Event is organized by: Darius Balčiūnas (), Ben Shih-Lei Lai and Justas Lazutka.
We invite you to register for the LT-TW Workshop "Genome Editing in Zebrafish: Knock-ins and their applications" at Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (Saulėtekio ave. 7), Lithuania.
Registration will close on July 25, 2025 or upon reaching capacity for 50 participants.
Date of the event: August 18-20, 2025
This workshop will bring together developers and users of genome editing tools with an emphasis on knock-in methods and applications of knock-in lines. All registered graduate students and postdocs will be expected to present posters.
Registration fee - 90 eur. Registration fee must be transferred to the Balt-LASA account indicated below.
Bank: AB SEB bank
- IBAN-number LT447044060004378177
- BIC/SWIFT-code: CBVILT2XXXX
- Full name of the organization receiving payment: BALTIJOS LABORATORINIŲ GYVŪNŲ MOKSLO ASOCIACIJA / Baltic Laboratory Animal Science Association
- VAT-number: N/A
- Address: Sauletekio 7, Vilnius LT-10257, Lithuania
Guide to travelling to Vilnius is available here.
Preliminary program:
August 18
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17:00 - 18:00 |
Registration and Welcome reception |
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18:00 - 18:45 |
Advances in epitope tagging in zebrafish |
Plenary Lecture Darius Balčiūnas Temple University / Vilnius University |
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18:45 - 19:45 |
Gene Processing using DonorGuide, GeneWeld and MitoFUSX Base Editors |
Keynote Lecture Stephen Ekker Dell School of Medicine University of Texas at Austin |
August 19
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10:00 - 11:00 |
Practical Workshop I: Oligonucleotide-mediated homology directed repair |
Justas Lazutka and Darius Balčiūnas |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
Practical Workshop II: Targeted integration of large transgenes |
Ben Shih-Lei Lai, Thomas Juan, |
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12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch Break |
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13:00 - 13:45 |
Tissue-resident macrophages in cardiac regeneration |
Plenary Lecture Ben Shih-Lei Lai Academia Sinica |
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13:45 - 14:30 |
TBD |
Plenary Lecture Thomas Juan Uppsala University |
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14:30 - 15:15 |
TBD |
Filippo Del Bene Institut de la Vision |
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15:15 - 16:00 |
Presentations by graduate students and postdocs |
TBD |
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16:00 - 18:00 |
Poster Session and Coffee Break |
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18:00 - 19:00 |
Transcriptional Adaptation, an RNA-based mechanism of genetic compensation |
Keynote Lecture Didier Stainier Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research |
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19:00 - 19:30 |
Travel to dinner |
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19:30 - |
Conference Dinner (location TBD) |
August 20
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10:00 - 11:00 |
Practical Workshop III: Conditional gene inactivation using Cre |
Miglė Kalvaitytė, Edita Bakūnaitė and Darius Balčiūnas |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
Practical Workshop IV: Bring your favorite gene to brainstorm |
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12:00 - 12:05 |
Concluding Remarks |
Darius Balčiūnas and Ben Shih-Lei Lai |
Supported by Grants S-LT-TW-24-14 (Research Council of Lithuania) to Darius Balciunas and NSTC 113-2923-B-001-003-MY2 (National Science and Technology Council of Taiwan) to Ben Shi-Lei Lai.