16th Annual Swiss Zebrafish Meeting

27 June 2024, University of Fribourg

 Joseph Deiss Auditorium, Building PER 22, Boulevard de Pérolles 90

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09:20 – 10:20

Registration – Fixing Posters – Coffee and Croissants – Sponsor Exhibitions

10:15 - 10:25

Welcome

 

Session 1
Chair: Anna Jazwinska, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

10:25 - 11:00

Keynote lecture 1

Christian Mosimann, University of Colorado School of Medicine

Lateral thinking in cardiovascular development and disease

11:00 - 11:15  

Nadia Mercader, University of Bern, Switzerland

Spinster homolog 1 (spns1)-dependent endocardial lysosomal function drives valve morphogenesis through the control of Notch1-signaling

11:15 - 11:30

Maria Paraskevi Kotini, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland

Development and architecture of the midbrain vasculature

11:30 - 11:45

Daria Korotkova, EPFL, Switzerland

Role of palmitoylating enzymes in hair cell formation and function on the zebrafish model

11:45 - 12:00

Sarah Brivio; University of Geneva, Switzerland

Endothelial mafa expression controls HSC expansion in the CHT niche

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 13:30

Poster Session 1 & Sponsor Exhibitions

 

Session 2
Chair: Alessandro de Simone, University of Geneva, Switzerland

13:30 - 14:10

Keynote lecture 2

Gilbert Weidinger, Ulm University, Germany

Mechanisms underlying cellular plasticity during regeneration

14:10 - 14:25

Sumeet Pal Singh, IRIBHM ULB, Brussels, Belgium

Dutal-to-hepatocyte transdifferentiation contributes to liver regeneration in the presence of spared hepatocytes
14:25 - 14:40

Alexa Burger, University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA

Conserved enhancers control notochord expression of vertebrate Brachyury
14:40 - 14:55

Jingjing Zang, University of Zürich, Switzerland

Recoverin in Visual Transduction and Beyond: New Insights in Cone Vision
14:55 - 15:00

The Swiss 3R Competence Centre

Andrina Zbinden, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

The Swiss Zebrafish Culture of Care Group to increase knowledge and establishing refinements in zebrafish research
15:00 - 15:20

The Swiss Zebrafish Society

Stephan Neuhauss, University of Zürich, Switzerland

15:20 - 16:15

Coffee break – Poster Session 2 & Sponsor Exhibitions

 

Session 3

Chair: Volker Enzmann, University of Bern, Switzerland

16:15 - 16:30

Shivali Dongre, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Using zebrafish embryos as a vertebrate in vivo model to study TF clustering
16:30 - 16:45

New PI

Johannes Larsch, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Neurogenetics of Social Affiliation in Zebrafish
16:45 - 17:05

Sponsors: 4 x 3 min talks

Bionomous, Bruker Nano, Idexx Bioanalytics, Zeiss

17:05 - 17:15

Poster Prizes, Closing Remarks

17:15 - 18:30

Apéro and Drinks