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Sunday, 30th March

 

Welcome

09:00-09:10

Session 1, Chairs: 
Julien Vermot, IGBMC, France
Nathan Lawson, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA

09:10-10:50

Yaron Shav Tal, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Quantifying mRNA transcription in single living cells

09:10

Hernan Lopez-Schier, SBO, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany
Establishment and regeneration of epithelial mirror symmetry

09:30

Nadine Peyrieras, INAF, CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France
Reconstructing multi scale in vivo imaging data by multilevel dynamics

09:50

Periklis Pantazis, D-BSSE, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland
PhOTO Zebrafish: A Transgenic Resource for In Vivo Lineage Tracing during Development and Regeneration

10:10

Julien Vermot, IGBMC, France
Imaging cilia biomechanics in 3D using modelling and correlative microscopy

10:30

Coffee Break

10:50-11:30

Session 2, Chairs: 
Lior Appelbaum, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Koichi Kawakami, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan

11:30-13:15

Adi Mizrahi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
New neurons in adult brains - insights from in vivo imaging

11:30

Didier Stainier, MPI, Germany
High Resolution Imaging of Cardiomyocyte Behavior Reveals Two Distinct Steps in Ventricular Trabeculation

11:50

Erez Raz, Münster University, Münster, Germany
Motility and Directed migration of Primordial Germ Cells in zebrafish

12:10

Carl-Philipp Heisenberg, IST Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Cell and tissue mechanics in zebrafish gastrulation

12:30

Darren Gilmour, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Quantitative cell polarity imaging defines leader to follower transitions during collective migration and the key role of microtubule dependent adherens junction formation

12:50

Lunch

13:15-14:30

Shuttles from Weizmann Institute to Ein Gedi for the EZPM participants only

14:30

Registration

16:00

Dinner

18:30

Welcome and keynote lecture by Uri Alon, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Chair: 

Karina Yaniv, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

20:00

Cocktail Reception

21:00

 

 

Monday, March 31, 2014

 

Breakfast

07:30-09:00

Development and Organogenesis I
Chairs:
Brant Weinstein,  NICHD, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
Wiebke Herzog,  University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

09:00-10:45

Nadia Mercader, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares CNIC, Spain
Epicardium morphogenesis is driven by heartbeat-driven pericardiac fluid forces

09:00

Karina Yaniv, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
A pool of unspecified endothelial progenitors within the floor of the PCV gives rise to the lymphatic system during embryonic development

09:15

Wiebke Herzog, University of Muenster, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Germany
Canonical Wnt-signaling regulates angioblast versus erythrocyte specification

09:30

Christian Mosimann, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Transcriptional control of early lateral mesoderm cell fates

09:45

Martin Gering, University of  Nottingham, UK
The gene-trap line qmc551 suggests an important role for the Gfi1 transcription factor during haematopoietic stem cell formation in the vertebrate embryo

10:00

Brant Weinstein, NICHD, NIH, USA
Lost in translation: Phosphoinositide recycling and angiogenesis

10:15

Virginie Lecaudey, University of Freiburg, Germany
Amotl2a interacts with the Hippo pathway to control organ size in the zebrafish lateral line

10:30

Coffee Break

10:45-11:15

Stems Cells and Regeneration
Chairs:
Gilbert Weidinger,
Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
Nadia Mercader, CNIC, Madrid, Spain

11:15-13:00

Tatjana Piotrowski, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA
Notch signaling maintains stem cell compartments by controlling cell division patterns and its downregulation is crucial for hair cell regeneration

11:15

Laure Bally-Cuif, Laboratory of Neurobiology and Development, Institute of Neurobiology A. Fessard, France
Controlling neural stem cell formation and activation in the adult zebrafish telencephalon

11:30

Antonio Jacinto, NOVA Medical School, Portugal
Regulation of tissue growth during zebrafish caudal fin regeneration

11:45

Alon Kahana, University of Michigan, USA
Muscle de-differentiation and motoneuron remodeling in a zebrafish model of muscle injury

12:00

Gilbert Weidinger, Ulm University, Germany
Wnt/b-catenin signaling defines organizing centers that orchestrate growth and differentiation of the regenerating zebrafish caudal fin

12:15

Stefania Nicoli, Yale Cardiovascular Research Center, USA
DICER destabilization is required to determine miR-9 threshold during neurogenesis

12:30

David Traver, UCSD, USA
FGF Signaling is Required at Multiple Stages for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Emergence

12:45

Lunch

13:00-14:30

Cell Biology and Cell Migration I
Chairs:
Carl-Philip Heisenberg, 
IST Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Maximilian Furthauer, Insitut de Biologie Valrose, Nice, France

14:30-16:15

Florencia Cavodeassi, Centro de Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa (CSIC/UAM), Spain
Dissecting the molecular mechanisms underlying early eye formation

14:30

Uwe Straehle, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Distinct cranial neural crest populations contribute to the development of the eye

