Posted for Koichi Kawakami:
I would like to suggest a workshop “Targeted and conditional gene expression”. These days several groups developed various types of targeted or conditional gene expression systems in zebrafish by using Gal4-UAS, Cre-loxP, etc. Although these systems should be powerful for genetic studies, they all still have some weaknesses, for instance, mosaic expression, background, low efficiencies etc... The aim of this workshop is to present newly developed methods related to this issue and also unspoken disadvantages, and to discuss how we can improve these methods. If many of you think this topic is important, I will find and ask someone to organize this workshop (since I will probably too busy as an organizer).
Monday, January 28, 2008
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I would be very interested in this topic. Perhaps one could combine in a single workshop target and conditional gene expression, emerging gene KO technologies and other technologies related to gene manipulation.
Marina Mione
IFOM-IEO Campus
Milan, Italy
I'm also very interested in this and in gene knockout technology. I would predict there would be sufficient interest, and certainly enough recent progress made in these areas to warrant having separate workshops on targeted/conditional gene expression and on gene knockdown/knockout technology as previously proposed. I doubt a single workshop will be sufficient to cover everything.
Jim Lister
jalister@vcu.edu
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