18th International Zebrafish Conference

Program | Keynote Lectures | Award Lectures | Poster Prize Winners | Beattie Award Winner | Organizing Committee | Sponsors & Exhibitors

The 18th International Zebrafish Conference
August 17-21, 2024 | Kyoto, Japan & Virtual 

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Program

The 18th IZFC featured two keynote speakers and three prestigious award lecturers. There were also many plenary and concurrent sessions that highlighted the latest zebrafish research advances and informed participants about the newest cutting-edge zebrafish research tools and technologies. The presentations featured a host of topics including: Lifespan & Aging, Cell Biology, Disease Models, Regeneration, Reproductive Development, and so much more.

Program Agenda

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Keynote Lectures

 

 

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Award Lectures

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2024 International Zebrafish Conference Poster Prize Winners

Thank you to Bionomous, Biology Open, Disease Models and Mechanisms, Luxendo GmbH Bruker Florescence Microscopy, The Node, and FEBS Letters who sponsored this year's poster prizes!

Names listed in alphabetical order.

Name	Affiliation	Submission title
Khai Chung Ang	Penn State College	Integrative 3D Zebrafish Microanatomical Atlas
Joaquim A. Contradanca	Champalimaud Foundation	A head-restrained paradigm to study delay and trace conditioning in zebrafish larvae
Jeffrey J. Kelu	King's College London	Circadian regulation of protein turnover by muscle peripheral clock
Megan Liaw	Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica	Genetic landscape and trajectories of asynthetic fission in zebrafish skin
James Minchin	University of Edinburgh	A targeted CRISPR screen to identify regulators of hyperplastic/hypertrophic adipose tissue remodelling
April Pruitt	Yale University	Investigating functional effects of estrogen on ASD risk genes
Ayami Takaochi	Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University	A gut ceramidase activity accelerates systemic aging through the microbiota regulation
Yue Rong Tan	Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica	Dissecting the regulatory mechanisms of asynthetic fission

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2024 Christine Beattie Award

Congratulations to the 2024 Christine Beattie Award winner, Kuo-Chang Tseng! The award recognizes junior investigators who demonstrate excellence in the field of zebrafish research and exhibit promise as a future leader in the zebrafish field.

About the 2024 Christine Beattie Award Winner, Kuo-Chang Tseng: Kuo-Chang (Ted) Tseng, a graduate student in Gage Crump's lab at the University of Southern California. Mr. Tseng is a current graduate student at the University of Southern California with a multidisciplinary background in molecular biology, developmental biology, bioinformatics, and synthetic biology. He received his undergraduate and masters degrees at National Taiwan University, before moving to the Unviersity of Southern California to pursue his PhD in Development, Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine. His current research focuses on vertebrae development and regeneration mechanisms using zebrafish.

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Conference Organizing Committee

Corinne Houart, PhD (Chair) President of the IZFS  King's College London	Florence Marlow, PhD Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai
Hitoshi Okamoto, MD, PhD (Co-Chair) RIKEN Center for Brain Science	Didier Stainier, PhD Max Planck Institute of Heart and Lung Research
Miguel Luis Concha, PhD Universidad de Chile	Han Wang, PhD Center for Circadian Clocks, Soochow University
Hiromi Hirata, PhD Aoyama Gakuin University	Karina Yaniv, PhD Weizmann Institute of Science
Tohru Ishitani, PhD Osaka University

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Local Organizing Committee

Satoshi Ansai Kyoto University	Kazuhide Asakawa National Institute of Genetics (NIG)	Toshikatsu Hanada Oita University
Masahiko Hibi Nagoya University	Shinichi Higashijima NIBB	Motoyuki Itoh Chiba University
Koichi Kawakami NIG	Kazu Kikuchi NCVC	Shosei Kishida Kagoshima University
Jun Kitano NIG	Makoto Kobayashi  Tsukuba University	Fumi Kubo NIG
Rie Kusakabe Kansai University	Ichiro Masai OIST	Takaaki Matsui Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Yuichiro Mishima Kyoto Sangyo University	Kaoki Mochizuki NCVC	Kazutoshi Mori Kyoto University
Nobuhiro Nakamura Kyoto Sangyo University	Kiyoshi Naruse NIBB	Hiroshi Nishina Tokyo Medical Dental University
Yukiko Ogino  Kyushu University	Yoshihiro Omori Nagahama Institute of Bioscience and Technology	Li-Kun Phng Riken
Atsuko Sehara Kyoto University	Yukihiko Sugimoto Kumamoto University	Hiroyuki Takeda  Kyoto Sangyo University
Hideaki Takeuchi  Tohoku University	Sachiko Tsuda Saitama University	Soken Tsuchiya Kumamoto University
Hironori Wada Kitazato University	Saori Yokoi  Hokkaido University

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2024 IZFC Sponsors & Exhibitors

Gold Level Sponsors

Silver Level Sponsors

Bronze Level Sponsors

Poster Prize Sponsors

                     

                

Grant Support

                         

       

Sponsored by the Japanese Biochemical Society (JBS), Bioflontier Symposium, the Molecular Biology Society of Japan (MBSJ), the National Institute of Health, the Company of Biologists, the NOVARTIS Foundation (Japan) for the Promotion of Science, the Kyoto Convention and Visitors Bureau and Development Growth & Differentiation.