 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 14.
A more detailed agenda and additional logistical information will be sent to registrants closer to the event.
If you have questions about the program or meeting content, or if you have a relevant new approach that you would like to present in one of the sessions, contact Shawn Burgess at burgess@mail.nih.gov. For any other questions such as logistics, registration, or travel, please contact Cindy de Sales atcdesales@blseamon.com or 301-577-0244, ext. 25.
Please register now and join us in March!
The 1st European Zebrafish PIs Meeting will be held from March 18th to 21st, 2010 in Padova, Italy. This meeting will highlight and discuss emerging aspects of zebrafish research and promote networking among European PIs attempting to set roadmaps for strategic actions.
Please visit and bookmark the URL http://ezpm2010.azuleon.org/
Registrations with abstract submission will open on November 1st. Due to a limited number of places available, priority of attendance will be given to both early registration and strategic content of the abstract.
Topics
Chemical Biology
Data Integration
Imaging
Development, Organogenesis and regeneration
Neurophysiology and Behavior
Genetics and Genomics
Disease models
Toxicology
Immunology
Strategic contributions from companies and SMEs
Workshops
Chemical Biology
Data Integration-Imaging
Development Organogenesis and Regeneration
Neurophysiology and Behavior
Scientific Committee
Francesco Argenton; Robert Geisler; Corinne Houart; Stephan Neuhauss; Liz Patton; Bozena Polok; Daniel Schorderet; Stefan Schulte-Merker; Uwe Straehle; Tanya Whitfield; Jochen Wittbrodt
Local Organizers Committee
Francesco Argenton, Enrico Moro and Natascia Tiso; Dipartimento di Biologia, Universita' di Padova. Italy
The meeting will be supported by COST Action BM0804 EuFishBioMed, a European Network on Fish Biomedical Models Ð a community resource to enable effective zebrafish partnering in EU projects targeting human diseases.
The different sessions will include:
* Plenary Talks with the purpose of presenting data and ideas on scientific issues. Plenary talks will represent 50% of the meeting
* Parallel Workshops with the aim of inviting a few scientists from fields other than zebrafish for "top down" round table discussions.
* Parallel Workgroups (EuFishBioMed) with the aim of preparing drafts of white papers and roadmaps specifically addressing issues within the European zebrafish community.
* Plenary Workgroups summarizing conclusions and planned future actions from parallel workgroups.
One session will be dedicated to allow discussions with companies and SMEs.. Registration information and preliminary program will be available soon.
If you have any questions or suggestions for the meeting, please e-mail to francesco.argenton@unipd.it (subj: EZPM2010)
A meeting designed to foster the exchange of ideas and promote collaborations between laboratories that use the zebrafish as a model for biological development.
Hotel information :
Fairmont Tremblant
3045 Chemin de la Chapelle
Mont Tremblant, QuŽbec, Canada
J8E1E1
http://www.fairmont.com/tremblant
Tentative schedule:
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
16h00 to 20h00 Registration
18h00 to 20h00 Dinner (buffet)
20h00 The Zeiss Keynote talk
Dr. Randall Peterson
Massachusetts General Hospital,
Harvard Medical School,
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
Title: Capitalizing on the strengths of zebrafish for small molecule and drug discovery
21h00 Community meeting / discussion
22h00 Social
Thursday April 8, 2010
7h00 to 8h30 Breakfast
8h30 to 10h00 lab presentations 1
10h00 to 10h30 Coffee break
10h30 to 12h00 lab presentations 2
12h00 to 17h00 lunch break / ski
17h00 to 19h00 lab presentations 3
19h00 concluding remarks
The organizing committee
Louis Saint-Amant
Julien Ghislain
Pierre Drapeau
Contact : Louis Saint-Amant (louis.st-amant@umontreal.ca)
The 3rd Swiss Zebrafish Meeting will held from Thursday April 8th to Friday April 9th in Zurich, Switzerland. This free of charge regional zebrafish meeting will be held at the Irchel university campus in Zurich and offers a great opportunity for students to present their work and interact with fellow scientists.
Please visit the meeting website at http://www.swisszebra.ch for more information. Registration will begin on Friday, January 15, 2010
We look forward seeing you in Zurich,
The Organizers
Stephan Neuhauss
Daniel Schorderet
Bozena Polok
Roland Dosch
Website: http://www.bscb-bsdb-2010.co.uk/
This year the annual meeting for the BSCB and BSDB celebrates the 10th anniversary of the first draft of the human genome.
