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Starts at: 2025-08-18 17:00
Ends at: 2025-08-20 13:00

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 30, 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 form.

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

17:00 - 18:00

Registration and Welcome reception

 

18:00 - 18:45

Advances in epitope tagging in zebrafish

Plenary Lecture

Darius Balčiūnas

Temple University / Vilnius University

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

10:00 - 11:00

Practical Workshop I: Oligonucleotide-mediated homology directed repair

Justas Lazutka and Darius Balčiūnas

11:00 - 12:00

Practical Workshop II:

Targeted integration of large transgenes

Ben Shih-Lei Lai, Thomas Juan

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch Break

 

13:00 - 13:45

Tissue-resident macrophages in cardiac regeneration

Plenary Lecture

Ben Shih-Lei Lai

Academia Sinica

13:45 - 14:30

Approaches to knock out and knock down function of endogenous genes

Plenary Lecture

Thomas Juan

Uppsala University

14:30 - 15:15

CRISPR prime Editing made precise by inhibition of microhomology-mediated end-joining

Plenary Lecture

Filippo Del Bene

Institut de la Vision

15:15 - 16:00

High-Efficiency TadA Cytosine Base Editors for Precise Genetic Variant Modeling

Plenary Lecture

Gaurav Varshney

Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

16:00 - 18:00

Poster Session and Coffee Break

 

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

19:00 - 19:30

Travel to dinner

 

19:30 -

Conference Dinner  (location TBD)

 

August 20

10:00 - 11:00

Practical Workshop III:

Conditional gene inactivation using CreERT2

Miglė Kalvaitytė, Edita Bakūnaitė and Darius Balčiūnas

11:00 - 12:00

Practical Workshop IV:

Bring your favorite gene to brainstorm

 

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.