January 2017 Newsletter

Upcoming Meetings

For a list of upcoming zebrafish related meetings click here.

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Member of the Month

Each month we will profile a different IZFS member and their research work on the International Zebrafish Society website at izfs.org.
This outstanding opportunity to showcase your work is available to all IZFS members at all levels.

Join here if you are not already a member.

Job Board

The IZFS Job Board will be launching soon on the IZFS website. Members may post job openings to the board free of charge. Postings can be viewed by both IZFS members and by nonmembers.

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Contributers

Editors:

Rebecca D. Burdine and Monika Dezhbod

Contributors to this issue:

David Grunwald
University of Utah
Joan Heath
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Brant Weinstein
NIH
Mary Mullins
University of Pennsylvania
Mayumi Miller
NIH
HyunMin Jung
NIH
Aniket Gore
NIH

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Welcome

Welcome to the inaugural “News Splash” newsletter from the International Zebrafish Society (IZFS)! Click here to read more about the history and goals of IZFS.

Member Benefits

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IZFS Board of Directors

President	Vice President	Secretary	Treasurer

Brant Weinstein, PhD National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland, USA	Mary Mullins, PhD University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA	Stephan Neuhauss, PhD University of Zürich Zürich, Switzerland	Mary Halloran, PhD University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Peter Currie, PhD Monash University Clayton, Australia	Koichi Kawakami, PhD National Institute of Genetics Shizuoka, Japan	Miguel Allende, PhD Universidad de Chile Santiago, Chile	Michael Brand, PhD Technische Universität Dresden Dresden, Germany

Corinne Houart, PhD Kings College London, United Kingdom	Steve Wilson, PhD University College of London London, United Kingdom	Sharon Amacher, PhD The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio, USA	Rebecca Burdine, PhD Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey, USA

David Raible, PhD University of Washington Seattle, Washington, USA	Lilianna Solnica-Krezel, PhD Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, USA	Monte Westerfield, PhD University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon, USA	Leonard Zon, MD Boston Children’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Click on the pictures to read board members' full biographies.

The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC) Meeting Report

The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC) took place July 13-17, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. TAGC brought seven research communities together to hold their individual community meetings in one large conference...Read More

Click here to see the award winners.

Mid-Atlantic Regional Zebrafish (MARZ) Fall/Winter Meeting Report

On Friday, December 9th 2016, zebrafish researchers from around the Mid-Atlantic region gathered at the National Institutes of Health for a day-long research meeting...Read More

The 2016 Chi-Bin Chien Award Winner – Adam Miller

The Chi-Bin Chien award was created to honor a brilliant and inspiring young scientist who was quickly recognized as friend of many people throughout the zebrafish community and who died very young a few years ago of cancer. Chi-bin was diagnosed with ...Read More

Nominations for the 2017 Chi-Bin Chien Award are due February, 6 2017.
For more information click here.

The 2016 George Streisinger Award Winner-Charles Kimmel

Congratulation to Dr. Charles Kimmel for being named the 2016 George Streisinger Award recipient. The award will be presented at the 2017 Strategic Conference of Zebrafish Investigators. The April 2017 IZFS News Splash will document this experience.

Nominations for the 2017 George Streisinger Award are due February 6, 2017.
For more information click here.

2017 Strategic Conference of Zebrafish Investigators Update

IZFS leadership, conference organizers, and staff are currently preparing for the upcoming 7th Strategic Conference of Zebrafish Investigators (SCZI), once again being held at the scenic Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California, in January 2017. This meeting will be the largest SCZI yet, with over 210 primary investigators descending on Asilomar for four days of intensive scientific sessions, workshops, and region-specific and general community sessions. Registration for this meeting is now closed. If you are one of the lucky attendees, check out the SCZI 2017 website at izfs.org for information on the conference program, how to get to Asilomar, and other relevant details. We look forward to seeing many of you at what promises to be an extremely exciting and productive meeting!

Call for Associate Editors/Contributors

News Splash has exciting opportunities available to trainees, junior faculty, or senior investigators to serve as either IZFS Newsletter Associate Editors or Contributors. Associate Editors have the opportunity to assist with some or all content for the News Splash issues. Opportunities include writing, editing and helping to develop new ongoing features of the newsletter. Excellent experience to add to your resume!

Contributors help produce specific stories for the newsletter. You can contact the News Splash team with your idea for a story, or we can provide an assignment. For example, we are looking for contributors to provide meeting reports, article reviews, technology reports and policy briefs.

All of these opportunities are available to anyone in the zebrafish community at any stage of their career, and is useful for those wishing to obtain science writing experience. Email info@izfs.org for additional details.

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