4th North Atlantic Zebrafish Research Symposium

This will be the 4th year for this biannual meeting that brings together researchers from across the Maritime provinces and northern New England who use the zebrafish to model human diseases including cancer, blood disorders, and infections with a goal of exploiting the conserved genetics and superior imaging capabilities of this organism to better understand these diseases and find novel therapies.

Previous keynote speakers have included Dr. Pierre Drapeau (U de Montreal), Dr. Tom Look (Harvard Medical School/Dana Farber Cancer Institute), Dr. John Postlethwait (U of Oregon), Dr. Melody Neely (Wayne State University) and Dr. David Tobin (Duke U).

This year’s meeting with feature keynote speaker, Dr. Stephen C. Ekker, the Director, Mayo Addiction Research Center, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Editor-in-Chief, Zebrafish Mayo Clinic Cancer Center is a leader in the field.

On average 80 – 100 attendees are expected, who through oral presentations, poster sessions and social events, this meeting has tremendous capacity to enhance collaborations and advance scientific discoveries that ultimately have the potential to improve the treatment and outcome for children and adults in the region suffering from cancer, infections and immune-mediated diseases.

This year’s theme will be genomic technologies. Two hands-on workshops have been added to the schedule : Genome Editing and Bioinformatics.

We encourage anyone who does not presently use the zebrafish model but would be interested in future collaborations to come to this year’s meeting.