Aquatic Animal Model Husbandry Workshop, Aquaculture 2025, March 7 -8, 2025, New Orleans, LA
- Wei-Chia Tseng
AQUATIC ANIMAL MODEL HUSBANDRY WORKSHOP
Aquaculture 2025 • New Orleans
Sponsored by AQUANEERING
Friday March 7th
1:00 – 1:30 Introduction Aquaneering
ZIRC Update ZIRC
ZHA UPDATE ZHA
1:30 – 2:00 The Evolution of Zebrafish Research: Milestones, Innovations and What Lies Ahead
Josh Barber/Columbia University
2:00 – 2:30 Do Lonely Parents Produce Bigger Offspring?
Aubrey Dissinger/University of New Hampshire
2:30 – 2:45 BREAK
2:45 – 3:15 Multiple Species Regulatory Oversite
George Sanders/University of Washington
3:15 – 3:45 Current Status of Best Management Practices for the Husbandry of Xenopus laevis in Biomedical Research
Hugh Hammer/University of Pittsburg
3:45 – 4:15 What a Gar Wants, What a Gar Needs: Spotted Gar as a Laboratory Model for Vertebrate Biology and Disease
Ingo Braasch/Michigan State University
4:15 – 4:45 Biosecurity Considerations for Multispecies Aquatics Facilities
Marcus Crim/IDEXX
Saturday March 8th
9:00 – 9:30 Killifish: Bridging 100 Years of Research to Human Health
Ben Dubansky/Louisiana State University
9:30 – 10:00 Optimizing Husbandry for Development of the Mexican Cavefish ( Astyanax mexicanus) as a Genetic Model
Katie Gallman/Texas A&M University
10:00 – 10:30 Advances in Cryopreservation Protocols
Zoltan Varga/ZIRC
10:30 – 11:00 Break
Lauren Krug/Aquaneering
11:30 – 12:00 How to Properly Prepare Your Rice … Fish
McKenna Martin/Boston Children’s Hospital
12:00 – 12:30 Population Variation in Husbandry Needs for Threespine Stickleback ,
Holly Valentine/UConn
12:30 – 1:30 LUNCH
1:30 – 2:30 Establishing a New Model, Danionella cerebrum, for Nervous System Regeneration Research
Kutay Deniz Atabay/MIT
2:30 – 3:00 Aquatic Research Organisms at the Stowers Institute: Caring for Planaria and Beyond
Shane Miller/Stowers Institute
3:00 – 3:30 Packing and Transport of Adult Zebrafish Cause Both Acute and Long-Term Elevated Water Cortisol Levels
Petronella Kettunen/University of Gothenburg
3:30 – 4:00 BREAK
4:00 – 4:30 Opportunities in Land-based, Inland Sea Urchin Culture
Katie Gibbs, Steve Watts/University of Alabama Birmingham
4:30 - 5:00 Fish Models: Thinking Outside the Tank
Jim Burris/Morgridge Institute
5:00 – 6:30 TOWN HALL MEETING ( The Town Hall Meeting is sponsored by Aquaneering)
Bobbi M. Baur/Senior Sales Executive
Aquaneering LLC