COMMITTEES



WORKING COMMITTEE


Pervin DİNÇER, PhD

Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine Department of Medical Biology

Özlen Konu, PhD

Bilkent University Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics

Stefan Fuss, PhD

Bogazici University Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics

Güneş Özhan, PhD

Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center & Dokuz Eylul University Izmir International Biomedicine and Genome Institute

LOCAL COMMITTEE


Güneş ÖZHAN, PhD

Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center & Dokuz Eylul University Izmir International Biomedicine and Genome Institute

Gülçin ÇAKAN, PhD

Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center

Pervin DİNÇER, PhD

Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine Department of Medical Biology


Zebrafish Abstract Book
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Program

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”
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”
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”
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”



REGISTRATION



Abstract Submission Deadline: 07.03.2021
Registration Deadline: 12.03.2021