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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 Mon, 12 May 2008 13:04:27 -0700 en-us University of Oregon 2008 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 International Zebrafish Workshop-A Model for Comparative and Developmental Endocrinology http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#yong http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#yong Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000 <h3 align="center">June 22nd, 2008 - University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada </h3> (Travel Awards are available for graduate students) This workshop will be held on June 22nd 2008 as a special event of the 6th International Symposium on Fish Endocrinology (6ISFE) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada (June 22-27, 2008). The workshop is free and open to everyone who is registered with the main conference. February 15 is the deadline for early bird registration and abstract submission (<a href="http://www.isfe.ucalgary.ca/">http://www.isfe.ucalgary.ca/</a>). The organizers of the workshop have invited 12 experts to speak at the workshop, and their talks will focus on the functions and molecular mechanisms of hormones and their receptors using zebrafish as the model. The goals of this workshop are to promote the exchange of information and international collaborations between developmental biologists and comparative endocrinologists, inform investigators about the genomic and molecular tools available in the zebrafish model, and ultimately facilitate the growth of the field of "developmental endocrinology". Scientists of different nationalities, genders, and career stages will participate in the workshop. It is anticipated that this workshop will not only advance discoveries in basic sciences, but also help develop applications in related fields such as biotechnology and aquaculture. At the workshop, travel awards will be given to selected graduate students. Students from under-represented groups are especially encouraged to apply. Detail information regarding the workshop and travel award can be found at <a href="http://core.ecu.edu/biol/zhuy/ZebrafishModel/Workshop.html">http://core.ecu.edu/biol/zhuy/ZebrafishModel/Workshop.html</a> Organizing Committee: Chun Peng, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Chair) Yong Zhu, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA (Co-Chair) Cunming Duan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA (Co-Chair) Scientific Program Committee: Yong Zhu, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA (Chair) Vladimir Korzh, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore (Co-Chair) Wei Ge, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (Co-Chair) Cunming Duan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Chun Peng, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Sponsors: America National Science Foundation, Institute of Genetics Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Aquatic Habitats, Zebrafish International Resource Center, and Gene Tools LLC. zebrafishresearchmeeting 8th International Meeting on Zebrafish Development and Genetics http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#madison http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#madison Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 <h3 align="center">June 25-29, 2008 - Madison, WI, USA </h3> This meeting will cover all aspects of the biology of zebrafish, as well as medaka and other allied teleost models. Following in the tradition of past conferences, the schedule will feature a variety of oral sessions, posters, workshops, and vendors, as well as opportunities to socialize on the shores of Lake Mendota. In response to requests from community, the organizers plan to provide more time for informal discussions, expand the workshop format, and help to expedite travel to Madison, especially for international attendees. Please join us for an exciting program that will reflect the rapid expansion and growing impact of our field. Registration information and preliminary program is available now. <a href="http://www.union.wisc.edu/zebrafish/">http://www.union.wisc.edu/zebrafish/ </a> 2008 Organizing Committee: Sharon Amacher, UC Berkeley, USA Laure Bally-Cuif, GSF-Research Center for Environment and Health, Germany Chi-Bin Chien, University of Utah, USA Matthias Hammerschmidt, MPI Immunobiology, Germany Koichi Kawakami, National Institute of Genetics, Japan Brant Weinstein, NICHD/NIH, USA zebrafishresearchmeeting "From cell to embryo" A meeting in memory of Nigel Holder http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#holder http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#holder Fri, 4 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 <h3 align="center">Friday 4 July 2008 - King's College London, london, UK </h3> In December this year, it will be 10 years since Nigel Holder died and we still acutely remember his infectious energy, enthusiasm for the zebrafish and love for research. On July 4th 2008, we will celebrate these qualities in a series of talks given by colleagues with whom he shared his passion for science and/or who work on research topics close to his own. Space permitting, the conference is open to all. To register, please contact Corinne Houart: <a href="http://zfin.org/mailto:corinne.houart@kcl.ac.uk">corinne.houart@kcl.ac.uk</a> zebrafishresearchmeeting Zebrafish Development & Genetics http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#lenny http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#lenny Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 <h3 align="center">August 