march 12, 2025
10:00AM - 11:30AM ET

March 26, 2025
10:00pm ET
Hosted by a*star

infection & inflammation - Asia

"Mycobacterial Infection Modeling Around the Pacific Rim”

Dr. Antonio Pagan, Stanford, USA

Dr. Hua Yang, Tongji, China

Ms. Denise Wee, A*STAR, Singapore

organized by RIG leader:

Stefan Oehlers

april 2, 2025
10:00AM - 11:30AM ET

infection & inflammation

“Granulocytes in Infection”

"Permanently Shut or Considering Re-opening: Can Reopening the Phagosome Aid Prey Digestion?"
Clare Muir, Edinburgh, UK

“New Tools for Eosinophils in Zebrafish Reveal Their Response to Mycobacterial Infection”
Mark Cronan, MPIIB, Germany

"Regulation of Neutrophil Responses Against Aspergillus Fungi"
Emily Rosowski, Clemson, USA

organized by RIG leaders:

Philip Elks
Tracey Ollewagen

April 9, 2025
10:00AM-11:30Am ET

Drug Discovery

“Scalable CRISPR Screens in Zebrafish Using MIC-Drop and MIC-Drop-Seq”
Saba Parvez, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

“High Content Screening technologies”
Elspeth M. Payne, UCL, London, UK

“Drug Repurposing for Neurogenerative Diseases”
Thais Del Rosario Hernandez, Brown University, Providence, USA

“Bioprospecting Fungi for Bioactive Compounds”
Jelmer Hoeksma, Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Organized By Rig Leader:

Jeroen den Hertog
Carine Smith
Liyun Zhang
Francesca Lorenzini

may 14, 2025
10:00AM - 11:30AM ET

Hematology

“Weird and Wonderful Hematology: Novel Findings in Zebrafish”

“Deciphering Eosinophilopoiesis in Zebrafish”
Yiyue Zhang

“The Heart is a Resident Tissue for Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells in Zebrafish”
Dorothee Bornhorst

“Dissecting the Functional Requirement of the Fetal Blood Stem Cell Niche Using a Novel Zebrafish Model”
Zewde Ingram

organized by RIG leaders:

Jordan Shavit
Rui Monteiro
Brandon Gheller

May 20, 2025
10:00PM ET
Hosted by a*star

Cancer - Asia

“Applications of Zebrafish Models in Human Cancer Research”

Dr. Kristijan Ramadan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

“NRF2 Induces Cell Plasticity During Liver Tumour Initiation”
Dr. Andrew Cox, The University of Melbourne, Australia

"Using Zebrafish to Study Defects in DNA–Protein Crosslink Repair"
Dr. Ivan Dikic, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

“From Zebrafish to Human Organoids: A Translational Journey in Cancer Research”
Dr. Xu Wang, The Zebrafish Information Network, USA

organized by RIG leaders:

Stefan Oehlers
Yan Chuan

may 28, 2025
10:00AM - 11:30AM ET

Cancer

“Targeting Mechanisms of Clonal Expansion in Melanoma Initiation and Resistance”
Dr. Maggie Chasse, Boston Children's Hospital, USA

“Investigating Mechanisms of Macrophage-Tumor Interactions During Melanoma Invasion”
Dr. Gayathri Ramakrishnan, UC San Diego, USA

"Heterogeneity of Telomere Maintenance Mechanisms in Diffuse Gliomas at the Single Cell Level”
Vittorio Bontempi,  University of Trento, Italy 

“Overcoming the Zebrafish Blood-brain Barrier for Drug Delivery to the Brain”
Dr. Joanna Thomas, National Cancer Institute, USA

Organized by rig leader:

Yi Feng
Heather Shive
Miranda Hunter

june 4, 2025
10:00AM - 11:30AM ET

early career investigators

“Beyond the Tank: Innovative Approaches to Zebrafish Behavior”

“Understanding Zebrafish Development Using Marr’s Three Levels”

Dr. David Ehrlich, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

"The Behavioral Basis of Thermoregulation in Larval Zebrafish"
Dr. Martin Haesemeyer, Ohio State University College of Medicine, USA

"Modeling Multisensory Social Behavior in Zebrafish Larvae"
Dr. Sarah Stednitz, The University of Melbourne, Australia

"What Was I Made For - A Zebrafish Cover"
Dr. Eric Horstick, West Virginia University, USA

organized by RIG leaders:

Harini Iyer
Yunlu Zhu

july 9, 2025
10:00AM - 11:30AM ET

aging

"Aged Zebrafish as a Spontaneous Model of Cardiac Valvular Disease"
Presenting: Jessica Radford (Dr. Beck Richardson's lab), Bristol University, UK

“Investigating the Genetics of Aging in a Naturally Short-Lived Vertebrate”
Dr. Itamar Harel, Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Israel

“Organ Communication in Aging of Zebrafish"
Dr. Miguel Godinho Ferreira, Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging in Nice, France

“Using Zebrafish Models to Identify Therapeutic Targets for Tauopathies”
Prof. David Rubinsztein, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, UK

organized by RIG leader:

Catarina Henriques
Chrissy Hammond
Max Breuer

july 30, 2025
10:00AM - 11:30AM ET

Neural Disorders

“Bridging Knowledge Gaps in Vitamin B6 Biology: Insights from Functional Genomic Assays in Cells and Zebrafish models”
Izabella A Pena, CHEO Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Canada

“Mitochondrial Proteins Encoded Within the 22q11.2 Neurodevelopmental Risk Locus Function Within Glia to Regulate Behavior”
Philip D. Campbell, University of Pennsylvania, USA

“Non-synaptic Glutamate Transfer Between Axons and Oligodendrocytes Regulates Myelination in Vivo”
Rafael Almeida, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, UK

organized by RIG leaders:

Harini Iyer
Deepika Dogra

august 13, 2025
10:00AM - 11:30AM ET

GI Metabolism

James Minchin, University of Edinburgh

Suphansa Sawamiphak, Max-Delbrück-Center

Steve Farber, Johns Hopkins

Ryan Anderson, University of Chicago

Organized By Rig Leaders:

Yann Gibert
Anjali Nath

August 27, 2025
10:00AM - 11:30AM eT

Muscle and Cardiac Disease

“Postdoc Presentations”

organized by riG leaders:

Christian Mosimann
Kazu Kikuchi
Jared Talbot

september 10, 2025
10:00AM - 11:30AM ET

toxicology

“Multi-Career Stage ZDMS Toxicology Webinar”

organized by RIG leaders:

Tracie Baker
Subham Dasgupta
Patrice Delaney