The plenary speakers are Professor Elaine Fuchs and Professor Mike Levine
Conference sessions include:
Interactions of Signalling Pathways
Stem Cell Biology
Limb Development: Classical Development in a post-genomic era
Genome and Disease
Genomic Approaches to Developmental Biology: Achievements and Challenges
Cellular Mechanisms of Disease
Mechanisms of Gene Regulation
Macromolecular Complexes and Transport
Evolution and Development: Genomes and Beyond
Stem Cell Biology, including iPS cells and regenerative medicine
Website : http://www.vplsi.com/content.php?content.105
Methods in ZebraFish Behavior analysis is the premier meeting for scientists willing to analyze zebrafish's behavioral or physiological data by mean of imaging techniques. This year we will also promote networking among European University and Industries willing to deploy ZebraFish in their facilities.
High throughput ZebraFish studies involves an increasing number of labs around the world. But when setting up an experimental protocol, a number of challenges arise. Based on successful "user case" experience, the meeting presentations will highlight the key steps to design and analyze your experiment.
The presentations will be focused on the technical aspects of behavior analysis.
New technologies in ZebraFish Behavior analysis will be demonstrated.
The round tables will let us debate on the needs of the zebrafish community.
The 9th International Zebrafish Meeting on Development and Genetics will be held Wednesday June 16th to Sunday June 20, 2010 in Madison Wisconsin.
The meeting will be held in Madison, but at a new venue: the 380,000 square feet Overture Center for the Arts (http://www.overturecenter.com/about). This beautiful new building in downtown Madison will provide enough space for four concurrent session in one building, so that it will be easy to move from one session to another. The increased number of concurrent session reflects the increased diversity of research topics in the community, and will at the same time provide more opportunities for oral presentations.
Please visit the meeting website at http://www.union.wisc.edu/zebrafish/ for more information. Registration will begin on Friday, January 15, 2010
CONFERENCE DEADLINES:
Abstract Submission: Thursday, April 1, 2010
Lodging Reservations (via registration site): Monday, May 10, 2010
We look forward seeing you in Madison,
The Organizers
Michael Granato
Corinne Houart
Ichiro Masai
Cecilia Moens
Derek Stemple
Will Talbot
This workshop focuses on cancer models and infection studies prompted by the prediction that similarities between defense mechanisms against microbes and cancer cells can reveal new insights into specific determinants of innate immune responses.
Due to the amenability of zebrafish to screening libraries of small molecules, in addition to large scale forward and reverse genetic screens, this model organism is ideal for discovery of novel gene functions and pathways in disease processes at a throughput level that cannot be matched by rodent models. Furthermore, owing to its small size and optical transparency, disease manifestations and resulting immune responses can be studied at the whole organism level.
Particularly advantageous in this context are fluorescence multicolor labeling techniques that allow tagging of the players in disease processes (e.g. cancer cells, immune cells, and microbes) for easy detection in vivo.
Registraion is now open. Everyone must register including speakers. Currently we are only accepting check as our only form of payment.
REGISTRATION ENDS MARCH 15th
Abstract/title/poster submissions are due by April 1st, 2010
For more information: http://research4.dfci.harvard.edu/looklab/zdm3.html
Every winter term starting in October the Biotechnology Center (BIOTEC) of Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany, offers the two-year international Master's programme "Molecular Bioengineering". It is taught completely in English. Applicants must hold a Bachelor's or an equivalent qualification in Biology / Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Chemistry / Biochemistry, Computer science, Materials science, Medicine, Nanotechnology or Physics.
The application procedure is now open, application deadline is 15 June 2008. The application forms and further information material can be found on the following website: http://www.biotec.tu-dresden.de/teaching.
Ensembl is a joint project of the European Bioinformatics Institute and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, funded mainly by the Wellcome Trust, with additional funding from EMBL and NIH-NIAID. These courses are coordinated by Xosé M Ferández (xose@ebi.ac.uk), member of the Ensembl team involved with user queries and workshops. Throughout the year we run a number of workshops, thus have developed a quite extensive 1-day course suitable for up to 30 people with a hands-on training aspect in Ensembl that should help the attendees get the most out of the system and apply it to their own projects. We are aiming to give this course once a month, and we are considering requests for this coming year (2005).
Workshop: "Access to genes and genomes with Ensembl"
We will introduce the latest developments on the website, emphasising tools for data mining. Practical exercises will assist the researcher in learning to get the best out of the data available, and some time will be allocated for participants to query the Ensembl team about issues derived from their own research. Short presentations followed by case studies.
Topics covered will be:
Pre-Requisites: Course participants should have some biology background to understand different kinds of genomic annotation presented within Ensembl.
The deal is that you have to pay for travel and accommodation for someone, but that is the only cost. For European travel this works out to be pretty cheap (especially as we are close to Stanstead and Ryanair prices are just silly). For US locations we would suggest both for your cost and the sanity of the helpdesk people that two or three near-ish (in US terms...) institutes organise a potential road-show.
The course requires an IT room of (say) 20 PC's with internet connection and a way for one of the machines to be projected. The course lasts one day and can be somewhat customised to the location. Usually one can have up to 2 people per machine.
If people are interested in this, please contact Xosé Fernández (xose@ebi.ac.uk) for more details and potential arrangements.