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MAY 4, 2026
10:00AM - 11:30AM ET
CANCEr - technology
“Cell Type Specific Humanisation Allows for the Deconstruction of Phenotypes in Neurodegenerative Disease”
Dr. Marcus Keating, Postdoc fellow, University of Edinburgh, UK
“Zebrafish Gene Knock-in in Illuminating Organogenesis and Tissue Regeneration”
Dr. Jiarui Mi, PI, Department of Gastroenterology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China
“Zebrafish Larvae as a Screening Platform for Tumor-Targeting Aptamers”
Madison Schaefer, PhD candidate, Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, USA
organized by RIG leaders:
Yi Feng
Maggie Chasse
Heather Shive
May 12, 2026
10:00AM - 11:00AM ET
early career investigators
organized by RIG leaders:
Vittorio Bontempi
Chaunte Lewis
Vicky Tan
Stephan Daetwyler
May 20, 2026
10:00AM - 11:30Am ET
Hematology
Organized By Rig LeaderS:
Brandon Gheller
Rui Monteiro
Yvette Yien
May 28, 2026
10:00AM - 11:30AM ET
Drug Discovery
organized by RIG leaders:
Francesca Lorenzini
Carine Smith
Liyun Zhang
Surendra Rajpurohit
June 3, 2026
10:00AM - 11:30AM ET
INFECTION & INFLAMMATION
“Mycobacterial models of brain and nerve infection”
Cressida Madigan, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego, USA
“Deciphering the Mechanisms that Regulate Neutrophil Migration and Prioritization in Polytraumatic Injury”
Cassia Michael, PhD candidate, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
“Neuro-immune interactions in a model of neurodevelopmental disorders”
Audrey Inge S. Andersen-Civil, Postdoc, Aarhus University, Denmark
organized by RIG leaders:
Raquel Espin-Palazon
Savini Thrikawala
Tracey Ollewagen
June 4, 2026
10:00AM - 11:45AM ET
SKELETAL DISEASE
“Bone First, Minerals Later: Alternating Dietary Phosphorus Supply Increases the Bone Volume in the Zebrafish Model”
Prof. Eckhard Witten, Ghent University, Belgium
“A Gene Expression Atlas Reveals Osteoblast Subpopulations in the Zebrafish Opercle”
Hayden S. Bhavsar, 1st year PhD student - Kwon Lab, University of Washington, USA
“Identifying Core Genes in Osteoarthritis Using the Omnigenic Model and Functional Validation in Zebrafish”
Rory Stewart, 2nd year PhD student - Kague Lab, University of Edinburgh, UK
From Fish to Pharma: Zebrafish Models for Identifying Treatments for Skeletal Disorders like OI
Prof. Antonella Forlino, University of Pavia, Italy
organized by RIG leader:
Erika Kague
JUNE 8, 2026
10:00AM - 11:30AM ET
CANCER - Research
Organized by rig leaderS:
Yi Feng
Maggie Chasse
Heather Shive
June 16, 2026
10:00AM - 12:00PM ET
GI METABOLISM
“Enteroendocrine Cells Wire the Gut-brain Vagal Axis”
Alexander Runyon, Dept of Neuroscience, Ohio State University
“Protein Absorption in the Zebrafish Gut is Regulated by Interactions Between Lysosome-rich Enterocytes and the Microbiome”
Dr. Laura Childers, Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine
“FAO Around and Find Out: Utilizing Zebrafish to Study Metabolic Dysfunction and Fatty Acid Oxidation (FAO) Reprograming in Liver Disease”
Chad Vansant-Webb, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, University of Utah
“Estrogen Disrupts Hepatobiliary Architecture: Implications for Pregnancy-Associated Liver Adaptation”
Dr. Patrice Delaney, Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale School of Medicine
Organized by rig leaderS:
Yann Gibert
Anjali Nath
Lesha Pretorius
Manjari Trivedi
JUNE 24, 2026
10:00AM - 11:30AM ET
AGING
“From Neurodevelopment to Neurodegeneration: Insights from the Rapidly Ageing Killifish”
Dr. Ryan MacDonald, University College London, UK
“Time Heals All Wounds, or Does It? The Effect of Circadian Rhythm and Ageing on Fracture Repair”
Becky Chatwin, Bristol University, UK (PhD candidate at the Hammond Lab)
organized by RIG leaders:
Chrissy Hammond
Catarina Henriques
Bidhi Diwedi
JULY 1, 2026
10:00AM - 11:30AM ET
NEURAL DISORDERS
organized by RIG leaders:
Harini Iyer
Karin Tuschl
Deepika Dogra
AUGUST 26, 2026
10:00AM - 11:30AM ET
Muscle & Cardiac Disease
organized by RIG leaders:
Christian Mosimann
Jared Talbot
Juan Gonzales-Rosa
September 8, 2026
10:00AM - 11:30AM ET
TOXICOLOGY
organized by RIG leaderS:
Tracie Baker
Subham Dasgupta
Patrice Delaney
Morgan Walcheck
Silvia Karim
October 7, 2026
10:00AM - 11:45AM ET
SKELETAL DISEASE
“Innate Immune Cells Supporting Bone Regeneration”
Dr. Franziska Knopf, University of Dresden, Germany
TBC:
Prof. Ronald Kwon, University of Washington, USA
organized by RIG leader:
Erika Kague