14:45

Caren Norden, Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany
Nuclear apical migration and apical mitosis occur independently of centrosome position in neuroepithelia ensuring the robustness of the process important for neural tissue maturation

15:00

Maximilian Fürthauer, Insitut de Biologie Valrose, France
Zebrafish ESCRT proteins contribute to the formation and function of ciliated organs

15:15

Alexander Schier, Harvard University, USA
Towards a quantitative understanding of nodal signaling

15:30

Arndt Siekmann, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Germany
Live imaging of blood vessel formation reveals a central role of the chemokine receptor cxcr4a during artery formation

15:45

Coffee Break

16:15-16:45

Neuroscience I
Chairs:
Herwig Baier
, Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany
Filippo del Bene, Institut Curie, Paris, France

16:45-19:00

Herwig Baier, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany
The visual projectome: Retinal ganglion cell diversity underlies computational complexity in the visual system

16:45

Lior Appelbaum, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Altered behavioral performance and live imaging of circuit-specific neural deficiencies in a zebrafish model for psychomotor retardation 

17:00

Claire Wyart, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epiniere, France, Inserm U975, France, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Optical probing of circuits underlying sensory motor integration in the spinal cord

17:15

Corinne Houart, MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London, UK
Temporal regulation of signalling centres in control of brain size and complexity

17:30

Stephan C.F. Neuhauss, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Cone Phototransduction Cascade Shutoff is Regulated by Multiple Recoverin Proteins and Influenced by the Circadian Clock

17:45

Thomas Dickmeis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
A transgenic zebrafish line for monitoring the core feedback loop of the circadian clock

18:00

Dinner

19:00-20:00

Poster Session (All posters)

20:30-22:00

 

 

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

 

Buses Departure to Masada

06:00

Morning Coffee and Pastry

06:15-06:30

Sunrise Hike to Masada

06:30-08:30

Breakfast in Ein Gedi Hotel

09:00-10:00

Development and Organogenesis II
Chairs:
Didier Stainier,
MPI, Germany
Elke Ober, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

11:00-12:30

Elke Ober, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, National Institute for Medical Research, UK
Liver progenitor specification - a crosstalk between Wnt and Bmp signalling

11:00

Mary Mullins, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Dynamics and Shaping of the BMP Signaling Gradient in DV axial Patterning

11:15

Stefan Schulte-MerkerKNAW & UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands
Divergence of lymphatic cell fate specification pathways between zebrafish and mice

11:30

Berta Alsina, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Formation of the inner ear cavity in real-time: new mechanisms for lumen shaping

11:45

Patrick Mueller, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany
Identification of Nodal diffusion regulators

12:00

Francesco Argenton, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
Smad3 mediated TGFbeta signalling controls the progenitor/precursor switch during zebrafish CNS development

12:15

Lunch

12:30-14:00

Cancer and Disease Model I
Chairs:
Freek Van Eden, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Marina Mione, Institute of Technology, Germany

14:00-15:30

Jean-Pierre Levraud, Institut Pasteur, France
Spatial dynamics of viral infections and anti-viral immunity: lessons from imaging chikungunya virus-infected zebrafish

14:00

Ana Cvejic, University of Cambridge, UK
A loss of function screen of identified genome-wide association study loci reveals new genes controlling haematopoiesis

14:15

Dimitris Beis, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Greece
Zebrafish myh6-/- adults survive with a single-chamber heart, presenting a cardiac hypertrophy disease model

14:30

Salim Seyfried, Hannover Medical School, Germany, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany
Exiting angiogenesis requires CCM proteins to attenuate proangiogenic Klf2activity

14:45

Yury Miller, University of California San Diego, USA
Transgenic zebrafish models of lipid metabolism

15:00

Bettina Schmid, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Germany, Cluster for Systems Neurology, Germany
Zebrafish models of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

15:15

Coffee Break

15:30-16:00

Neuroscience II
Chairs:
Corinne Houart,
King's College London, UK
Steffen Scholpp,  Institute of Toxicology and Genetics (ITG),Karlsruhe, Germany

16:00-17:30

Stephen Wilson, UCL, UK
Left-right asymmetry is required for the habenulae to respond to both visual and olfactory stimuli

16:00

Reinhard W. Köster, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Non-invasive in vivo mapping of cerebellar Purkinje cell connectivity by trans-neuronal tracing, physiological analysis and optogenetic functional modulation

16:15

Gil Levkowitz, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Assembly and functionality of oxytocin neuronal circuits

16:30

Filippo Del Bene, Institut Curie, France
Anterograde axonal transport involvement in synaptic function, branch pruning and arbor development

16:45

German Sumbre, Ecole Normale Superieure, France
Spontaneous neuronal activity patterns reveal circuit functional mechanisms that predict behavioural performance

17:00

Steffen Scholpp, Institute of Toxicology and Genetics (ITG), Germany
Filopodia based transport of Wnt during vertebrate tissue patterning

