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
This course will cover method for making transgeneic(TG) medaka with BAC homologous recombination technique and sperm cryopreservation for long time storage of the established TG/mutant lines. Several guest speakers (Katie Peichel in Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Kunio Inoue in Kobe University and Shin-ichi Higashijima in National Institute for Physiological Science) will talk on their own topics. Information and preliminary program is available at http://www.nibb.ac.jp/course/index.html
Organizers: Brant Weinstein, NICHD/NIH and Richard Hynes, MIT
The Asilomar Developmental Vascular Workshop is being held February 10-13, 2010, at the Asilomar conference grounds on the scenic Monterey peninsula. This is the fourth installment of what has been a very highly regarded and very exciting series of meetings held every two years at this site, focusing on molecular control of vascular development, cell signaling pathways in angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis, and mechanisms of patterning blood vessel growth and migration. The meetings are attended by researchers using the zebrafish to study vascular biology as well as by researchers using a wide variety of other models, including mice, frogs, birds, flies, and cell culture. Previous meetings have featured some of the latest, cutting-edge unpublished findings in vascular developmental biology, findings that have become major topics of widespread basic and clinical research study. The upcoming meeting is on track to be equally exciting and informative, with outstanding invited speakers representing many of the premiere research labs at the intersection of development and vascular biology. In addition to invited speakers, talks will be selected from the submitted abstracts. With two long poster sessions and even more time allotted for talks programmed from abstracts than in previous DVB meetings, there will be many opportunities for meeting attendees to present their research findings to other participants.
Preliminary program, additional information, and registration and abstract submission are available at:
http://www.navbo.org/event/dvb
The US Zebrafish Community has grown from isolated labs with wildly varying husbandry protocols and little institutional regulation to hundreds of Zebrafish Labs across the country, supported by multiple organizations including the Zebrafish International Resource Center (ZIRC), Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN) and the Zebrafish Husbandry Association (ZHA). The move towards standardized practices continues as technicians, managers and veterinarians share information in forums such as this. Sometimes, however, it is easy to forget that we are part of an even larger whole.
Our efforts support a research community that works to solve some of society's most pressing problems, including cancer, genetic disorders, mental illness, heart disease, and environmental contamination. This research community spans national boundaries, and as the husbandry community grows in organization and maturity, we too will establish a dialogue with those practicing zebrafish husbandry around the world. We acknowledge that common interest and seek to promote an international dialogue in this program.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
WORKSHOP: bobbi@aquaneering.com
ZHA: admin@zhaonline.org
Conference Details and Registration: http://www.was.org
(Note: ZHA Members receive discounted registration!)
Full Program posted at http://www.aquaneering.com/news_article.php?news_id=10
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 Š 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, Quˇbec, 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)
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
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.