agenda
wednesday, September 30th
9:00AM - 9:45AM
KEYNOTE PRESENTATIon
Trista North, Harvard Medical School, USA
PLENARY SESSION 9: Cancer II
9:45AM - 10:05AM
Invited Speaker Talk: RNA Processing Cancer | Megan Insco, USA
10:05AM - 10:17AM
Fate mapping of melanoma and tumour microenvironment interactions | Elizabeth Cao, UK
10:17AM - 10:29AM
The tumour microenvironment in melanoma minimal residual disease mimics the healing wound | Katie Livingstone, UK
10:29AM - 10:41AM
YAP-driven liver tumours initiate cachexia via the hepatokine ANGPTL6 | Madeline Webb, Australia
10:41AM - 10:53AM
Tumor initiation in a H3K27M mutant zebrafish model for diffuse midline glioma (zDMG) | Alice Alhaj Kadour, USA
10:53AM - 11:05AM
Industry Talk
11:05AM - 11:25AM
Coffee Break
PLENARY SESSION 10: organ development and physiology II
11:25AM - 11:45AM
Invited Speaker Talk: The key to life: Unlocking the molecular mechanisms of vertebrate fertilization | Victoria Deneke, Austria
11:45AM - 11:57AM
Characterizing zebrafish osteocytes in heath and disease: a foundation for breakthrough discoveries in bone biology | Erika Kague, UK
11:57AM - 12:09PM
Prime editing based zebrafish model to validate a novel retinoid pathway missense variant in skeletal disease | Emilie Dambrois, France
12:09PM - 12:21PM
Oxidative stress-induced intervertebral ECM remodeling and elevated stiffness drive idiopathic scoliosis in zebrafish disease models | Brian Ciruna, Canada
12:21PM - 12:33PM
Zebrafish Cilia Motility Mutants Reveal a Novel co-Translational Mechanism for Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia | Zhaoxia Sun, USA
12:30PM - 1:45PM
lunch
1:00pm - 1:45pm
DEI SESSION: Seeing what everyone sees but thinking what no one has thought
Rana Dajani, Hashemite University, Zarqa Jordan
PLENARY SESSION 11: Cardiovascular Development & Disease
1:45PM - 2:05PM
Invited Speaker Talk: Advanced Imaging | James McGinty, UK
2:05PM - 2:17PM
Erythrocyte oxygen delivery constrains form and function at the heart-blood interface | Toby Andrews, UK
2:17PM - 2:39PM
Nucleolar Organization and Chamber-Specific Vulnerability in the Zebrafish Heart | Hannah Moran, USA
2:39PM- 2:51PM
Cardiac-immune microniches programme macrophage states in the regenerating heart | Filipa Simoes, UK
2:51PM - 3:03PM
Zebrafish as a model to uncover therapeutic targets for genetic cardiomyopathy | Anna de Boer, Netherlands
3:05PM - 3:30PM
Excellence Award Presentation: Host-Microbiota Interactions in Gut Development and Regeneration: Insights from Zebrafish | Pedro Hernandez Cerda, France
3:30PM - 3:50PM
COFFEE BREAK
Plenary session 12: Ageing, Adult Disease & Tissue Repair
3:50PM- 4:10PM
Invited Speaker Talk: Zebrafish as a model for Adgrg6 (Gpr126)-related disease and drug discovery | Tanya Whitfield, UK
4:10PM - 4:22PM
Dynamic regulation of TERRA expression in physiological and disease context | Vittorio Bontempi, Italy
4:22PM - 4:34PM
An Adult Knock-in Zebrafish Model of ADPKD Enables Identification of Genetic Modifiers of Cystic Disease | Xueying Lin, USA
4:34PM - 4:46PM
Multi-tissue barrier dysfunction with ageing: Exploring causes and consequences using the
zebrafish model | Catarina M Henriques, UK
4:46PM - 4:58PM
A novel population health-based approach to screen for scarring genes reveals a role for LGR4 in skin repair | Oscar Pena, UK
4:58PM - 5:30PM
Community Meeting and Awards
Conference Adjourns