18 March 2021
GMT+3 (Istanbul Time)
10:50 - 11:00 | Opening Remarks |
Pervin Dinçer, PhD | |
11:00 - 12:45 | Session 1: Development and Regeneration |
Moderator: Güneş Özhan, PhD
Erez Raz, PhD Center for Molecular Biology of Inflammation, Institute of Cell Biology “Cellular mechanisms controlling the polarisation and directed migration of zebrafish germ cells” Gilbert Weidinger, PhD Ulm University, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology “Regulation of cellular dedifferentiation during zebrafish regeneration” Didier Stainier, PhD Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research “Transcriptional adaptation and genetic compensation” |
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12:45-13:30 | LUNCH BREAK |
13:30 - 15:15 | Session 2: Disease Modeling |
Moderator: Gülçin Çakan, PhD
Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi, PhD Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology “Diversity and function of motile ciliated cell-types within ependymal lineages of the zebrafish brain” Adam Hurlstone, MA, PhD University of Manchester “Fat uptake and fat storage promote melanoma” Miguel A. Moreno-Mateos, PhD Andalusian Center for Developmental Biology “Understanding early vertebrate development: a CRISPR-Cas13d view” |
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15:15-15:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
15:30 - 17:45 | Session 3: Selected Short Talks |
Moderator: Güneş Özhan, PhD
15:30-15:45 Saltuk Buğrahan Ceyhun – “Effect of diet-induced obesity on anxiety and offspring in zebrafish: high fat vs. high carbohydrate” 15:45-16:00 Özgün Özalp – “Nradd acts as a negative feedback regulator of Wnt/β-catenin signaling and promotes apoptosis” 16:00-16:15 Özge Çark – “A possible regulatory role of γ-tubulin in Wnt/β-catenin signaling” 16:15-16:30 Aysu Şevval Alkiraz- “Proliferation of regenerative neuronal progenitor cells in the zebrafish olfactory epithelium is controlled by the EGFR-JAK/STAT axis” 16:30-16:45 Esra Katkat – “Comparative analysis of the molecular mechanisms of melanocyte regeneration and melanoma using the zebrafish model and manipulation of gene expression profiles in melanoma cells using the CRISPR/Cas9 to induce a regeneration-like progress” 16:45-17:00 Merve Başol – “Generating a zebrafish model for macular corneal dystrophy” 17:00-17:15 Gülsüm Kayman Kürekçi – “Characterization of zebrafish desmin orthologs and incomplete penetrance in CRISPR/Cas9-generated stable knockouts” 17:15-17:30 Fulya Yaylacıoğlu-Tuncay – “Creating rare disease specific CRISPR-Cas9 platforms in zebrafish and ensuring their sustainability in Hacettepe University Zebrafish Research Laboratory: Challenges in mimicking missense variants” 17:30-17:45 Seniye Targen – “Development and ongoing curation of the ZenoFish Database: ZenoFishDb v1.2” |
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18:00 - 18:50 | Session 4: Good Zebrafish Practices/Zebrafish health monitoring |
Moderator: Gülçin Çakan, PhD
Chereen Collymore, Director Veterinary Care and Services at Charles River Laboratories “Zebrafish health monitoring” |