Blog from July, 2015

The Zebrafish Anatomy Ontology (ZFA) that describes the development of the zebrafish from embryo to adult  has been updated.  The ontology is used in the annotation of expression and phenotype.  The repository where the ZFA is stored has changed to https://github.com/cerivs/zebrafish-anatomical-ontology.  To request new anatomy terms please use the form at https://zfin.org/action/ontology/request-new-anatomy-term. Please include all the information you can about the structure including a publication if available and the stage the structure is first detectable and the stage it ends, if applicable.

The Malaysian Zebrafish Disease Model Workshop will provide a platform for Malaysian investigators, postdocs and students working or planning to work in the zebrafish field to learn the latest developments in zebrafish as a model for human disease, to present data and share their techniques, and to have the opportunity to interact with international and local experts in the field of biomedical research using zebrafish.

Registration and abstract submission deadline: 30^th September 2015

Speakers:

Professor Philip Stanley Crosier (The University of Auckland)

Professor Alexander Chong Shu Chien (Universiti Sains Malaysia)

Dr. Satoshi Ogawa (Monash University Malaysia)

Dr. Vyomesh Patel (Cancer Research Malaysia)

Dr. Kazuhide Shaun Okuda (Cancer Research Malaysia)

Dr. Pei Jean Tan (Cancer Research Malaysia)

Dr. Suzita Binti Mohd Noor (University of Malaya)

Dr. Anwar Bin Norazit (University of Malaya)

Main organizer: Cancer Research Malaysia

Jointly organized by: University of Malaya and Monash University Malaysia

For more information, please contact zebrafish@cancerresearch.my

About the Fish­Bone Work­shop

http://blogs.uw.edu/fishbone/

Zebrafish, medaka, and other lab­o­ra­tory fish mod­els hold unique poten­tial to open ‎pow­er­ful avenues for skele­tal research that are chal­leng­ing in other ver­te­brate sys­tems. How­ever, ‎despite this poten­tial, the use of fish mod­els for bone bio­med­ical research has yet to be widely estab­lished. Mod­ern tech­nolo­gies have ‎brought forth new oppor­tu­ni­ties to iden­tify genetic and phe­no­typic sim­i­lar­i­ties between fish and mam­malian skele­tons, as well as trans­late across fish and human bone phys­i­olo­gies. ‎These efforts by the com­mu­nity may be greatly aided by bring­ing together estab­lished and poten­tial fish users with ‎bone researchers from dif­fer­ent dis­ci­plines to present up-to-date find­ings, fos­ter col­lab­o­ra­tions, ‎and broaden awareness.‎

To this end, we are pleased to announce Fish­Bone, an inter­na­tional work­shop ded­i­cated to advanc­ing zebrafish, medaka, and other lab­o­ra­tory fish mod­els for skele­tal research. Fish­Bone 2015 will be held on Octo­ber 8th, 2015, the day prior to the start ‎of the Annual Meet­ing of the Amer­i­can Soci­ety for Bone and Min­eral Research (ASBMR). The work­shop will take place at Har­borview Med­ical Cen­ter (10 minute ‎walk from the ASBMR con­fer­ence center).

Keynote Speak­ers
P. Eck­hard Wit­ten, Ghent Uni­ver­sity
Thomas Schilling, UC Irvine
Shan­non Fisher, Uni­ver­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia
Matthew Har­ris, Har­vard Med­ical School

Top­ics
–Fish mod­els of mus­cu­loskele­tal dis­ease
–Skele­tal devel­op­ment
–Bone regen­er­a­tion
–Bone/muscle adap­ta­tion
–Tech­nolo­gies for bone imag­ing
‎-Genetic engi­neer­ing in fish

Orga­niz­ing Com­mit­tee
David Karasik
Ronald Kwon
Matthew Harris

Spon­sors
The orga­niz­ers of Fish­Bone would like to thank the fol­low­ing spon­sors for their sup­port:
Depart­ment of Ortho­pe­dics and Sports Med­i­cine, Uni­ver­sity of Washington

Welcome to FishMed2016!
http://fishmed2016.pl/

International FishMed Conference on Zebrafish Research (FishMed2016) will be held at the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw (IIMCB), an A+ grade and one of the best research institution in biological sciences countrywide. IIMCB organizes this event to bring together scientists from the field, share recent advances in research on zebrafish and to present to an international audience the results of the FishMed project. The program will include opening and plenary talks, short oral presentations, poster session, and extensive time for discussions.

FishMed stands for “Fishing for Medicines and their targets using Zebrafish models of human diseases”. The project is implemented by IIMCB in collaboration with European partners: Prof. Oliver Bandmann, Prof. Thomas Braun, Prof. Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan, Prof. William Harris, Prof. Carl-Philip Heisenberg, Prof. Ewa Snaar-Jagalska, and Prof. Didier Steinier. The aim of the project is to establish IIMCB as the first in Poland research center where zebrafish is widely used as a model for studies on human diseases. To learn more about the project please refer to the http://fishmed.iimcb.gov.pl/.

As FishMed2016 conference is financed by the European Commission and the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education no registration fee is requested. However, scientists wishing to participate in the event should submit a short statement on their background and interest in zebrafish research. Abstract submission starts in October 2015. The authors of the best abstracts will be offered short oral presentation.

For more information please visit: fishmed2016.pl http://fishmed2016.pl/

If you have any enquiries regarding FishMed2016 please send us an e-mail on:fishmed@iimcb.gov.pl

We look forward to seeing you in Warsaw, Poland in March 2016!