17:15

Coffee Break

17:30-18:00

Emerging Technologies
Chairs:
Stefan Schulte Merker,
KNAW & UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Alex Schier, Harvard University, USA

18:00-19:00

Henry Krause, University of Toronto, Canada
Transgenic lines for the identification of nuclear receptor ligands, cofactors and pathways

18:00

Nathan Lawson, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
Reverse genetics in zebrafish: the good, the bad, and the ugly

18:15

Koichi Kawakami, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan
Genetic dissection of the adult zebrafish brain by the Gal4-UAS method

18:30

Máté Varga, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Molecular tattooing in live zebrafish: the use of photoinducible reagents to regulate molecular processes in space and time

18:45

Dinner

19:30-20:30

Poster Session (All posters)

20:30-22:00

 

 

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

 

Breakfast

07:30-09:00

Behavior
Chairs:
Hitoshi Okamoto,
RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan
German Sumbre, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France

09:00-10:30

Gonzalo de Polavieja, Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Spain
Group behavior in zebrafish

09:00

Marnie Halpern, Carnegie Institution for Science, USA
Development and Function of Habenular Neurons

09:15

Philippe Mourrain, Stanford University, USA, INSERM, France
DIAMOND: Shining light on vertebrate behavior

09:30

William HJ Norton, University of Leicester, UK
The genetic and neurological basis of zebrafish aggression

09:45

Yoav Gothilf, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Connecting genes to circadian locomotor activity

10:00

Hitoshi Okamoto, RIKEN, Japan
The ventral habenula in zebrafish assigns the negative prediction value to the conditioned stimulus in the active avoidance learning

10:15

Coffee Break

10:30-11:00

Cell Biology and Cell Migration II
Chairs:
Erez Raz,
Münster University, Münster, Germany
Dimitris Beis, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Greece

11:00-12:45

Heinz-Georg Belting, Biozentrum/Uni Basel, Switzerland
Shaping the stalk: VE-cadherin promotes dynamic cell shape changes during angiogenic sprouting by coupling the cortical actin network to endothelial cell interfaces

11:00

Steven A. Farber, Carnegie Istitution for Science, USA
A method to visualize apolipoproteins in live zebrafish:Liver-derived APOA-I localizes to an apical domain of intestinal enterocytes

11:15

Roland Dosch, Georg-August University Goettingen, Germany
Souffle/Spastizin Controls Secretory Vesicle Maturation during Oogenesis

11:30

David Whitmore, University College London, UK
Light responsive circadian clocks in teleosts and how they have changed following evolution in a cave environment

11:45

Masazumi Tada, University College London, UK
Live-imaging and genetic analyses of transformed cell extrusion from the zebrafish embryonic epithelium

12:00

Susana Lopes, NOVA University, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Portugal
Targets of Notch/Delta signaling in Kupffer’s vesicle ciliated epithelia

12:15

Lunch

12:30-14:00

EUFishBioMed Society Assembly

13:00-14:00

Cancer and Disease Models II
Chairs:
Uwe Strahle,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Liz Patton, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

14:15-16:00

Marina Mione, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Notch pathway is activated by oncogenic ras in a zebrafish model of glioma and blocks neuronal differentiation

14:15

Liz Patton, University of Edinburgh, UK
A new BRAFV600E melanoma model reveals mitf is essential for cancer promotion versus regression in vivo

14:30

Ewa Snaar-Jagalska, Institute of Biology, The Netherlands
Novel treatment strategies for prostate, Ewing sarcoma and breast cancer facilitated by HT platforms for zebrafish xenografts

14:45

Jeroen den Hertog, Hubrecht Institute-KNAW and University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands, Institute Biology Leiden, The Netherlands
PTEN has an essential role in the balance between proliferation and differentiation of blood cells

15:00

Manfred Schartl, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Analysis of small non-coding RNAs in melanoma

15:15

Freek van Eeden, University of Sheffield, UK
Von Hippel Lindau-like genes in zebrafish and DNA repair

15:30

Desert Hiking + Dinner Party

16:30-23:00

 

 

Thursday, April 3, 2014

 

Breakfast

07:30-09:00

Omics
Chairs:
Derek Stemple,
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
Stefania Nicoli, Research Center, New Haven, CT, USA

09:00-10:30

Derek Stemple, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
Transcript counting as a molecular phenotyping tool

09:00

Bernard Peers, University of Liège, Belgium
Transcriptome analysis by RNA-seq of the distinct pancreatic cell types

09:15

Ferenc Mueller, Barcelona, Spain
What can zebrafish tell us about how are genes get switched on

09:30

Thomas Becker, University of Sydney, Australia
Probing post embryonic and adult gene function through synthetic micro RNAs

09:45

Closing
Chair:
Yoav Gothilf
, Tel Aviv University, Israel

10:00

Community Meeting

10:20

Tour to Jerusalem

11:00

Lunch on Tour

13:00

Tour Continue

14:30

End of Tour

18:00

Transfers to Airport and Tel Aviv Hotels

18:00