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http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html ZFIN Zebrafish Meetings To post a zebrafish research-related meeting to this site, please send it within the body of an email message(attachments require more reformatting) to Jonathan Knight http://zfin.org/images/zfinlogo.png ZFIN Zebrafish Meetings http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html zfin.org Logo Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:08:09 -0800 en-us University of Oregon 2010 zebrafishresearchmeeting One -year Master Program in Infectious Disease Control http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#soder http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#soder Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000 <h3 align="center">Starting in August 2009 at Sodertorn University, Stockholm (Huddinge), Sweden </h3> 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 <a href="http://zfin.org/mailto:magnus.johansson@sh.se">magnus.johansson@sh.se</a> zebrafishresearchmeeting One -year Master Program in Biomedical Genomics http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#soder1 http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#soder1 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000 <h3 align="center">Starting in August 2009 at Sodertorn University, Stockholm (Huddinge), Sweden </h3> 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 S�dert�rn 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 <a href="http://zfin.org/mailto:per.kylsten@sh.se">per.kylsten@sh.se</a> zebrafishresearchmeeting Zebrafish Phenome Project Workshop http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#nhgri http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#nhgri Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 <h3 align="center">March 12-14, 2010, at the Doubletree Bethesda Hotel in Bethesda, Maryland </h3> The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the Wellcome Trust are pleased to announce the Zebrafish Phenome Project Workshop, March 12�14, 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 �Zebrafish Phenome Project� 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: <a href="http://www.blsmeetings.net/zebrafish/">http://www.blsmeetings.net/zebrafish/</a> 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 <a href="http://zfin.org/mailto:burgess@mail.nih.gov">burgess@mail.nih.gov</a>. For any other questions such as logistics, registration, or travel, please contact Cindy de Sales <a href="http://zfin.org/mailto:atcdesales@blseamon.com">atcdesales@blseamon.com</a> or 301-577-0244, ext. 25. Please register now and join us in March! zebrafishresearchmeeting 1st European Zebrafish PI Meeting http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#pizf http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#pizf Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000 <h3 align="center">March 18-21, 2010, Padova,Italy </h3> 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 <a href="http://ezpm2010.azuleon.org/">http://ezpm2010.azuleon.org/</a> 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 � 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 <a href="http://zfin.org/mailto:francesco.argenton@unipd.it">francesco.argenton@unipd.it</a> (subj: EZPM2010) zebrafishresearchmeeting Zebrafish Workshop at the 5th Canadian Developmental Biology Conference http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#eh http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#eh Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000 <h3 align="center">April 7-8, 2010 - Mont Tremblant, Quebec, Canada </h3> 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, Qu�bec, Canada J8E1E1 <a href="http://www.fairmont.com/tremblant">http://www.fairmont.com/tremblant</a> 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 (<a href="http://zfin.org/mailto:louis.st-amant@umontreal.ca">louis.st-amant@umontreal.ca</a>) zebrafishresearchmeeting 3rd Annual Swiss Zebrafish Meeting http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#swiss http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#swiss Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 <h3 align="center">April 8-9, 2010, Zurich, Switzerland </h3> 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 <a href="http://www.swisszebra.ch">http://www.swisszebra.ch</a> 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 zebrafishresearchmeeting British Society for Developmental Biology http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#bsdb http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#bsdb Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 <h3 align="center">April 12-15, 2010, Warwick University </h3> Website: <a href="http://www.bscb-bsdb-2010.co.uk/">http://www.bscb-bsdb-2010.co.uk/</a> 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 zebrafishresearchmeeting Methods in ZebraFish Behavior analysis http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#paris http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#paris Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 <h3 align="center">May 6-7, 2010 - Paris, France </h3> Website : <a href="http://www.vplsi.com/content.php?content.105">http://www.vplsi.com/content.php?content.105</a> 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. <blockquote> 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. </blockquote> <a href="http://www.vplsi.com/content.php?content.105">Read more..</a> zebrafishresearchmeeting 9th International Conference on Zebrafish Development and Genetics http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#madison http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#madison Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 <h3 align="center">June 16-20, 2010, Madison, Wisconsin </h3> 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 (<a href="http://www.overturecenter.com/about">http://www.overturecenter.com/about</a>). 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 <a href="http://www.union.wisc.edu/zebrafish/">http://www.union.wisc.edu/zebrafish/</a> 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 zebrafishresearchmeeting Zebrafish Disease Modeling III http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#zdm http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#zdm Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 <h3 align="center">June 21-24, 2010 - Boston, MA </h3> 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: <a href="http://research4.dfci.harvard.edu/looklab/zdm3.html">http://research4.dfci.harvard.edu/looklab/zdm3.html</a> zebrafishresearchmeeting Master's programme "Molecular Bioengineering" http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#dresden http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#dresden Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000 <h3 align="center">Every winter term starting in October at the Biotechnology Center (BIOTEC) of Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany </h3> 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: <a href="http://www.biotec.tu-dresden.de/teaching">http://www.biotec.tu-dresden.de/teaching</a>. zebrafishresearchmeeting Access to genes and genomes with Ensembl http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#ensembl http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#ensembl Sat, 1 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0000 <h3 align="center">At your Institute - worldwide </h3> 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 (<a href="http://zfin.org/mailto:xose@ebi.ac.uk">xose@ebi.ac.uk</a>), 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: <ul> <li>Overview of the Ensembl system and the latest developments (e.g. new species, outlook).</li> <li>Introduction to the Ensembl system</li> <li>Hands-on examples to introduce the system</li> <li>Evaluating genes and transcripts</li> <li>Data mining with EnsMart</li> <li>Comparative genomics and proteomics in Ensembl</li> <li>Variation (SNPs, haplotypes)</li> <li>Data mining is provided through EnsMart. Attendees will be introduced to several user interfaces designed to work with the system: (i) MartView - the web interface (ii) MartShell - a command-line tool, and (iii) MartExplorer - a java graphical user interface. These clients provide the user with the ability to create complex queries of data, and integrate data from BioMart datasets across the network.</li> </ul> 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 (<a href="http://zfin.org/mailto:xose@ebi.ac.uk">xose@ebi.ac.uk</a>) for more details and potential arrangements. zebrafishresearchmeeting