Editor: Rebecca D. Burdine

Associate Editor: Aniket Gore

June 2017, Issue 2

From the President's Desk

I begin by welcoming our many new International Zebrafish Society (IZFS) members and thanking those continuing their membership and their support of IZFS. We are now officially over two years old, and growing fast!

IZFS 2017 Election

The 2017 IZFS Election is officially open! Voting ends on Friday, June 23, 2017 at 11:59 pm EST. If you are not an IZFS Member and would like to vote, click "Read More" to view the candidates and join.

SCZI 2017 Meeting Report

The 7^th Strategic Conference of Zebrafish Investigators took place January 14-18^th at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, CA.

MARZ Meeting Report

2017 started on a high note for zebrafish researchers in the eastern United States at the Spring Mid-Atlantic Regional Zebrafish meeting (MARZ meeting), held March 24^th, 2017 on the scenic Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore, Maryland.

2016 Streisinger Award

The International Zebrafish Society established the George Streisinger Award in 2016 to recognize a senior investigator who has made outstanding and continued contributions to the advancement of the zebrafish field.

Madison 2018

The 13th International Conference on Zebrafish Development and Genetics is coming back to its long-time home in Madison, Wisconsin on June 20-24, 2018 as an exciting “all zebrafish, all the time” meeting. The meeting is being held in the newly renovated Memorial Union on the shores of Lake Mendota, and it will include numerous scientific plenary, concurrent, workshop, and poster sessions as well as a variety of social events including a lakeside barbecue picnic and a final banquet and after-party. Additional details on the 2018 meeting, including organizers, keynote speakers, preliminary session topics, and other information can be found on the conference web page.

Go To Conference Website

Meet the IZFS Management Team

In July 2016, IZFS engaged a professional management group, Association Resources, to augment the efforts of its officers, board, and volunteers.

Meet the IZFS Members

With this issue of News Splash, we introduce two new regular IZFS newsletter features - “Meet the Investigator” and “Featured Trainee” columns. These columns list the answers that we received to 20 questions that we posed to randomly selected Primary Investigator (for the “Meet the Investigator” column) or postdoc or student (for the “Featured Trainee” column) IZFS members. Through these columns we introduce you to some of your colleagues in the worldwide zebrafish research community - or if you already know them, perhaps learn a few interesting or surprising things about them that you might not have appreciated. Questions cover a broad range of topics, science and career-related and personal. We hope that these columns will not only help our readers learn more about the scientific interests and accomplishments of their colleagues, but also what motivates them, why they got into science, and what they do in their spare time. The zebrafish research community has always been very close-knit and interactive, and we hope that these regular short columns featuring established and up-and-coming IZFS member scientists will help to bring us all just a little bit closer!

Meet the Investigator

Dr. Philip Ingham

Featured Trainee

José Pelliccia

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