The 2008 zebrafish meeting (June 25-29, Madison) will introduce workshops on specialized topics proposed by the community. These will be organized in two sessions, each with up to 5 workshops running concurrently. Workshops will last two hours, and might consist of 3 or 4 short (e.g. 15 min) talks, with extensive time for discussion.

To propose a topic, email zfmeeting@gmail.com (include name and affiliation). We will invite you to be a blog author and describe your proposal in a new post. If you want to comment on a topic, or propose a change, simply comment on the relevant post. Be warned: you may end up organizing the workshop!

We will accept new topics through 25 Jan 2008. The blog will remain open for comments through 1 Feb 2008, when the meeting organizers will choose a final list of workshop topics.

Thursday, January 10, 2008

emerging Gene Knockout technology

I would propose a Zebrafish meeting Workshop on emerging Gene Knockout technology. My lab and at least two other labs are using engineered Zinc Finger Nucleases to perform targeted gene knock out and eventually gene knock-in in zebrafish, and it would be good to compare the various things we’ve tried, as well as other related technologies.

Regards,
Joe

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H. Joseph Yost, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurobiology & Anatomy
University of Utah School of Medicine
Eccles Institute of Human Genetics
Bldg. 533, Room 3160
15 North 2030 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I hope this would include a discussion of the use of vector based RNAi for producing germline knockouts of specific genes. One advantage of the vector based RNAi would be the ability to knockout multiple genes at a time.

Henry G. Tomasiewicz
NIEHS Marine and Freshwater BioMed Sci Ctr
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Great Lakes WATER Insitute

January 11, 2008 at 1:27 PM
Shawn Burgess said...

This is an important discussion topic that I would like to see discussed.

January 15, 2008 at 5:22 PM
cbeattie said...

Important topic that will be of interest to many. It would be good to also include a discussion of the status of zebrafish ES cells.

January 16, 2008 at 10:28 PM

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