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 24, 2008

Germ line development

I would like to propose a workshop on germ line development, which would also include maternal and paternal regulation of embryonic development. One possible format would be 7, 10-minute talks each with 5-minute discussion, followed by a 15-minute general discussion of the field. There are a growing number of us working in this area. Such a workshop would allow us to see where this field currently stands in the zebrafish as a whole, where it is going, and what are the stumbling blocks. The general discussion would include, for example, the techniques and tools needed to move studies specifically in this area more rapidly forward over the next 5 years and what major contributions zebrafish studies can make to this field more broadly in the future.

Mary Mullins
University of Pennsylvania
Dept. of Cell and Developmental Biology
1211 BRB II/III
421 Curie Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6058
USA
email: mullins@mail.med.upenn.edu
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