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.

Monday, January 28, 2008

Targeted and conditional gene expression

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).
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