10 - 24, 2008 - Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA </h3> A Special Topics Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole, MA Directors: Mary Mullins, University of Pennsylvania Chi-Bin Chien, University of Utah Course Date: August 10 - 24, 2008 Course Website <a href="http://courses.mbl.edu/zebrafish/">http://courses.mbl.edu/zebrafish/ </a> Financial assistance is available. This is an intensive two-week lecture-laboratory course taught by leaders in the field for advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and independent investigators that will focus on the development and genetics of zebrafish with special emphasis on the nervous system. Students will learn methods for manipulating and studying gene function, including mutant screening, mapping and cloning; transgenesis and antisense approaches; mosaic analysis; and in situ methods for detecting gene expression. In addition students will be introduced to the nervous system of zebrafish, its organization and development, and methods for the analysis of nervous system mutants including visualizing single neurons in live embryos, labeling and analyzing axon projections, and performing behavioral tests on live animals. Partial funding for this course is provided by the National Institutes of Health and the Grass Foundation. Application Deadline: April 4, 2008 Application forms can be obtained from <a href="http://www.mbl.edu/education/courses/special_topics/zebra.html">http://www.mbl.edu/education/courses/special_topics/zebra.html</a> For additional information please contact Carol Hamel, Admissions Coordinator, (<a href="http://zfin.org/mailto:admissions@mbl.edu">admissions@mbl.edu</a>) (508) 289-7401 zebrafishresearchmeeting Health and Colony Management of Laboratory Fish http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#hcm http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#hcm Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 <h3 align="center">August 25 - 29, 2008 - Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Salisbury Cove, Maine </h3> Applications are being accepted for this 1-week short course for individuals with maintenance, management or research responsibilities in which fish are used as laboratory animals. APPLICATION DEADLINE - JULY 15. The course is offered at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Salisbury Cove, Maine during the period of 25 - 29 August 2008. Topics to be discussed will include general system design and water quality management, anatomy and histology of fish, general fish diseases and disease management strategies. Infectious and non-infectious diseases common to all fish as well as specific diseases of importance to laboratory-maintained zebrafish will be discussed. The course will consist of lecture, laboratory exercises and discussions. During the course there will be an opportunity for students to discuss unusual and/or unsolved diagnostic case experiences from their home laboratories as problem-solving exercises. The course should be particularly valuable to technical staff, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, junior faculty and investigators needing skills to monitor the health of a colony of aquatic organisms. For more information on the course, please see the course web site at: <a href="http://www.mdibl.org/courses/fishhealth08.shtml">http://www.mdibl.org/courses/fishhealth08.shtml</a> zebrafishresearchmeeting 1st Symposium 'Image Mining': Advanced strategies for Image Analysis and Data Quantification http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#meyer http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#meyer Fri, 8 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 <h3 align="center">September 11-14, 2008 - Obergurgl, Tyrol/Austria </h3> State of the art imaging is crucial for most of today's biomedical research. Advances in imaging technology enables us to produce excellent image data sets, yet the development of adequate data mining tools is lagging far behind. This symposium sets out to initiate a platform for knowledge exchange in the field of image data extraction and image mining. A preliminary program and registration information is available at: <a href="http://symposium.4imaging.de/">http://symposium.4imaging.de/</a> Organization: Thorsten Schwerte (<a href="http://zfin.org/mailto:thorsten.schwerte@uibk.ac.at">thorsten.schwerte@uibk.ac.at</a>) and Dirk Meyer (<a href="http://zfin.org/mailto:dirk.meyer@uibk.ac.at">dirk.meyer@uibk.ac.at</a>) Faculty of Biology University Innsbruck Technikerstr. 25 6020 Innsbruck zebrafishresearchmeeting Third Strategic Conference of Zebrafish Investigators http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#asilomar http://zfin.org/zf_info/news/mtgs.html#asilomar Mon, 4 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 <h3 align="center"> January 24 - 28, 2009 - Asilomar, California, USA </h3> The Third Strategic Conference of Zebrafish Investigators will be held from January 24 - 28, 2009 at Asilomar, California, USA. This exciting meeting is open to principal investigators from all countries working with zebrafish and medaka. The goals are to discuss current developments and to promote coordinated advancement of research employing fish as a model system. Reserve the date and check <a href="http://www.ciwemb.edu/sites/SCZI2009/">http://www.ciwemb.edu/sites/SCZI2009/</a> for more details and registration information. Marnie Halpern, Carl Philipp Heisenberg, Hazel Sive, Organizers. If you have any questions or suggestions for the meeting, please e-mail <a href="http://zfin.org/mailto:sczi2009@ciwemb.edu">sczi2009@ciwemb.edu</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