PROGRAMME

Lunch

Welcome

Development, organogenesis and regeneration

Chair: Francesco Argenton (Italy)

IGF signaling between blastema and wound epidermis is required for fin regeneration
Anna Jazwinska (Fribourg, Switzerland)
Uncovering the mecano-genetic coupling between valvulogenesis and blood flow
Julien Vermot (Illkirch, France)
The genetic control of optic cup morphogenesis
Juan-Ramón Martínez-Morales (Sevilla, Spain)
A modified TetON system for reversible, tissue-specific gene expression in adult zebrafish
Gilbert Weidinger (Dresden, Germany)
Analysis of angiogenic sprouting during ISV formation in the zebrafish embryo
Markus Affolter (Basel, Switzerland)
Flicking the angiogenic switch: lipoproteins as regulators of blood vessel growth
Karina Yaniv (Rehovot, Israel)

Coffee break

Development, organogenesis and regeneration

Chairs: Corinne Houart (United Kingdom), Stefan Schulte-Merker (Netherlands)

Genetic analysis of the development of the adult pigment pattern of the zebrafish
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (Tübingen, Germany)
Extracellular signals controlling development and wiring in the central nervous system
Christian Söllner (Tübingen, Germany)
Direct visualization of extracellular morphogen diffusion and regulation
Michael Brand (Dresden, Germany)
Mesogenin controls the rate of presomitic mesoderm formation
Leonor Saude (Lisboa, Portugal)
Conserved regulation of progenitor cell maintenance in development and disease
David Wilkinson (London, United Kingdom)
Blood stem cells emerge from aortic endothelium by a novel type of cell transition
Philippe Herbomel (Paris, France)

Welcome cocktail buffet

Development, organogenesis and regeneration

Chairs: Corinne Houart (United Kingdom), Stefan Schulte-Merker (Netherlands)

TBA
Holger Gerhardt (London, United Kingdom)
TBA
Dan Curtis (Cambridge, MA, USA)
Workshop

Data integration and imaging

Genetics and Genomics

Chairs: Robert Geisler (Germany), Uwe Strähle (Germany)

Regulatory interactions specifying Kolmer-Agduhr interneurons
Uwe Strähle (Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany)
Using zebrafish genomics to elucidate human disease
Thomas Becker (Camperdown, NSW, Australia)
The enhancer disruption (ED) screen in zebrafish
José Carlos Ribeiro Bessa (Sevilla, Spain)
Gene regulatory networks in zebrafish mesoderm formation
Fiona Wardle (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Automated readout of zebrafish assays by means of automated microscopy and image processing
Markus Reischl (Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany)
Reconstructing multiscale dynamics in morphogenetic processes
Nadine Peyriéras (Gif sur Yvette, France)

Coffee break

Data integration and imaging

Chairs: Robert Geisler (Germany), Uwe Strähle (Germany)

Next generation image processing and data storage technologies for zebrafish High Content Screening projects
Urban Liebel (Karlsruhe, Germany)
TBA
Andrew Cameron (Pasadena, CA, USA)
TBA
Thomas Knudsen (Durham, NC, USA)
Workshop

Lunch

Neurophysiology and Behaviour

Chairs: Stephan Neuhauss (Switzerland), Tanya Whitfield (United Kingdom)

Targeted silencing and optogenetic activation of spinal sensory-motor circuits by Gal4/UAS-mediated expression of botulinum neurotoxin light chain (BoTxLC) and channelrhodopsin 'wide receiver' (ChRWR)
Maximiliano Suster (Bergen, Norway)
Transgenic zebrafish expressing an optimized channelrhodopsin variant under regulation of Gal4/UAS systems: optogenetic stimulation of Rohon-Beard neurons
Hiromu Yawo (Sendai, Japan)
The zebrafish pineal gland transcriptome: a focus on circadian genes
Yoav Gothilf (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Functional identification of the neural substrate for tectum visual selectivity
Filippo del Bene (Paris, France)
Zebrafish as a model of drug dependence and cognitive disease
Caroline Brennan (London, United Kingdom)
Genetic analysis of zebrafish dopaminergic systems development - from neuronal specification to behavior
Wolfgang Driever (Freiburg, Germany)

Coffee break

Neurophysiology and Behaviour

Chairs: Stephan Neuhauss (Switzerland), Tanya Whitfield (United Kingdom)

TBA
German Sumbre (Paris, France)
Workshop

Free evening

Disease Models and Immunology

Chair: Bozena Polok (Switzerland), Daniel Schorderet (Switzerland)

Zebrafish models of cardiac valve development and disease
Dimitris Beis (Athens, Greece)
Zebrafish models for Frontotemporal Dementia
Bettina Schmid (Munich, Germany)
Towards a zebrafish model for Von Hippel Lindau disease and hypoxic signaling
Freek van Eeden (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Epigenetic silencing of cancer genes in a zebrafish model of melanoma
Marina Mione (Milan, Italy)
Modelling leukocyte diseases in zebrafish: inflammation and infection
Graham Lieschke (Parkville Victoria, Australia)
Development of a zebrafish-based bioassay for the molecular diagnosis of Alagille Syndrome
Natascia Tiso (Padua, Italy)

Coffee break

Poster Session »»

Lunch

Chemical Biology and Toxicology

Chair: Liz Patton (United Kingdom), Uwe Strähle (Germany)

Towards an in vivo dissection of the molecular network guiding an innate immune response
Clemens Grabher (Karlsruhe, Germany)
A zebrafish-yeast chemical genetic screening approach reveals gene-copper nutrition interactions that modulate melanocyte pigmentation
Liz Patton (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Chemical control of pigment cell development in zebrafish
Robert Neil Kelsh (Bath, United Kingdom)
Heparan sulphate oligosaccharides as angiogenic agents
Sally Elizabeth Stringer (Manchester, United Kingdom)
Predictive toxicology in zebrafish embryos using (functional) toxicogenomics
Stefan Scholz (Leipzig, Germany)
Locomotor activity in early life stages of zebrafish: a method to assess developmental neurotoxicity
Hilda Witters (Mol, Belgium)

Coffee break

Chemical Biology and Toxicology

Chair: Liz Patton (United Kingdom), Uwe Strähle (Germany)

TBA
Randall Peterson (Boston, MA, USA)
Workshop

Social dinner

Parallel Sessions

EuFishBioMed Workgroup 2: Technologies

The aim of the working group 2 meeting in Padua is to decide upon which actions should be taken to implement recommendations for fish maintenance, handling and shipping on the regulatory level within Europe. In preparation for the meeting, draft versions of these recommendations will be distributed as a basis for discussion.

Chairs: Stefan Schulte-Merker (Netherlands) & Bozena Polok (Switzerland)

EuFishBioMed Workgroup 4: Basic Science

The aim of the working group 4 meeting in Padua will be to evaluate and focus the activities of EuFishBioMed in promoting the use of zebrafish in basic science. This will include suggestions for topics and formats of future scientific workshops in the light of experience from the current meeting; strategies for engaging non-zebrafish researchers, and representatives of funding bodies, in such workshops; and discussions of the basic science section of the upcoming White Paper on European zebrafish research.

Chairs: Raquel Rodriguez (Spain) & Robert Geisler (Germany)

Parallel Sessions

EuFishBioMed Workgroup 1: Information and Communication

The aim of the working group 1 meeting in Padua will be to specifically discuss the database that will form the basis for the decentralized stock center. We need to design more precisely the way of data input, data curation and long term maintenance. The output of this discussion group will be implemented in form of the new EuFishBioMed database for fish stocks in Europe.

Chairs: Uwe Strähle (Germany) & Gudrun Knedlitschek (Germany)

EuFishBioMed Workgroup 3: Disease Models

The aim of the working group 3 meeting in Padua will be to identify and catalog existing zebrafish models of human diseases; discuss the available technologies to develop models of human diseases and evaluate what functional tests should be implemented to unify a general screening of these models.

Chairs: Daniel Schorderet (Switzerland) & Marina Mione (Italy)

Coffee break

Plenary Session

EuFishBioMed Workgroups 1 to 4

Basket lunch

EuFishBioMed Management Committee